E! Online - The floodgates opened just moments after Tom Brokaw took to the air Friday afternoon to inform the TV-watching nation that his longtime friend and NBC colleague Tim Russert had died suddenly at the age of 58.

AP - Jon Voight has been cast as the villain on the upcoming season of the Fox drama "24."

AP - SAN DIEGO (AP) — Charlie Jones, the deep-voiced sportscaster whose career as a play-by-play announcer dated to the beginning of the American Football League in 1960, has died. He was 77.

Reuters - Tim Russert, who became a household name in American political discourse as host of NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday talk show, died on the job of a heart attack on Friday, the television network said. He was 58.

AP - WASHINGTON (AP) — Public figures brought their talking points to "Meet the Press." Tim Russert brought his laser intensity, a skeptical gaze and facts they'd rather forget.

AP - An investor group led by NBC Universal moved closer to buying The Weather Channel Friday after Time Warner Inc. dropped out of the bidding.

AP - Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:

AP - WASHINGTON (AP) — Tim Russert, a political lifer who made a TV career of his passion with unrelenting questioning of the powerful and influential, died of a heart attack Friday in the midst of a presidential campaign he'd covered with trademark intensity. Praise poured in from the biggest names in politics, some recalling their own meltdown moments on his hot seat.

E! Online - Jack Bauer has a new nemesis.

AP - Fox News Channel referred to Michelle Obama as "Obama's baby mama" in a graphic on Wednesday, the latest in a trio of references to the Democratic presidential campaign that have given fuel to network critics.

AP - Mike Huckabee, a former Republican presidential hopeful, has been hired by Fox News Channel as a political commentator.

AP - It's crunch time for Marissa Jaret Winokur, who is busy preparing for the birth of her first child.

AP - It has all the trappings of a chatty viewing party for "The Hills," but with an after-school-special twist.

E! Online - Is Madonna a wee bit nervous about her brother Christopher Ciccone's about-to-be-released memoir?