Top of the Ticker: For nearly an hour on Tuesday evening, CNN and MSNBC carried Vice President Kamala Harris‘ buzzy interview with popular radio personality Charlamagne tha God. Since it was an audio-only conversation, both networks resorted to creatively displaying an on-air graphic while the interview was rebroadcast on their respective airwaves. The interview took place in front of a live audience Detroit and was primarily aimed at reaching Black male voters who may be skeptical about supporting the Democratic presidential candidate. During her media blitz last week, Harris set aside time to speak with audio superstars Howard Stern and Alex Cooper.
Charlamagne: Why do you allow him to call you the border czar when that wasn’t your role?
Kamala Harris: If I respond to every name he called me, I wouldn’t be focused on the things that actually help the American people. And that’s my focus pic.twitter.com/NQuDjFaN6O
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 15, 2024
MSNBC is airing the Live Charlamagne Tha God. pic.twitter.com/qRCvMsQUO3
— Mad Genius 🐈🐈⬛🐈🐈⬛ (@MGenius15636) October 15, 2024
Freedom Rings: After revealing her Stage 3 breast cancer diagnosis on-air last year, CNN anchor Sara Sidner has announced that she is cancer-free. The 52-year-old’s journey to defeat cancer included undergoing a double mastectomy, 16 rounds of chemo, and 25 rounds of radiation. In a new interview with The Washington Post, Sidner held back tears while saying: “I have thanked cancer for choosing me. I’m learning that no matter what hell we go through in life that, I am still madly in love with this life.”
You don’t have to be afraid. You just have to survive so that you can thrive. And it starts by knowing your body. #CancerAwareness is so important.
Thank you @timbella for sharing my story. I hope it can help if you sre going through it. https://t.co/ws84Nv3M8M— Sara Sidner (@sarasidnerCNN) October 15, 2024
Trophy Time: The 71st Scripps Howard Journalism Awards will air on Scripps News on Sunday, Oct. 20 at 8 p.m. ET with anchor Christian Bryant serving as host. Guest appearances will include ABC News’ David Muir, PBS News Hour’s Geoff Bennett, former CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien and HBO’s John Oliver. The awards honor work from television stations and networks, radio and podcasts, visual media, online media outlets, independent producers, newspapers, and print publications. In a bittersweet development, Scripps News will exit the 24/7 national news space next month.
Newsmax Expands: Add YouTube TV to the list of pay TV distributors where you’ll now be able to find Newsmax. The conservative-leaning network announced that it will now be available to YouTube TV’s base plan subscribers, which makes Newsmax available in nearly 60 million home. So far, Newsmax is carried by many of the major cable operators, including Directv, Xfinity, Dish, Spectrum, Cox, and Optimum.
BIG NEWS: NEWSMAX is now on YouTube TV! Catch America’s fastest-growing cable news channel, now on the fastest-growing pay-TV provider! See More: https://t.co/jGAJ2sZAKI pic.twitter.com/GWTu85J63K
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) October 9, 2024
Konnichiwa Japan: Bloomberg Media and Japan’s Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc. (TBS) are launching TBS Cross Dig with Bloomberg, a dedicated section of the TBS News Dig website. This partnership sees the financial-focused media company providing daily curated selections of Japanese-language Bloomberg articles and videos, as well as original TBS reporting. It’s the first collaborative product for the two companies since they announced their partnership in June.