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So far, at least, Piers Morgan shows no signs of being CNN's next big star. His ratings have declined steadily, falling below that of his predecessor, Larry King, in his first two weeks on the air. But it may be too early to make a fair comparison.

CBS will replace its weekday hosts for The Early Show with the program's weekend team as the network moves to better compete with ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's The Today Show.

Dennis Kneale's turbulent but entertaining tenure at CNBC is set to end, barring a last-minute plot twist. According to sources with knowledge of the situation, Kneale is likely to leave after his contract expires in the next several weeks.

It's official: Newspapers now trail the Internet as a source of news for Americans, according to the Pew Research Center. Of those polled, 34% said they had gone online for news the previous day, while 31% said they had read a newspaper. But it's not all bad news for newspapers.

ABC News President David Westin is leaving his job after 14 years. A corporate mandate to increase his division's profitability apparently conflicted with his own commitment to high-prestige journalism.

As expected, CNN announced it has hired Eliot Spitzer to star in a new 8 p.m. debate show starting this fall. It also announced who his co-host will be: Conservative writer Kathleen Parker.

YouTube, the video-sharing unit of Google (GOOG) has launched a new product called YouTube Direct. Its purpose, according to the site, is to offer "a new tool that allows media organizations to request, review and rebroadcast YouTube clips directly from YouTube users." The actual purpose of the...

Barely a month after the death of Walter Cronkite, CBS News has lost another legend. Don Hewitt, creator of 60 Minutes and one of the leading pioneers of television news, has died at age 86. He had been reported to be undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer. Over the course of more than half a...

Dennis Kneale, the second crankiest CNBC personality behind Larry Kudlow, is mad as hell at the blogosphere and can't take it any more. Recently, the former managing editor at Forbes magazine became irate that one of my blogging brothers or sisters published his address, according to TVNewser....

For the past year or so, Larry Mendte, an award-winning broadcast journalist, has been caught in a scandal that seems like it was ripped from the pages of a bad melodrama. Now, it's finally coming to an end. Earlier this week, Mendte ended the sentence of house arrest he received after pleading...