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"Face The Nation" Expanding To One Hour

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

Bob Schieffer made the announcement at the end of this week's show. However, it won't happen until April.

I suppose it's better late than never, what with the upcoming 2012 election, but this is something that CBS should have considered years ago, at least when NBC expanded "Meet The Press" to an hour.
 
DToTheJ said:
Bob Schieffer made the announcement at the end of this week's show. However, it won't happen until April.

I suppose it's better late than never, what with the upcoming 2012 election, but this is something that CBS should have considered years ago, at least when NBC expanded "Meet The Press" to an hour.
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...and only, at least at first, for twenty weeks. At that point, won't CBS have to concede and give affils 30 minutes from elsewhere in the schedule?
 
Keep in mind that CBS News already has a big block with "Sunday Morning." Yes that's more of a feature show, yes it's based in NYC not DC, but from an affiliate's point of view, they're already giving up a chunk of their time to CBS News.

It wouldn't surprise me if there's a cutaway in the show that will allow affiliates to carry a half hour if they want. The clear is more important than getting the hour.
 
"Face The Nation" (with apologies to Bob S.) is a joke. Nothing but "he said, he said" and political fluff and distortion. In my many years of watching portions of this show I have yet to hear anything of value from a politician.

Instead of politicians as guests they should invite independent political analysts who can provide a summary of the day's news without all the spin and baloney. The occasional non-political guest proves that this approach is much more informative.
 
My local CBS station, WKRG-TV in Mobile, Alabama, in recent times has broadcast paid commercial program at 10:00 AM (Central time) after "Face the Nation" and a local religious program titled "Revive" at 10:30 AM. I hope the folks in management at WKRG-TV don't mind losing the advertising time at 10:00 AM on Sundays beginning next April.

The station used to broadcast "The Gulf Coast Congressional Report", a local public affairs program, at 10:00 AM and a paid commercial program at 10:30 AM on Sundays until the former was cancelled for reasons I have yet to learn. 
 
Affiliates do mind losing the paid infomercial time. I suspect the April timing has to do with getting the affiliates to go along with it and getting past current infomercial contracts.

Great move for CBS News though.
 
WLKY in Louisville airs E-I programming at 10:30 Eastern and moves "Face the Nation" to a midnight time-slot, which must doom the ratings in this area. I enjoy Scheiffer, but I seldom stay up that late to catch the show.
 
There are some CBS affiliates in the Deep South with church
services at 11 AM (ET), among them WSPA Spartanburg, SC;
WLTX Columbia, SC; WBTW Florence, SC; WRBL Columbus, GA;
and (I think) WRDW Augusta, GA. These stations, among others,
rejected CBS's original plan to air "Sunday Morning" from 10-11:30,
which is how it wound up at 9 AM; I can only imagine the hue and
cry if "Face The Nation" carries over into the 11-11:30 timeslot.
Closer to home, WFMY Greensboro, NC carries Charles Stanley from
11-12; it, too, may not be pleased to lose the revenue from "paid
religion."

Like WLKY, WRAL also airs E/I programming, but only from 11 to 12.
"Face The Nation" airs at 10:30 AM in Raleigh/Durham, but WRAL may
have to make an adjustment on Saturday.

Any chance that "Sunday Morning" could be cut to an hour (9-10),
followed by "Face The Nation" from 10-11?
 
I doubt that "Sunday Morning" will be reduced to an hour. From what I understand, "Sunday Morning" is the highest-rated network show on Sunday morning. I don't think CBS will mess with success.

If CBS is smart, they've already gotten most of the affiliates lined-up to run the hour-long "Face the Nation" come April. Expanding the show won't help much if only the CBS O&O's and a handful of affiliates clear it.
 
I saw "Face" this morning and I thought their round table talkers were not as good as the
ones usually seen on "Meet The Press" and "This Week". Which of the 3 get the better
ratings?
 
This Week is a fairly distant 3rd place program since they sent George Stephanapolus to mornings and brought in Christiane Amanpour. Fox News Sundays is a long way behind "This Week" in 4th place. "Face" and "Meet" are essentially neck and neck in the ratings, both averaging around 3 million total viewers a week the last 3 months.
 
I read an article last week suggesting that Amanpour's days may be numbered at "This Week".

She often comes across like she's there, but her mind is somewhere on a beach in Hawaii.
Who would ABC put there? Diane Sawyer?
 
I am something of a news and talk and politico-info junkie. My Sunday mornings are booked so I have not been a regular viewer of these programs, but used to set the VCR once in awhile if a guest that interested me was to be on. NOW I have DVR and have them set up to grab every week. Sometimes I get to watch them. Sometimes too busy.

I am intrigued by the messages in this thread. Whether we like these shows, one of these shows or none of these show may say more about US that it does about the program.

I agree with what I read into Land Tuna's description. These are NOT earthshaking programs... any of them. But I like having a ten minute exposure to a political figure operating in a less than fully formal setting. I want to see the facial expressions. I want to hear the tone of voice as the guest responds to requests for clarification. If you read the transcript of the programs, or if you only hear a short sound-bite clipped out and placed in the context of someone else's broadcast... or in print.... you often get a different view that if you hear AND WATCH the entire segment from one of these Sunday morning events. This exposure to the regulars is also helpful and interesting to me. To HEAR George Will an watch his face... and get his adlibs is helpful to me. If find his on-air presentation to be so different than what I feel when I read his column.

In trying to second-guess the networks, we have to wonder who makes up the "core" audience of this Sunday morning block. Does this Sunday morning block simply, in isolation, stand on it's own.... or is the Sunday morning segment essential in building the relationship with certain viewers so they will fall into place for morning and evening news blocks on the week days?
 
they probably want to do something akin to the extended roundtable segment on Bret Baier's Fox News program.
 
Mario-500 said:
My local CBS station, WKRG-TV in Mobile, Alabama, in recent times has broadcast paid commercial program at 10:00 AM (Central time) after "Face the Nation" and a local religious program titled "Revive" at 10:30 AM. I hope the folks in management at WKRG-TV don't mind losing the advertising time at 10:00 AM on Sundays beginning next April.

The station used to broadcast "The Gulf Coast Congressional Report", a local public affairs program, at 10:00 AM and a paid commercial program at 10:30 AM on Sundays until the former was cancelled for reasons I have yet to learn.
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The reason is Media General is cheap as hell. WKRG isn't a flagship like WFLA, WSPA, thus its local programming that isn't an infomercial isn't useful to them.
 
Does WKRG still run infomercials Monday thru Friday from 9 am to 10 am? That is something a non network affiliated station does, not a CBS station in a top 75 market.
 
briancraig said:
Does WKRG still run infomercials Monday thru Friday from 9 am to 10 am? That is something a non network affiliated station does, not a CBS station in a top 75 market.
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Yep, they still do...

I know it's very embarrassing considering WKRG is one of the few MG owned stations that has been allowed to keep its fully-equipped news helicopter considering the major staff cuts over the years.
 
^The news helicopter "Live Chopper 5" has not been used for WKRG-TV's broadcasts since 2007. A different helicopter was used for broadcasts in 2010: it was called "The News 5/WindCreek Casino Chopper". The latter helicopter has not been used for their broadcasts for several months.
 
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