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Can Megyn Kelly compete with 60 minutes?

seatownmedia said:
Summer is NOT the season to debut a new series against 60 minutes.
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The fact is there's NEVER a good time to debut a new series against 60 Minutes.

It's my view that they knew it wasn't going to win the time slot. It's the loss leader.

This is just the warm up. The real test is when she debuts on Today.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Honestly, I'd be surprised if that has any measurable impact on anyone with that common a name.
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Really. How many Jim Jones or Alex Jones must there be in the world? Now there are some less common surnames names you wouldn't want now - Hitler, Nixon, Manson, etc., though they haven't worked out too badly for Cynthia Nixon and Marilyn Manson. Had a friend in middle school in 1963 named Oswald. He got a lot of crap for awhile. I also recall a story line on Hill St. Blues - one of the detective had greater aspirations, and was the agent for a singer named Vic Hitler, who refused to change his name.

Last one - sometime after 9/11, I saw a sign for a restaurant in NYC called "Osama's Place." Not good.
 
I once got a call from a station in the Florence-Muscle Shoals AL market in response to a "positions wanted" ad in Radio and Records from a GM named Charles Manson.
 
LKellerIII said:
Really. How many Jim Jones or Alex Jones must there be in the world? Now there are some less common surnames names you wouldn't want now - Hitler, Nixon, Manson, etc., though they haven't worked out too badly for Cynthia Nixon and Marilyn Manson. Had a friend in middle school in 1963 named Oswald. He got a lot of crap for awhile. I also recall a story line on Hill St. Blues - one of the detective had greater aspirations, and was the agent for a singer named Vic Hitler, who refused to change his name.

Last one - sometime after 9/11, I saw a sign for a restaurant in NYC called "Osama's Place." Not good.
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Marilyn Manson chose his stage name for the shock value, so he really doesn't belong in a discussion about making it despite a notorious name.

There was a bowler on the PBA tour in the '90s named Brian Himmler, another surname you might not want to have. But he had it in big letters on the back of his bowling shirt.

There also was a rabbi at an area synagogue for years by the name of Michael Manson.
 
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LKellerIII said:
Really. How many Jim Jones or Alex Jones must there be in the world? Now there are some less common surnames names you wouldn't want now - Hitler, Nixon, Manson, etc., though they haven't worked out too badly for Cynthia Nixon and Marilyn Manson. Had a friend in middle school in 1963 named Oswald. He got a lot of crap for awhile. I also recall a story line on Hill St. Blues - one of the detective had greater aspirations, and was the agent for a singer named Vic Hitler, who refused to change his name.

Last one - sometime after 9/11, I saw a sign for a restaurant in NYC called "Osama's Place." Not good.
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I remember that there was a WBAL-TV anchor Gerry Sandusky but the problem here is that he didn't realized that his last name is shared with another person in Pennsylvania and mentioned in a crime. And there was a cable talk show host named Rita Cosby

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Cosby

She's was a cable talk show pundit and WABC-AM talk show host but then again her last name got tarnished for unrelated reasons because with a rape scandal involving Bill Cosby.


Back to this thread I say Megyn Kelly's clock is ticking at NBC if she does not get high ratings at some point she will get removed the same way Greta Van Sustren got when she was fired from her MSNBC talk show due to ratings issues.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I knew her when. She was a local reporter and sometimes anchor on WBTV in Charlotte.
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Why should a reporter's name be "tarnished" because she shares a last name with a rapist? Doesn't make sense. I recall that when Bill Cosby had just come on the scene with his comedy records, and I Spy - mid 1960s - people often called him Bill Crosby...I assume because Bing Crosby was still a star in the those days, and had the closest sounding name
 
http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/7/27/whats-in-a-name

http://pagesix.com/2017/07/26/megyn...0.1764159640.1501154689-2112822303.1498647209


Update NBC has announced that Megyn Kelly's September show will be called "Megyn Kelly Today"

Page Six has exclusively learned Megyn Kelly’s upcoming morning program will be called “Megyn Kelly Today.”

The title was to be unveiled at NBC internal meetings Thursday, sources said. The development comes at the same time Kelly’s Sunday night show will end its initial run this week after eight episodes, NBC News confirmed Wednesday. Her upcoming one-hour weekday show at 9 a.m. will be in front of a live audience and premiere Sept 25.

The “Megyn Kelly Today” moniker is meant to incorporate the show into the “Today” franchise when it airs in place of the show’s former third hour, known as “Today’s Take.”

A source said, “Megyn is already shooting for the morning show. She was just on the West Coast for a shoot on Tuesday.”

Kelly’s ratings-challenged Sunday show was announced as a limited summer run that would return next year after “Sunday Night Football” and the Winter Olympics.

We hear the network was angling for around 10 episodes, but it will end with eight and an interview with Ricky Gervais.

An NBC source said, “The exact number of shows was never set,” and that Kelly “needs to be freed up to focus” on “Megyn Kelly Today.”

The Sunday show debuted to great fanfare in June with a Vladimir Putin interview that brought in 6.1 million viewers, and courted controversy with its Alex Jones profile, but slid to 3.1 million viewers last Sunday.

But a source said, “NBC News bosses have patience, especially since this was a limited summer run. And they are very happy the with strong journalism and quality of the program.”
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1069_KIFR said:
no.
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I believe the plan all along was to throw her up against 60 Minutes repeats in hopes that she could show some numbers there. But they knew that once Sunday Night Football started, the show would be on hiatus. (Though some could argue they might have kept her in the Sunday night lineup either before or after the game depending on timezone, but apparently not happening).
 
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