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In fact, the 48-year-old star frequently appeared exhausted before leaving “Live With Ryan and Kelly,” leaving his friends and colleagues worried about him, multiple sources told Page Six.
President Biden's statement on his visit to Ukraine:
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 20, 2023
“I am in Kyiv today to meet with President Zelenskyy and reaffirm our unwavering and unflagging commitment to Ukraine’s democracy, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.” https://t.co/XjQl4dP2YV
➤BIDEN TO POLAND AS WAR ANNIVERSARY APPROACHES: U.S. President Joe Biden is due to visit Poland on Monday to mark the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of neighboring Ukraine, which said it was inflicting heavy losses on Moscow's forces in Europe's biggest conflict since World War Two. The war which began on Feb. 24 last year has cost hundreds of thousands of lives, driven millions from their homes and reduced cities to rubble across swathes of southern and eastern Ukraine. There has been little change on the vast frontline in recent months as both sides prepare for offensives expected in the spring, Russia boosted by thousands of conscripts and Ukraine fortified with Western battle tanks. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that Russia had suffered "extraordinarily significant" losses near the town of Vuhledar in the eastern Donbas region, which Moscow claimed to have annexed in September.
As dozens of world leaders descended on Germany this weekend for the annual Munich Security Conference, declarations of support for Ukraine were nearly ubiquitous — as were acknowledgments that help and weapons are arriving too slowly. https://t.co/Zbg2Mx2Cz4
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 20, 2023
➤L-A CATHOLIC BISHOP MURDERED: The Saturday shooting that killed Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell in Los Angeles is being investigated as a murder, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. O’Connell, a 69-year-old native of Ireland who served several parishes in South LA, was pronounced dead of a gunshot wound on Saturday afternoon in the Hacienda Heights neighborhood, according to the statement. No additional information was available. Homicide rates spiked in LA during the pandemic along with other types of crime and have fallen slightly since. There have been 33 homicides in LA in the year through Feb. 11, according to statistics compiled by the police department, down 30% from this time last year.
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DeSantis kicks off pro-police tour in Democrat-run cities as White House rumors swirl https://t.co/XA3anMXd17
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 20, 2023
JUST IN: Five people shot at the Krewe of Bacchus Parade in New Orleans, police say. https://t.co/5jakdUqDyd
— ABC News (@ABC) February 20, 2023
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| CNN's Don Lemon Spent Weekend In Miami |
As CNN’s ratings plunge to rock bottom, diva Lemon has refused to accept any blame, sources said. The news anchor, 56, has been “moody” ever since new network CEO Chris Licht bumped him from his 10 P.M. primetime gig to co-host CNN This Morning with Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins — a move that sources claim he saw as a total downgrade.
Now the network’s ratings are in a record-breaking tailspin and prima donna Don is furiously blaming everybody but himself, said sources.
Hosted by Howard Kurtz, this Sunday’s edition of the hour-long program opted not to cover the bombshell revelations involving Fox News and many of its personalities and executives — which were made public in a newly-unsealed filing from the Dominion voting systems $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the network.
The decision to look the other way on the Dominion filing might not be an enormous shock, given the unflattering nature of the revelations against Fox News, writes John DePaolo at Mediaite. Among the stunning news to come out of the filing was an email from Rupert Murdoch to Fox News President Suzanne Scott in which the media mogul called for the network to be “helping” former President Donald Trump “any way we can.” Also, several Fox News executives described a number of the network’s own hosts and anchors as “crazy.”
The network has maintained the revelations are “noise,” arguing that they are “irrelevant” to the case.
In a Senate hearing last week, Sohn claimed that any rumor she wants to be chair is “false.” However, sources say Sohn has privately told friends that the only reason she has weathered her year-and-a-half candidacy is because she has been assured by White House officials that they plan to make her chair.
The Philly Business Journal reports the casino operator announced the deal's close on Friday, bringing the total cost of the Barstool acquisition to $551 million three years after it bought an initial 36% stake in the sports media company for $163 million in cash and stock.
The Chernin Group previously owned 60% of Barstool after acquiring majority control of the company in 2016. Its stake decreased to 36% when Penn Entertainment, then called Penn National Gaming, joined ownership in January 2020, with Barstool employees owning the remaining 28% of the company.
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"Barstool is a proven, powerful media brand with an authentic voice and vast, loyal audience that provides us with a strong top of funnel for new customer acquisition and organic cross-selling opportunities across our growing interactive division," Penn Entertainment CEO Jay Snowden said in a statement.
On-demand streaming consumption reached 1.3 trillion audio and video streams in 2022, up 12.2% from 2021’s 1.1 trillion. Audio streaming accounted for 1.1 trillion of this total (up 12.1%), while video on-demand song streaming grew by 12.3% to 159.7 billion.
Streaming is being driven by Gen Zers, who stream music for almost 2 hours per day, according to recent research, as streamed music now rival radio in daily usage. Indeed, Gen Zers spend 19% more time than average with music on a weekly basis, and spend 10% more money each month on music, per this latest report.
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| Susan Wojcicki |
Wojcicki, 54, joined YouTube as CEO in 2014.
She will continue working with YouTube teams, coaching members and meeting with creators, she added.
Wojcicki said she agreed with Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai to, in the longer term, take on an advisory role across Google and Alphabet. “This will allow me to call on my different experiences over the years to offer counsel and guidance across Google and the portfolio of Alphabet companies,” she wrote
The pitcher's accuser, Olivia Finestead, hopped on WSCR 670The Score in Chicago this weekend for an interview, which Clevinger called "really trashy" and "some lowlife material."
In the interview, Finestead – the mother of Clevinger's child – blasted the right-hander for playing the victim during his media session down in spring training, echoing her previous sentiments.
"For him to sit there and be like, ‘Oh, poor me on my first day [of Spring Training]?’ Like, your poor baby. Your poor other kids," Finestead said. "He’s just so full of himself and such a narcissist that he will deny, lie and project every day. That’s just who he is."
"It’s the world we’re living in," the 32-year-old pitcher said in response to the interview. "Everyone wants the clicks. It doesn’t matter what the real truth is. Everyone will stop and look at the car crash but no one’s going to stop and smell the flowers. That’s how the world is. But that was really trashy of them. That was some lowlife material right there."
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| Gary Shores |
Mr. Shores died about 5 p.m., said friend and retired Toledo radio broadcaster Craig Snyder, noting that the family had notified members of the local broadcast community.
Shores ended his career in May, 2019 at the K-100 morning show after he learned he had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a condition in which lung tissue becomes progressively damaged.
He was a longtime on-air partner of Harvey J. Steele, who died Dec. 28, 2016.
"I worked with both of them," Mr. Snyder said Sunday night. "They took right to the home plate. They knew the people who got them to the top. They would always show up at things that listeners would have like charity and medical benefits, or somebody needed some funeral-expense cost help. They'd show up and drop a considerable amount of money at those events. That was pretty cool."
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For many viewers, though, the most memorable moments of his 41 years on WBZ aired during the past decade, after his first diagnosis with lung cancer, when he encouraged others to seek treatment and survive with the optimism and humor for which he was known.
“I don’t call myself a journalist,” he said in an interview last fall with Upstage Lung Cancer, which raises awareness and funding for lung cancer research, after he had been treated for a second cancer diagnosis. “I call myself a storyteller.”
(Real Name Charles Thomas Aldrich, Jr., died from lung cancer June 30, 1995) is best remembered as Lucille Ball's longtime television foil—and particularly as cantankerously combustible, tightfisted bank executive Theodore J. Mooney, on Ball's second television situation comedy.
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Gordon and his character of Mayor La Trivia briefly left the show in December 1942 when Gordon enlisted in World War II and the storyline followed. He was the first actor to play the role of Flash Gordon, in the 1935 radio serial The Amazing Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon. He also played Dr. Stevens in Glorious One.
In 1950, Gordon played John Granby in the radio series Granby's Green Acres, which became the basis for the 1960s television series Green Acres. Gordon went on to create the role of pompous principal Osgood Conklin on Our Miss Brooks, carrying the role to television when the show moved there in 1952. In the interim, Gordon turned up as Rudolph Atterbury on My Favorite Husband, which starred Lucille Ball in a precursor to I Love Lucy.
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| Jim Jewell |
Jewell first got into radio in 1927. with a background of summer stock, vaudeville, burlesque, and even touring with a troupe of marionettes. In June 1932, George Trendle, the owner of radio station WXYZ Detroit, decided to drop network affiliation and produce his own radio programs. Jewell was hired as the dramatic director for the radio station. He supplied the actors from his own repertory company, the "Jewell Players".
Jewell produced, directed and occasionally wrote many of the early episodes for The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet. He was the director for both series from their beginning up until 1938.
Jewell left WXYZ in 1938, and moved to Chicago and worked as a director-producer at WBBM (AM), the CBS radio affiliate in Chicago.
He directed Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy beginning in 1938 until the series ended in 1951. From 1951-1955, Jewell was the producer/director of The Silver Eagle, a mountie adventure which ran on ABC and starred Jim Ameche, the brother of movie star Don Ameche.
As the era of radio dramatic series came to an end, attempted to bring The Silver Eagle to television.
➦In 1914...John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly was born (Died February 24, 1991). Known as John Daly, he was a radio and television personality, CBS News broadcast journalist, ABC News executive and TV anchor and a game show host, best known as the host and moderator of the CBS television panel show What's My Line?
Daly began his broadcasting career as a reporter for NBC Radio, and then for WJSV (now WTOP), the local CBS Radio Network affiliate in Washington, D.C., serving as CBS' White House correspondent. He appears on the famous "One Day in Radio" tapes of September 21, 1939, in which WJSV preserved its entire broadcast day for posterity.
Through covering the Roosevelt White House, Daly became known to the national CBS audience as the network announcer for many of the President's speeches. In late 1941, Daly transferred to New York City, where he became anchor of The World Today. During World War II, he covered the news from London as well as the North African and Italian fronts. Daly was a war correspondent in 1943 in Italy during Gen. George S. Patton's infamous "slapping incidents". After the war, he was a lead reporter on CBS Radio's news/entertainment program CBS Is There (later known on TV as You Are There), which recreated the great events of history as if CBS correspondents were on the scene.
As a reporter for the CBS radio network, Daly was the voice of two historic announcements. He was the first national correspondent to deliver the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941, and he was also the first to relay the wire service report of the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 12, 1945, interrupting the program Wilderness Road to deliver the news. Transcriptions of those bulletins have been preserved on historical record album retrospectives and radio and television documentaries. Among the first were the Columbia Records spoken word series I Can Hear It Now and the later CBS Television series, The Twentieth Century.
In July, 1959, along with the Associated Press writer John Scali, he reported from Moscow on the famous Kitchen Debate between USSR General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev and then U.S. Vice President Richard M. Nixon in 1959.
➦In 1922...WGY-AM, Schenectady, NY signed-on. As early as 1912, General Electric company in Schenectady began experimenting with radio transmissions, being granted a class 2-Experimental license for 2XI on August 13, 1912 by the Commerce Department.
