On Saturday, February 15, 2014 9:47:20 PM UTC-5, Bob Jersey wrote: > > The *NFL Today* host and Cornell alum was quietly plugged into the *CBS > Evening News* Friday - to as-far-as-I-can-find no fanfare whatsoever. (No > word of anything particular involving Pelley, either.) > > Way back in March 2012, after interviewing beleaguered NFL star Michael > Vick for *60 Minutes* in 2009, West 57th named him a special > correspondent and fill-in anchor for *This Morning Saturday*, and in a > TVNewser piece expressed interest in one day being in the 6:30 east spot... > tho it wasn't a priority at the time... > > > http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/james-brown-on-his-cbs-news-role-i-would-like-to-think-there-will-be-no-limits_b114551 > > Kudos, JB. > > >
Just checked the forums on tvnewstalk.net ... apparently JB filled in for Pelley at least once before, around Christmastime. Someone there describes Brown as "basically a fourth-in-line sub." Brown also did an excellent feature on CBS Sunday Morning this past September, interviewing the man who inadvertently ended up with MLK's copy of the "I Have a Dream" speech. All 7:40 of it is at http://www.cbsnews.com/news/guardian-of-history-mlks-i-have-a-dream-speech-lives-on/ -Tim -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
