Posted on 10/04/2006 4:35:39 PM PDT by quark
Industry buzz has it that MSNBC, the perennial also-ran in cable news, is considering the prospect of essentially dropping its live-news format and devoting itself entirely to taped, newsmagazine-style programming.
And much of its content could likely be repackaged from NBC News. One indication of the possible move came in July when the network launched a newsmagazine, "MSNBC Investigates,” the industry publication Broadcasting & Cable points out in a recent edition.
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"The unspoken truth in all of this speculation is that there are simply too many all-news networks and only so many people to watch them,” according to Broadcasting & Cable.
"As the owner of a network that’s stuck at the bottom of the cable news heap, NBC Universal has little choice but to make a radical change if it wants to differentiate MSNBC from what the other guys are doing.”
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I knew Breathless Rita was up to no good !
Oh, please, let Olberman's career die a public, painful and protracted death. He is such an evil person.
I know someone involved in the production of his show for MSNBC and the description this person provided is "truly a psycho of epic proportions. Not one of the brightest people on the planet." They keep working with him because they've been promised that if they put up with this bozo they'll be moved to the network as a reward. I hope this person, who is truly talented and, though liberal, not a psycho, comes out of this OK.
MSNBC and Air America were both dropped by XM Radio recently.
John Seigenthaler, Jr is about all the MSNBC net has to offer. He is from an old line news family, decidedly left of middle, but respectable.
When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.
Rita Cosby..
the bloated chick.
That's her! The one I keep waiting for to clear her throat or something and sound normal again.
Ya, he's the guy with the Cavalcade Of Toothless Lesbian Inmates. I couldn't handle it 24/7!
Am I the only one who seems to remember her being somewhat attractive when she was on Fox news?
Yes.
"Ya, he's the guy with the Cavalcade Of Toothless Lesbian Inmates. I couldn't handle it 24/7!"
Are you required to, or are you just remote challenged?
What remote?
LOL.
Their loss, America's gain.
A change like this, translated, means, they are in deep doodoo and can't get any ratings! YEAH!!!
nobody and that includes their only viewers...lib/dems...watch the shi-ite on this channel....
olberman/mathews and even scarborough are the worst lib/dem political hacks and always just spout the lib/dem/dnc talking points....
and yes....I did not make a mistake....that schmuck scarborough included...he sold his soul for the handful of viewers that he has!!!!
You mean those newscasts nobody watches?
Though I rarely watch it, I've noticed in passing by on the on-screen directory they have been having a lot of 'MSNBC Doucmentaries' listed.
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