Been a while since I had one of these…”former husband”? (via HotAir.com)

Lord knows I should be the last one talking about typos, but Valley Wag notes some typos and a reporting error that happened on CNBC this morning…

CNN put out a separate release for Campbell Brown’s upcoming Political Documentary “Broken Government - Campaign Killers” after the CNN/YouTube debate on Wednesday…

As the 2008 presidential campaign heats up, CNN anchor Campbell Brown reports on the rising temperatures – and the pugilistic punches – that come with the territory of running for the nation’s highest political office. Following the CNN/YouTube GOP debate, CNN will premiere Broken Government – “Campaign Killers” on Wednesday, Nov. 28, at 11 p.m., with replays on Friday, Nov. 30, at 8 p.m., 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. on CNN/U.S. All times Eastern.

Although Americans say they are turned off by negative political campaigning, attack ads have can have enormous impact on elections. Brown interviews former Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis and adman Floyd Brown about one of the most infamous campaign ads of all time: the Willie Horton ad used to shattering effect in the 1988 presidential race.

In her first documentary for CNN, Brown also goes behind the scenes with the guerrilla warriors of this season’s presidential campaign to see what they’re plotting. From the left, Eli Pariser of MoveOn.org talks candidly about the “General Betray-us” ad; from the right, the “Hillary hunters” – David Bossie of Citizens United and the “Stop Her Now” team of cartoonists – discuss the effects of lampooning the Democratic frontrunner.
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Cable News Live Ratings November 24, 2007

P2+ Total Day
FNC – 616,000 viewers
CNN – 399,000 viewers
MSNBC – 328,000 viewers
CNBC – 337,000 viewers
HLN – 223,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 593,000 viewers
CNN – 392,000 viewers
MSNBC – 364,000 viewers
CNBC – 374,000 viewers
HLN – 174,000 viewers

25-54 Total Day
FNC – 183,000 viewers
CNN – 131,000 viewers
MSNBC – 149,000 viewers
CNBC – 162,000 viewers
HLN – 94,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 134,000 viewers
CNN – 113,000 viewers
MSNBC – 142,000 viewers
CNBC – 178,000 viewers
HLN – a scratch with 53,000 viewers

Cable News Live Ratings for November 25, 2007
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CNN is highlighting some of its November ratings…

HEADLINE NEWS – BEST YEAR EVER!

With 2007 nearly complete, Headline News is on track to have its best year ever among total viewers (both total day and prime) as well as the P25-54 demographic (prime)! In the most recent month of November 2007, programs continue to surge in P2+: Showbiz Tonight (+52%), Prime News with Erica Hill at 6p (+43%) and Nancy Grace at 8p (+26%). Morning Express with Robin Meade had its best deliveries in nearly two years (since January 2006) in total viewers (231k). Headline News’ Glenn Beck posted the show’s best deliveries for a month at 9p in total viewers in November (P2+: 401k and P25-54:150k)

CNN/U.S. – LOU DOBBS TONIGHT SURGES IN NEW TIME SLOT
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MSNBC is noting some of its ratings for November…

“Countdown with Keith Olbermann” topped CNN for the 14th consecutive month, trouncing CNN at 8pm by 25 percent in the demo (283,000 vs 226,000); “Countdown” beat CNN for the 12th consecutive month in total viewers (813,000 vs 784,000)

MSNBC beat CNN in sales prime (7pm-2am) in November among adults (198,000 A25-54); MSNBC previously bested CNN in sales prime in July 07.

MSNBC’s “doc block” also beat CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 at 10 and 11pm in November (248,000 A25-54 vs. 243,000 at 10pm; 196,000 vs. 189,000 at 11pm)

MSNBC topped CNN in primetime in the demo 17 out of 26 days in November, and 9 of the last 10 days

MSNBC is the only network not to see significant declines in M-F primetime vs. Nov 06, with no change in the demo (241,000) while CNN plummeted 19 percent and FNC dropped 15 percent.

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Public Eye’s Matthew Felling doesn’t like the ads for the CNN/YouTube debate that CNN is running…

The “Dumbing Down of America.” Amusing Ourselves to Death. We’ve seen this movie before. It stinks, but it’s true – which, yes, twists that knife even deeper.

That sense only got worse when I saw CNN’s commercial for tomorrow night’s YouTube Republican Debate.

The motto – splashed across the TV screen – came from a Los Angeles Times headline from 4 months ago: “Where the citizen is the star!!!”

Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but when it comes to the process of electing the next leader of the free world, I’d rather the candidates be the focal points – or, in CNN’s language, “the star!” – of the event.

The Washington Post’s Amy Argetsinger and Roxxanne Roberts write about an incident at the Meet The Press 60th Anniversary Party…

Tim Russert was posing for photos with NBC brass at the “Meet the Press” 60th-anniversary party Wednesday night when a young woman sidled into the frame. “Can you get my picture with them?” she asked, handing us her camera: a pink-and-green plastic Barbie Polaroid.

Why, of course. We took aim as the tall strawberry blonde in a little black dress tried to herd the network pooh-bahs into place (”Come on back in! One more!”), but Russert, NBC prez Jeff Zucker and NBC News chief Steve Capus kind of acted like they heard their mothers calling them, and quickly dispersed.

MSNBC announced its December Doc Block highlights today…

MSNBC brings viewers more than a dozen brand-new documentaries to premiere in its primetime “Doc Block.” The “Doc Block,” weeknights 10 p.m. – 12 a.m. ET/PT, includes individual stand-alone documentaries and several returning MSNBC series. Premiering this December are “Conviction,” a new MSNBC series, “MSNBC Undercover: Sex Slaves in America,” and “Journey to the Center of the Brain.” In addition, MSNBC brings back two popular series “Lockup: Extended Stay” with “Lockup: Holman - Extended Stay” and “Born in the Wrong Body.” “Gladiator Days: Anatomy of a Prison Murder” also makes its MSNBC debut.

“MSNBC Undercover: Sex Slaves in America,” hosted by Meredith Vieira, premieres Monday, Dec. 3 at 11 p.m. ET/PT:
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Following up on yesterday’s post on the (unfortunately) temporary death of MSNBC’s crawl, MSNBC has the crawl working again. However, apparently the only way they could make it work was to undo the changes to the lower thirds they instituted yesterday. The clock bug and stock ticker bug are back to where they were before Monday’s change happened.

Cable News Daily Live Ratings for November 23, 2007

P2+ Total Day
FNC – 781,000 viewers
CNN – 387,000 viewers
MSNBC – 304,000 viewers
CNBC – 180,000 viewers
HLN – 244,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 1,262,000 viewers
CNN – 482,000 viewers
MSNBC- 542,000 viewers
CNBC –130,000 viewers
HLN – 341,000 viewers

25-54 Total Day
FNC – 216,000 viewers
CNN – 122,000 viewers
MSNBC – 161,000 viewers
CNBC – 56,000 viewers
HLN- 100,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 282,000 viewers
CNN – 109,000 viewers
MSNBC – 301,000 viewers
CNBC – a scratch with 45,000 viewers
HLN – 139,000 viewers

Morning programs P2+ (25-54)
FOX & Friends – 758,000 viewers (232,000)
American Morning- 335,000 viewers (94,000)
Morning Joe – 212,000 viewers (90,000)
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Cable News Daily Live Ratings for November 22, 2007

P2+ Total Day
FNC – 660,000 viewers
CNN – 296,000 viewers
MSNBC – 293,000 viewers
CNBC – 166,000 viewers
HLN – 232,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 868,000 viewers
CNN – 410,000 viewers
MSNBC- 415,000 viewers
CNBC –451,000 viewers
HLN – 272,000 viewers

25-54 Total Day
FNC – 204,000 viewers
CNN – 107,000 viewers
MSNBC – 160,000 viewers
CNBC – 78,000 viewers
HLN- 110,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 204,000 viewers
CNN – 90,000 viewers
MSNBC – 229,000 viewers
CNBC – 165,000 viewers
HLN – 110,000 viewers

Morning programs P2+ (25-54)
FOX & Friends – 967,000 viewers (340,000)
American Morning- 258,000 viewers (101,000)
Morning Express w/ Meade – 270,000 viewers (134,000)
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First there was Big Head D.C…now there’s Big Head NYC which has a get Michael Learmonth article…

CNN’s release on the finalists for “CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute”…

CNN today revealed the names of 18 finalists for “CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute,” the culmination of a five-month audience nomination process through which ordinary people will be recognized for accomplishing extraordinary things. Hosted by CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Christiane Amanpour, “CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute” will air live globally on CNN/U.S., CNN International and CNN en Español on Thursday, Dec. 6, at 9 p.m. (ET).

In its first year of the CNN Heroes initiative, CNN received more than 7,000 nominations from viewers in 80 countries, nominating people from more than 90 countries.
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MSNBC is doing the Super Tuesday political thing today. Interesting, but it appears from the previews I saw yesterday that they’re going to be putting NBC reporter Kevin Corke in the anchor chair for one shift today. I see they’ve dispatched anchor Chris Jansing out to Iowa at yet another diner. But this one doesn’t look dead unlike the last time.

Inside Bay Area.com’s Susan Young scoops that KTVU anchor Sara Sidner is leaving the station to take a position at CNN International as a correspondent…

Reuters’ Jim Finkle writes about a new deal between NBC Universal and TiVo which will affect all the former’s cable channels including MSNBC and CNBC…

Advertisers who buy television commercials on those networks and television stations will have the option of adding an interactive component to those spots.

They can insert TiVo “tags” into television commercials that let viewers click on an icon when watching an ad to obtain more information about a product, the companies said.

NBC Universal also purchased a ratings service from TiVo that provides second-by-second viewership ratings on television commercials.

Interesting that this news hasn’t made the Media Village yet…

Update: The NBCU release…

TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in advertising solutions and television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), and NBC Universal (NBCU), have entered into a multi-year strategic partnership to leverage the strong content brands of NBCU with the unique advertising, promotional and audience research capabilities enabled by TiVo DVRs. As part of the agreement, NBC Universal’s 14 television networks and 10 NBC owned-and-operated TV stations will be able to sell TiVo Interactive Tags in combination with other NBC products and will subscribe to TiVo’s Stop||Watch second-by-second commercial ratings service. The announcement was made today by Tom Rogers, President and CEO, TiVo and Mike Pilot, President, NBC Universal Sales and Marketing.
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TVNewser notes that 02138 Magazine is profiling FBN’s Shibani Joshi as one of the “Rising Stars” in the areas of law, business, finance, and media. By the way, that’s Joshi on the cover of the magazine…