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Rock Center On Shaky Ground?

Debut on Halloween? Since it features Ted Koppel and Harry Smith they may as well have called it
Night of the Living Dead.

On Sunday night Brian Williams appeared in the booth on Sunday Night Football.
He pimped this show....and pimped.....and pimped.....and pimped.....

If NBC should learn anything from their experiment with Keith Olbermann it is that there is
nothing to be gained by pissing off football fans on Sunday night.

You build audience for a news magazine the old fashioned way (i.e. the Fox way)
Lots of hot blondes in short skirts doing flirty human interest stories.
 
I thought that was the reason for Kate "pure as the driven" Snow's appearance on the show. Maybe she drifted :)
 
I wouldn't pull the plug based on one showing. 60 Minutes was not an overnight success when
it first came on either. The show serves a purpose, it's cheaper than sitcoms and reality. It may
take awhile to grab an audience, which is partly the blame of the entire weak NBC schedule.
 
Several other things they could do then to try and jump start their ratings:

- Blow up a compact pickup truck with a rocket to show us how unsafe they are
- Publicize some documents from President Obama's past in the 1970's that were typed in Microsoft Word
- Run an exclusive interview with Herman Cain and his wife where she looks at the
camera and says "If you don't like my husband, shoot, just don't vote for him."
 
FreddyE1977 said:
You build audience for a news magazine the old fashioned way (i.e. the Fox way)
Lots of hot blondes in short skirts doing flirty human interest stories.
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Ha, ha. Or you could do it the really "old fashioned way," like 60 Minutes, by providing consistently high quality and compelling content.

Even some of the better news magazine shows like 20/20 have devolved into sensationalistic crime-of-the-week factories.
 
Yes I hardly ever watch 20/20 anymore just to find out if John Gleason murdered his wife.

And Dateline was only good when catching people in sex stings. They've worn the hell out
of that now.
 
I was actually wondering why they didn't just start a new edition of "Dateline" - unless the show is so now associated with Chris Hanson and given his own troubles in the news recently, perhaps NBC would want to start distancing themselves away from the "Dateline" branding? Hmmm...

@KyDXIn - A "Snow drift" joke - I get it! :D
 
DToTheJ said:
I was actually wondering why they didn't just start a new edition of "Dateline" - unless the show is so now associated with Chris Hanson and given his own troubles in the news recently, perhaps NBC would want to start distancing themselves away from the "Dateline" branding? Hmmm...

@KyDXIn - A "Snow drift" joke - I get it! :D
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Credit goes to Mae West.
 
This will sound lame, I know, but I have a problem with the show's title. Yes, I know -Rock Center undoubtedly refers to 30 Rockefeller Plaza. I was there this summer - it's a beautiful property. But for some reason, every time I hear the show being promoted - Aretha Franklin's song Rock Steady starts playing in my head.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
Several other things they could do then to try and jump start their ratings:

- Blow up a compact pickup truck with a rocket to show us how unsafe they are
- Publicize some documents from President Obama's past in the 1970's that were typed in Microsoft Word
- Run an exclusive interview with Herman Cain and his wife where she looks at the
camera and says "If you don't like my husband, shoot, just don't vote for him."
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uhhhh...the point of my sarcasm was....
TV news magazines have a wee bit of a credibility problem at this point in their history.
 
Lkeller said:
This will sound lame, I know, but I have a problem with the show's title. Yes, I know -Rock Center undoubtedly refers to 30 Rockefeller Plaza. I was there this summer - it's a beautiful property. But for some reason, every time I hear the show being promoted - Aretha Franklin's song Rock Steady starts playing in my head.
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I just keep thinking it would make a better name for a concert series.
 
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