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Headline News finally changes name
- Thread starter jal41
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And thus we have another meaningless acronyn as a cable name, to go along with ESPN, TLC, A&E, etc.
Perhaps they should just go back to the original CNN2. Such a concept hasn't hurt ESPN2.
Perhaps they should just go back to the original CNN2. Such a concept hasn't hurt ESPN2.
I vote for "Satellite News Channel", SNC, the station that Turner bought out to create CNN2. The name is more relevant now anyway.....
How about just dumping the network all together. CNN can keep some shows like Nancy and move it to CNN or maybe move it to TruTV which Turner also owns. Wouldn't be a bad idea to see it go Turner Sports and move the NBA and MLB games away from TNT and TBS so they can keep showing movies and tv shows. Thats one good idea.
How about if CNN or Fox News can lure it's highest paying anchor in Canada, Peter Mansbridge? I don't when his contract from CBC expires, but maybe hopefully soon. He's a really good anchor, if not the best in North America, can be a good fit for the cable networks. I know he's been also covering every part of the world, which Williams, Couric & Gibson lack it. I think he should be a really good shot for both the networks, since the National will opposite Jay Leno in that time slot in Canada. Plus I think they'll probably earn him more in New York than he has in Toronto, which is a very good commuting distance to New York, but I think he'll have to get out of the country first before he moves to the big Apple. I don't know if he's wanted to do a broadcasting job there, but I think he's wanting that goal for years. I know New York is also a much bigger market than Toronto & besides Canada only has 40 million people, while ours is over 300 million, & we don't even afordable healthcare there, which theirs does. Do you Mansbridge would help ratings to the cable networks, if his contract were to expire at CBC. Otherwise, they may still lure him his entire career. I know he's been with CBC Radio & TV since 1968, but bringing him to america would be a good opportunity for him, I don't know.
dgendvil said:
Ah, but Peter Mansbridge is much too classy for American cable TV! To be on cable news now you've gotta have a trashy side.
A somewhat-related quote, if I may, from Family Guy.
Dr. Diddy: We gotta get her half-naked and up front center stage. That's gonna make you all billionaires, because America loves hot white jailbait ass.
Peter Griffin: Wait a minute...that's the smartest thing I've ever heard anyone say about anything.
Ken said:
That would mean starting up a new channel. The only sports channel that Turner owns is NBA TV.
They use to have Turner South, but was bought out by Fox (now known as SportSouth.) Turner/Time Warner doesn't own it anymore, and is not broadcast from their headquaters in Midtown.
notalkallstatic said:
I believe Fox Sports Net South/SportSouth comes out of downtown Atlanta...but the NOC of all of the regional FSN networks may operate hubbed somewhere...I don't know.
CNN and HLN are out of CNN Center...and TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, Boomerang, and WPCH-TV are out of the Techwood complex about a mile or so up the road (right next to the campus of Georgia Tech). I don't know where TruTV or NBA TV is located...I would assume Techwood, but they may be out of New York.
The original SportSouth (now FSN South) was also originally a Turner Network...bought by Fox/News Corp.
HLN will launch a new show from Clark Howard next month. I suspect HLN is going to slowly evolve into a talk network (like "America's Talking" was before becoming MSNBC) with a sprinkling of alternative and interactive news shows (like the show "News To Me"). I wonder if CNN will move Lou Dobbs and D.L. Hughley over to HLN, and make CNN 100% news and HLN 100% talk, opinion, and alternative news.
jal41 said:
From what I understand, yes, Fox SNS and SportSouth does come out of Downtown Atlanta, where I don't know, once, I heard they were in the Norfolk Southern Building, or in that area, I'm not sure.
As for TruTV and NBA TV, yes, they do come out of Techwood. All of the US Turner channels (besides CNN and HLN) comes out of Techwood. (Latin America Channels that Turner owns comes out of Buenos Aires, and the European Channels that Turner owns comes out of London)
But initals are the cool way now.
With everyone texting on their cells they can't type Headline News, everyone is much to busy to type all that. You know why I know they are busy, 'cause they are talking on their cell phone constantly.
So initials are cool, but you know what's cooler, numbers.
This way we all know Anderson Cooper is cool 'cause his show is AC, he uses intials AND a number 360. 360 being short for the word circle as in 360 degrees in completeness. So thus we kn0w AC360 means he's cool AND complete, just by the intial/numbers
As for the Canadian guy, not with a name like MANSbridgte will he make it in the USA. And if he WAS good he'd already BE in the USA like every other Canadian.
With everyone texting on their cells they can't type Headline News, everyone is much to busy to type all that. You know why I know they are busy, 'cause they are talking on their cell phone constantly.
So initials are cool, but you know what's cooler, numbers.
This way we all know Anderson Cooper is cool 'cause his show is AC, he uses intials AND a number 360. 360 being short for the word circle as in 360 degrees in completeness. So thus we kn0w AC360 means he's cool AND complete, just by the intial/numbers
As for the Canadian guy, not with a name like MANSbridgte will he make it in the USA. And if he WAS good he'd already BE in the USA like every other Canadian.
CBS tried to get him in 1988 as one of the co-hosts of the new "CBS This Morning", but CBC executives prevented that from happening when they pressured Knowlton Nash to give up his anchor job at "The National" and award it to Mansbridge.whitfm said:
DToTheJ said:
My idea is to move ALL the reality and non-music shows ALL to Vh1 and rename it "VE-TV" (Viacom Entertainment Televison.) Turn VH1 Classic into VE2 to air more of the reality and non-music programming repeats and classics. That way, music would rule MTV. MTV2 could become just MTV Classic. Let me stop dreaming.
jal41 said:
I could see that, but I thought CNN canceled the D.L. Hughley show.
By the way (I'll post it here since I'm too lazy to bring up the D.L. Hughley thread) the episode that aired this week... was a rerun of last week's show, which seemed to be its final episode based on some of the wording used toward the end.
Mark said:As for the Canadian guy, not with a name like MANSbridgte will he make it in the USA. And if he WAS good he'd already BE in the USA like every other Canadian.
Obviously, you've never watched one of his newscasts. If anything, he has too much class and journalistic integrity to make it here now. They'd call him "old fashioned" - you know, like Cronkite, Brinkley and Murrow.
Peter Mansbridge is also a journalist. The Canadian style of reporting is very different from what you see in the States. It's not uncommon to see Mansbridge interviewing the national party leaders on issues halfway through the news casts. He brings that journalistic style to his reporting when they get past the main stories. Both Peter Mansbridge and CTV's Lloyd Robertson would do very well in the United States, but neither are young men anymore and haven't been for a while. They would be considered to0 old fashioned for American tastes. I also don't think Mansbridge would like to be cut down to just half an hour either.
Thank you for reminding me of Lloyd Robertson. He is definitely in the same class of journalist/anchor as Peter Mansbridge. Which is high praise indeed. Robertson is also a class act who brings knowledge, skill and dignity to the anchor desk. A worthy adversary to Mansbridge's flagship CBC broadcast.
We used to have guys like this at the national anchor desk. Unfortunately, the American public's collective case of ADD has rendered such skillful journalism as obsolete. Now, they just want to see cool video and issues boiled down to the level of the sound bite.
It's refreshing to see the likes of Mansbridge and Robertson still out there reporting the news in the classic style. Their style of reporting should be a must-see for all journalism students.
We used to have guys like this at the national anchor desk. Unfortunately, the American public's collective case of ADD has rendered such skillful journalism as obsolete. Now, they just want to see cool video and issues boiled down to the level of the sound bite.
It's refreshing to see the likes of Mansbridge and Robertson still out there reporting the news in the classic style. Their style of reporting should be a must-see for all journalism students.
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