NBC’s Megyn Kelly Problem (Column)

Variety ^ | June 21, 2017 | Sonia Sarayia

[libstripper]

The network’s vaunted new hire has whiffed her first opportunities to shine. Did NBC make a $17.5m mistake?

It’s still months before Megyn Kelly’s new NBC daytime show is set to premiere, but it already feels like the former Fox News anchor has overstayed her welcome. Only three weeks into her Sunday-night newsmagazine show — a “Dateline” style piece, structured around her interviews with high-profile “gets” — Kelly’s star is dimmer than ever. It’s a far cry from where she was just a year ago.

2016 was a banner year for Kelly: After a wave of flattering media coverage, she led round-the-clock election coverage for Fox News — anchoring one of its highest-rated programs, “The Kelly File,” and shoring up the network’s credibility on women’s issues as it reported on, and sometimes sparred with, then-candidate Donald Trump. If Bill O’Reilly was the face of the network, Kelly — a photogenic former lawyer — was the face of the future. It was Kelly’s complaints that finally ended Roger Ailes’ reign of sexual harassment at the network; an indication of changing times, a changing company, and Kelly’s worth to the network. [My emphasis.]

[libstripper]

This is really a roasting from a lib. magazine. Looks like the witch is going down and, boy, does she deserve it, after what she did to Roger Ailes.

[RightGeek]

[samtheman]

She got 17.5 million?

[Breyean]

Yet there she is, on the cover of last week’s TV Guide, complete with a glowing story about what a smash hit she’ll be.

[dowcaet]

Time for Kelly to realize her media star has dimmed permanently and to follow the advice of the Steve Miller Band as in “Take The Money And Run”.

[Leep]

She needs to diddle Matt Lauer. Or, did she already do that?

[freedumb2003]

“wait — you mean the only thing I really brought to the screen was my legs? And now that I am at war against that I have nothing at all to offer?”

[circlecity]

"She got 17.5 million?"

Reports were that Fox offered her 20 million to stay and she turned it down.

[freedumb2003]

>>She needs to diddle Matt Lauer. Or, did she already do that?<<

Big assumption he goes that way.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Smash hit??? Time will tell, but she’s cratering in the ratings against reruns of 60 Minutes.

Maybe they will move her time slot, that could help, what with being up against a similar show such as 60 Minutes. But it’s got to worry them at NBC that reruns on another network outdraw their new big star and her debut.

[JimRed]

"She got 17.5 million?"

Reports were that Fox offered her 20 million to stay and she turned it down.

When you get into that price range, it's only a number. Five houses instead of four, another Rolls or four more Mercedes...

[JimRed]

She needs to diddle Matt Lauer. Or, did she already do that?

Lacking any evidence of her behaving inappropriately, that comment is uncalled for, like her or not.

[samtheman]

Still. Take the 17.5 million, take the abuse for awhile, take retirement, take a house on the beach and take long walks.

[Terry Mross]

There’s a YouTube video of Kelley spreading her legs a little too wide. She’s not wearing undies and we now know she is NOT a natural blond.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Still. Take the 17.5 million, take the abuse for awhile, take retirement, take a house on the beach and take long walks.”

Change the millions to billions and you’ve got, ‘The Hillary! Handbook for LOSERS.’ ;)

[Sicon]

Of course, no mention is made of the fact that Kelly's decline began almost immediately after she attacked Trump, and he pwned her like he pwns everyone else who goes after him...

Kelly is just another pile of road kill in the wake of the Trump Train.

[jeannineinsd]

There is an interesting statistic in the article:

According to Nielsen data for the 2015-16 season, African-American women comprised 23.1% of the total TV audience in the (nearly synchronous) 7 a.m.- 3 p.m. time frame, making them the largest component of the daytime viewership base, ahead of white (16.3%), Hispanic (12.6%) and Asian (7.6%) women.

African-Americans are 13.2% of the US population. African-American women would be 50% of the number, 6.6%.

So African-American women, constituting 6.6% of the US population, are 23.1% of the daytime TV viewing audience.

[tflabo]

Me aGAIN was a nobody until Roger Ailes took her on and set her up in a prime time slot where she flourished for awhile. She trashed Roger Ailes the man who facilitated her wild career success. She deserves a Tonya Harding-like career ending humiliation. She still would walk away a rich beetch thanks to Uncle Roger, God rest his soul.

[CedarDave]

From the article:

And, most importantly: She’s alienated everyone. At this point, Kelly’s most virulent critique comes from the right — the audience that she’s supposed to be helping deliver to NBC.

LMAO!!