ABC News Takes Oversight of ‘Tamron Hall’ Talk Show

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorESPN said it would place sports host Max Kellerman in a new mid-afternoon program after taking him off the popular hot-talk show “First Take” last month, unveiling a daytime schedule it hopes will keep viewers interested for a longer period of time.Kellerman’s new program, “This Just In,” will debut September 14 at 2 p.m., and offer news, opinion and analysis of trending sports headlines as well as looking ahead at potential sports news from the evening ahead.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorSusan Zirinsky, the former CBS News chief and longtime leader of its “48 Hours,” is refashioning herself as a streaming-video maven.Zirinsky will lead the new See It Now Studios, a new production unit that will create news, documentary and unscripted programming for the Paramount Plus streaming-video hub, the CBS broadcast network and other networks owned by parent company ViacomCBS.

Van Scott is returning to ABC News as vice president of communications after a brief stint at Vice Media Group.

will be replaced by a rotating series of conservative guest hosts. First up will be former Utah Congresswoman Mia Love, followed by Condoleezza Rice, S.E.

reports that ABC tried — and failed — to mediate with both Crawford and Jill McClain, another staffer who is supporting Crawford with her own allegation of assault against Corn. Corn, who departed ABC for Nexstar in April, denies inappropriate behavior with either woman.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorTom Llamas is ready to leap into an increasingly crowded field for evening news.The NBC News anchor, who previously led a streaming evening program at ABC News, is preparing for the launch of a digital evening endeavor for NBC News, a project he vows will have a kinetic feel and range a little further afield than the linear products that still represent the best-known examples of the format.“This is going to be a fast-paced, high-story-count nightly newscast,”

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCBS News wants to spread some of its venerable newsmagazine “Sunday Morning” to other days of the week.Starting September 7, the entire CBS morning schedule will be treated as a larger franchise, with weekdays and Saturdays featuring some of the in-depth and longform features for which the Sunday show — a TV-news institution — is best known.The weekday program, which features Gayle King, Tony Dokoupil and new co-host Nate Burleson, will be retitled “CBS

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorWhen she worked at CBS News as a senior executive, Kim Godwin was known to be eager to gain more control of a large news operation. Now that she’s arrived as president of ABC News, she has it — and a lot more.From the day she took the top role at the Walt Disney-backed news division, Godwin has been navigating tricky terrain.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorABC News will turn to an insider to lead its flagship morning program.Simone Swink, a longtime senior staffer at the show, has been named its senior producer, according to a memo sent to employees by Kim Godwin, president of ABC News Sunday.Swink takes a role which has been left vacant for months.

Tamron Hall will feature in-studio audience for the first time since the start of the pandemic when the syndicated daytime talk show launches its third season Sept. 6. The show’s New York City studio has been redesigned to accommodate a fully vaccinated, 50% capacity, socially distanced in-studio audience.

Kim Godwin, the new president of ABC News, said that she wants an independent investigation of how the network handled reports of sexual assault allegations against a former top producer for Good Morning America, according to a report.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAn ABC News producer who has worked for years at “Good Morning America” has alleged that the show’s former top executive sexually assaulted her and another female staffer, and she claims the network did little to reprimand or punish him.In a suit filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Kirstyn Crawford, a producer who works with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, alleges that Michael Corn, the former top producer at “Good Morning America,”

After an ABC News staffer filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the network and Michael Corn, accusing him of sexual assault, he is calling the claims “demonstrably false,” pointing to email exchanges he says counters her version of events.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox News said it has helped to evacuate four Afghan freelancers and their associates — 24 people in all — as part of a larger move by media organizations to secure an exit from the country for nationals who have helped their on the ground efforts in the region.In a memo to staffers on Sunday, Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said the company, part of Fox Corp., had “evacuated three Afghan nationals who formerly served as freelance associates, as well as an Afghan

ABC News is taking over daytime syndicated talk show Tamron Hall. The move was announced internally by ABC News President Kim Godwin and related to the show’s crew Friday morning, sources tell Deadline.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor“The Walking Dead” has for more than a decade lured audiences with a unique focus on zombie violence and dystopian societies.

In a mini-publicity blitz amid dramatic news coverage and skeptical questions about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden’s White House turned to ABC News and George Stephanopoulos for his first exclusive media interview on the topic.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBehind the scenes, the TV news biz is reeling as top talent exit rarefied posts for new ventures, worn out after an intense year covering the Trump administration and the rise of the coronavirus.Four of TV’s top news programs — ABC’s “Good Morning America,” “CBS Evening News,” “NBC Nightly News” and the fourth hour of NBC’s “Today” morning franchise — are on the hunt for executive producers.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorOne day while broadcasting from Afghanistan for CNN, Clarissa Ward may have moved about a little more  freely.