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So When Does "The Daily Show" Move To Broadcast TV? (FOX?)

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

Let's review: "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" is wildly successful to the point that it is single-handedly influencing the cable news medium. The host himself also influenced CNN to fire one of their anchors after a volatile rant. And with the "Rally To Restore Sanity" upcoming, President Obama plans to appear on the program to support the event.

All this on a popular late night show on basic cable. What a broadcast network like Fox wouldn't do to fill their late night void and sign Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert over from Comedy Central. Surely, the folks at Comedy Central would dearly hang onto these shows, but we all know that money talks, and Fox has a big enough war chest. Keep in mind, Comedy Central lost "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher" to ABC.
 
Jon Stewart working for Rupert Murdoch? That would be a rift in the universe and create tremendous cognitive dissonance. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Comedy Channel part of CBS? Maybe they should get rid of Letterman and put on Stewart/Colbert?
 
Well Fox certainly could air it at the same time, and I don't think the fact that the daily show leans left, and bashes fox news all the time would stop them. Afterall Both the simpsons and Family guy have sone that, and Family guy along with American dad always makes fun of republicans (and Bush when he was in power).

However would Jon Stewart refuse to move to fox? He seems to hate everything fox news stands for, and might fear that working for the company would result in them censoring what he says about Fox. Also you mentioned Politically Incorrect, but that was probably not owned by Comedy central to begin wth. Isn't the daily show fully a comedy central original produced show?
 
MsMusicRadio said:
Jon Stewart working for Rupert Murdoch? That would be a rift in the universe and create tremendous cognitive dissonance. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Comedy Channel part of CBS? Maybe they should get rid of Letterman and put on Stewart/Colbert?
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Jon Stewart working for Rupert Murdoch might cause "cognitive dissonance" for Stewart, but it wouldn't for Murdoch. Rupert is in favor of anything that makes him money - whether its content is liberal or conservative. Murdoch's programming on Fox pushes the good taste and "family values" envelope much more than the other networks. His basic cable FX network pushes the envelope more than most other basic cable channels. Have you seen Sons of Anarchy?

Murdoch first made his fortune on British tabloid newspapers that featured bare breasted women.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that Fox News has anything to do with Murdoch's personal beliefs, other than his personal belief that he should be richer.

Having said that - why would The Daily Show need to move to Fox, or any major network? It's doing fine where it is. If it ain't broke...
 
DToTheJ said:
Let's review: "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" is wildly successful to the point that it is single-handedly influencing the cable news medium. The host himself also influenced CNN to fire one of their anchors after a volatile rant.
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How did Jon Stewart get Rick Sanchez fired, exactly?
 
The Daily Show is going NOWHERE.
FOX doesn't want it.
CBS and Viacom (which owns MTV and Comedy Central) are operated as two separate entities.
Cable is the new medium for late night, I mean look at Conan on TBS!
 
Nate Wesley said:
DToTheJ said:
Let's review: "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" is wildly successful to the point that it is single-handedly influencing the cable news medium. The host himself also influenced CNN to fire one of their anchors after a volatile rant.
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How did Jon Stewart get Rick Sanchez fired, exactly?
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Jon Stewart didn't do anything to get Rick Sanchez fired. Stewart has been skewering Sanchez for a couple of years on The Daily Show - because Sanchez was such an easy target to satirize. This had nothing to do with politics, since Sanchez is more or less a liberal, as is Stewart. But Sanchez is a loose-cannon buffoon , which made him an easy target.

I'd speculate that this started to seriously annoy Sanchez. So when he was interviewed on a radio talk show, he called Stewart a "bigot." If he'd stopped there, I think he would have been OK, but he then launched into remarks that could be considered anti-Semitic:

"He's such a minority, I mean, you know. ... Please, what are you kidding? I'm telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they -- the people in this country who are Jewish -- are an oppressed minority?"

That got him fired - his own words. I doubt Stewart wanted him fired. After all, to paraphrase Richard Nixon: he won't have Rick Sanchez to kick around anymore.
 
Lkeller said:
Jon Stewart working for Rupert Murdoch might cause "cognitive dissonance" for Stewart, but it wouldn't for Murdoch.
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Something that many have forgotten is that Michael Moore actually once had a regular weekly series on the Fox broadcast network -- "TV Nation". AFAIK, that was shortly before the launch of Fox News, back when it was conservatives who hated Fox because of it's edgy programming.
 
Conservatives in some cases may still hate Fox the broadcast network for edgy programming.

But that aside, it's at best a silly hypothetical scenario. When does it move? When pigs fly.
 
TexasTom said:
... Michael Moore actually once had a regular weekly series on the Fox broadcast network -- "TV Nation"...
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I thought that was an NBC program.

And to tested: It's a hypothetical.
 
Comedy Central for all intents and purposes "owns" the "Daily Show." It's not going anywhere unless they want it to.

It was created after Bill Mahar moved "Politically Incorrect" (which his production company owned) from there to ABC in '95 or '96 (I think). John Stewart is merely the host, previously it was helmed by Craig Kilborn until the summer of '99.
 
This may be the most pointless discussion ever. While we're at it, let's discuss Tom Hanks starring in a new sitcom for NBC, "American Idol" moving to ABC because it's the "American Broadcasting Company" and Oprah anchoring the "CBS Evening News."
 
DToTheJ said:
TexasTom said:
... Michael Moore actually once had a regular weekly series on the Fox broadcast network -- "TV Nation"...
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I thought that was an NBC program.
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...TV Nation started on NBC in 1994 and moved to Fox the following year. And the show was itself more of a BBC2 product that NBC and Fox merely picked up to plug a hole in the summer schedule...
 
DToTheJ said:
TexasTom said:
... Michael Moore actually once had a regular weekly series on the Fox broadcast network -- "TV Nation"...
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I thought that was an NBC program.

And to tested: It's a hypothetical.
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Not really. It just seems like someone throwing out wild suggestions that have no basis in fact. There has been NO discussion of this anywhere. Why not ask "How long before Bill O'Reilly goes to PBS?

It's a silly discussion.
 
Who would have thought 5 years ago a cable company would be buying a major network and movie outlet and for billions of dollars.

The list of value for each property shows all cable nets way in the black, Universal in the black and NBC in the red for half a billion. Broadcast TV is certainly no shining star.
 
Okay, consider the fact that various outlets are reporting President Obama's appearance on the program last night as "the first time a sitting President has appeared on The Daily Show." As if it is a significant achievement for a sitting President. But I digress...
 
DToTheJ said:
Okay, consider the fact that various outlets are reporting President Obama's appearance on the program last night as "the first time a sitting President has appeared on The Daily Show." As if it is a significant achievement for a sitting President. But I digress...
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I doubt this will go over well with the American public since he's been way overexposure in the media for so long. I think his Daily Show appearance will either hurt his party or do nothing at all. I don't mean to come off as political here, but that's just my opinion about this matter.
 
I wonder if President Nixon's cameo on "Laugh-In" was hyped some 35 years ago as "the first time a sitting President appeared on a sketch comedy show".
 
DToTheJ said:
I wonder if President Nixon's cameo on "Laugh-In" was hyped some 35 years ago as "the first time a sitting President appeared on a sketch comedy show".
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I don't think he was president at the time, just a candidate in 1968.
 
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