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.
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ROFL !!! Surely you know be better than that. I just read about them.
LOL...
He's the defense lawyer who represented the blind sheik after the first WTC bombing and also represented Colin Ferguson, the Long Island Railroad murderer.
The show uses the line 'his mommy was a Commie' as a funny. Imagine if they said someone's 'nanny was a Nazi' to get laughs. But NY does not think these two ideologies are both bad.
He may be a dynamic speaker to the choir, but he looses his point with his arrogance. I could not watch him longer than 3 minutes.He had the same attitude during the election..sitting there inbetween Gore and Bush with that stupid goofy smirk on his face. It is too bad he has that, cause he is not ALL wrong on ALOT of things. He just can't present it right in a t.v. setting. On stage may be another thing.
I am now waiting for the N.A.A.C.P. to say MSNBC is racist. Geez, I hope that don't happen.
Huh?... inbetween Gore and Bush...... Which channel did you see that on? Now the smirk I thought was President Bush's trademark.... LOL
Massa MSNBC? ;-)
Not really all that much difference.
Sorry, he is not t.v. material at all.
It'll never happen beacuse Alan Keyes is a conservative!
In fact MSNBC would kill for the ratings Rush's old TV show got. Rush did a lot better than O'Reilly is doing right now. O'Reilly is getting in the low 2.x. Rush was doing fives ans sixes. Three times what 0'Reilly is doing. But Rush was on over the air channels when Rather was doing a 10 or 15 instead of the 5 he is doing today.
The truth is Keyes show was a bust. It opened to a 0.5 rating and went down hill within less than a week. It has consistantly averaged a 0.3. A rating of one means one tv in a hundred is tuned to your show. A 0.3 means only 3 TV's out of a 1000 are tuned to a show. A key to staying on the air is high ratings or growing ratings. A new show rarely has a big audience. If what used to be on in a slot had done well it would still be on the air What is needed is improving ratings. If you start at a dot 5 and a month later you are a dot 6 and a month later you have a dot 7 you are safe. If the trend continues it is only a matter of time untill you are number one. But that is not what Keyes did. He took a dot 5 and made it a dot 3. That always gets you fired.
Keyes performance was just really bad. He has no idea of how to draw an audience. There is no way any programmer with a brain would have put Alan on TV. It is typical of the lack of professionalism of MSNBC that they put such has beens as Donahue, Pat and Press on their air. It is as if the rule to get hired at MSNBC is you must have been a massive failure somewhere else first.
Both radio and TV are entertainment media. To succeed a show must entertain. It is not rocket science. If a show has poor entertainment value it fails. It does not matter if it is news show, music show dramatic show or talk show. It has to entertain or it fails.
MSNBC did not understand that simple fact. Keyes has never been entertaining. Keyes will never be entertaining. He will not have a broadcast career.
MSNBC sure didn't do their research if they thought they were going to get big ratings from Dr. Keyes. He wasn't that popular throughout the country with all his continual attacks everytime after Pres Bush spoke to the nation when he would come on and be an analyst. That left out for viewers a whole group of people including this one!
Actually I have found Greta to much better than I would have ever thought she would be. Still not my favorite, but she has had some good shows.
They are an experienced, polished team, and quite good together. Kuby, though often misguided, presents quite cogent analysis of many issues, and I do enjoy listening to him. He also is pretty supportive of gun rights, BTW.
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