Posted on 06/17/2002 12:33:24 PM PDT by Timesink
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:40 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
As opinion-driven Fox has surged into first place in the ratings race among cable news channels, and more straight-laced CNN has hired well-known on-air talent such as Connie Chung, MSNBC executives have been pleading for money from their corporate bosses, NBC and Microsoft, to make the station more than an embarrassing, money-losing also-ran.
Former presidential candidate Alan Keyes, who got a show just last January, declined to move to MSNBC's daytime lineup and will be off after July 15, the day most changes take effect.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
The other two lefties are Bill Press and Ron Kuby, by the way.
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MSNBC bags new gabbers
Thu Jun 13, 5:55 AM ETBy Craig Offman
NEW YORK (Variety) - In an effort to shore up its schedule for its July 15 revamp -- and displaying an increasing taste for maverick media figures -- MSNBC has hired New York talk-radio veterans Curtis Sliwa and Ron Kuby to host a noon-to-2 p.m. show on the news cable channel.
Sliwa, a founder of the Guardian Angels, is the conservative counterpart to Kuby, a legal advocate of controversial liberal causes.
Following on the heels of that series comes another point-counterpointer, anchored by isolationist Republican Patrick Buchanan ( news - web sites) and former Jerry Brown aide Bill Press. The CNN "Cross-fire" refugees will resume their on-air squabble until 4 p.m.
Though the lineup seems talk-heavy, MSNBC president Erik Sorenson emphasized the need to have experienced gabbers on the air.
"It's partially a response to the news cycle. We have to figure out how to maintain audience levels when there is no crisis," he said. "So when there's breaking news, there'll be less analysis, and when there's no breaking news, there'll be more analysis."
MSNBC, which recently announced that its editor-in-chief Jerry Nachman will have his own 7 p.m. program, will also feature hourly and half-hour news updates.
Reuters/Variety
They're not even right about that. Fox is opinion-driven in prime time, but is largely hard news and serious analysis during the day. MSNBC is essentially trying to turn itself into a 24-hour Crossfire except when big news is breaking. They're becoming even more of a part-time news channel than they already were before.
I like that one even more...
In other words, the exact same strategy MSNBC used when it launched six years ago, except this time they're actually using people the public has heard of instead of know-nothing dot-com pseudohipster twentysomethings. It didn't work in 1996; it's not going to work in 2002.
South.... what transcripts... you mean you actually read them?
It's pathetic, it stinks. If this is MSNBC's idea of watchable programming, I bet they're off the air within 2 years.
Sliwa, a founder of the Guardian Angels, is the conservative counterpart to Kuby, a legal advocate of controversial liberal causes.
Circuses sell.
Good for Alan for telling them 'no thanks' on the daytime show.
I hope FOX picks him up. With the miscreant Begala/Carville on cnn, and Phil Donahue in primetime, my TV is guarandamnteed to be lingering on FOX even more than now, which is almost always..
He wasn't getting the ratings at night, so they were going to move him to daytime. It looks as though he quit, though:
Former presidential candidate Alan Keyes, who got a show just last January, declined to move to MSNBC's daytime lineup and will be off after July 15, the day most changes take effect.
I guess blaming Arabs and GLAAD sounds more impressive than saying he quit.
Two opposing viewpoints is better watching than the redundancy or stupidity (like that bow-tied guy getting eaten alive.).
One person-view shows like Keyes and "Factor" just overtalk any guests not following their script. They should get the McLaughlin group too.
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