Former ESPN exec (and NBC News for a brief moment) Jamie Horowitz's attempt to raise the visibility of Fox's struggling sports channel seems to be working--since "Skip and Shannon Undisputed," his carbon of the Worldwide Leader's "First Take" with Skip Bayless moving over as the Idiot White Guy and Shannon Sharpe replacing Stephen A. Smith as the Pissed Off Black Guy (and Joy Taylor as the Hot Babe Moderator) started a month ago, FS1's ratings for the morning show are up in its time slot 358 percent (733 percent in the demo), and giving a rainbow effect to its lead-out, a talk show fronted by Colin Cowherd, another ex-ESPNer:
http://www.thewrap.com/skip-bayless-undisputed-fox-sports-1-herd-shannon-sharpe-tv-ratings/ I guess it means that as loathsome as these sports debate shows are, they do have an audience and that there are young males home in the mornings who would rather watch Bayless and Sharpe yelling at each other instead of Kelly Ripa or Kathie Lee and Hoda (or even Drew Carey and Wayne Brady)--until Springer comes on. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
