I hope it doesn't seem like we dwell on Jon Stewart, but he has been hitting it out of the park pretty regularly lately. Last night, his writers pull together a very clever bit that features a number of network anchors. When you have time...

NBC says Natalie Morales will be a regular on the series, "Marriage Ref" underscoring how little stigma there is now for television reporters to take part in entertainment programming, something once viewed as a threat to journalistic credibility. NBC anchor Brian Williams has had cameos on “30 Rock,” and Meredith Vieira has continued to host “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” since joining the “Today” show in 2006. Julie Chen, anchor of CBS' “The Early Show,” also hosts the reality show "Big Brother." More

Now ESPN's Erin Andrews is slated to compte on "Dancing With the Stars" This spring (See story at right in our news section).

Now, when will you be saying Hello across the Street at WJLA-TV?

After nearly a decade of busting bad guys, bulldog WXYZ Channel 7 investigative reporter Steve Wilson is losing his job. "Isn't it ironic that Kwame Kilpatrick still has his job after I'm losing mine?" he observed wryly this week. "That will teach you a lesson in fairness." More

ABC News is poised to make a major round of cuts that will reduce the size of the news division by as much as 20% and radically reorder the network’s traditional approach to news gathering.

Forced to belt-tighten by the weak advertising market, network executives have opted to restructure the labor-heavy newsroom from top to bottom in favor of a leaner, more nimble operation, according to multiple sources. Many of those remaining in the pared-down news division will be expected to both produce and shoot their own stories, acting as “one-man bands,” a model increasingly being adopted in television news.

In a memo that went out to employees Tuesday afternoon, ABC News President David Westin said "The time has come to anticipate change, rather than respond to it," he wrote. "We have a rare opportunity to get in front of what’s coming, to ensure that ABC News has a sound journalistic and financial footing for many years to come, and to serve our audiences even better." MORE

Larry Mendte, the former CBS3 Philly anchor has landed himself an on-air job in the Big Apple as a TV commentator (watch above). Mendte - who has been off the air since his highly publicized firing from the station in June 2008 after an FBI investigation found he had hacked into former co-worker Alycia Lane's e-mail account - has been working on commentary pieces for WPIX-TV for the last month says WPIX news director Bill Carey. MORE

Mendte's commentary has also landed on Tribune's co-owned WGN-TV. Veteran Chicago TV critic Robert Feder isn't happy at all about it; "Friday was a good day for convicted felons at Tribune Co.: One turned up as a commentator on its television stations, and another landed a midday fill-in gig on its flagship radio station. Both acts showed the depths to which a once-great company has sunk under its current regime of cynicism and contempt for the audience. MORE

Frank N. Magid, the consultant who transformed the face of television news in the 1970s, died Friday in Santa Barbara, Calif., at age 78.

Magid, the founder of Frank N. Magid Associates, was the first in the business to use market research to redesign TV newscasts, infusing them with light features and friendly banter to make them more appealing to viewers. More