CNN announced today that former President Bill Clinton will be appearing with Dr. Sanjay Gupta on a Fit Nation Summit on Wednesday…

CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta will host the network’s “Fit Nation Solution Summit” on Wednesday, Nov. 14, at the Time Warner Center in New York City. Together with special guest former President Bill Clinton, wellness experts, watchdog groups and community activists, the panel will discuss strategic ideas and initiatives to address the nation’s obesity health crisis.

Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Clinton joins the panel as the founder of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a joint venture with the American Heart Association, with the mission of eliminating childhood obesity and inspiring all young people in the United States to develop lifelong, healthy habits.

Confirmed panelists for the 2007 Fit Nation Solution Summit include:
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The New York Times’ Jacques Steinberg writes about a new role for Tammy Haddad…

Newsweek is to announce today that it is starting the equivalent of a weekly political television show on its Web site, newsweek.com, and that it has hired a producer from MSNBC to oversee it. Tammy Haddad, who was executive producer of “Hardball With Chris Matthews” until this summer, when she became a vice president of political coverage at MSNBC, will have the title of consulting executive producer at Newsweek.

Yesterday, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino held a news briefing aboard Air Force One where she went over President Bush’s media schedule. His two upcoming appearances? Fox News and Fox Business Channel. From the briefing:

PERINO: Okay, a couple of scheduling updates for you before we take off, back to Washington, D.C.
The President on his ranch this morning had an interview with Bret Baier of FOX News, for a documentary that Bret is producing for January, that will run in January.

QUESTION: Isn’t there a FOX thing tomorrow that —

PERINO: The FOX Business Channel interview is happening tomorrow. It was rescheduled from — it was supposed to happen the day the President went to California. The President wasn’t supposed to go to California that day; we just had to reschedule the event, so that interview is on for tomorrow.

QUESTION: Oh, okay, it’s different.

PERINO: It’s different, yes. Bret’s interview won’t air until January. That’s a separate channel.

HD Technology has an interview with Greg Alquist; senior network director/project manager of digital newsroom integration for FOX News and Business Networks, about HD…

HDTU: Could you describe how you are creating the FOX HD Wing and what you are doing to accommodate SD viewers?

Greg Ahlquist: It definitely is a different approach, and we tied that together with the Miranda master control system, using a DVE to reposition for commercial integration to accommodate the 4:3 commercials, lose the wing and keep the ticker. The ticker and the wing solution use Video Design Software and Viz graphic engines. We have fully integrated Viz for both master control and each of the control rooms. It helps to keep our screen composition fluid.

Cable News Daily Live Ratings for November 12, 2007

P2+ Total Day
FNC – 896,000 viewers
CNN – 486,000 viewers
MSNBC – 280,000 viewers
CNBC – 253,000 viewers
HLN – 248,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 1,756,000 viewers
CNN – 942,000 viewers
MSNBC- 498,000 viewers
CNBC –137,000 viewers
HLN – 470,000 viewers

25-54 Total Day
FNC – 268,000 viewers
CNN – 164,000 viewers
MSNBC – 112,000 viewers
CNBC – 69,000 viewers
HLN- 97,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 466,000 viewers
CNN – 283,000 viewers
MSNBC – 166,000 viewers
CNBC – 59,000 viewers
HLN – 164,000 viewers

Morning programs P2+ (25-54)
FOX & Friends – 981,000 viewers (295,000)
American Morning- 346,000 viewers (126,000)
Morning Joe – 189,000 viewers (61,000)
Morning Express w/ Meade – 214,000 viewers (118,000)
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I had heard that Extra was at FBN a couple of weeks ago. Now I know why…