The broadcast networks that once hosted Upfront Week mostly have been gobbled up by media behemoths, and the traditional dog-and-pony show gradually is being replaced by daily disgorging of corporate buzzwords. Still, the week had some very memorable moments. Here are few: Most Stunning Star Appearance "Why is that…

Brian Williams was back on the upfronts stage Monday after a couple of years out of the annual confab’s spotlight, talking about the upcoming "most consequential Presidential election in our country for generations to come.” Williams, host of MSNBC’s The 11th Hour With Brian Williams, was part of the NBC News portion…

Beto O’Rourke energized plenty of folks during his campaign to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz in Texas, but his concession speech fired some other folks up tonight. Animated, gesturing and live on MSNBC — but not CNN, notably — he said: ” I want to thank  this amazing campaign — of people, not a dime from a single PAC. All…

MSNBC's president Phil Griffin has a new multi-year contract, according to an informed source, settling one personnel question about the network. Still no announcement on 10 PM star Lawrence O'Donnell, who tweeted May 17 that his contract expires June 4, promising to let fans know “where you can watch me June 5 if…

Brian Williams’ return to TV news program hosting attracted 1.007M viewers, with 242K viewers in the news demographic. In overall audience, Monday’s debut of The 11th Hour with Brian Williams secured a 52% improvement for the timeslot compared with 2016 to date. In the news demo, the slot came out 34% ahead of the…

MSNBC’s new 11th Hour with Brian Williams is neither an hour nor, as Williams noted in his much-discussed-by-media debut as host, does it air at 11 PM in most time zones. But, he quipped, “We are rapidly nearing the 11th hour for this presidential campaign. So we will be here at this hour from now until Election Day…

The 11th Hour With Brian Williams debuts live at 11 PM ET Tuesday, September 6, MSNBC said today. It marks Williams’ first program since his exit as anchor of NBC Nightly News. Parsing out details of the program that first was speculated about in mid-August, NBC News said Williams will anchor live from MSNBC Election…

Brian Williams rehabilitation is expected to enter a new phase in which he gets his own, half-hour MSNBC show at 11 PM, to recap each day's presidential election news. Not coincidentally,the ratings race tightens between MSNBC and CNN, now that CNN’s rip-snorting presidential election primary debates are a thing of…

Updating as details emerge… TV News operations flooded the airwaves this morning, hours after a sniper targeting white police officers protecting protesters gunned down five and wounded seven, with coverage of one of the deadliest days for law enforcement in half a century. Shortly before 8 AM, TV networks said police…

UPDATE, 6:37 AM: Dallas Police Chief David Brown said a suspect that killed five officers and wounded seven others told negotiators he was upset over the recent police shootings of black men and wanted to kill white people, particularly white police officers. Speaking at a news conference this morning, Brown said the…

U.S. TV news operations expecting to start early today with blanket coverage of three western states’ primaries and the fracas of the 2016 presidential cycle, had to pull off major pivots when pre-dawn terrorist attacks in Brussels left 30 dead and nearly 230 injured according to officials, with those numbers expected…

Word that Ted Cruz had edged out Donald Trump in the first real test of the 2016 presidential election cycle sent TV News pundits into an ecstasy of relief tonight. They’d spent much of the day speculating with grim geniality that if Trump finished ahead of Cruz in tonight’s Iowa caucuses he’d been unstoppable. Six…