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NBC News anchor Campbell Brown is moving to CNN. She has been co-anchoring Weekend Today since 2003, but her contract is up at the end of this month and she is not re-signing with the network. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that she didn't get the Today anchor gig when Katie Couric left for CBS. Brown was reportedly one of the Top 5 contenders for the job, but it went to Meredith Vieira.

While a newsperson's jump from NBC to CNN isn't that exciting, Campbell's move may signal a shake-up at CNN. TV Newser is reporting that she may be getting her own show... in place of Paula Zahn's 8 pm NOW broadcast, which has had dwindling ratings.

So why do all of these movie commercials I see have a quote from him? And he's always going overboard on his quotes, calling this movie "the best" and that actor "the greatest" and this director "the best." As a few of us here have mentioned before, he's becoming more and more lame when it comes to the questions he asks his guests (not to mention he seems less interested now), and now he's reviewing films?

This would be like other talk show hosts and reporters giving quotes for movies.

See? See? I do report on FOX News things!

The cable network not only has nine of the top ten news shows, it also celebrated it's 250th week as being #1. Yay! Balloons and candy for everyone! (Though the network is down 17% in the daytime numbers from last year, and down 25% in primetime).

Over on MSNBC, the news is good too. The network's ratings are up, which kind of depresses me because they're up since started that damn "doc block" and heading towards more taped feature programming. But Countdown with Keith Olbermann is up 67%, and that's a very telling number.

In other cable news news, remember when Anderson Cooper was brought in to co-host Aaron Brown's show, and then Brown was shown the door? Look who's co-hosting Paula Zahn's show over on CNN. Hmmm...

Print journalists are always dumping on the TV side, calling TV journalists "talking heads" or "more interested in the appearances than the news" or saying they "don't go deep enough" in their stories. So this is what makes this Wall Street Journal article so funny.

Writer Vanessa O'Connel wonders (and in the very first sentence too) "Is Katie Couric changing her look?" Yes, it's an entire article examining the new promos that CBS is running for Couric's new CBS Evening News gig. O'Connell wonders why Couric is now wearing a serious black dress and pearls instead of the clothes she wore on Today.

What, did she used to wear clown outfits and bathrobes on Today? Is she really that different? And even if she is, what, you never changed your clothing because of a job change?

But that's not all: O'Connell goes on to interview various experts about Couric's wardrobe. One of the experts even suggests that Charles Gibson (yes, he's no longer officially Charlie!) should wear lighter colors so it's "more flattering." Ugh.

Favorite line: "Neither Ms. Couric nor CBS, which hopes she'll attract younger viewers without alienating the old guard, would discuss her anchor wardrobe - although a spokesman for Ms. Couric says she at times wore the same black suit on the Today Show. But how Ms. Couric looks will help shape her images as she discusses weighty topics like The Middle East."

Looks like there are a lot of changes coming to MSNBC in the next few months, and that might mean some hosts might be out of a job.

The first big change - and a shocking one - was the hiring of Dan Abrams as the new head of the news network. He was the top legal correspondent and host of the daily Abrams Report, and now he's in charge of the whole network. He says changes are coming, and it looks like many of the nighttime talk shows might be scrapped in favor of more taped reports and shows. As for daytime coverage, Abrams wants more "breaking news" coverage.

Two shows that won't be going anywhere? Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews' Hardball.