The news division was not a profit center.
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"Newsroom culture clash" at CBS News
- Thread starter Mark Roberts
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The whole industry is losing money. Radio too, that means your job is not successful either.
Bill Paley said he didn't do news at CBS to make money. The FCC insists that broadcasting needs to serve the public interest.
News should not be about profit but reporting the truth.
And no media experience. And no business experience. And no Spanish language media experience. And a group of mostly bad radio stations.
And a news division that is reported to not be profitable.
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And why is it not profitable. Because they got away from their values and turned into a Fox News clone.
Mr. Paley died 35 years ago and quit being involved with CBS over a half century ago.
And many believe that "public interest" does not just mean "news". Some of us believe that "entertainment" of itself is of the public interest and that not all stations need to... or should... carry news and the like.
It was on the decline for a decade... because the other two networks simply did a better job and CBS did not do enough to preserve the image it created in the 50's and 60's.
If news is on a privately owned station, then it should be good enough to attract viewers and advertisers. I've managed or programmed a number of news and news talk stations and know that if well done it can also be self-sustaining.
If you run a chain of radio stations, and one market is underperforming, do you shut down the entire business? Even if the other stations are making you money? In some cases a lot of money? One or two stations need some handholding, or a different market manager, but you're going to chop off everyone's head because everything's not running like a well-oiled machine?
If you are, you're an incredibly bad manager and deserve to get the axe yourself. Unless of course your goal is to suck up to a blustering orange toddler. (Who will never be satisfied by anything you do, so in that case, yeah, throw out the baby, the bathwater, the mother, whatever soothes his bottomless pit of a soul, because everything else is expendable.)
I don't get your analogy at all. The news division of CBS is a profit center. Like the "tool department" at Home Depot. If I manage Home Depot, and the tool department is not making money, I do research and find out why and change that department. I don't change the company logo or buy new shopping carts.
"News" is a department at CBS, not a separate business. It was not performing well. The owners wanted something different. We will know in a year or so if the changes help or not,
60 Minutes is an independent body of the news division.
While CBS' morning and evening news programs were ranked behind those of NBC and ABC, the news magazine "60 Minutes," was actually first among its competitors until Bari Weiss and company came along. No, this had absolutely *nothing* to do with the show's failure and *everything* to do with what one powerful person wanted to see happen to "60 Minutes," and its reporting on his policies and their effects.
Your analogy is wrong. Let's correct it, shall we? If you started a business and all of your product lines were failures but one, would you take an axe to the one product line that was successful in order to save money?
The attempt to pretend 60 Minutes was just as much a drain as the evening news and whatever the heck the morning show is called this week is deliberate. And setting up ludicrous analogies is just as deliberate. 60 Minutes pulled no punches in the past, and that cannot be allowed to continue.
To take this full circle with the other thread.
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CBS News was prohibiting the morning show from mentioning Colberts final show.
CBS News Prez Ordered Morning Show to Ignore Colbert's Finale Because of Late Show's 'Unprofessional' Shot at Tony Dokoupil: Report
CBS Mornings was reportedly ordered to ignore Stephen Colbert's finale because of a joke the host made about Tony Dokoupil's botched visa on Trump's China trip
CBS News was prohibiting the morning show from mentioning Colberts final show.
No matter how much you try to unlink different CBS news content shows, they are all part of "CBS News" and the division was losing money.
And it was getting harder and harder to get revenue for news because 18-49 viewership is down so much for both news and all wired network programming. CBS was #3 in news in a shrinking segment.
Remember the famous Jack Welch philosophy: Jack Welch’s legendary strategy for market dominance dictated that every GE business unit had to be #1 or #2 in its industry. If a unit could not achieve top market share, his mandate was ruthless but simple: fix, sell, or close it.
For radio news, they got rid of it. TV is getting a last chance.
Wouldn't you do the same? The news item was when the show was cancelled, not when it did the last broadcast unless, of course, something newsworthy was done or said on that specific broadcast.To take this full circle with the other thread.
CBS News Prez Ordered Morning Show to Ignore Colbert's Finale Because of Late Show's 'Unprofessional' Shot at Tony Dokoupil: Report
CBS Mornings was reportedly ordered to ignore Stephen Colbert's finale because of a joke the host made about Tony Dokoupil's botched visa on Trump's China trip
CBS News was prohibiting the morning show from mentioning Colberts final show.
Do you think Power 106 in LA commented on Rick Dees' last show on KIIS?
By hiring people who have no experience in TV news.