Bill Hemmer

"I have a real affinity for the folks from Guam," said Megyn Kelly.

Since Monday morning, Ms. Kelly, the 37-year-old news anchor with Fox News, has been reporting from the floor of the Democratic convention in Denver. Her channel's riser is located between the delegations from New Mexico and Guam.

"Guam in on the floor," said Ms. Kelly. "Rhode Island is in the nose bleeds. How does this happen? They told me, it's because they went for Barack Obama and Rhode Island went for Hillary."

"They are so excited to be on the floor," she added.  read more »

 

 

Above: Jefferson Han demonstrates his Perceptive Pixel technology.

On the night of the Super Tuesday presidential primaries, John King and Wolf Blitzer stood in front of a camera in a studio at CNN’s headquarters at the Time Warner Center and provided some live analysis of the night’s upcoming contests. Behind them was a device that looked like a widescreen television, showing a map of the United States.

The conversation eventually focused on California. While Mr. Blitzer gave a basic run down of the state, Mr. King turned and touched the screen with each of his forefingers. As he pulled his fingers slowly in opposite directions, the map of California expanded.

“The delegates for the Democrats, the way they proportion and decide who gets those delegates is going to be very important,” said Mr. Blitzer.  read more »

Tuesday, March 4, around 8 p.m., Bill O’Reilly bounded across a chilly studio on the first floor of the News Corp. building on Sixth Avenue toward the desk at the back of the room.

There, the members of the Fox News Super Tuesday II political team—Brit Hume, Juan Williams, Bill Kristol, Nina Easton and Fred Barnes—were wrapping up another back-and-forth session, chewing over the night’s early returns. Mr. Kristol made an observation about the rationality of voters. A producer announced a break.  read more »

On Feb. 3, a k a Super Bowl Sunday, in an original News Corp. smorgasbord, reporters from FOX News will be teaming up with reporters from FOX owned and operated stations from around the country for a three hour broadcast event, focusing on—USA! USA!—presidential politics and professional football.

Shepard Smith, of FOX News, will headline the production from Glendale, Ariz., the site of this year’s Super Bowl. FOX News anchor (and Cincinnati Bengals fanatic) Bill Hemmer will contribute from New York, along with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly.

As the anchors toggle back and forth between discussion of the Super Bowl and Super Tuesday, they will chew over political dispatches from FOX Broadcasting reporters from around the country.  read more »

Fox’s Ex-CNN-er has the last laugh.  read more »

Former CNN morning-show anchor Bill Hemmer still doesn't know—or hasn't said—what his  read more »

Former CNN morning-show anchor Bill Hemmer still doesn't know-or hasn't said-what his next gig will  read more »

Michael Calderone contemplates the Summer of Bill--that's Bill Hemmer--in this week's installment of Manhattan Transfers; the underemployed anchor has moored at a $1.75 million McMansion in the Hamptons. And, as always, more little nuggets of real-estate gossip.

Matthew Schuerman surprises the architect who developed a low-slung but incredibly modern housing development for Olympians on the Queens waterfront when he tells him that other developers are bidding to build there.  read more »

Jessica Bruder profiles Arnie Geller. He wants to finish a famous journey that, er, bumped into a bit of trouble, and bring the 17-ton hull of the wrecked Titanic to lower Manhattan.

Nicole Laporte takes us to sunny Venice Beach--the Brooklyn of Los Angeles? Or is that still Hollywood-Los Feliz-Silverlake-Et Cetera?--where Hollywood machers are rapidly gentrifying things.