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Carrie Underwood To Replace Faith Hill On "SNF"

That blog story is pretty silly. They dredge up a 7 year old non-feud to suggest Faith is now jealous of Carrie getting her old job. As if Faith needs the work or the money. I also doubt very much that Faith would be willing to accept the downgrade from network to cable.

I think the more interesting story is that NBC is amassing a lot of country talent on its network, with Blake on The Voice, Trace on Apprentice, and now Carrie on SNF. We could use the same logic that Sportsrants uses, and suggest NBC is looking to become the latest incarnation of The Nashville Network. Perhaps bringing back Hee Haw on Friday nights.
 
TheBigA said:
I think the more interesting story is that NBC is amassing a lot of country talent on its network, with Blake on The Voice, Trace on Apprentice, and now Carrie on SNF. We could use the same logic that Sportsrants uses, and suggest NBC is looking to become the latest incarnation of The Nashville Network. Perhaps bringing back Hee Haw on Friday nights.
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I wouldn't go so far as to say NBC is trying to be the next TNN, not by a long shot. Since NBC is well known to skew hard left in it's news, commentary (Bob Costas I'm looking right at you) and especially in MSNBC the addition of these country artists is just a way to try and appease the conservative crowd South Mason-Dixon and appear to be more centric within their eyes. I very much doubt the Southern red states are falling for it.
 
Robnoxious said:
Since NBC is well known to skew hard left in it's news,
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Other than MSNBC, which is a separate brand from NBC News, they really don't. Also, there is no political connection between Fox Entertainment and Fox News...why should there be at another company?

And you make an assumption that all country music artists are gun totin' red staters, when artists like Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, and Tim McGraw are all pretty public in their political views.
 
Robnoxious said:
TheBigA said:
I think the more interesting story is that NBC is amassing a lot of country talent on its network, with Blake on The Voice, Trace on Apprentice, and now Carrie on SNF. We could use the same logic that Sportsrants uses, and suggest NBC is looking to become the latest incarnation of The Nashville Network. Perhaps bringing back Hee Haw on Friday nights.
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I wouldn't go so far as to say NBC is trying to be the next TNN, not by a long shot. Since NBC is well known to skew hard left in it's news, commentary (Bob Costas I'm looking right at you) and especially in MSNBC the addition of these country artists is just a way to try and appease the conservative crowd South Mason-Dixon and appear to be more centric within their eyes. I very much doubt the Southern red states are falling for it.
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NBC is still pretty much northeast-centric, but in football they have to include the Midwest. 12 of the 17 Sunday night games involve at least one East Coast team - 7 of those involving an NFC East (not including "non-east" Dallas/New Orleans) or AFC East team, and 3 involving the Super Bowl champ Ravens. 14 of the 17 include at least one of the AFC/NFC East or North teams (including Dallas). It's pretty obvious what NBC's target audience is for football; it's east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio & the Mason-Dixon Line.

Both Faith Hill and Carrie Underwood have mass "non-country" appeal. You wouldn't hear a younger version of Patsy Cline or Loretta Lynn on an NBC football opener. Disney had no problem keeping Hank Jr. on MNF until he started running his mouth. If those games had gone to NBC, I think he would have been canned immediately.
 
KeithE4 said:
NBC is still pretty much northeast-centric, but in football they have to include the Midwest.
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I think that decision is mainly about the largest ratings markets, not about any ideology.
 
TheBigA said:
KeithE4 said:
NBC is still pretty much northeast-centric, but in football they have to include the Midwest.
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I think that decision is mainly about the largest ratings markets, not about any ideology.
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Yes, you are correct. But outside of sports, they don't seem to care much about anything outside the Boston-to-Washington corridor except for LA, Chicago, and San Francisco.
 
KeithE4 said:
Yes, you are correct. But outside of sports, they don't seem to care much about anything outside the Boston-to-Washington corridor except for LA, Chicago, and San Francisco.
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Once again, the Top 5 markets. You won't see any Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills, or Tennessee Titans games either for that reason. Unless those teams are #1 in their division.
 
TheBigA said:
KeithE4 said:
Yes, you are correct. But outside of sports, they don't seem to care much about anything outside the Boston-to-Washington corridor except for LA, Chicago, and San Francisco.
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Once again, the Top 5 markets. You won't see any Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills, or Tennessee Titans games either for that reason. Unless those teams are #1 in their division.
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But you are pretty much guaranteed to get at least one Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Pittsburgh Steelers, Denver Broncos, and especially Dallas Cowboys game a year no matter if they're good or bad. I'd normally include the Miami Dolphins, but they're not getting a SNF game this year unless it's flexed in (vs the Pats on 12/15?. They do have two Mondays). The others depend on how good they are.
 
KeithE4 said:
But you are pretty much guaranteed to get at least one Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Pittsburgh Steelers, Denver Broncos, and especially Dallas Cowboys game a year no matter if they're good or bad.
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Those are teams that bring broader fan bases than their specific geographic region.

Back to the main topic, there has been an on-going relationship built between the NFL and country music. You see NFL stars as awards presenters, and country singers singing anthems at games. A lot of that has to do with the popularity of country music. I just read where country has replaced talk as the #1 radio format.
 
TheBigA said:
And you make an assumption that all country music artists are gun totin' red staters, when artists like Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, and Tim McGraw are all pretty public in their political views.
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I made no assumption there, you did. All I said was NBC was appearing to try and appease the Southern conservatives that do have more of the propensity to listen to country music in greater numbers. In no part did I label all or any country artist as gun totin', again you jumped to that conclusion on your own.

KeithE4 said it broke it down a bit better saying that NBC is very Nor'easter centric. I completely agree with that and NBC makes zero qualms about being so in their sports and their general programming.
 
Robnoxious said:
All I said was NBC was appearing to try and appease the Southern conservatives
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Except that country music is also a top-rated radio format in Detroit, Boston, Buffalo, Rochester, and many other blue northeast cities.

You also said "Since NBC is well known to skew hard left in it's news," which is not true.
 
TheBigA said:
Except that country music is also a top-rated radio format in Detroit, Boston, Buffalo, Rochester, and many other blue northeast cities.

You also said "Since NBC is well known to skew hard left in it's news," which is not true.
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Very well, we can agree to disagree on the latter.
 
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