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"Rita Cosby Live & Direct"

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Premieres Monday (8/8) on MSNBC at 9pm ET.

"The Situation With Tucker Carlson" gets bumped to 11pm ET. It doesn't even get a re-airing in the overnight hours.

This tells you:
1) what the networ thinks of Tucker (compared to the slate of other hosts they have)
2) the show must be struggling -- already!
3) Joe Scarborough must be furious (if #2 is the case...it's hurting his show with a crappy lead-in)
 
The 9:00 P.M. Eastern/8:00 P.M. Central time slot for MSNBC has always been a stumbling block. There have been other shows besides Tucker's that have failed.

Deborah Norville
Pat Buchanan(Tucker Carlson's co-hort from his CNN show Crossfire)

Among many many others.
 
> The 9:00 P.M. Eastern/8:00 P.M. Central time slot for MSNBC
> has always been a stumbling block. There have been other
> shows besides Tucker's that have failed.
>
> Deborah Norville
> Pat Buchanan(Tucker Carlson's co-hort from his CNN show
> Crossfire)
>
> Among many many others.
>

It probably doesn't help that MSNBC is so damn trigger happy. They killed off "Donahue", and IIRC, the network has yet to beat the audience his show attracted.

"The Situation" hasn't even been on for 6 months, has it? <P ID="signature">______________
There's nothing to see here.</P>
 
All I can think of when I hear "Live & Direct" is Edison Carters' sign off from Max Headroom - "live and direct from Network 23".<P ID="signature">______________
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The situation hasnt been on even 3 months, but MSNBC always wanted to put Tucker at 11pm. I guess the reason they debuted it at 9pm was to keep continuity of the schedule (not having some random show in the middle). Tuckers show isnt the best in the ratings . . . but by no means is the worst. It gets somewhere between 100K-250K (well . . . 250K on a good night and usually much closer to just below 200K).

Roger
 
> The situation hasnt been on even 3 months, but MSNBC always
> wanted to put Tucker at 11pm. I guess the reason they
> debuted it at 9pm was to keep continuity of the schedule
> (not having some random show in the middle). Tuckers show
> isnt the best in the ratings . . . but by no means is the
> worst. It gets somewhere between 100K-250K (well . . . 250K
> on a good night and usually much closer to just below 200K).
>
>

All i can say is that picking up every Fox castoff or CNN castoff will not help MSNBC. One of the networks have to get the message that conservatives have found a home in Fox...like it or not...they like the way Fox delivers its "truth".

Why imitate Fox when Fox distorts so well...why change to another channel if you want the all GOP channel....

MSNBC and CNN should think about going after the other 58 million people who didnt vote for the GOP. Its not like fox is unbeatable..i mean its only 2 million listeners and the island of Aruba...LOL...

Do you think if MSNBC and CNN moved back from the right back to the center and maybe to center-left (center is preferred), their ratings might improve because people would say hey....MSNBC and CNN is back to doing NEWS not overheated opinion and GOP Propaganda...

Rita Cosby will fail.....because what she did on Fox to lie wont be as good as what lies she will offer on MSNBC. Then MSNBC will probably put her and Monica together .....lets get back to NEWS!!!
 
> > The situation hasnt been on even 3 months, but MSNBC
> always
> > wanted to put Tucker at 11pm. I guess the reason they
> > debuted it at 9pm was to keep continuity of the schedule
> > (not having some random show in the middle). Tuckers show
> > isnt the best in the ratings . . . but by no means is the
> > worst. It gets somewhere between 100K-250K (well . . .
> 250K
> > on a good night and usually much closer to just below
> 200K).
> >
> >
>
> All i can say is that picking up every Fox castoff or CNN
> castoff will not help MSNBC. One of the networks have to get
> the message that conservatives have found a home in
> Fox...like it or not...they like the way Fox delivers its
> "truth".
>
> Why imitate Fox when Fox distorts so well...why change to
> another channel if you want the all GOP channel....
>
> MSNBC and CNN should think about going after the other 58
> million people who didnt vote for the GOP. Its not like fox
> is unbeatable..i mean its only 2 million listeners and the
> island of Aruba...LOL...
>
> Do you think if MSNBC and CNN moved back from the right back
> to the center and maybe to center-left (center is
> preferred), their ratings might improve because people would
> say hey....MSNBC and CNN is back to doing NEWS not
> overheated opinion and GOP Propaganda...
>
> Rita Cosby will fail.....because what she did on Fox to lie
> wont be as good as what lies she will offer on MSNBC. Then
> MSNBC will probably put her and Monica together .....lets
> get back to NEWS!!!
>
The shift toward center is not likely to happen. Fox and MSNBC are too given over to a concern with the messenger with some attention to the message, if it can be spun to the network's agenda. Cosby isn't enough of a messenger to carry out MSNBC's mission. A few guys ogle her, women say she has a nail file-on-a-blackboard voice quality. All this equals the failure you predict. Eye candy melts quickly.
 
I guess when Tucker Carlson and Pat Buchanan get back together to do a Crossfire series like they did on CNN,then things might get hunky dory over at MSNBC. I have seen at least 5 programs(maybe more than that) in the past 2 years that have failed at 9:00 P.M. Eastern/8:00 P.M. Central. Dan Abrams,Lester Holt,Pat Buchanan,Deborah Norville,and now Tucker Carlson have all lasted at least 3 months or less.Can't figure out why the time slot between Keith Olbermann and Joe Scarborough just can't keep a show in that time slot.
 
>
> Rita Cosby will fail.....because what she did on Fox to lie
> wont be as good as what lies she will offer on MSNBC. Then
> MSNBC will probably put her and Monica together .....lets
> get back to NEWS!!!
>

My dislike for Fox News programming notwithstanding, I think Rita Cosby's gonna fail mostly because she wasn't that 'big' of a FNC personality to begin with.

Didn't she mostly host on weekends, anyway? What has she done to warrant a primetime news show? <P ID="signature">______________
There's nothing to see here.</P>
 
> I guess when Tucker Carlson and Pat Buchanan get back
> together to do a Crossfire series like they did on CNN,then
> things might get hunky dory over at MSNBC. I have seen at
> least 5 programs(maybe more than that) in the past 2 years
> that have failed at 9:00 P.M. Eastern/8:00 P.M. Central. Dan
> Abrams,Lester Holt,Pat Buchanan,Deborah Norville,and now
> Tucker Carlson have all lasted at least 3 months or
> less.Can't figure out why the time slot between Keith
> Olbermann and Joe Scarborough just can't keep a show in that
> time slot.
>

Like I said in a previous post, it just MIGHT help if MSNBC chose to 'grow' an audience instead of being so quick to cancel shows that can't beat Fox.

CNN, probably realizing they can't immediately craft programming to match or achieve parity with FNC, has smartly started programming itself in spite of FNC. <P ID="signature">______________
There's nothing to see here.</P>
 
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