MSNBC FUTURE IN DOUBT

DrudgeReport.com ^ | August 18, 2002

[Paul Atreides]

"The fall may be the make-or-break time for MSNBC," NEW YORK TIMES TV hotshot Bill Carter is preparing to write in Monday editions.

According to newsroom sources, Carter is set to warn how "future investment and promotion budgets for the channel" may be at risk during the coming months, as the all-news network continues to slump in the ratings, lead by the nearly still-born DONAHUE.

The pressure is coming from the very top of the MSNBCNBCGE tree.

Earlier this year, at a meeting of NBC's top management, Jeffrey Immelt, the chairman of GENERAL ELECTRIC, specifically cited MSNBC as the area of NBC that most needed attention. "He gave the order," a senior NBC executive has told Carter said, "and the order was, 'Fix it."'

As for the ailing DONAHUE, MSNBC prez Erik Sorenson tells Carter: "We're in the silly season. The news is so slow; it's been the summer of kidnappings. That plays more toward [CNN's] Connie [Chung]. Her show is cotton candy. It's all tabloid, all the time."

Sorenson said that come fall DONAHUE will start to take advantage of more hard news developments. "We'll have an election to cover and a war in Iraq," Sorenson said.

Beyond that, look for Donahue to book more celebrities. "He's going to have Oprah on and Harrison Ford and George Clooney," Sorenson said. "I don't honestly expect to have an answer on this until November."

Developing...

[Paul Atreides]

Pardon me, while I fall in the floor from laughter.

[mhking]

KILL IT!! KILL IT!!

[Jean S]

lolololol! This post made my day.

[RoseofTexas]

One down and 4 more to go including Cspan!

[goldstategop]

Another liberal network bites the dust. MSNBC fired Alan Keyes and hoped the liberal Phil Donahue would work magic for them but they keep hemorrhaging viewers. They should really hire Ann Coulter to anchor for them but they're too stupid to take sensible advice. If the day comes they shut their doors it will be no great loss as far as I am concerned.

[RoseofTexas]

One down and 4 more to go including Cspan!

[jalisco555]

Their capital offense was cancelling Soledad O'Brien's show "The Site". Haven't watched it for a minute since then.

[johniegrad]

Being pro-life, I prefer the term aborted to stillborn in describing Donawho?

[Paul Atreides]

If I had Philth Donahue on my network, the last thing I would be talking about is someone else's tabloid host.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

MSNBC?

As far as I'm concerned their past is in doubt too.

[jalisco555]

One down and 4 more to go including Cspan!

IMHO, Brian Lamb's author interview show "Booknotes" is the single best program on television. And the CSPAN-2 weekend BookTV is my idea of public service.

[johniegrad]

MSNBCNBCGE

Wasn't she banned for really being he?

[martin_fierro]

Watch for even more PMSNBC refugees to start cropping up on Fox a la Whorealdo.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

"We'll have an election to cover and a war in Iraq," Sorenson said

Does this mean that there is at least this one bastion of the left in support of war on Iraq? They need this war to keep their network going, but they're all against it.

This story is a mother-load of hilarity.

[GRRRRR]

Buh-Bye--Thank you for playing.

Try the TRUTH sometime....it works everytime it's tried.

GRRRRRollin'

[Paul Atreides]

It is certainly easy to see why Philth is tanking. Not even taking into account his loony liberal blather, he is a lousy host. I read the transcript of his interview of Ann Coulter. It was nothing but an incoherent mess of him asking Ann a question about her OLD book and, when she tried to answer, he would but in with a totally different question. She had to ask him several times if they were going to talk about her present book. Whoever had the idea to hire that imbecile should be fired.

[glock rocks]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA... AHHH HAHAHAHA HA.

[Paul Atreides]

It's hilarious that they think Donahue's show will be around long enough to cover those events.

[Incorrigible]

Their capital offense was cancelling Soledad O'Brien's show "The Site". Haven't watched it for a minute since then.

Hear! Hear!

Soledad O'Brien

[Righty1]

If Fox hired not so trendy philth donaho I would throw my TV over a cliff!