SATURDAY, May 26, 2012
SANJAY GUPTA, MD – Saturday 4:30PM – 5:00PM
This week on Sanjay Gupta MD, the fight over prostate cancer screening, and a new recommendation that men not get the PSA test. Sanjay cuts through the confusion, to see just who should get the PSA test, and what they need to know. Sanjay also looks into a recent report that found the air quality in schools to be toxic, and what you can do to protect your kids.
THE SITUATION ROOM WITH WOLF BLITZER – Airs Saturday 6:00PM – 7:00PM
Topic: Cost of War in Afghanistan; Negotiations with the Taliban; Relationship with Pres. Obama
Guest: Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
Topic: New Book; Foreign Policy
Guest: Gen. Colin Powell (Ret.), former Secretary of State
Anchor: Wolf Blitzer
CNN PRESENTS: SELLING MIRACLES – Airs Saturday 8:00PM – 9:00PM and 11:00PM (Sunday 2:00AM)
CNN investigative correspondent Drew Griffin reports from India and the United States on a New Delhi clinic that promises hope for desperate American patients through embryonic stem cell injections, treatment that is outlawed in America. Over 85 patients have paid an average of $25,000 each for treatments for diseases ranging from ALS to spinal cord injuries to genetic disorders.
SUNDAY, May 27, 2012
SANJAY GUPTA, MD – Sunday 7:30AM – 8:00AM
This week on Sanjay Gupta MD, the fight over prostate cancer screening, and a new recommendation that men not get the PSA test. Sanjay cuts through the confusion, to see just who should get the PSA test, and what they need to know. Sanjay also looks into a recent report that found the air quality in schools to be toxic, and what you can do to protect your kids.
STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY – Airs LIVE Sunday 9:00AM – 10:00AM and NOON
Topics: Campaign 2012; Jobs; Economy; GOP Agenda
Guest: Rudy Giuliani, former Republican presidential candidate; former New York City Mayor
Topics: Campaign 2012; Jobs; Economy; Democratic Agenda
Guest: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), chair, Democratic National Committee
Topics: Treating Veterans; State of the V.A.; Dealing with PTSD
Guest: Gen. Peter Chiarelli (Ret.), former Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
Topics: Veterans Benefits; Mental Health Issues
Guest: Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), chair, Veterans Affairs Committee
Topics: Challenges Facing Veterans: Unemployment, Disability Benefits, V.A. Backlog
Guest: Paul Rieckhoff, founder and executive director, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
Guest: Tim Tetz, legislative director, The American Legion
Anchor: Candy Crowley
FAREED ZAKARIA GPS – Airs Sunday 10:00AM – 11:00AM and 1:00PM – 2:00PM
Topics: U.S. Debt and Deficit; Simpson-Bowles Proposal
Guest: Erskine Bowles, president emeritus of the University of North Carolina; board of directors, Facebook
Guest: Alan Simpson, former U.S. Senator (R-WY)
Topic: Election 2012: Economy, Religion, Same-Sex Marriage
Guest: Ross Douthat, opinion editorial columnist, The New York Times
Guest: Chrystia Freeland, editor, Thomson Reuters Digital
Guest: Bill Keller, opinion editorial columnist, The New York Times
Guest: Peggy Noonan, author and opinion editorial columnist, The Wall Street Journal
Anchor: Fareed Zakaria
RELIABLE SOURCES – Airs Sunday 11AM - NOON
Topics: Cory Booker’s Remarks on Meet the Press; Bain Capital and Romney Coverage
Guest: Anne Kornblut, The Washington Post
Guest: Roger Simon, POLITICO
Topics: New Book; Bravo’s Celeb-Reality Phenomenon
Guest: Andy Cohen, senior vice president, Bravo TV; author, “Most Talkative”
Topics: Running ABC News
Guest: David Westin, former president, ABC News
Host: Howard Kurtz
THE NEXT LIST – Sunday 2:00PM – 2:30PM
This week on The Next List, a profile of Sarah Parcak who has been called the Indiana Jones of space archaeologists. Parcak uses infrared satellite imagery to uncover Egyptian ruins and ancient civilizations thought to have been buried forever. Her work is mind-boggling and is literally transforming the field of archaeology.
GLOBAL LESSONS: The GPS ROAD MAP FOR SAVING HEALTHCARE – Airs Sunday 8:00PM – 9:00PM and 11:00PM
Health care costs are rising in America while health care quality continues to sink. CNN and TIME’s Fareed Zakaria examines what we can learn from the rest of the world about fixing health care by examining the pros and cons of how medicine is practiced in the U.K., Taiwan, Switzerland, and a successful trial program within the U.S. as well. Zakaria also interviews Atul Gawande, MD, surgeon and science and medicine writer for The New Yorker, Game Show Network CEO David Goldhill (author of “How American Healthcare Killed My Father,” The Atlantic, 2009), and Washington Post journalist and author T.R. Reid (The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, 2010) for practical recommendations on improving health outcomes more efficiently.
Friday, May 25, 2012
This Weekend's Programming 5/26/12
Thursday, May 24, 2012
HLN Hosts Daytime Emmy ® Awards
Spotlight on Innovative Programs
HLN grabs the reigns as the host network of the 39th annual daytime entertainment Emmy® Awards to be presented live from The Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles on Saturday, June 23, 8-10 p.m., ET/PT, it was announced by Scot Safon, Executive Vice President & General Manager, HLN, and Malachy Wienges, Chairman, National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Piers Morgan Tonight News
Huffington Post has a few interesting articles today relating to Piers Morgan tonight. Next week PMT will have a week of guests hosts with Regis Philbin filling in on Tuesday night. Philbin's buddy David Letterman will be the guest.
There's also more trouble for Piers concerning the hacking scandal in the UK. BBC anchor Jeremy Paxman claimed in testimony today that Morgan taught him how to hack into a cell phone. HuffPo reported:
Morgan, who testified before Leveson in December, has long seen his name pop up at the fringes of the ongoing phone hacking scandal. He has vehemently denied ever having hacked a phone or having told anyone to hack a phone, and there has been no hard evidence linking him to the practice.
Still, accusations that hacking was rife during his editorship of the Daily Mirror -- or that he acquired private voicemails through hacking -- have persisted.Paxman -- who has tangled with Morgan about hacking before -- said that, at a lunch in 2002, Morgan first claimed to know the exact details of a conversation between the two (though he said it was quite possible Morgan was "imagining" when he said this), and then described how to hack a phone to him.
Piers' cheeky response on Twitter?
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Ryan Smith & Isha Sesay on HLN
HLN launches a new destination for news and information with Evening Express, hosted by Ryan Smith, beginning Monday, June 4. This new addition to HLN’s schedule will air weeknights, 5-7 p.m. ET, and feature HLN’s popular personal finance expert Clark Howard, and CNN’s Isha Sesay, it was announced by Scot Safon, Executive Vice President and General Manager, HLN. Evening Express will be based at the network’s global headquarters in Atlanta.
“HLN is excited to offer our viewers an evening news program that centers on the news and information they’ll discuss around the dinner table,” said Safon. “The format and tone of Evening Express was inspired by our hit show Morning Express with Robin Meade. Viewers tell us all the time that they love how Robin and the Morning Express team start their day on HLN, and now Ryan, Clark and Isha will be welcoming them home in the evening.”
Evening Express will provide an energetic, inspirational and solutions-oriented look at the day’s news, accompanied by deeper discussions and reporting on stories and issues that resonate in the American household, including parenting, education, health, personal finance and relationships.
Monday, May 21, 2012
Ratings for the Week of May 14-18
Rating calculations are weekly averages based on nightly ratings provided by TVNewser with data by Nielsen Media Research. Numbers reflect Live and same day (DVR) data.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
This Weekend's Programming 5/19/12
SATURDAY, May 19, 2012
SANJAY GUPTA, MD – Saturday 4:30PM – 5:00PM
This week on Sanjay Gupta MD Sanjay, seven lucky viewers train together for the Malibu triathlon. Sanjay will share his advise on exercising safely and more efficiently, whatever your fitness goals may be.
THE SITUATION ROOM WITH WOLF BLITZER – Airs Saturday 6:00PM – 7:00PM
Anchor: Wolf Blitzer
Voters in America: Vets Wanted?- 8:00pm – 9:00pm & 11:00pm – 12:00am
SUNDAY, May 20, 2012
24/7 Pacquiao / Bradley Part 1 - 12:00am – 1:00am & 3:00am – 4:00am
Voters in America: Vets Wanted? - 2:00am – 3:00am
SANJAY GUPTA, MD – Sunday 7:30AM – 8:00AM
This week on Sanjay Gupta MD Sanjay, seven lucky viewers train together for the Malibu triathlon. Sanjay will share his advise on exercising safely and more efficiently, whatever your fitness goals may be.
STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY – Airs LIVE Sunday 9:00AM – 10:00AM and NOON
Topics: 2012 Politics; Senate Agenda; Jobs and the Economy
Guests: Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas)
Topics: President Obama’s 2012 Campaign, Democratic agenda
Guest: David Axelrod, senior strategist for the Obama re-election campaign *Exclusive
Topics: 2012 Politics, Senate Agenda, Jobs and the Economy
Guest: Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee chairman *Exclusive
Topics: Politico Roundtable: Campaign 2012 Latest
Guest: Dana Bash: CNN senior congressional correspondent
Jeff Zeleny: The New York Times
Topics: NATO Summit and Afghanistan
Guest: Anders Fogh Rasmussen: NATO Secretary-General
FAREED ZAKARIA GPS – Airs 10:00AM – 11:00AM and 1:00PM – 2:00PM
Topics: The future of the Euro; will Greece exit the Euro?; austerity v. stimulus
Guest: Mario Monti, prime minister for Italy A FAREED ZAKARIA GPS exclusive
Topic: The impact of global sanctions upon Iran’s economy – and politics
Guest: Shamseddin Hosseini, Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance for Iran. A FAREED ZAKARIA GPS exclusive
Topics: Austerity v. stimulus; the health of the U.S. economy; the stability of the euro and its impact upon U.S. politics; the state of the presidential contest
Guest: Paul Krugman, opinion editorial columnist, The New York Times
Anchor: Fareed Zakaria
RELIABLE SOURCES – Airs LIVE Sunday 11AM - NOON
Topics: Campaign Ad Wars; Pres. Obama on The View; Political Headlines
Guests: Ramesh Ponnuru, The National Review
Erin McPike, RealClearPolitics
John Avlon, CNN Contributor and columnist for Newsweek/Daily Beast
Topic: New Leadership at USA Today
Guest: Larry Kramer, USA Today's new president and publisher
Topic: Facebook IPO Coverage
Guest: Sarah Lacy, PandoDaily.com
Topic: Producing the Daily Show
Guest: Mike Rubens, former Daily Show producer
Host: Howard Kurtz
THE NEXT LIST – Sunday 2:00PM – 2:30PM
This week, The Next List profiles Ubaldo Vitali, a master artisan and silversmith. His artistic output is split into two categories: uniquely contemporary creations and conservational restoration.
CNN PRESENTS: Selling A Miracle? 8:00pm – 9:00pm & 11:00pm – 12:00am
Program Descriptions:
Voters in America: Vets Wanted?
Multiple deployments interrupt lives, careers, and can lead to health and financial challenges. Featuring narration by former U.S. Army infantryman and motivational speaker JR Martinez and contributions from veteran and veteran’s advocate Paul Rieckhoff, Vets Wanted looks at the unique burdens for families of men and women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and follows the reintegration of members of the Georgia National Guard’s 877th Engineering Company back into civilian life. Deployed to Afghanistan in December 2010, more than half of these veterans faced unemployment when they returned to the U.S. The documentary also examines whether the bipartisan Veterans Jobs Bill passed in November 2011 is of any help as our nation’s heroes make full transitions back to the lives they left to defend America, and offers insights into how veterans’ unemployment may impact their decisions as they head to the polls this November.
CNN PRESENTS: Selling A Miracle?
CNN investigative correspondent Drew Griffin reports from India and the United States on a New Delhi clinic that promises hope for desperate American patients through embryonic stem cell injections, treatment that is outlawed in America. Over 85 patients have paid an average of $25,000 each for treatments for diseases ranging from ALS to spinal cord injuries to genetic disorders.
Voters in America: Who Counts
The second installment in CNN’s Voters in America series continues with an in-depth look at how election law changes enacted in 14 states since 2008 may influence the election. With a focus on the primarily partisan battle lines within the swing state of Florida, Who Counts dissects the arguments for and against new rules that may impact poll access for the elderly, students, and minorities. Proponents of the rules changes argue that tighter restrictions on registration and poll access will prevent fraud; opponents say the new laws are confusing, unevenly written for different counties even within the same state, and intimidating for already disadvantaged populations. Who Counts is narrated by actor Jesse Williams.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
A Few Quick Reads About CNN Primetime
There's a lot of Internet buzz about CNN's primetime ratings on Monday (5/14/12) & Tuesday (5/15/12) nights this week. Here are a few write ups:
Mediaite:
On Monday night, HLN’s Nancy Grace nearly doubled CNN’s Anderson Cooper‘s viewers in the demo during the 8 p.m. slot. She also surpassed him in total viewers. Grace drew in HLN’s highest ratings of the night, while Cooper fared better during the 10 p.m. hour.
Note: Cooper broadcast live from the Turkey/Syria border on Monday night and his overnight ratings (demo) were 67 for 8PM and 125 for 10PM.
DEADLINE/HOLLYWOOD:
CNN fell to a 15 year primetime low last night (Tuesday) in a key demo and limboed down to its second worse weekday primetime since March 1997. A new episode of Piers Morgan Tonight at 9 PM drew in only 39,000 viewers in the Adult 25-54. The news network itself averaged just 308,000 viewers in primetime with Morgan’s show and Anderson Cooper’s AC360 leading at 8 PM and again at 10 PM. CNN had 73,000 viewers in the Adult 25-54 during Tuesday’s primetime. This comes on the heels of April’s bad news when the network had its lowest-rated month in over a decade. The forensics on the 9 PM slot’s low Adult 25-54 numbers are revealing. The last time a CNN show had that kind of demo numbers in that weekday timeslot was on August 22, 1997. Back in 1997, a Larry King Live show on a Friday night got 50,000 viewers in the Adult 25-54. However unlike 1997, when the show’s total viewership was 693,000, Morgan’s show last night only had a total viewership of 284,000. That actually wasn’t actually a record low for Morgan’s show, which debuted on January 17, 2011, but it was down from a regular weekday. Over on Fox News, Sean Hannity had 1.7 million viewers in the 9 PM slot, with 334,000 viewers in the Adult 25-54. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show had 839,000 viewers, with 315,000 in the Adult 25-54. In the last 15 years, CNN’s overall weekday primetime numbers have only been worse on Thanksgiving Day 2011. On November 24, 2011, CNN had a primetime average of 262,000 viewers. The Adult 25-54 viewership on that Thursday night was 83,000. That’s what they call a very slow news night.
TVNEWSER:
Last night was a typical, boring Tuesday, with little earth-shattering news to drive TV viewers to cable news. It was also May sweeps, with the season finale of “NCIS: LA,” “America’s Got Talent” on NBC and “Dancing With the Stars” on ABC drawing an astonishing 39 million viewers between them at 9 PM.
Unfortunately for CNN, “Piers Morgan Tonight” was the apparent victim of the busy night, drawing only 39,000 viewers 25-54 at 9 PM. To say those ratings are anomalous would be something of an understatement. That is the lowest 9 PM weekday demo rating for CNN since at least 1997. While the ratings were an outlier, it was a fairly normal edition of “PMT,” with Morgan hosting. Guests included Jane Lynch and “The man with the golden voice” Ted Williams.
“PMT” drew 284,000 total viewers, which was down from a typical weekday, but not a record-breaking low.
“PMT”s lead-in and lead-out, “AC360,” drew around 90,000 demo viewers at both 8 and 10 PM, also down from a typical weekday this year.
