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NBC Universal to Slash Costs In News, Prime-Time Programs (MSNBC relocating)
The Wall Street Journal (Excerpt) (Subscription required) ^

Posted on 10/19/2006 1:16:20 AM PDT by HAL9000

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NBC Universal is slashing its news budget and abandoning high-cost dramas in the 8 p.m. hour, paring expenses in traditional television as viewers and advertisers flock to new kinds of media.

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Operations for the cable-news channel MSNBC in Secaucus, N.J., will be shuttered and moved to Rockefeller Center in Manhattan and another facility in New Jersey.

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(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bobwright; cnbc; ge; generalelectric; jeffreyzucker; msdnc; mslsd; msnbc; nbc; nbcuniversal; robertwright; zucker
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1 posted on 10/19/2006 1:16:22 AM PDT by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000

the OLD LIBERAL MEDIA keeps going down, down, down....lol


2 posted on 10/19/2006 1:38:27 AM PDT by Jazzman1 (l)
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To: HAL9000; All

Does this mean that Chrissy,Keith, and Joe (using a Sopranos' quote here).."got ta go"....???


3 posted on 10/19/2006 1:45:09 AM PDT by musicman
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To: HAL9000

I pity the fools! Too little news, too much jibba-jabba!


4 posted on 10/19/2006 2:20:42 AM PDT by Dont Mention the War (This tagline is false.)
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5 posted on 10/19/2006 2:27:00 AM PDT by Dont Mention the War (This tagline is false.)
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To: musicman

Isn't it "Godda Go"?


6 posted on 10/19/2006 2:32:15 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: HAL9000

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Too bad!


7 posted on 10/19/2006 2:41:41 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod (Benedict XVI = Terminator IV)
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To: HAL9000
"Operations for the cable-news channel MSNBC in Secaucus, N.J., will be shuttered and moved to Rockefeller Center in Manhattan and another facility in New Jersey."

Couldn't MSNBC save even more money by moving to an area more reflective of its stature? Like perhaps, the still flooded areas of New Orleans?

8 posted on 10/19/2006 2:55:53 AM PDT by Enterprise (Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
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To: HAL9000

Should make msnbc the Hannah-Barbera network.
Probably get more accurate news coming from them if they did.


9 posted on 10/19/2006 2:58:43 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: HAL9000

What will this do to Olbermann's already low ratings?


http://www.nypost.com/seven/10092006/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm

KEITH GETS LOW RATINGS IN BED


10 posted on 10/19/2006 3:08:12 AM PDT by maggief
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gee....they support the a-hole nj governor corrzine that just has implemented large state tax increases and then they leave...wonder if this was a cost cutting measure...

thanks corrzine...just as all lib/dems ... "raising taxes to lose jobs/revenues and eventually slow & stagger the economy"

...can't wait for peolis and friends!!!!


11 posted on 10/19/2006 3:12:52 AM PDT by hnj_00
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To: HAL9000

I wonder if there will be MSNBC layoffs.


12 posted on 10/19/2006 3:15:41 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: HAL9000

Any day that defunds the pool of Socialist political pundits and drama queen actors is a GREAT day.


13 posted on 10/19/2006 3:18:30 AM PDT by Stallone (Dealing with Democrats IS the War on Terror.)
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To: HAL9000
I'm sure glad Heroes is on at 9.
14 posted on 10/19/2006 3:21:53 AM PDT by Dahoser (God bless our troops and at home defenders.)
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To: HAL9000
No health care?

Where will Keith get his penile dysfunction medication? Page 6 of the New York Post reported he had a little "problem" with some groupie he got drunk and took to bed. His staying power is reported to be 0.0005 milliseconds.

15 posted on 10/19/2006 3:25:34 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: HAL9000

Good. My GE stock ought to jump.


16 posted on 10/19/2006 4:57:51 AM PDT by Brilliant
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17 posted on 10/19/2006 5:34:08 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF 69-73...."never store a threat you should have eliminated")
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To: HAL9000

Gee, how very sad.....their peacock just pooped on 'em...aaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwww!!!


18 posted on 10/19/2006 6:08:09 AM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: HAL9000

I read that MSNBC is going to become a 24/7 'Dateline' and documentary show style channel. All of the the lame MSNBC news shows were to shift to CNBC.


19 posted on 10/19/2006 6:14:51 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: HAL9000
Wasn't it reported yesterday NBC will be announcing major layoffs today at 1PM eastern?
20 posted on 10/19/2006 6:20:51 AM PDT by BluH2o
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