NBC: David Gregory is not out at Meet The Press

[FreddyE1977]

Anderson Cooper is out.

Dude, you SO owe me a new keyboard!

 

[formeraa]

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Pauley-Norville in this thread.

 

[Ultimajock]

Costas-Kinnear?

 

[1069_KIFR]

O'Donnell- Goldberg

 

[Mario500]

I would feel sorry for future researchers who find this discussion and have no idea about the identities of the persons referenced in the pairings of surnames above (unless the folks who posted the names were to clarify).

 

[Silkie]

Would that make them any more somebody than they are?

 

[JeeperOne]

Chancellor-Brokaw
Garroway-Downs
Snyder-Letterman

At NBC history will continue to repeat itself, over and over and over.

Perhaps THE ONLY exception to this rule has to be Huntley-Brinkley when Chet Huntley left the nightly news on NBC to retire in 1974 (??)

Cheers & 73

 

[JeeperOne]

Actually, it was Garroway-Chancellor. After Chancellor proved himself completely inappropriate for morning TV Hugh Downs was brought in to salvage the show.

Well John Chancellor was a journalist through-and-through & NBC knew that (Afterall he was NBC's Berlin Correspondent during the JFK Assassination) which is why he was subsequently moved to the nightly news chair

Just sayin'

Cheers & 73

 

[Ultimajock]

Perhaps THE ONLY exception to this rule has to be Huntley-Brinkley when Chet Huntley left the nightly news on NBC to retire in 1974 (??)

...Huntley retired in 1970 and died in 1974...

 

[1069_KIFR]

When will David Gregory's last broadcast be?

 

[newsbot]

NBC, faced with the unenviable task of replacing Tim Russert, split his old duties in two. Chuck Todd became Political Director (and Chief White House Correspondent) while Gregory (the previous White House Correspondent) was tapped to moderate MTP. The division of labor may have made sense on paper but since Gregory isn't Political Director he doesn't get anywhere near the cross-promotion on other NBC News programming that Russert did. Todd, and not Gregory, has become the go-to guy on matters political on NBC Nightly News and elsewhere on the network. NBC has to find a way to unify the Political Director and MTP moderator positions. My money's on Chuck Todd to become MTP moderator in the near future. Gregory can always go back to being Senior White House Correspondent where he made his name in the first place (if his ego can handle it, that is.)

 

[Ultimajock]

When will David Gregory's last broadcast be?

...not soon enough. What currently runs on NBC under the title Meet the Press is a travesty. The actual Meet The Press died on 1 December 1991, when Garrick Utley ended his run as an actual moderator of an actual panel of press members. The next week saw the premiere of what was really The Tim Russert Show, a completely different program with a completely different format, but NBC didn't have the guts to use that honest a title, so they applied the fraudulent title Meet the Press with Tim Russert as if Russert qualified to be considered "The Press." Bullspit. Russert and Gregory turned the thing into Media Whore #1 with (fill in the star's name) using what had been a previously honoured title...

 

[Mario500]

^I noticed during recent openings of "Meet the Press" that the program would have a panel of reporters discussing news with the host after the interview segments. I guess the folks at NBC did not want to change the title of the program at the time of its format change due to its long history and thought it still fit the program, since TV viewers and listeners still get to meet at least one member of the "press" interviewing important persons and other members discussing news.

 

[PTBoardOp94]

What currently runs on NBC under the title Meet the Press is a travesty. The actual Meet The Press died on 1 December 1991, when Garrick Utley ended his run as an actual moderator of an actual panel of press members.

Yes, the show changed formats to copy "Face The Nation". I don't think that is a travesty -- there isn't enough of a "press" left to "meet."