Someone at Wide World of Women got ahold of what appears to be promo shots for the new Juliet Huddy/Mike Jerrick Fox broadcast morning show. It looks to me like they had too much fun doing this shoot…

UPDATE: Actually they ripped them off the show’s site…

TV critic Ed Bark says MSNBC has momentum entering 2007 and FNC does not…

MO’ — MSNBC. It was the only cable news network to gain viewers this year, with acid-tongued Keith Olbermann’s Countdown leading the charge.

NO MO’ — Fox News Channel. Percentage-wise, it led the cable news league in audience erosion. Are President Bush’s continued low approval ratings and the Democrats’ mid-term election successes starting to turn heads?

MSNBC announced its coverage plans for the services for President Gerald Ford…

UPDATE: TVNewser says Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann will be anchoring coverage of the Ford service on Tuesday…

MSNBC will provide live coverage throughout the day on Saturday, beginning with the airport departure ceremony in Palm Springs, California and continuing with the arrival at Andrews Air Force Base in the afternoon. Coverage will then conclude with the arrival at the Capitol and State Funeral ceremony.

On Tuesday, MSNBC will also provide live coverage of the services at the National Cathedral at 10:00 a.m., ET, as well as the departure and arrival ceremonies at Andrews Air Force Base and Grand Rapids, Michigan.

On Wednesday, MSNBC will have live reports from Grand Rapids as the events surrounding President Ford’s funeral conclude.

MSNBC.COM
On January 2, MSNBC.com will stream live video of the services at the Washington National Cathedral. In addition, MSNBC.com will constantly update coverage in its special Gerald R. Ford section online at www.msnbc.com, which includes slide shows, a video gallery, a message board, and the best NBC blogs.

Cable News Ratings for December 27, 2006

P2+ Total Day
FNC – 654,000 viewers
CNN – 450,000 viewers
MSNBC – 312,000 viewers
CNBC – 273,000 viewers
HLN – 194,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 1,024,000 viewers
CNN – 655,000 viewers
MSNBC – 469,000 viewers
CNBC – 509,000 viewers
HLN – 300,000 viewers

25-54 Total Day
FNC – 229,000 viewers
CNN – 190,000 viewers
MSNBC –120,000 viewers
CNBC – 105,000 viewers
HLN – 83,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 274,000 viewers
CNN – 230,000 viewers
MSNBC – 163,000 viewers
CNBC – 169,000 viewers
HLN –148,000 viewers

Morning programs P2+ (25-54)
FOX & Friends – 705,000 viewers (293,000)
American Morning – 324,000 viewers (132,000)
Robin & Co. – 200,000 viewers (84,000)
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CNN announced its coverage plans for the services for President Gerald Ford…

As the official remembrance begins on Friday, Dec. 29, for former President Gerald Ford, CNN will provide extensive live coverage throughout the week of tributes to Ford in California and Michigan, the transport of his body to Washington, D.C., his body lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda and his memorial service at the National Cathedral on Tuesday, Jan. 2.

Throughout Friday, CNN will provide reports from Palm Desert, Calif., where the Ford family plans to hold a private service at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church.

On Saturday, Dec. 30, live coverage continues from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. as officials transport Ford’s body to Washington, D.C. As ceremonies move to Washington, D.C., CNN’s live reports resumes at 5 p.m. with a special edition of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Jeff Greenfield anchoring coverage of the landing at Andrews Air Force Base, the procession to the U.S. Capitol, the state funeral at 7 p.m. in the Capitol Rotunda and the start of a public viewing.
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FNC announced its coverage plans for the services for President Gerald Ford…

FOX News Channel (FNC) will present special coverage of the memorials and funeral of President Gerald Ford beginning Friday, December 29 through Wednesday, January 3rd. Coverage will include live shots of the procession to the United States Capitol and the State Funeral Ceremony as well as commentary from FOX News’ Shepard Smith, Chris Wallace and Brit Hume.

Friday 12/29

Studio B with Shepard Smith- 3 PM/ET – 4 PM/ET

Shepard Smith will hosts with live coverage of guests arriving for the memorial at St. Margaret’s Church in Palm Springs, California.

Saturday 12/30
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MSNBC sure is going strong on the new advertising. They started airing a new commercial which takes the data from this commercial and repackages it with new graphics and adds some quotes from TV critics including TVNewser (who, technically, isn’t a TV critic even though MSNBC lumped him in with the TV critics for this ad). The TVNewser quote is particularly interesting because it mentions FNC; “Fox News’ continuous slide in the ratings…” It seems fishy to me though. What’s the context? And I can’t recall ever having read those words from him and I think I would have remembered something that far out there…

UPDATE: The quote in question may be seen here. The thing is, those words didn’t come from TVNewser after all. They came from a rival cable network to FNC which was quoted by TVNewser. Yet the MSNBC ad makes it seem like it was said by TVNewser. Anybody know the legal definition of false advertising?

The news of President Ford’s opinion of the war in Iraq is getting a lot of play today. That news was first revealed last night on Larry King Live when Bob Woodward was interviewed. Transcript follows…

KING: Bob Woodward, the story is going to break in the “Washington Post” tomorrow, but he has been kind enough to give us a little advance of it, you did a tape with Gerald Ford.

When did you do it, Bob?

BOB WOODWARD, “WASHINGTON POST”: Back in 2004, a four day — four hours at his place in Beaver Creek, Colorado. This was an embargoed interview, something that wasn’t to come out until I did a book on him or Ford died. And in these interviews, you see kind of his authenticity and his candidness.

KING: Let’s…

WOODWARD: He says some rather stinging things…
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Washington Post Names & Faces’ Korin Miller notes that Norah O’Donnell is expecting…

O’Donnell confirmed to us yesterday that the couple are expecting twins in late spring. “Geoff and I are so thrilled,” she said. Apparently Tracey, owner of Chef Geoff’s, is flexing his culinary skills for his pregnant wife: O’Donnell says he makes her blueberry pancakes on Saturday mornings and brings her takeout from the restaurant almost every night.

Cable News Ratings for December 26, 2006

P2+ Total Day
FNC – 734,000 viewers
CNN – 484,000 viewers
MSNBC – 316,000 viewers
CNBC – 246,000 viewers
HLN – 193,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 1,160,000 viewers
CNN – 627,000 viewers
MSNBC – 551,000 viewers
CNBC – 359,000 viewers
HLN – 279,000 viewers

25-54 Total Day
FNC – 242,000 viewers
CNN – 194,000 viewers
MSNBC –121,000 viewers
CNBC – 85,000 viewers
HLN – 86,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 292,000 viewers
CNN – 254,000 viewers
MSNBC – 177,000 viewers
CNBC – 112,000 viewers
HLN –113,000 viewers

Morning programs P2+ (25-54)
FOX & Friends – 558,000 viewers (214,000)
American Morning – 264,000 viewers (97,000)
Imus in The Morning- 240,000 viewers (136,000)
Robin & Co. – 169,000 viewers (84,000)
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Cable News Ratings for December 25, 2006

P2+ Total Day
FNC – 448,000 viewers
CNN – 356,000 viewers
MSNBC – 318,000 viewers
CNBC – 129,000 viewers
HLN – 238,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 599,000 viewers
CNN – 464,000 viewers
MSNBC – 401,000 viewers
CNBC – 132,000 viewers
HLN – 209,000 viewers

25-54 Total Day
FNC – 166,000 viewers
CNN – 139,000 viewers
MSNBC –162,000 viewers
CNBC – 68,000 viewers
HLN – 99,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 232,000 viewers
CNN – 176,000 viewers
MSNBC – 205,000 viewers
CNBC – 66,000 viewers
HLN –93,000 viewers

Morning programs P2+ (25-54)
FOX & Friends – 553,000 viewers (196,000)
American Morning – 324,000 viewers (133,000)
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The Hollywood Reporter’s Paul J. Gough writes about the coverage shaping up by the networks for the services for President Gerald Ford…

As plans solidified Wednesday for a state funeral in Washington, followed by another service and burial at the Ford Presidential Library in Grand Rapids, Mich., the networks said they will cover the funerals and other appropriate aspects of the nation’s farewell to the 38th president.

But it’s unlikely to be the deep coverage afforded 2004’s state funeral of Ronald Reagan, who served two terms and was an enormously popular and sometimes controversial president.

That distinction became clear early, when ABC and NBC broke into programming shortly after 11:30 p.m. EST but CBS covered the news with a crawl over “Late Night With David Letterman” on the East Coast. The cable news channels went into crisis mode, with Fox News Channel staying on live all night with coverage.

FNC is running promos for Hannity on America now being a weekly series. It will air every Sunday at 9pm ET starting January 7th..