Accuracy in Media

The Today Show, which surrendered its weekly ratings crown to Good Morning America last year after 16 years as the number one morning news show, suffered another indignity last week when it was revealed that it had also lost the annual ratings battle to ABC’s morning show. GMA, which snapped Today’s 852 week winning steak […]

Good Morning America, which supplanted the Today show as the number one morning show in America last year, swept to victory in May with its largest sweeps margin of victory in nearly 20 years. GMA averaged 5.704 million viewers in May versus 4.78 million for Today, for its largest margin of victory since 1995. In […]

New CNN boss Jeff Zucker rocked the cable news world this week when the network announced several changes in personnel, and indications are he is just getting started. On Tuesday CNN announced that it had hired ABC “20/20” anchor Chris Cuomo to host  a new morning show that Zucker sees as a key element in […]

For the second time this week, the New York Post is reporting on a potential move by new CNN boss Jeff Zucker—this time the potential hiring of former NBC Today host Ann Curry. According to the Post, Zucker wants to place Curry in the 8 p.m. time slot, which is currently occupied by Anderson Cooper. […]

NBC’s Today Show co-host Matt Lauer is hoping to start this week on a better note than how it finished for him last week, with rumors swirling that he would be fired and the subsequent trashing he received for his co-hosting role during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. According to Radar Online, the National Enquirer reported that […]

NBC News executives have finally reacted to The Today Show’s faltering ratings by replacing longtime executive producer Jim Bell, in an effort to recapture the ratings crown it lost to ABC’s Good Morning America a few months ago. The new executive producer will be NBC News senior vice president Alexandra Wallace, according to The New […]

Good Morning America began the new television season as the undisputed No. 1 morning show in the country by beating The Today Show. While this continues a trend that began at the end of June, when Ann Curry was abruptly dropped from The Today Show, it gives GMA a leg up as they try to end Today’s […]

Breaking a nearly three-month silence, Jimmy Bell, the executive producer of The Today Show, defended the decision to fire Ann Curry, while taking some potshots at rival Good Morning America. Bell told The New York Times that it “was absolutely his call” to fire Curry as the co-anchor of The Today Show, and that Matt Lauer had […]

The New York Post reported on Saturday that The Today Show could be facing cutbacks and layoffs after the show slipped to second place  in the ratings behind ABC’s Good Morning America. The rumors of the cutbacks and layoffs come just after NBC fired 20 staffers on The Tonight Show, and host Jay Leno took a pay cut […]

Ann Curry, who was unceremoniously dumped as the co-host of The Today Show at the end of June, returned to the show this morning for the first time since the firing. Curry, whose last appearance was on June 28, was supposedly going to appear on the show from time to time as a feature reporter, […]