According to a new survey, ABC, CNN and Bloomberg are are among the networks that have the most affluent viewers. As Jon Lafayette at B&C notes, ABC was tops among the broadcast networks, placing just ahead of NBC.

Among cable networks:

On cable, CNN reaches the most viewers in affluent households. The highest household incomes on cable belong to affluent viewers on Bloomberg TV at $147,400 and Golf Channel, where the median income is $147,100.

In our Writing and Editing for the Web class starting September 20 in New York, you’ll learn how to launch a career in online content with instructor Jessica Bennett, a senior writer and editor at Newsweek.com and The Daily Beast. Learn more.

On “The Colbert Report” this week, host Stephen Colbert and NBC “Late Night” host Jimmy Fallon ended their six month best-friendship, and Colbert was devastated: “I feel like there is a hole in my heart, the shape of Jimmy Fallon,” he said.

Luckily, there was a silver-haired CNN anchor waiting in the wings to take Fallon’s place:

“I can heal your hurt.”

Journalist and TV show host Eleanor Mondale, the daughter of former vice president Walter Mondale, has died at age 51. Mondale, who until 2009 hosted a daytime show for WCCO radio in her native Minnesota, died at home today of complications due to brain cancer.

Mondale began her television career at WCCO-TV. She worked for E! Online, ESPN, ESPN2 and Speed Channel. She also worked for a time on CBS News “This Morning.”

It was also announced today that Kara Kennedy, the daughter of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, died last night, also at age 51. Kara Kennedy and Eleanor Mondale were both teenagers when their fathers were involved in presidential politics. Kennedy ran unsuccessfully for the democratic nomination in 1980 against the incumbent Jimmy Carter and VP Walter Mondale. Carter/Mondale would win the nomination but lose to Ronald Reagan. In 1984 Mondale won the democratic nomination for president, but would lose to Reagan in the general election.

(Photo: Courtesy WCCO Radio)

Univision has promoted three newsroom executives, giving them expanded roles in the organization. Lourdes Torres has been named director of special projects for Univision News, Jairo Marin has been promoted to executive producer of Univision’s newsmagazine program “Aquí y Ahora” (Here and Now), and Maria Martinez-Henao has been promoted to managing editor of Network News.

“Lourdes, Jairo and Maria play an integral role in Univision’s expanding news coverage and we are pleased to recognize their many contributions with these promotions,” said Daniel Coronell, VP of Univision News in a statement. “We have a long-standing commitment to provide first-rate news coverage which includes breaking news as well as coverage of the issues that are important to the everyday lives of our loyal community. With journalists of this caliber on our team, we are consistently able to achieve this goal.”

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Guinness World Records U.S. spokesperson Stuart Claxton dropped by LIVE on Thursday to present Regis Philbin with an update of his record for “Most Hours on U.S. Television.” Philbin smashed his own existing record by 198 hours, bringing the grand total to 16,746.5 hours spent in front of the camera during his illustrious career.

This was Guinness World Record Breaker Week on LIVE coinciding with the launch of the new Guinness World Records book released yesterday.

25-54 demographic (Live +SD)

• Total day: FNC: 301| MSNBC: 105 | CNN: 146 | HLN: 97

• Primetime: FNC: 524 | MSNBC: 204 | CNN: 225 | HLN: 117

	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:	12a:
FNC	Five:	Baier:	Shep:	O’Reilly:	Hannity:	Greta:	O’Reilly:	Hannity:
	310	366	373	567	547	452	416	283
MSNBC	Matthews:	Sharpton:	Matthews:	O’Donnell:	Maddow:	EdShow:	O’Donnell:	Maddow:
	106	93	106	170	302	138	123	115
CNN	Blitzer:	Blitzer:	KingUSA:	Cooper:	Morgan:	Cooper:	KingUSA:	Morgan:
	152	167	170	207	226	241	192	123
HLN	Special:	Prime:	Issues:	Grace:	DrDrew:	Behar:	Showbiz:	DrDrew:
	94	70	85	158	90	110	102	74

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“Connect the World” anchor  Becky Anderson will broadcast from a redesigned London studio beginning next week. The show — which airs in primetime in Europe — is debuting a whole new look, including new logos and graphics, on Monday.

More pictures on the “Connect the World” Facebook page.

Vice Magazine hosted an “upfront” last night, and in addition to launching their new website, the company announced a project with HBO. The show’s concept? According to AdWeek‘s D.M. Levine, it would be a “’60 Minutes” for young people”:

Though he didn’t go into detail on stage, after his presentation Smith told Adweek that the show, which he described as a “’60 Minutes’ for young people,” will be executive produced by Mahr and called “Vice T.V.” Smith says the new program will air in primetime next Fall.

Vice has already struck a partnership with CNN. That deal raised eyebrows as the magazine is known for its racy content, very unlike the usually prim and proper cable news channel.

CBS News’ Bob Schieffer, who will celebrate his 20th anniversary as moderator of “Face the Nation” this week, is interviewed ahead of the milestone by our sister site, FishbowlDC. The veteran broadcaster opens up about his favorite journalists, his celebrity crush and memorable moments in his career:

FishbowlDC: Most embarrassing moment?

Schieffer: I once dropped a hot cup of coffee on Maria Shriver, but that was on the morning news. And then there was the time President Ford called on me at a prime time news conference and I couldn’t think of a question to ask. So I just said, “What about the Russians?” and lo and behold he gave me an answer that made page 1 news.

Read the full interview here.

In case you missed it last week: TVNewser and our sister blog TVSpy are throwing a shindig next week.

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6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

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