By Chris Ariens on October 11, 2010 5:18 PM
Lilia Luciano is joining NBC News as a network correspondent based in Miami.
Luciano was hired away from the Univision-owned network TeleFutura, which is a competitor to NBC’s Telemundo. At TeleFutura, Luciano hosted entertainment programs “Escándalo TV” and “Escándalo Extra.”
Starting Monday, she’ll report for all platforms of NBC News, including “Nightly News,” “Today,” MSNBC and msnbc.com, as well as Telemundo.
“Lilia’s passion for journalism along with her unique reporting expertise make her a strong addition to the team,” said Steve Capus, President of NBC News. “We are excited to bring her on board to join our talented lineup of NBC News correspondents.”
The Puerto Rican-born Luciano is a 2007 grad of the University of Miami.
TVNewser has also learned that current Miami-based correspondent Michelle Kosinski is making the move to NBC’s London Bureau.
More about Luciano in the press release after the jump.
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By Chris Ariens on October 11, 2010 4:44 PM
By Chris Ariens on October 11, 2010 4:42 PM
Longtime NBC Nightly News senior producer for foreign news ML Flynn is taking on a new role at the news network — Senior Producer of Editorial Planning. Flynn, who has been Nightly News’s lead foreign producer for the last two decades, will now report to News division VP Alex Wallace. We’re told the search is on for Flynn’s replacement at Nightly News. The internal email sent by News president Steve Capus, after the jump.
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By Chris Ariens on October 11, 2010 4:16 PM
B&C’s Marisa Guthrie has an update on the search for David Westin‘s replacement at ABC News. Guthrie reports Disney-ABC Television Group president Anne Sweeney was at ABC News headquarters in New York last week:
According to multiple sources, Sweeney held meetings with a handful of current executives at ABC News, including James Goldston and Jim Murphy, executive producers at Nightline and Good Morning America, respectively. Sweeney also met with Kate O’Brian, senior VP of news coverage. Jon Banner, executive producer of World News with Diane Sawyer, had a meeting with Sweeney at an earlier occasion.
Multiple names from the ABC station group including O&O president Rebecca Campbell and Emily Barr, the president and general manager of WLS-TV, the ABC O&O in Chicago, have been disavowed.
By the way, we still have our poll open on the subject. What do you think?
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By Molly Stark Dean on October 11, 2010 4:11 PM
The 2pmET timeslot on MSNBC now has a name: “News Nation with Tamron Hall” debuted today. This is the show Donald Trump hinted at last month when he was on the air with Hall.
Hall joined MSNBC three years ago and recently signed a contract extension.
One last piece of the puzzle: when will MSNBC launch Martin Bashir‘s new 3pm show? He left ABC for MSNBC in July.
By Molly Stark Dean on October 11, 2010 2:21 PM
The Republican nominee for Chris Dodd‘s Connecticut Senate seat, Linda McMahon appeared on “This Week with Christiane Amanpour” on Sunday. But McMahon’s lower third in the pre-taped interview identified her as a (D) instead of an (R). It was fixed for later shows.
By Chris Ariens on October 11, 2010 1:34 PM
The NYPost reports former NBC News and CNN anchor Campbell Brown just closed on a $3.9 million apartment in New York’s TriBeCa neighborhood. That’s about $600,000 less than the asking price.
The three-bedroom, three-bath, full-floor condo at 71 Murray St. has 4,000 square feet of space and includes a state-of-the-art kitchen, a fireplace, private outdoor space and water views.
Brown and her husband, former Bush administration official Dan Senor, have two young sons. Brown left CNN in July after her primetime show failed to catch on with viewers.
By Chris Ariens on October 11, 2010 12:21 PM
A week in to CNN’s “Parker-Spitzer” we’re starting to hear the “we’ll give it some time” line from CNN. How much time is not known. In today’s Wall Street Journal Sam Schechner writes about some of the tweaks the show has gone through in its first five outings:
By Thursday night, the hosts’ newspaper-strewn table was free of most detritus. A segment called “Our Political Party!” featured a bigger table that can accommodate six people without seeming cramped.
Producers are also experimenting with new ways to juggle segments and add energy to the broadcast. “Parker Spitzer” led off Thursday’s show with a taped CNN interview with Christine O’Donnell, the tea-party-backed U.S. Senate candidate from Delaware. Later in the show, a roundtable with former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed included some sparring.
“We weren’t in this for the first night,” Bart Feder, CNN SVP told Schechter. “We’re in this to launch and to let it grow. And we’re confident it will.”
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By Chris Ariens on October 11, 2010 11:49 AM
TV News correspondents are descending on Chile’s Atacama desert as the rescue of 33 miners trapped since August 5 is now just days away.
“Today” show national correspondent Natalie Morales left New York for Chile on Friday and began reporting today for NBC News and The Weather Channel. NBC News Miami-based correspondent Kerry Sanders, (with Morales, right) who has been in Chile since Sept. 28, has been reporting for several NBCU channels, including MSNBC and CNBC.
ABC’s Jeffrey Kofman who was one of the first American news correspondents on the scene in August, remains on site. John Quinones is also there working on a report for “20/20″ to air this Friday and Diana Alvear is reporting for NewsOne and ABC News Radio.
For CBS News, Seth Doane is in place. Fox News Channel’s Steve Harrigan has been in-country since last Tuesday reporting for the cable news channel and CNN has a team of 14 people on the ground including Karl Penhaul who’s been on the ground since August 23 for both CNN/U.S. and CNNI. All-platform journalist Patrick Oppmann is also reporting for the network and Gary Tuchman will be on air soon as he just arrived this morning.
BBC World News America’s Matt Frei will anchor tonight’s show from the scene in Copiago and will remain until the miners are freed.
TV News crews in position near the mine site in Chile’s Atacama Desert where rescuers finished drilling 566 meters underground Sunday in an effort to free 33 trapped miners.
By Chris Ariens on October 11, 2010 9:51 AM
B&C’s Marissa Guthrie reports former CNBC president Jonathan Wald is in line for the EP job for CNN’s upcoming Piers Morgan show which will replace “Larry King Live” at 9pmET. Insiders confirm with TVNewser the talks are ongoing but that no deal is in place.
Wald would bring considerable hard news experience to the job. He left CNBC in 2009, after shepherding the network’s business day programming through the financial crisis; a period that saw unprecedented ratings growth for the NBC Universal-owned business channel. Prior to CNBC, Wald held multiple executive producer jobs at NBC News including at flagship broadcasts Today and Nightly News during Tom Brokaw‘s tenure. He’s currently on the adjunct faculty at the journalism school at Columbia University.
Guthrie also reports new CNN president Ken Jautz met with EP candidates last week and that he’d like to bring someone in soon “”so that the nuts and bolts of the show can begin to be hammered.”
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