The NBC News folks explained that the goal was to use the show to introduce her to the NBC resources, the company style, and the audience. Sort a transitional thing.
The big platform will be 9AM. That's make or break.
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Can Megyn Kelly compete with 60 minutes?
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The NBC News folks explained that the goal was to use the show to introduce her to the NBC resources, the company style, and the audience. Sort a transitional thing.
The big platform will be 9AM. That's make or break.
No one could seriously think people in the East would stay up that late.
The usual scenerio would be to run network programming in the east earlier, and in the west, later. However, this gets complicated with Sunday Night Football, as the build out offers NFL programming throughout the prime time hours on Sunday. (7:30-11pm on Sundays, eastern) No wiggle room in this case. Even in the west it becomes difficult as the NFL programming runs 4:30-8pm, so any window to run Megyn is a moot point.
Most Pacific zone affiliates will run local news after the game around 8pm.
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The question posed by the OP has been answered. Megyn cannot compete effectively against 60 Minutes. Perhaps this show would see better numbers in a different time slot. Her big test starts today, that being can she post numbers better than what NBC has been getting in the 9AM slot after Today, or will she, as I predict, lose badly to Kelly Ripa.
This will be the key test if the money NBC invested to bring her on board was well spent.
This will be the key test if the money NBC invested to bring her on board was well spent.
http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/megyn-kelly-vladimir-putin-sunday-night-newsmagazine-1202719154/
And Megyn Kelly is returning to Sunday Night show according to this link.
And Megyn Kelly is returning to Sunday Night show according to this link.
They've been showing clips from the Putin interview on MSNBC already. Pretty good interview. He's changed his tune. He's not denying interfering any more. He's just saying his people didn't break Russian law, so they won't be extradited. Very different from what he said last year.
Not sure he changed his tune as much as he was answering a different question. My interpretation of his response was that he wasn't going to extradite any of his citizens to the United States since, as far as he was concerned, they hadn't broken the law.
Somewhat surprising that Kelly can still land a big interview like this. Her star seemed to be dimming after she wasn't allowed to be part of the Olympics coverage and her ratings haven't markedly improved the 9AM Today slot.
Somewhat surprising that Kelly can still land a big interview like this. Her star seemed to be dimming after she wasn't allowed to be part of the Olympics coverage and her ratings haven't markedly improved the 9AM Today slot.
That was fake news. She didn't cover the Olympics because she didn't want to be away from her kids for two weeks. NBC knew that when they hired her.
It would be helpful if you could source this assertion.
Stories like this one: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...ad-her-as-nbc-boss-decides-s-diva-report.html
have not been retracted, leading me to conclude that it's not 'fake news'. I'll even accept a statement from Ms. Kelly to that effect. I presume you did have something to base your assertion on or you wouldn't have made it.
I must agree this seems like a better fit. I doubt it will happen because NBC will have to try to get some return out of the $15M they are paying Megyn each year. If her ratings don't improve, they are likely to part ways once they get into the option years portion of her contract.
The article you link simply says she was "Kelly was furious that, following Matt Lauer’s shock defenestration, NBC was calling its biggest star out of retirement rather than drafting Kelly for Olympics duty." I'm not questioning that. That statement makes it clear that her anger was that they brought in Couric, not that she was "passed over" or "wasn't allowed" to participate. Those are two different things. They would have had to "draft" her, and who knows what that would have entailed. It wasn't a snub because she told them last year she didn't want to go to Korea.
By the way, the article you link is based on anonymous sources, and the president tells us that such anonymous sourcing is fake news. If it's true, they should give their names. That's what he says. If those are his standards, then those apply here too.
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I think there may be another thread on Kelly and her morning show, but I am not seeing it. (mods, please move this if I missed it)
The story continues to be she is dragging down the morning franchise on NBC. Not good.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/m...ing-everybody’s-morning/ar-BBKJzI5?li=BBnb7Kz
I find it difficult to watch at this hour as it seems to move from serious to frivolous within a blink of the eye. But if the numbers don't come up, NBC has a serious problem.
The story continues to be she is dragging down the morning franchise on NBC. Not good.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/m...ing-everybody’s-morning/ar-BBKJzI5?li=BBnb7Kz
I find it difficult to watch at this hour as it seems to move from serious to frivolous within a blink of the eye. But if the numbers don't come up, NBC has a serious problem.
It's hard to see what they can do to raise the numbers. She is who she is, and that simply is not fitting well in attracting a morning audience to NBC. Hard to fathom how anyone thought she would draw decent numbers by broadcast network standards.
I think her contract was fully guaranteed, so unless I'm wrong, there are no losses for NBC to cut. The best bet for them may be to try to craft something that is a better fit for her.
It's been said before, but I don't understand why they thought her style and viewpoints would fit in with NBC in the first place. Let's be honest, she has a solid on-air presence and is very pleasant to look at - so if they can find her a successful vehicle where she is reporting, then anchoring her own reports, she would probably do well. She would be a perfectly decent 60 Minutes correspondent, for example, though I have no idea if she would want to leave her anchor desk to do investigative and reporting work, or would tolerate not being the star of the show.
But sadly, NBC doesn't have a franchise like 60 Minutes. With the exception of the awful Dateline which seems to limp on year after year with those excruciatingly drawn-out 'true-crime' stories, they got nuthin, and every new attempt has failed, including Kelly's own Sunday night show
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