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‘The Insider’ Signs Deal With Yahoo’s Omg!, WIll Be Renamed ‘Omg! Insider’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 23, 2012 @ 9:17am PDTTags: CBS Television Distribution, The Insider, Yahoo
Nellie Andreeva

CBS Television Distribution has signed a deal with Yahoo to combine their celebrity/entertainment news entities The Insider and omg!, respectively. Under the deal, CTD’s syndicated entertainment newsmagazine The Insider will be renamed omg! Insider in January 2013 to become “a multiplatform entertainment news series.” Kevin Frazier and Brooke Anderson will continue to host the TV show, as well as such Yahoo talent as Kristen Aldridge (omg! NOW) and Michael Yo (The Yo Show on Yahoo!). In addition, Yahoo!’s omg! entertainment news site, visited by nearly 30 million users each month, will be the exclusive home to video provided by the TV show. Online, Yahoo’s omg! will provide continually updated coverage, including video clips, celebrity interviews, photo galleries, editorial and several interactive social features. On air each evening, the TV show will offer a mix of informal in-studio conversations with celebrities and personality-driven discussions around the day’s hottest topics and trends. READ MORE »

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Brooke Anderson To Replace Lara Spencer As ‘Insider’ Co-Anchor

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday April 13, 2011 @ 11:40am PDTTags: Lara Spencer, The Insider
Nellie Andreeva

CNN’s Brooke Anderson has been named co-anchor of CBS Television Distribution’s daily showbiz newsmagazine The Insider. She will join co-anchor Kevin Frazier in May. Anderson replaces Lara Spencer, who is leaving in May to return to ABC News’ Good … Read More »

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Lara Spencer To Leave ‘The Insider’ For ‘Good Morning America’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 17, 2011 @ 7:24am PDTTags: Good Morning America, Lara Spencer, The Insider
Nellie Andreeva

After seven years as co-anchor/anchor of syndicated entertainment newsmagazine The Insider, Lara Spencer will exit to join Good Morning America in May as lifestyle anchor. Based in New York, she will cover issues like family, parenting, health, fitness and … Read More »

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‘The Insider’ Names Co-Host

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday March 6, 2011 @ 11:20am PSTTags: Lara Spencer, The Insider, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: The Insider today named Kevin Frazier co-host along Lara Spencer, the first time an African American presenter has co-hosted a syndicated entertainment newsmagazine Monday-Friday in 3 decades, since Ahmad Rashad anchored Entertainment Tonight. (Shaun Robinson co-hosts the weekend edition of Access Hollywood.) Frazier will succeed Chris Jacobs who moves … Read More »

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Don’t Name Mary Hart’s Replacement Yet

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday August 6, 2010 @ 11:32am PDTTags: CBS, Entertainment Tonight, Lara Spencer, Les Moonves, Mary Hart, Mary Hart Departure, Mary Hart ET, Mary Hart Replacement, The Insider

Lotsa Internet sites are claiming just now that The Insider‘s Lara Spencer already has been chosen to replace Mary Hart as host of Entertainment Tonight. I, too, heard the rumor that Spencer was contractually guaranteed the gig during her last negotiation. But not so fast… “It hasn’t been promised to … Read More »

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