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When Calls the Heart star loves to interact with Hearties on social media. So, it’s not surprising that he would do anything to get invited to Hallmark’s 2025 Christmas Experience. He joked that the network “tried to keep me away.”

In a Joking Mood

McGarry couldn’t stay away. He’s one of the many Wcth co-stars joining the 2025 Hallmark Christmas Experience. He shared the news on Instagram with two posters from the event. One features the stud in a white wool sweater, and the other shows the stars who will attend this immersive fan event.

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McGarry showed off his signature sense of humor. In the last slide, he included a screenshot of Arnold Schwarzenneger in his iconic role as The Terminator. The meme read, “I’ll be back…. for the 2025 Hallmark Christmas Experience!” McGarry teased in his caption,...

Pope Francis’ funeral will take place Saturday, April 26 in Italy, meaning it will be early in the morning for most wanting to watch from America. The pontiff’s passing on Easter Monday, April 21 followed a respiratory tract infection, for which he was hospitalized for five weeks in February. Complications arose as he was diagnosed with bilateral pnuemonia. The head of the Vatican’s Health Department, Dr. Andrea Arcangeli, confirmed that the religious leader died of a cerebral stroke that put him into a coma and led to heart failure.

The Pope died less than a full day after his visit with U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance. Guests at the funeral will include President Donald Trump, Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prince William who will go in place of his father King Charles. Charles met with the pontiff just days before his death as well.

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The 2025 Americares Airlift Benefit hosted by Emmy-Winning TV Host and Producer Ross Mathews celebrated the organization’s mission to increase access to health in times of disaster and every day.

Tony Goldwyn, Shonda Rhimes and Scott Foley attend the 2025 Americares Airlift Benefit

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More than 350 guests attended the April 4 event at Pier Sixty in New York City. In addition to Mathews—best known for “The Drew Barrymore Show” and “RuPaul’s Drag Race”—Americares Board Member and Actor, Director, Producer Tony Goldwyn and Americares Board Member and CNN Anchor and National Correspondent Erica Hill served as special presenters. Other notable guests included Goldwyn’s “Scandal” co-star Scott Foley, actor Marika Domińczyk and famed television producer and “Scandal” creator Shonda Rhimes.

The benefit highlighted Americares emergency responses to the earthquake in Myanmar, the Los Angeles wildfires and Hurricane Helene, as well as the organization’s...

Election Day is here, and the major news networks are prepared for a long night — and potentially a long week.

With over 50 million people early voting in the 2024 Presidential Election, Tuesday night will offer plenty of results to thumb through even if an ultimate winner isn’t called until later in the week, and most of the news networks will kick off their election night coverage at 6 p.m. Et, with CNN even starting at 12 a.m. Et while NBC News begins at 5 p.m. Et.

MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki will return to the Big Board — and will even be livestreamed on Peacock and other social platforms — while Fox News will see Bill Hemmer steering the “Bill”-board.

Most networks have scheduled eight hours of election night programming from 6 p.m. Et to 2 a.m. Et, with a result for the presidential showdown between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump not expected immediately.

See how your favorite channel will be following the race for the White House and other key races around the country on Tuesday evening.

The waiting 2024 U.S. presidential election is nearly over. Election night is Tuesday, Nov. 5, and each of the major broadcast and cable news networks that traditionally cover election news are gearing up for a cycle like no other. Virtually no one expects to be able to call the race for the White House on Tuesday night, and there are down-ballot decisions from all around the country to keep track of as well. Find out what kind of coverage you’ll be able to see on your favorite news channel here and make sure you stay informed on this highly consequential election!

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CNN is kicking off its comprehensive coverage of Election Day two full days before most Americans head to the polls.

On Thursday, the Warner Bros Discovery-owned cable network said its coverage of key U.S. Senate, U.S. House and White House competitions will start on Sunday, November 3 at 5 p.m. Eastern Time with a special programming block called “Countdown to Election Day.” The block will feature special weekend editions of “The Situation Room,” “Erin Burnett Outfront,” “Anderson Cooper 360,” “The Source with Kaitlan Collins, “CNN News Night: State of the Race with Abby Phillips” and “Laura Coates Live.”

“Election Day in America” will offer non-stop coverage of Election Day on Tuesday, November 5 at midnight Eastern Time. Boris Sanchez and Jessica Dean will helm a three-hour early morning block until 3 a.m. Eastern Time, at which point Erica Hill and Kasie Hunt take over hosting duties. Omar Jimenez...

Gayle King may not want to leave her day job anytime soon, based on her attempt to replicate a creepy look from a movie.

Earlier this week, Gayle joined CBS Morning co-anchors Vladimir Duthiers and Tony Dokoupil to interview actress Naomi Scott.

Scott stars in Smile 2, the sequel to the 2022 horror movie that premiered in theaters on Friday.

During the interview, Gayle praised Scott for her role as Princess Jasmine in the live-action remake of Aladdin and asked about her going “to the dark side” for her role in Smile 2.

Scott said she’s incredibly “proud” of the film and loves everyone who contributed to its creation.

“We put literal blood, sweat, and tears,” she said on CBS Mornings.

Gayle’s co-star remarked about her ‘cringing’ face

During the interview, Gayle King admitted that when she saw the movie, she had to watch a lot with her hands covering her eyes.

Gayle King has inked a new deal to remain on CBS Mornings, a source familiar with the matter tells The Hollywood Reporter.

Specific terms of the deal were not immediately available. King’s deal was said to be coming up in early 2025. She had most recently inked a deal in early 2022 to continue as co-anchor of the morning show.

King has been a staple at CBS Mornings for more than a decade, having helped launch the show in 2012, and has remained in place alongside a rotating slate of co-stars. She originally hosted the program (as CBS This Morning) alongside Charlie Rose and Erica Hill. Hill departed after less than a year (Norah O’Donnell succeeded her), and Rose was fired by CBS in 2017 amid harassment claims.

She currently co-hosts with Tony Dokoupil and Nate Burleson.

King has also secured a number of newsmaking interviews for CBS, including Jay-Z, Cherelle Griner, Megan Thee Stallion,...

A small contingent of journalists gathered near the Canadian border earlier this morning to watch as Dixville Notch, Nh, continued its tradition of casting the first ballots on an election day.

Nikki Haley cleaned Donald Trump’s clock in this hamlet — 6 votes to none.

As the day goes on, network correspondents are fanning out across the state at precincts to talk to actual voters, after months in which the first-in-the-nation primary was judged and assessed by polls. Commentary and analysis is focusing on whether

Haley and her top surrogate, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, blitzed the airwaves on Monday, while Trump held a final rally in Laconia, Nh, where he predicted that Haley would be out of the race after tonight. He was interrupted by climate protesters, who have been a frequent presence at events in recent days.

There is a Democratic race, too. Joe Biden is not on the ballot,...

CNN’s new Sunday lineup is coming into sharper focus.

The latest addition is big one: A weekly program to be anchored by Anderson Cooper. The program, The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper, will feature investigations, character-driven profiles, interviews and other long-form reporting.

The Whole Story will air on CNN Sunday nights at 8 p.m., beginning April 16. The program will leverage CNN’s global team of reporters and correspondents.

“Powered by CNN’s unmatched global journalism operation, The Whole Story goes behind the headlines, touching every continent and corner of the planet, as we bring our viewers into the heart of the essential stories of our time,” said CNN Chairman and CEO Chris Licht in a statement.

Licht first said he wanted to add a newsmagazine to CNN’s Sunday lineup at last year’s Warner Bros. Discovery upfront, citing a goal to give CNN’s journalists a primetime platform to tell their stories.

Anderson Cooper will host a new Sunday primetime series for CNN, The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper, as the network works to revitalize its nighttime lineup.

The new series, which will be a recurring weekly series, will feature single subject episodes from the network’s longform storytelling team. That will include special interviews, profiles and investigations.

The debut is set for April 16 at 8 Pm Et.

Among the planned episodes will be Sara Sidner’s look at San Francisco and the social issues plaguing the city; Pamala Brown’s examination of claims that Johnson & Johnson’s now discontinued baby powder caused cancer; David Culver’s Magic Mushrooms, looking at the medicine and the money surrounding the psychedelic plant; Erica Hill’s look at the upcoming coronation of King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla; and Nick Paton Walsh’s embed with a group of migrants from Central American on their way...

Anderson Cooper, a regular contributor to “60 Minutes,” will now lead CNN’s attempt to mount a Sunday-evening challenge to it.

Cooper will lead a new Sunday newsmagazine, “The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper,” that will present one-hour deep dives into specific topics, interviews, profiles and investigations The show will debut Sunday, April 16 at 8 p.m., and in many ways attempts to build off of series hosted by Lisa Ling or W. Kamau Bell that took viewers to a specific part of the country or inside a particular topic over the course of an hour.

“Powered by CNN’s unmatched global journalism operation, ‘The Whole Story’ goes behind the headlines, touching every continent and corner of the planet, as we bring our viewers into the heart of the essential stories of our time,” said CNN Chairman and CEO Chris Licht, in a statement.

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Jim Sciutto, CNN’s chief national security correspondent and co-anchor of its morning Newsroom newscast, has been absent from the show for the past two days in what is said to be a personal leave.

A network source said that Sciutto will return in a few weeks.

His leave follows reports that the network conducted an internal investigation earlier this year, after an incident in which he suffered a serious fall overseas. The Daily Beast reported earlier this week that it took place as Sciutto was returning from a Ukraine reporting trip and he has recovered, but the network asked him to address a “personal situation.” CNN has declined to comment.

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Sciutto has co-anchored Newsroom with Poppy Harlow since 2017. She is leaving the newscast this month to...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-tx) has a new target: Big Bird.

On Saturday, following a tweet from Big Bird’s Twitter account that encouraged Covid-19 vaccinations, Cruz responded, “Government propaganda … for your five year old!”

Government propaganda…for your 5 year old! https://t.co/lKUlomnpq1

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) November 6, 2021

Cruz, who has seldom missed an opportunity to seize on pop culture as means to whip up a political firestorm, followed up with a number of other tweets to make his point.

Big Bird was among the Sesame Street characters who participated in a CNN town hall on Saturday morning called The ABCs of Covid Vaccines. Also appearing were Dr. Sanjay Gupta and anchor Erica Hill.

For his part, President Joe Biden on Sunday responded to Big Bird’s tweet, writing, “Good on ya, @BigBird. Getting vaccinated is the best way to keep your whole neighborhood safe.”

Good on ya, @BigBird. Getting...

ABC News executive Barbara Fedida will not return to the Disney-owned unit following an investigation into allegations of insensitive behavior and her treatment of employees, according to a person familiar with the matter,

Staffers were notified of the matter Monday in a memo from Peter Rice, chairman of Walt Disney Television. “The investigation substantiated that Ms. Fedida did make some of the unacceptable racially insensitive comments attributed to her. It also substantiated that Ms. Fedida managed in a rough manner and, on occasion, used crass and inappropriate language,” Rice said. “Lastly, the investigation found no basis for the claims that Ms. Fedida was the subject of dozens of Hr complaints and that ABC News spent millions of dollars in confidential settlements related to Ms. Fedida, as alleged in some press accounts.”

In June, a report by The Huffington Post, citing interviews with 34 sources, raised allegations of a series of insensitive comments by Fedida,...

For over 50 years, Sesame Street has been the destination for families looking for guidance on talking through the tougher side of life. That reputation for not shying away from uncomfortable topics, but rather leaning into them in a way that young children might be able to understand, has been on full display in recent weeks as the celebrated children's program has teamed with CNN for two town halls tackling the pair of hot-button issues gripping America in this moment: Covid-19 and racial injustice. The partnership between the cable news network and Sesame Street began on Saturday, June 6 with Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism, an hour-long special hosted by CNN's Van Jones and Erica Hill...

CNN hosted a second town hall on Saturday in partnership with “Sesame Street.” This time, CNN anchor Erica Hill and CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta taught kids and their families about coronavirus through lessons from beloved “Sesame Street” characters and special guests, including gold medal-winning Olympic gymnasts Simone Biles and Laurie Hernandez and Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Sonja Santelises.

Throughout the hour-long special, Cookie Monster explained why it’s not a good idea to share food, Elmo encouraged kids to wear their masks in public even though they can’t see coronavirus, the Count taught how to keep a six-foot distance from others and the whole cast paid tribute to health workers in a new song.

Biles and Hernandez stopped by the town hall to give advice on how to stay active while at home, but emphasized that it’s important to do things that make you...

ABC News said it placed one of its senior executives on administrative leave after a Huffington Post report detailed alleged complaints about her behavior lodged by staffers to the human-resources department.

Barbara Fedida joined ABC News for a second stint when Ben Sherwood, the former president of the division, brought her aboard in 2011 as senior vice president for talent and business. As part of that role, she had a strong influence in determining who ABC News hired and the career paths of many of the news operation’s journalists and correspondents. She has over the years been seen by staffers as an aide to the unit’s top managers, acting as a lieutenant of sorts to Sherwood and other senior ABC News executives. She currently reports to ABC News President James Goldston.

The Huffington Post report cited interviews with 34 sources over the course of six months, including current and former ABC News staff and talent,...

“Sesame Street” and CNN aired a town hall Saturday morning to help kids and families understand the nationwide protests on racial injustice.

Hosted by CNN’s Van Jones and Erica Hill, “Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism” employed Elmo, Big Bird, Abby Cadabby and other “Sesame Street” favorites to help explain racism in the U.S. and answer important questions from children across the country.

“Not all streets are like Sesame Street,” Elmo’s dad, Louie, said when explaining the protests to Elmo. “On Sesame Street, we all love and respect one another. But across the country, people of color, especially in the Black community, are being treated unfairly because of how they look, their culture, race and who they are. What we are seeing is people saying ‘Enough is enough.’ They want to end racism.”

“Not all streets are like Sesame Street. … What we are seeing is people saying 'enough is enough.

In today’s TV news roundup, MTV has announced a new reality special, “True Life Presents: First-Time First Responders,” and Showtime has made two of their documentaries about racial injustice free to watch.

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MTV will premiere a new reality special, “True Life Presents: First-Time First Responders” on June 9 at 9 p.m. The self-shot show will follow two millennial volunteer first responders in New York City as they risk their lives to help others amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. Rhanell is a trauma nurse and Alex is a Fdny Emt who have both volunteered to serve Throggs Neck Volunteer Ambulance Corp in the Bronx. Through first-hand accounts and deep confessionals, Rhanell and Alex show the world what it’s like to be a hero. “True Life Presents: First-Time First Responders” is produced by Hot Snakes Media. Eric Evangelista, Shannon Evangelista and MTV’s Dane Joseph serve as executive producers; MTV’s Laurie Sharpe is co-executive producer.

As thousands of people across the country continue to march and protest against brutal, systemic police violence that disproportionately targets Black people and people of color, Sesame Street and CNN are hosting a town hall about racism. Titled Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism. A CNN/Sesame Street Town Hall for Kids and Families, the hour-long special will feature CNN personalities Van Jones and Erica Hill moderating (with Big Bird) as other Sesame Street characters and qualified experts answer questions submitted by families. [caption id="attachment_901484" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via CNN/caption] CNN is doing the nation …...

Big Bird and the gang are looking to start the conversation and address racism with children, as Sesame Street and CNN are teaming up for a town hall meeting to discuss the important issue. After the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department and the worldwide protests that followed, it seems that it's appropriate to bring in the famous children's characters for this special event to educate young Americans on racism in ways that they can understand. The program will air on Saturday morning at 10 a.m. Et.

Dubbed as the Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism: A CNN/Sesame Street Town Hall for Kids and Families, the CNN program will feature Big Bird moderating alongside Van Jones and Erica Hill. Together, they will educate viewers on the topics of racism, protesting, embracing diversity, and "being more empathetic and understanding." Of course, Big Bird won't be coming alone,...

Did you put money on Oprah Winfrey pitching in on Gayle King’s debut as chief co-host of CBS This Morning on Monday? Congrats!

CBS News unveiled its latest iteration of its morning show, with King joined by co-hosts Anthony Mason and Tony Dokoupil. Among the news breaking to make the cut on Day 1: “Oprah’s After School Special” report on a high school that CBS News previously had highlighted, complete with a visit from King’s Bff.

The co-hosts also sat down with Ava DuVernay about her four-part Netflix series When They See Us, about the wrongful conviction of the Central Park Five, debuting Monday night.

“Tonight is your big premiere. We’re so glad you’re here in our first day,” King enthused, telling DuVernay that when she recently met the five men wrongfully convicted of raping a jogger in Central Park in 1989, “I…apologized, because I believed everything about that story.

A doctored video of President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night speech from the Oval Office that aired on a Fox affiliate in Seattle has led to the firing of the staffer who created it.

The video, aired on Seattle’s Q13, depicted the President sticking his tongue out languidly between sentences. Trump’s skin and hair were also color adjusted to look more orange.

During the speech, Trump briefly licked his lips before continuing to speak. In the altered video from Q13, it appears that Trump let his tongue hang out and rest on his lower lip for a long time.

The station did not identify the author of the altered video, but indicated it was an editor.

“This does not meet our editorial standards and we regret if it is seen as portraying the president in a negative light,” Q13 news director Erica Hill said in a statement issued today.

A local Fox affiliate in Washington State has fired an editor after the station determined they were responsible for airing a doctored clip of President Trump’s Oval Office address to the nation during a 10:00 p.m news broadcast on Tuesday.

“We’ve completed our investigation into this incident and determined that the actions were the result of an individual editor whose employment has been terminated,” Erica Hill, news director for Fox Q13, told TheWrap on Thursday in an email. “This does not meet our editorial standards and we regret if it is seen as portraying the president in a negative light.”

The doctored video of Trump which ran on the network over-saturated the president, making him look more orange than usual and was also altered to show him sticking out his tongue repeatedly for unusually long intervals between breaths.

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“CBS This Morning,” which had showed signs of ratings resurgence under co-anchors Charlie Rose and Gayle King,” has collapsed in the year since Rose was ousted by CBS and PBS after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct.

Viewership for the weekday morning show, which was already in last-place among its key competition well before Rose’s removal on Nov. 21, 2017, have plummeted double digits in the past year.

Since September, when the new season started, “CBS This Morning” is down 16 percent compared to the same period last year among adults aged 25-54 — the key age range for news programming — and down 14 percent in total viewers (3.11 million), according to Nielsen’s Live + Same Day ratings metric.

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In comparison, NBC’s “Today” (which had its own #MeToo shakeup with the ouster of co-host...

GLAAD, the nation’s largest Lgbtq advocacy group, said it never intended for Kevin Hart to step down as host of the upcoming Oscars after homophobic social media postings resurfaced this week, but instead said the comic should have used the moment to raise awareness.

“Kevin Hart shouldn’t have stepped down; he should have stepped up,” GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said in a statement to TheWrap Friday. “Hart’s apology to Lgbtq people is an important step forward, but he missed a real opportunity to use his platform and the Oscars stage to build unity and awareness.”

Ellis said that the organization, which serves as an Lgbtq media watchdog, would “still welcome that conversation with him.”

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“The Academy has recently made significant strides in featuring diverse talent onstage and they should now...

Updated with GLAAD statement: GLAAD isn’t happy Kevin Hart is out as host of the Oscars, and its CEO took to CNN to say so this morning.

The Lgbtq advocacy organization’s CEO/president Sarah Kate Ellis said she was surprised at the outcome that saw Hart step down as host of the upcoming Oscarcast Thursday night, two days after confirming he’d been offered and accepted his dream job. The stepping down came after homophobic social media postings Hart made nearly a decade ago were resurrected and went viral.

“This wasn’t the conclusion I think everyone would have liked,” Ellis told CNN’s Erica Hill.

“We were hoping this was going to turn into a teachable moment,” she said, “that Kevin Hart would still be hosting the Oscars and he would be using this moment to show, not only his evolution around the Lgbtq community, but also...

Ashleigh Banfield is leaving Hln. The Crime and Justice presenter is departing the network along with Carole Costello and Michaela Pereira. According to Variety, the three news anchors have been cut as the network’s lineup of shows were not performing as expected. To fill the gaps, Morning Express with Robin Meade will be extended to go for six hours, and On The Story with Erica Hill will be expanded to run for three hours. Ashleigh Banfield announced she was leaving yesterday as she wrapped up her final show. On Twitter, she told how she had just finished shooting last night […]

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“The current cable news landscape is dominated by politics. Our live news shows have not benefited from this trend given our story mix,” CNN Evp/Hln overlord Ken Jautz told staff today in a memo, announcing Hln network’s latest Better Idea.

“In today’s news environment, every network has to focus on its strengths. To ensure Hln’s growth, we will shift some of our resources from live to longform programming and produce our live shows in as streamlined a manner as possible,” Jautz continued.

“The best way to do this is to centralize production of live news programming in Atlanta.”

Surviving the latest purge, Robin Meade’s Morning Express expands to gobble up 6 Am-noon Et.

Also taking on another hour is On the Story, which has followed Meade’s program and had been anchored by Erica Hill. It will now be anchored by a stable of hosts taking turns.

Hln, once known as CNN Headline News, will deliver fewer headlines as a result of the cable network’s latest programming shift.

Executives are pulling back on the news programming that has filled the outlet’s daytime schedule in a wide-scale retrenchment at the network, which is part of At&T’s CNN. Hln in recent years has stocked mornings, afternoons and early evenings with popular hosts like Ashleigh Banfield, Carol Costello and Michaela Pereira. All three will leave Hln as part of the reshuffling, which, according to a person familiar with the matter, will affect between 12 and 15 production and editorial positions in New York and Los Angeles. The bulk of production for Hln daytime will revert to CNN’s Atlanta facilities, where the network’s flagship “Morning Express with Robin Meade” is based.

The change in direction reflects some tough realities for the network, which executives feel has not reaped...

This week, the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation (Awmf) presented the 43rd Annual Gracie Awards at a luncheon at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.

2018 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Judy Woodruff presented by 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Jane Pauley

Host Erica Hill of CNN led the program alongside presenters Pam Oliver from Fox Sports; multimedia host, actress and author Angie Martinez; April Ryan of American Urban Radio Networks and CNN; and Larry Mullins from Entercom’s 1010 Wins. The Gracie Awards were presented to honorees which were previously announced in recognition of individual achievement and outstanding programming by, for and about women in local and student TV, radio and interactive media.

Highlights from the show included:

Awmf Board Chair and Katz Radio Group President Christine Travaglini opened the Luncheon. After welcoming the record-breaking crowd, she introduced Awm Board Treasurer and Gracies Co-Chair Heather Cohen, executive vice president of The Weiss Agency.

The leadership of the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation (Awmf) announces that Judy Woodruff, anchor and managing editor of “PBS NewsHour,” will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 43rd Annual Gracie Awards Luncheon.

Hosting the luncheon will be another television news veteran, Erica Hill of CNN. The annual Gracies Luncheon honors the accomplishments of local and student women in media & entertainment and takes place June 27 at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.

The Gracie Awards recognize individual achievement and outstanding programming created by, for and about women in all facets of media and entertainment. Given this year to Woodruff, who has covered politics and other news for more than four decades, the Gracies Lifetime Achievement Award honors a woman in media who exemplifies and embodies the essence of the iconic trailblazer, the late Gracie Allen, the namesake of The Gracie Awards.

“The Gracie Awards celebrate...

The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation (Awmf) handed out the 43rd Annual Gracie Awards at the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles this week.

Norman Lear and Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree Rita Moreno

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Host Lisa Joyner led the evening which included the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award to Rita Moreno by Norman Lear and a special performance by Grammy-nominated country music singer Kelsea Ballerini.

The Gracie Awards, which each year celebrate programming created by, for and about women across radio, television, cable and interactive media, hosted attendees including Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Jon Cryer, Pam Oliver, Elizabeth Smart, Loni Love, Shaun Robinson, Jeannie Mai, Gabrielle Dennis, Kevin Burkhardt, Erica Hill, Toni Trucks, Mary Louise Kelly, Robin Thede, Zerlina Maxwell, Jessica McIntosh, Tracey Wigfield, Shirley Strawberry, Rachel Nelson, Salma Abdelaziz, Paula Malcomson and more. This...

Charlie Rose is out of a job and CBS News is down a household name — but the network seems more likely to absorb the fallout from the latest sexual harassment scandal to hit the media world. Since CBS relaunched its weekday morning show with Rose and co-anchor Gayle King in 2011, ratings have soared 37 percent, from 2.63 million total viewers to 3.59 million this year. (Norah O’Donnell replaced holdover Erica Hill as the show’s third anchor in 2012.) “CBS This Morning” still trails ABC’s “Good Morning America” (with 4.4 million total viewers) and NBC’s “Today” (with 4.26 million) —...

Erica Hill returned to the new-look Hln this week after leaving the network in 2012. She made stops at both NBC and CBS News, but she’s back and says, “It really does feel like coming home.” “I was very proud to say that I worked at CNN and it wasn’t an easy decision to leave, I don’t regret it. I’m really glad that I took that break, went to a couple of places and was afforded all these opportunities,” Hill told TheWrap. “But I was excited to come back here.” “On the Story with Erica Hill,” kicked...

CNN senior media correspondent Brian Stelter said an on-air source told him that suspended “Today” co-host Billy Bush “will never be on the show again.” Stelter elaborated while appearing on the debut episode of Erica Hill’s new Hln show “On the Story,” saying, “It seems unlikely he’ll be returning to the show, which is really a stunning reversal. A few months ago he was brought in as a brand new star on the ‘Today’ show, co-host of the third hour. Some people even said he was being groomed to replace Matt Lauer some day.” Stelter continued: “Now, he’s been suspended.

Erica Hill is rejoining Hln to anchor a New York-based daily daytime news program as that network returns to its "news roots." Hill, whose Hln show will launch in the fall, also will have a role on CNN. Hill was part of the Hln on-air lineup when it transitioned from Headline News to Hln in 2005. Hill most recently had been with NBC News which she joined in 2012, as weekend Today co-anchor, while also contributing to NBC Nightly News and MSNBC. "Erica was a catalyst…...

When the phone rings on a Sunday and it’s not even 9 Am, I leap up and brace for news that someone has died.

Luckily, when the phone rang this past Sunday that wasn’t the case. “Turn on the Today show right now!!” said my friend, Pennie.

Right there on a network news show (one that was on at the crack of dawn on a weekend) was a long segment about women and comics.

It was great, but I have issues.

Really, go watch the clip, and then we’ll talk.

First of all, huge props to the Marvel/Disney PR department for not only getting the story placed, but for making it all about Marvel. In my experience, many general-interest journalists conflate Marvel and all super-hero comics, and it seems that Marvel is just fine with that.

Erica Hill, the reporter, claims that one third of the Marvel editorial department is female,...

TLC’s “90 Day Fiance” just got 90 more minutes. The reality series has scored a tell-all special from the Discovery cable channel — “90 Day Fiance: The Couples Tell All” — which airs directly after the upcoming season finale. Erica Hill, co-host of NBC News’ “Weekend Today” will moderate the conversation, which is set to include all six couples from this season. The buzziest issues from Season 3 will be addressed, including Mark and Nikki’s contentious relationship and Devar’s true intentions with Melanie, TLC told TheWrap. Viewers will also learn more about the couples’ journeys and if they made it to living happily ever.

After a dramatic season finale in which Mohamed left Danielle, the couples are back and telling all on 90 Day Fiance.

All six couples are reuniting with NBC's Weekend Today show co-anchor Erica Hill as she finds out where they currently stand.

Mohamed is from Tunisia and Danielle is an Ohio resident with four kids. The show has followed the journeys of six international engaged couples (Chelsea and Yamir; Danielle and Mohamed; Danny and Amy; Justin and Evelin; Jason and Cassia; Brett and Daya) who unite in America under a special U.S. visa, but they have 90 days to get married or the foreign fiancé will have to leave the country.

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For Mohamed, 26, and Danielle, 41, the future looks bleak. He is asked about why he waited to consult his attorney about Danielle’s financial problems until their wedding day. Hill says, "For some of the viewers it came across as you...

While several celebrities ran in the New York City marathon on Sunday, still more came out on social media in support of different runners. “Desperate Housewives” star Teri Hatcher was among those who competed in the race, finishing in 5:06:42, according to Runners World. See photos: 9 NBA Stars Who Took a Shot at Hollywood The site also tracked the finish times of other notable runners, including “MasterChef's” Joe Bastianich (4:29:12), “Today” co-host Erica Hill (4:47:38, former NFL player Tiki Barber (5:14:37), tennis player Caroline Wozniacki (3:26:33) and actor Kirk Acevedo, who did not finish.

Welcome to the 138th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at none other than the splashiest venue, Madison Square Garden. What an amazing night of shiny pups, showy handlers, and some stellar announcing. I should state upfront that my only knowledge of dog shows comes from Best In Show, the Christopher Guest mock-umentary that now seems like much less of a mocku and more of a docu.

For some background, America’s Dog Show extended its standing as the second-longest continuously held sporting event in this country, a streak that began in 1877. This year’s event drew an entry of 2,845 dogs.

With just hours to go in this silly circus of a year, Vulture’s own Julie Klausner went on set with Today’s Matt Lauer and Erica Hill to gab about thirteen pop-culture lodestones from 2013. As you could probably guess, the topics include Miley, Cronuts, and selfies. A discussion point you probably couldn’t foresee: a surprising prediction about Paula Deen. Watch the clip for more.

Actress and author Ali Wentworth, who hosts Yahoo's Daily Shot, brought her signature humor to a panel at The Huffington Post's Third Metric conference on Thursday.

Discussing one of the most talked about topics of the year, "Leaning In & Leaning Back," Wentworth started out by telling moderator Erica Hill what happened when she chose to pursue her passion -- a career in entertainment. "Acting was basically saying, 'I'm going to quit college and go be a prostitute if you're Ok with that,'" she quipped.

She did television, on sketch comedy show "In Living Color" and in films like "Office Space" and "Jerry Maguire," but Wentworth told conference attendees that her current career choices are rooted in her feelings about balancing work and family. Her spouse, George Stephanopoulos, has an incredibly demanding career and the couple has two girls, ages 7 and 10.

"The biggest challenge right now is that I have...

Weather is still her mainstay, but by joining "Today," Dylan Dreyer has learned a lot more about being in the kitchen.

The meteorologist for the weekend editions of NBC's morning program often finds herself in food-related segments, whether she's in the show's New York studio, sampling sushi at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport or visiting the Pennsylvania factory where Easter Peeps are made. Rain or snow might be easier to forecast than what or where she'll be eating next, but she's enjoying that aspect of the job.

"It was pitched to me as, 'You'll be doing the weather,' but it turned out that (weekend 'Today' co-anchor) Erica Hill really enjoys cooking," the truly sunny Dreyer, who was a forecaster for Boston NBC affiliate Whdh before the network came calling, tells Zap2it. "She had pitched a couple of food segments, then I would chime in and say, 'Hey, I like to cook,...

NBC's Weekend Today will be anchored by Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie for a special broadcast examining the bombing of the Boston Marathon. Lauer and Guthrie will anchor live from Studio 1A in New York, while Lester Holt and Erica Hill will broadcast from Boston. The coverage begins at 7 a.m. Et and will include an interview with Ruslan Tsarni, uncle of suspects Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died in a shootout with police Friday morning, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was arrested Friday night after a dramatic manhunt. Photos: Inside the Boston Bombing Manhunt ABC and CBS are also planning special

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Jenna Wolfe has some studying to do! On Saturday's live episode of Today Weekend, the co-anchor, 39, got some extra attention from colleagues Lester Holt, Erica Hill and weather anchor Dylan Dreyer -- all of them eager to celebrate Wolfe's recently announced pregnancy. In honor of that exciting news, the morning show team submitted themselves to a lightning round of "Know Your Baby," in which Dreyer quizzed Wolfe plus Hill and Holt, both already parents, on the art of baby-rearing. Wolfe (who came out as gay and [...]...

NBC Update: Sandy Hook Elementary Massacre - 20 children murdered by 24 year-old lone gunman. News coverage on unfolding event: Brian Williams, Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt, Erica Hill, Ann Curry, Willie Geist, Chris Jansing to Report NBC News will provide comprehensive special coverage of the tragic shooting that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday morning. Below are programming details. All updates will be released throughout the day as they become available. Friday, December 14 NBC Nightly NewsBrian Williams will anchor a special one-hour edition of .NBC Nightly News. live from Newtown, Ct at 6:30 p.m. Et, featuring reports on the tragedy and the investigation, the families and communities affected,...

All the major networks broke into regular programming as this morning’s horrific elementary school shooting in Connecticut unfolded. A visibly shaken President Barack Obama held back tears as he spoke of the tragedy. News anchors and reporters also showed their emotions while reporting details. (CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield from the scene spoke movingly about how her two small children attend school in Connecticut just 30 minutes away.) Cable networks devoted blanket coverage and networks adjusted schedules. All three evening anchors – Brian Williams, Diane Sawyer and Scott Pelley – will be anchoring from Newtown, Connecticut, tonight. The CBS Evening News will expand to one-hour, and CBS will air a one-hour special report at 10 Pm Et. ABC World News will also be one-hour with Diane Sawyer beginning at 6:30 Pm Et. ABC will pre-empt Barbara Walters‘ interview with President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama for Sawyer and Chris Cuomo to anchor a...