Rick Kaplan
Summary
Rick Kaplan is a network television producer. He currently serves as the Executive Producer for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. In the past, he has worked for CNN, MSNBC, and ABC.Kaplan, who served as President of CNN (1997–2000) and Senior Vice-President of ABC News (2003), was named President of MSNBC in February 2004. He was a long-time executive producer for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings before leaving for CNN. In June 2006 Kaplan resigned as president of MSNBC. Over his extensive career, he has garnered 34 Emmys. In 2007, he replaced Rome Hartman as the executive producer of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.
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Broadcasters to FCC: What’s the Rush?
Broadcasters are pushing back against the Federal Communications Commission’s ambitious 2014 timetable for holding a spectrum auction that will reshuffle the airwaves for TV stations and wireless providers.
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How Many Presidential Debates Are Too Many?
CHARLESTON, S. C. -- Washington bureau chief Sam Feist got a call Thursday morning that would not only shake up the Republican primary but lead to some last-minute tweaks before CNN's prime-time debate.
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GOP Debate Producer: 'This Is Do Or Die'
CONCORD, N. H. -- Rick Kaplan, producer for Saturday's ABC News/Yahoo/WMUR debate, says he doesn't "remember a debate that has as much on the line as this one. ".
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FCC to Link Review of 2 AT&T Deals
AT&T was dealt a bureaucratic curveball late Monday by the Federal Communications Commission which decided to coordinate its review of AT&T's controversial $39 billion bid for T-Mobile with its proposed purchase of beachfront wireless spectrum from Qualcomm.
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FCC to Link Review of Two AT&T Deals
AT&T was dealt a bureaucratic curve ball late Monday by the Federal Communications Commission which decided to coordinate its review of AT&T's controversial $39 billion bid for T-Mobile with its proposed purchase of beachfront wireless spectrum from Qualcomm.
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ABC News names digital campaign reporters
When I was checking in with news organizations a couple weeks ago to see where they were in deploying their 2012 presidentail campaign coverage, ABC News wasn’t quite ready to release its plans. Today, it unveiled at least part of its strategy, with the naming of its team of digital campaign reporters.
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Robert Greenwald: Senator Bernie Sanders Belongs on the Sunday Shows
"With a $1. 6 trillion deficit," Sen. Bernie Sanders told Jon Stewart recently, "it is insane to think that the only way you're going to move toward a balanced budget is by slashing college Pell grants, by cutting Medicaid, by converting Medicare into a voucher program, by cutting programs that working class and middle class people desperately need.
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Former Couric Producer Rick Kaplan Lands at ABC
Kaplan, who exited his producer position at "CBS Evening News" on Tuesday ahead of anchor Katie Couric's departure, has signed on with ABC, the network announced on Thursday.
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Rick Kaplan returns to ABC to lead “This Week”
Rick Kaplan, who announced earlier this week that he was leaving the executive producer’s job at “CBS Evening News,” is jumping to ABC News to become the executive producer of “This Week with Christiane Amanpour. ” Memo from ABC News President Ben Sherwood:.
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Katie Couric's Right Hand Man Jumps To ABC
Katie Couric's former CBS Evening News executive producer, Rick Kaplan, is returning to ABC News as an executive producer of This Week with Christiane Amanpour.
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