On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:50 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > Unlike Politico, VF sees Sunday Night Football as part of the solution, > not the problem, for the sunday night MK show. Maybe, but where does it > fit? The NBC pregame show is the best program of its kind on television, > and starts at 7:00 pm. The game starts at 8:00, and goes to at least 11:00. > I guess they could do a 6:00 show for her during the season, airing it at > 8:00 or even 9:00 out here on the West Coast, but that would require more > of the network convincing affiliates to clear it. Or would NBC consider the > old MNF start time of 9:00 pm eastern time, and get MK on at the 60 Minutes > 7:00 pm Eastern time slot? That seems like a big risk to take with the > highest rated property on TV. >
It's pretty clear from these articles that we don't know what NBC expects from Kelly and it's possible that they don't know either. They can't want her to replicate her FNC show as that would hurt the news division's credibility across the board and cause friction with colleagues of color. And if they want her for her political reporting skills, why not give her Meet the Press? Chuck Todd's not tearing it up there. As for her turning to the middle, the middle has disappeared. It's not apparent yet and the political journalist class will insist that it is there like it has always been there. But two things have happened recently: first the liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats have faded away leaving the two parties in an ideological opposition that they never were in before. Second, since the rise of the tea party the GOP has taken a strong lurch to the right and now is in power. As they make their push for policies, the Democrat counterpush will not be for a return to Obama-era policies, it will be for more progressive solutions. Sunday night TV: I saw a tweet this morning saying the SNF ratings are off 20.9% from last season. NBC isn't going to risk further loss to placate Kelly so moving NFL game start time to 9 PM ET is not going to happen. I don't think the network has the leverage to keep the whole 6-7 PM hour with the network. A January-May or June show with July and August reruns is more likely. The VF article says she will anchor a newsmagazine so it would be like 60 Minutes with maybe a newsmaker interview in place of one filmed story and it should air opposite 60 Minutes. -- -- 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.
