Over the Thanksgiving weekend, Dale Russell an investigative reporter at WAGA, the Fox station in Atlanta interviewed businesswoman Ginger White, who told of having a 13-year-long affair with GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain. The station kept the interview under wraps, but let the story trickle out over Twitter and online. (And just so you know who got the exclusive, they plastered their station logo over White’s picture).

But even before the station could air the full “exclusive” story — which they will during the 6pm newscast — Cain went on CNN’s “Situation Room” with a prebuttal telling Wolf Blitzer it’s simply not true: “I just wanted to give you a heads up and your audience a heads up. Here we go again.”

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25-54 demographic (Live +SD)

• Total day: FNC: 252 | MSNBC: 125 | CNN: 115 | HLN: 69

• Primetime: FNC: 235 | MSNBC: 189 | CNN: 129 | HLN: 90

	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:	12a:
FNC	TheFive:	Baier:	Shep:	O’Reilly:	Hannity:	Greta:	O’Reilly:	Hannity:
	330	323	292	357	201	146	175	193
MSNBC	Matthews:	Sharpton:	Matthews:	EdShow:	Maddow:	O’Donnell:	EdShow:	Maddow:
	187	176	216	223	190	154	99	92
CNN	Blitzer:	KingUSA:	Burnett:	Cooper:	Morgan:	Cooper:	Burnett:	Morgan:
	123	64	82	105	140	141	116	135
HLN	Special:	Prime:	Issues:	Grace:	DrDrew:	Behar:	Showbiz:	DrDrew:
	24	68	74	135	74	63	43	114

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Virginia Cha, an Atlanta-based anchor for HLN, has left the network to join the local ABC-affiliate in San Diego, TVNewser has learned.

Cha will begin at KGTV this week, the station confirmed today. Her on-air debut will be next Monday, December 5.

Before joining HLN in 2005, Cha was an NBC correspondent based in New York City. Read more at TVSpy.

As we reported over the Summer, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly taped a guest appearance on TNT’s “Rizzoli & Isles.” Well, we now know that O’Reilly’s acting turn will come tonight in the midseason premiere.

Keep your eyes open for product placement for some of O’Reilly books, as well as a possible love interest for the host. You can watch a video preview here.

O’Reilly is friends with one of the executive producers of the program, as well as co-star Angie Harmon. “Rizzoli & Isles” airs on TNT at 10 PM.

 

CNBC in the U.S. took a little getting used to for Mandy Drury. After working for nearly a decade in the relatively staid newsrooms in Singapore and Sydney, Drury says her arrival at CNBC’s World Headquarters in New Jersey was a bit intimidating at first. In this week’s Media Beat Drury tells us about the “big personalities with big voices” and how she’s settling in to “Street Signs.”

• Part II Tuesday: Mandy Drury has no time for nicknames

• Part III Wednesday: Mandy Drury on balancing moneytalk and motherhood

This, and all our videos, can also be seen on our YouTube channel.

Fox Charlotte morning show anchor Anna Kooiman will be joining Fox News Channel, Newsblues reports. Kooiman co-hosts “Fox News Rising” on WCCB-TV.

On her personal website, Kooiman describes herself as “a news anchor, tv show host, reporter, moderator, personality, and fitness expert.” Kooiman’s other website GetFitCharlotte.com attests to her workout regimen.

Kooiman’s last day at WCCB is Friday. She’ll join Fox News next month as a New York-based correspondent covering health and fitness as well as general assignment reporting.

CBS’ “Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer” continues to keep the Sunday morning public affairs show race a tight one. On November 20, the program finished a very close second to longtime ratings leader “Meet the Press with David Gregory” in both total and demo viewers.

As was the case the previous week, ABC’s “This Week with Christiane Amanpour” placed third in both categories, with ‘Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace” and Univision’s “Al Punto con Jorge Ramos“  trading off for fourth and fifth place in total and demo viewers.

In total viewers, only “This Week” was up compared to the same week last year, while in the key adults 25-54 demo “This Week,” “Al Punto” and “Fox News Sunday” were up compared to last year. “Face the Nation” was essentially flat, while “Meet the Press” was down.

“MTP” and “FNS” get replayed on MSNBC and Fox News, respectively, which adds to their total viewership.

The numbers for November 20:
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NBC’s “Today” was the most-watched morning show for the week of November 14-18, besting ABC’s second-place “Good Morning America” by 680,000 total viewers and 540,000 A25-54 viewers.

“GMA” has posted year-over-year gains in both total viewers (+6%) and A25-54 viewers (+7%) for all nine weeks this season. “Today” was up +1% in total viewers and down -6% in the demographic, while “The Early Show” on CBS was down -11% and -10%, respectively.

The averages for the week of November 14:

• Total Viewers: NBC: 5.62M / ABC: 4.94M / CBS: 2.60M

• A25-54 viewers: NBC: 2.46M / ABC: 1.92M / CBS: 1.07M

Former Univision News president Alina Falcon (pictured right) will be taking over as the chief news executive at NBCUniversal’s Spanish-language network Telemundo, TVNewser has learned. Falcon will become senior executive VP of news and alternative programming at the network in early December, reporting to Telemundo president Emilio Romano.

In her new role Falcon will oversee all news programming for Telemundo, as well as all alternative and reality programming.

Falcon stepped down from her position as  Univision’s chief news and sports executive last December, transitioning to a consulting role with the company. She had been at Univision for 26 years.

Telemundo has been without a news chief since September, when Ramon Escobar stepped down following the departure of network president Don Browne.

The move is significant, as Falcon (once again) becomes the only woman to lead a major U.S. TV news operation. As Romano notes in the official announcement,  Falcon has a proven track record in news, which Telemundo needs if it wants to compete with Univision in that arena.

Update: It’s official. Release after the jump.

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Senator John McCain called in to “Imus in the Morning” on FBN today, and among the topics that came up was McCain’s daughter, Meghan, joining MSNBC. “She went over to the dark side, I guess,” McCain joked. “I’m sure she’ll do well. She’s feisty, and I think being over there she’s going to have to have quite a bit of that.” Watch: