Hold Your Horses Mr. Lauer!

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Hold Your Horses Mr. Lauer!

Now even the town of Southhampton is ganging up on Matt Lauer. 

The posh town has issued a stop-work order on part of the Today Show Co-host's 40-acre horse farm.

The order was posted late last month on a former office structure that Lauer is turning into a swank residence for up to six groomsmen.

Lauer can’t put a home on the property but he can build structures necessary for agricultural-related business, which in his case is an uber-luxurious horse farm.

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Brokaw's Ranch Sells for $1.7 Million

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Brokaw's Ranch Sells for $1.7 Million

Tom Brokaw's fishing ranch located in Smithers, British Columbia, Canada, has sold for $1.7 million. He had listed the estate for sale sometime back in September 2012, asking for $1.8 million. The place has now sold for a slight discount.

Brokaw purchased the property with two friends and decided to sell it away as it was lying unused by either of the three. The ranch has been purchased by Texas-based buyers who now plan to set up base there.

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Internet TV Continues to Climb at Fast Rate

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Internet TV Continues to Climb at Fast Rate

U.S. digital TV users are climbing faster than expected.

The number of U.S. digital TV users -- those who view at least one TV show per month via the Internet -- will climb 37% in four years to 145 million in 2017, from 106 million in 2012. This amounts to digital TV user growth climbing at a 6.9% compound annual growth rate -- a higher increase than previously forecast in August 2012 by eMarketer.

Next year, it says digital TV viewers will cross a critical tipping point -- surpassing 50% of the U.S. Internet user population. Those users who watch at least one movie per month on any Internet-capable device will climb to 115 million in 2017 from nearly 80 million in 2012, a 9.7% annual growth rate.

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Rick Sanchez Continues Jenna Wolfe Demotion Tweets

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Rick Sanchez Continues Jenna Wolfe Demotion Tweets

FTVLive was FIRST to tell you about Rick Sanchez tweeting that maybe NBC demoted Jenna Wolfe on Weekend Today, was because she was a Lesbian and about to be a pregnant one at that.

After FTVLive's story, a number of other media outlets stole......errrrrr....borrowed our story with no attribution and went with it as well.

Well, Sanchez is not backing down from NBC and their demotion of a knocked up lesbian.​

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DiSy Catching up to BriWi

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DiSy Catching up to BriWi

Lookout Brian, Diane is nipping at your heels.​

ABC says that during the first quarter of 2013 “ABC World News with Diane Sawyer” averaged 8.25 million Total Viewers and a 1.8 rating/7 share/2.15 million among Adults 25-54, according to Nielsen Media Research. “World News” was up compared to the previous quarter (7.87 million and 2.02 million for 4Q12) and the year-ago quarter (7.89 million and 2.11 million for 1Q12) among both Total Viewers (+5% and +5%, respectively) and Adults 25-54 (+7% and +2%, respectively).  In fact, the ABC evening newscast turned in its strongest quarter performance in 2 years- since 1Q11.

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Chris Berman: Bonds, Clemens Should be in HOF

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Chris Berman: Bonds, Clemens Should be in HOF

ESPN's Chris Berman, who's ego will rival any sports star says that  Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens belong in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

The longtime ESPN staffer tells Lara Logan that and much more on 60 MINUTES SPORTS profile premiering Wednesday, April 3 at 9:00 PM, ET/PT on SHOWTIME.

​Nver mind the fact that Bonds and Clemens are likely the biggest names synonymous with Major League Baseball’s steroid controversy, Berman says open up the HOF for the two.  “I think Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens should get in at some point,” he says.

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Quitting Anchor: The Station Tried to Keep me

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Quitting Anchor: The Station Tried to Keep me

​Several times demoted former WPEC (West Palm Beach) Anchor wants you to know that he quit the station and was not fired.​

Yes, Juan Carlos Fanjul was demoted, a few times, but he says the station tried to keep him with a new offer. ​

“I can confirm I’ve decided to leave CBS 12 after 5 years,” Fanjul wrote. “CBS 12 was very gracious in offering me a new deal to keep me at the station, but I decided it was time to find a challenging new assignment in television news.

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Adams Clients Changing Channels

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Adams Clients Changing Channels

Adams Broadcast Consulting reports client moves:

Julie Durda crosses the street to join WPLG-TV in Miami as their weekday morning meteorologist from WSVN-TV where she held the same position.  Durda will also be filling in on Good Morning America.

Jessica Flores signs with Adams Broadcast Consulting and one week later makes a 135  market jump from KMIR-TV in Palm Springs where she was an MMJ to KSAZ-TV in Phoenix for a reporter position.

Natalie Taylor is promoted to host of the game broadcasts for the Columbus Blue Jackets with Fox Sports Ohio and will also continue her duties as reporter for the pre-game and post-game shows.

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EP Comes to Lauer's Defense

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EP Comes to Lauer's Defense

The rebuild Matt Lauer's Reputation Tour took a swing by TV Guide.

TV Guide talked to the Today Show's EP Don Nash and he continued to try a prop up Lauer.​

They write that Nash recently sat in on a focus group of female morning-show viewers. When they were asked what would make them stop watching the NBC program, "every one of them said, 'If Matt Lauer were to leave,'" Nash says. "Their opinions didn't square with what we had been reading in the papers and on websites."

​But what about the call to Anderson Cooper? That and more after the bounce  

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CoCo Re-Ups with TBS

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Leno might be leaving the Tonight Show, but Conan  O'Brien will be sticking around TBS.​

The cable channel announced that O'Brien inked a new deal that keeps him around to at least November 2015.

"The move further solidifies the ongoing relationship between the network and the popular late-night host," TBS said in the announcement.

O'Brien will be doing his show this week from Atlanta, where the Final Four.

Trump Drops Lawsuit Against Bill Maher

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Trump Drops Lawsuit Against Bill Maher

Donald Trump has at least temporally dropped his $5 million lawsuit against Bill Maher.  

Trump sued Maher in February, claiming Maher skipped out on a promise to donate $5 mil to charity if Trump could prove he wasn't part orangutan. Maher made the offer during an appearance on "Leno" ... after Trump made his $5 million challenge to President Obama regarding his birth certificate.

In his suit, Trump said he formally responded to Maher's challenge with a copy of his birth certificate, proving he's the "son of Fred Trump" ... who is, in fact, not a monkey ... and Bill should have to pony up.

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New Anchor Team Named in the Mile High City

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New Anchor Team Named in the Mile High City

In the matter of months, KDVR in Denver has lost it's main anchor team.

Now the station has named the new kids on the block. ​

Jeremy Hubbard and Deborah Takahara will become the new primary evening anchor team for Fox31 Denver News at 5pm and 9pm, beginning Monday, April 8.

Takahara has been anchoring those newscasts since mid-December, following the departure of Libby Weaver.

Hubbard succeeds Ron Zappolo, who will retire on Friday, after nearly 13 years as the primary evening co-anchor at Fox31 Denver. Zappolo, along with Weaver, was an integral part of the team that launched news on KDVR in 2000.

Hubbard is a Colorado native. He rejoined KDVR/KWGN in June, 2011 after four years at ABC News, where he co-anchored the network’s early morning newscasts “World News Now” and “America This Morning.”

The obligatory B.S. quotes after the leap   ​

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Thursday is Hug A News Anchor Day

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Thursday is Hug A News Anchor Day

​This Thursday is "Hug a News Anchor Day"...at least that's what one fast food chain says.​

Fast Food Chain Fazoli's (founded in Lexington, KY) is celebrating this unique and often unheard of holiday with free hugs for news anchors and Italian food.  Tony the Tomato, Fazoli's mascot, will be making the rounds once again to television stations across the country, giving out hugs. In some markets, Tony's efforts will be aided by Fazoli's area managers. In either case, Fazoli's will be bringing plenty of hugs, Consider Yourself Hugged t-shirts, breadsticks, and fresh entrees to the stations.

Viewers watching the hugs will also feel the love.  

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