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David Gregory, the former host of NBC’s Sunday Beltway show Meet the Press and a 20-year NBC News veteran, has signed on as a political analyst at CNN, based in Washington. He will appear primarily on New Day, which is in a ratings death match with MSNBC’s Morning Joe. The two programs have been duking it out for the…

David Gregory got the bum’s rush from NBC because the network feared a final going-away episode of Meet the Press would create another “Ann Curry moment,” the former Press moderator says in his new memoir How’s Your Faith: An Unlikely Spiritual Journey. Writes Gregory: “Because of this ill-conceived concern, NBC…

NBC News this morning began warming up the Meet The Press audience for its new host Chuck Todd, who debuts a week from today. The canned piece features Brian Williams, Todd’s wife and mother, Savannah Guthrie and Tom Brokaw — who said he not only wants to extend good wishes to Todd, but also to David Gregory, the guy…

We will never know if allowing David Gregory to say so-long to viewers on Meet The Press would have goosed the show's ratings last weekend – but we know for sure that last Sunday’s MTP, with Gregory gone, fell 2% in the demo ratings, week to week —  and, in overall audience, grew 10%. The program finished third Sunday…

David Gregory didn’t get to say, “So long,” to Meet the Press viewers today — his bosses at NBC News gave him the heave-ho Thursday, effective immediately, after two decades at the division, because his Sunday Beltway show was not doing as well in the ratings as competitors at ABC and CBS. Minutes after Gregory…

After word broke NBC News was rushing to replace David Gregory with Chuck Todd as host of Meet The Press before this weekend’s broadcast, in advance of the Todd announcement, Gregory tweeted confirmation of his departure: I leave NBC as I came – humbled and grateful. I love journalism and serving as moderator of MTP…

After getting nicked by various TV News pundits and participants for keeping Meet the Press host David Gregory hanging, as to his future with the struggling program, NBC News rushed to conclusion this morning, in hopes of naming Chuck Todd new MTP host before the Sunday franchise's next broadcast, replacing Gregory…

No matter how many memos from NBC News President Deborah Turness asserting her confidence in David Gregory get leaked to the media, the network news operation can’t stop incessant reports that he’s on his way out the door — sooner or later. This morning’s “breaking” news: Chuck Todd is the likely successor. NBC News…

Dick Cheney‘s been much in the news of late, as he continues his Obama Botched Iraq Tour on TV (and in print).  Megyn Kelly made headlines when Cheney tried out his "Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many" line on her FNC show, to which she responded: “Now, with almost a…

NBC News chief Deborah Turness sent a memo to her staff today today, dismissing as “quite ludicrous,” “vindictive” and “untrue, ” the press coverage of a news report about a consulting firm hired to help fix ratings on NBC’s Sunday Beltway show. “I wanted to reach out to reiterate my support for the show and for [show…