Mediagazer: CNN hires Smerconish for weekend show (Dylan Byers/Politico)

11:35 AM ET, February 10, 2014

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

CNN hires Smerconish for weekend show — Michael Smerconish, the satellite radio host and MSNBC contributor, has been hired by CNN to host a Saturday morning show, network president Jeff Zucker announced Monday. — Smerconish is perhaps best known as the guest-host for MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews.

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Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:

Scripps to Acquire Granite Stations In Detroit, Buffalo For $110 Million — Will make a duopoly in Motown alongside WXYZ — Scripps has agreed to acquire WMYD Detroit and WKBW Buffalo, the Granite Broadcasting-owned MyNetworkTV and ABC affiliates, respectively, for $110 million.

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Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:

Time Inc. Appoints Editor in Chief for Entertainment Weekly — Matt Bean, a Sports Illustrated editor with extensive digital experience, has been named the new editor of Entertainment Weekly, Time Inc., said Monday. — His appointment is part of extensive reshuffling of executives at Time Inc …

Anne Penketh / Guardian:

Libération journalists fight investors' vision for future of French newspaper — Staff fear shareholders are intent on making money from brand and building, ‘with no mention of journalism’ — Three months ago a crazed gunman opened fire in the Paris offices of the iconoclastic …

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