Peter Alexander, who covered Washington for NBC News for more than a decade, is leaving the network to join MS NOW, according to people familiar with his plans. Alexander, 49, will serve as an anchor and chief national reporter for MS NOW. He will have a weekday program and also handle breaking news coverage throughout…
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta is asking a judge to unravel Nexstar Media Group’s $6.2-billion acquisition of rival TV station owner Tegna — the latest in a flurry of merger twists. Nexstar announced late Thursday that it had consummated the Tegna takeover — despite a lawsuit that Bonta and seven other Democratic state attorneys general…
Donald Trump stormed the cold open of “Saturday Night Live” this week as a family attempted to manage rising gas prices on a road trip. The segment in the March 14 episode began with Mikey Day, Ashley Padilla, Marcello Hernández and Sarah Sherman as a family on a road trip looking at the rising gas…
By a more than two-to-one margin, Americans approve (58%) rather than disapprove (25%) of the decision by ABC and its parent company, Disney, to end Jimmy Kimmel’s recent suspension and let him return to TV, according to a new Yahoo/YouGov poll. Earlier this month, ABC announced that it was pulling Kimmel’s late-night talk show, Jimmy…
A clear majority of Americans (69%) agree that “autism is a complex condition that can’t be reduced to a single cause,” according to a new Yahoo/YouGov poll. That number includes 59% of Republicans. Yet last week President Trump declared that his administration had “found an answer to autism” — then linked the neurological disorder to…
