Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, hosts of morning program Live with Kelly and Mark, put on a show after dark when they sit for a PaleyFest event in New York October 11. 

Albert Bianchini, executive producer of Live with Kelly and Mark, will moderate the panel. David Muir, anchor of ABC World News Tonight and co-anchor on 20/20, was scheduled to interview the pair but is in Israel. 

The panel happens at the Paley Center in Manhattan. 

Ripa and Consuelos are married. Consuelos came on the show in April, when Ryan Seacrest departed. Ripa is an executive producer in addition to hosting. 

Guests at the event will see what the Paley Center calls “a special screening” selected by the producers followed by a conversation and Q&A. Members of the Paley’s President’s Circle, and Patron members, can attend a reception before the event and chat with Ripa and Consuelos. 

WABC New York, part of ABC Owned Television Stations, produces Live with Kelly and Mark. Michael Gelman is executive producer. 

Ripa became a host in 2001. Her cohosts have included Regis Philbin and Michael Strahan. 

Tamron Hall, host and executive producer of her eponymous show, is the PaleyFest featured guest October 12, along with Quiana Burns, executive producer and showrunner. Robin Roberts, co-anchor, Good Morning America, moderates. 

Margaret Brennan, moderator of Face the Nation on CBS, was to be interviewed by Lesley Stahl, 60 Minutes correspondent, October 13. That event will not happen due to CBS News covering the events in Israel. 

David Muir, anchor of World News Tonight, has begun leading coverage of ABC News special events, breaking news and political coverage. ABC News has phased out the chief anchor title that George Stephanopoulos, Good Morning America co-anchor, had, with Muir taking lead on the major stories. The changes began last month. 

On Feb. 22, Muir led special coverage of President Biden commemorating the 500,000 Americans lost to COVID. 

Muir took over World News Tonight in 2014, succeeding Diane Sawyer, and the broadcast has emerged as a power in evening news. World News Tonight won the 2019-2020 evening news race in both total viewers and the 25-54 demo, averaging 9.39 million total viewers. Muir’s interviews include President Obama, President Trump, Hillary Clinton and Pope Francis. 

Stephanopoulos was the primary ABC anchor on coverage of President Trump’s impeachment late in 2019, among other major news stories. Prior to his chief anchor title getting phased out, his ABC bio read, “Stephanopoulos leads the network’s coverage on all major live events and breaking news around the world.”

CNN Business previously reported on Muir’s expanded role. Stephanopoulos got a contract extension and will produce programs for Disney-owned platforms, CNN reported, and will host primetime specials on ABC.

Two years ago, a news insider said, ABC News asked Muir to take on an expanded role as lead anchor, and he agreed. 

ABC’s World News Tonight has won the 2019-2020 evening news race, the David Muir-anchored newscast averaging 9.39 million total viewers, and 1.88 million in the 25-54 demo, based on Nielsen Media Research. NBC Nightly News, anchored by Lester Holt, averaged 8.27 million total viewers, and drew 1.78 million in the 25-54 demo.

CBS Evening News, anchored by Norah O’Donnell, averaged 5.86 million total viewers and 1.1 million viewers 25-54.

World News Tonight rated a 6.1 in households while NBC Nightly News tallied a 5.3 and CBS Evening News a 3.8. 

ABC News said World News Tonight won every night of the year in total viewers, which it added that no network had done since the start of Nielsen’s electronic database in the 1991-1992 season.

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World News Tonight went up 9% in total viewers for the season and 9% in viewers 25-54. 

NBC Nightly News gained 4% for 2019-2020 in total viewers, reporting its best season since 2015-2016, according to NBC News, and 1% in viewers 25-54. 

CBS Evening News is up 28,000 total viewers season over season, and gained 5%  since it relocated to Washington, DC, in December 2019. O’Donnell called the DC move “a genius stroke” by CBS News President Susan Zirinsky, giving the newscast a front-row seat for President Trump’s impeachment, his handling of the pandemic, and countless other stories. 

Almin Karamehmedovic is the executive producer of World News Tonight. Jennifer Suozzo exec produces NBC Nightly News and Jay Shaylor exec produces CBS Evening News. 

ABC News is the first network to get a joint interview with former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris. Biden is the Democratic nominee for president and Harris is the vice president pick. David Muir, anchor of World News Tonight, and Robin Roberts, co-anchor on Good Morning America, will both interview Biden and Harris. 

World News Tonight will feature the Biden-Harris talks Aug. 21 and ABC will air a primetime special showcasing the interviews Aug. 23, running 8-9 p.m. ET. 

Biden and Harris are the stars of the show as the Democratic National Convention begins in Milwaukee Aug. 17, most of the event virtual. 

The President continued his attacks on the media Thursday during a briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic, calling CNN fake news, referring, as he often does, to MSNBC as MSDNC, and saying exiting NBC News president Andy Lack was "a hack."

He was asked by a reporter how Fox News had affected his thinking about the pandemic. The President said he watched Fox but that it had not affected him more than any other outlet, though they were "more honorable than some." He suggested that he didn't think much of most of those others.

Trump said NBC was "dishonest news," which was why they "fired Andy Lack."

NBC announced last week that Lack was exiting as part of a management restructuring.

Trump said he was only guessing about Lack's firing, and said the reporter would have to ask them, but then the President continued in the same vein. "Andy Lack was a hack and they fired him and they did a big favor to the world and this country," he said.

He pointed out that NBC was a division of Comcast, which he called, again as he has in the past, "Concast, with an 'n.'"

The President said CBS was having a hard time and "not getting it straight" with a "false report" where "they actually got people to make it look like there's turmoil."

The President actually had something nice to say about one outlet, ABC. Anchor David Muir had interviewed the President May 5. "I thought he gave me a very fair interview," the President said. He called Muir a "very good professional. I've had very good relationships with him, as you know," he said.

But his final pronouncement was that the news media "is a mess."