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Donald Trump, left, appears with Anderson Cooper in a CNN town hall on Tuesday.

Town halls are the new cable news hit of the 2016 campaign

June 25, 2019 at 12:45 a.m.

Donald Trump turned the Republican presidential debates into high-rated TV spectacles. But the fate of his quest for the nomination may be decided by a far more intimate televised forum....

ESPN has built a new late-night version of "SportsCenter" around the quirky personality of Scott Van Pelt.

ESPN’s efforts to reinvent SportsCenter take a page from late-night comedy

June 11, 2018 at 4:02 a.m.

Visitors who enter the 194,000-square-foot digital studio facility on the campus of ESPN are greeted by touch screens that can access every commercial in the long-running "This Is SportsCenter" campaign.The...

ESPN Deportes to carry Spanish-language telecast of Super Bowl 50

May 10, 2019 at 7:24 p.m.

CBS is not the only TV network showing Super Bowl 50 on Sunday. ESPN Deportes, part of Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN unit, will provide U.S. viewers with a Spanish-language telecast...

Donald Trump in a December Republican debate.

Republicans move February debate from NBC to CNN

June 22, 2019 at 10:35 a.m.

The Republican National Committee has made good on its promise to cut NBC out of its primary debate schedule.RNC Chairman Reince Priebus issued a statement late Monday announcing the cancellation...

Items are left in memory of the dead in Paris outside the French Embassy in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 17, 2015.

Paris terror attacks will shift focus at Democratic primary debate

May 14, 2019 at 5:38 a.m.

CBS News is changing its game plan for Saturday's Democratic primary debate in the aftermath of the Paris terror attacks. The debate questions prepared earlier this week by CBS News...

Audience grows for Brian Williams’ pope coverage on MSNBC

June 24, 2019 at 3:11 p.m.

Brian Williams' coverage of Pope Francis' visit to the U.S. is lifting MSNBC's ratings in a hurry. The Williams-anchored portion on the pontiff's trip to Washington from 9 a.m. to...

Brian Williams gets back to work after a seven-month suspension by anchoring MSNBC's coverage of the pope's U.S. visit.

Audience grows for Brian Williams’ pope visit coverage on MSNBC

June 15, 2018 at 7:40 a.m.

Brian Williams' coverage of Pope Francis' visit to the U.S. is lifting MSNBC's ratings in a hurry. The Williams-anchored portion on the pontiff's trip to Washington from 9 a.m. to...

ABC ‘Nightline’ and BBC team up for new YouTube channel

April 6, 2019 at 12:31 a.m.

ABC's "Nightline" is partnering with the BBC Current Affairs, the news production unit for the British broadcaster, on a series of reports aimed at drawing young viewers online. The series,...

Brian Williams speaks at the 8th Annual Stand Up For Heroes, presented by New York Comedy Festival and The Bob Woodruff Foundation in New York on Nov. 5, 2014.

Brian Williams will leave ‘NBC Nightly News’ and join MSNBC

August 21, 2019 at 5:42 p.m.

Brian Williams, the popular NBC News anchor who became embroiled in controversy over false statements he made about his reporting, will no longer be the anchor of the network's evening...

Show runners make or break your favorite TV shows

June 15, 2018 at 3:25 p.m.

Have we grown tired of all the breathless references to the current state of television as a second Golden Age? Maybe so, but whatever you want to call it, there...

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