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NBC Considers Cutting Back Programming Hours in Prime Time

kfbkfb said:
How about "Talk TV" as a replacement for Network TV shows, many of the talk radio shows I listen to have a video feed (Internet/app viewing only, currently), maybe create a digital TV subchannel with these video feeds - could be very exciting viewing watching someone sitting (nearly always, except Tom Leykis) and talking into a microphone, sometimes motioning to someone behind the glass.


Kirk Bayne
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Let’s not and say we did. This idea does have the potential to be among the more absurd ones posted though.
 
kfbkfb said:
How about "Talk TV" as a replacement for Network TV shows, many of the talk radio shows I listen to have a video feed (Internet/app viewing only, currently), maybe create a digital TV subchannel with these video feeds - could be very exciting viewing watching someone sitting (nearly always, except Tom Leykis) and talking into a microphone, sometimes motioning to someone behind the glass.
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A few years ago, Tribune did just this with Bob & Tom, whittling down a 5 hour radio show to one hour of television. It was less successful than Rush Limbaugh's TV show.

But if you'd like to trial it, this sort of programming is a default filler on several of the sports channels. You can watch CBS Sports Radio programs on CBS Sports Network, Fox Sports Radio on FS1, and ESPN Radio programs on ESPNNews or ESPN2.
 
Kelly A said:
Radio on TV has been proven to be ultra boring, and a complete loser. Watching some ugly guy wearing headphones in a closeup shot in front of a giant microphone, expressionless, listening to a caller, is like trying to watch paint dry. Not exactly compelling TV.
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Sounds like a community access cable channel from the 90s. The ones people would stumble upon while flipping through channels as there was nothing else on at that time - the ones where the 3 or 4 viewers would call in, some of them apparently drunk, high or both, and prank the hosts, sometimes for hours, days, months or years on end...
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
A few years ago, Tribune did just this with Bob & Tom, whittling down a 5 hour radio show to one hour of television. It was less successful than Rush Limbaugh's TV show.

But if you'd like to trial it, this sort of programming is a default filler on several of the sports channels. You can watch CBS Sports Radio programs on CBS Sports Network, Fox Sports Radio on FS1, and ESPN Radio programs on ESPNNews or ESPN2.
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Theirs some Talk Radio shows KC area that would be good on TV. KMCI does 6am Boarder Protrol.
 
anotherguyTN said:
Kelly Clarkson will be the only syndicated show on WMC in the daytime. Everything else will be either news and talk from NBC or local news and talk until Wheel of Fortune. But that's still better than filling the local time with trash talk, courtroom I may shows, and infomercials.
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Apparently WMC is keeping Dateline at 2 PM and Kelly Clarkson at 3 PM after all, so there are two syndicaated shows in the daytime. I may have misread the schedule I looked at.
 
anotherguyTN said:
Apparently WMC is keeping Dateline at 2 PM and Kelly Clarkson at 3 PM after all, so there are two syndicaated shows in the daytime. I may have misread the schedule I looked at.
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October 31st... that changes. I have an exclusive source regarding this. Action News 5 at 3:00 will make its triumphant return.
 

NBC Cuts 37 staffers as part of restructuring.


Also at NBC's MSNBC division Rebecca Kutler moves from CNN to MSNBC as SVP.

CNN’s loss is MSNBC’s gain.

Rebecca Kutler, a veteran CNN talent and development executive who had a hand in the success of anchors and contributors such as Abby Phillip and Van Jones, is joining MSNBC as its senior vice president of content strategy. She will run MSNBC’s streaming efforts and develop new program concepts for both the linear cable network and MSNBC’s presence on the NBCUniversal Peacock streaming hub.
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Yes where Networks will go from there when NBC decides to drop the 10pm hour. NBC is right to see this one where Primetime TV will have an uncertain future due to streaming.

I’ve been talking for a while now about how network TV is likely to become a “farm team” of sorts for the streaming services. Many of the of shows produced for network prime time are likely to become the sorts of shows that fuel the FASTs, and at some point in the near future the networks will need to decide on the wisdom of maintaining a separate prime time line-up. These have all recently become a hot topic of media conversation, as what were once prognostications are now becoming reality: NBCU is rumored to be thinking of dropping the 10 p.m. hour from its primetime lineup, hit shows like Dancing With The Stars are being moved from linear (ABC) to streaming (Disney Plus), and shows like Abbott Elementary debut on linear (ABC again) but are quickly moved to streaming (Hulu this time) and are finding much bigger audiences in streaming.
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DarrenVision said:
Is YouTube the OG FAST or the MTV killer
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YouTube is the Tik Tok of the mid/Late-2000's. Yes when YouTube came out its demographics were people born in the 1977-1984 range which would have been mid 20's to late 20's when the outlet first came out in 2005-2006. It was initially the MTV and VH1 killer when they had a deal with the labels at the time. Now it's the Cable of era.
 
anotherguyTN said:
I probably watch You Tube more than regular TV a lot of nights, with subscribing to several channels I'm interested in.
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YouTube TV... using that as my OTT service now since the beginning of the year. Zero complaints.

Before that subscription, watched a few things weekly on OG YT
 
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