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Ronan Farrow Hits the Road in Desperate Bid to Save Failing MSNBC Show
NewsBusters ^
| January 23, 2015
| P.J. Gladnick
Posted on 01/23/2015 10:53:04 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Your show is at the bottom of a cable network with lousy ratings. So what to do? Take the show that few watch out of the studio, put it on the road, and cross your fingers hoping that the format change will miraculously improve the ratings.
That is what is happening with the failed Ronan Farrow Daily (Dully) show on MSNBC. A show with such horrible ratings that TVNewser announced it was watched one Monday last December by only 13,000 people in the 25 to 54 demo during its time slot or less than a sixth of a typical football stadium. Improving Farrow's performance doesn't seem to be an option so according to Brian Steinberg at Variety, MSNBC wants to take those lousy interviewing skills out of the studio and onto the road:
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: briansteinberg; demagogicparty; demagogue; franksidiotson; media; memebuilding; msm; msnbc; newyork; newyorkcity; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; ronanfarrow; variety
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Did Frank Sinatra ever sing "Hit the Road, Jack?"
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posted on
01/23/2015 10:53:04 AM PST
by
PJ-Comix
To: PJ-Comix
Ronan and Luke Russert should get married.
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posted on
01/23/2015 10:54:18 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for you. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to kill you.)
To: PJ-Comix
Well, we can be sure it will be an award-winning road trip!
To: PJ-Comix
If Frank were alive he would disown this SORRY PUNK!
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posted on
01/23/2015 10:57:31 AM PST
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: PJ-Comix
It’s called jumping the shark....
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posted on
01/23/2015 10:58:09 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: PJ-Comix
only 13,000 people Good lord, that's bad. I bet most of them were forced to watch it in airport terminals.
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posted on
01/23/2015 10:58:45 AM PST
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: dennisw
Are those numbers worse than Sharpie, Special Ed and the Bull Dyke?
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posted on
01/23/2015 10:59:15 AM PST
by
CMailBag
Comment #8 Removed by Moderator
To: dennisw
“If Frank were alive he would disown this SORRY PUNK!”
He’d have chunks of Ronan in his stool! *SMIRK*
(Funniest ever SNL Skit coming up in 3...2...1...)
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posted on
01/23/2015 11:02:51 AM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
To: PJ-Comix
Its about diving in deep, says Farrow during a recent interview while reporting in Paris. His goal is to travel to places where big stories erupt... Basically, it's about getting to travel as much as possible on MSNBC's dime before they cut him off.
To: CMailBag
yeah,believe it or not, they are......
To: C. Edmund Wright
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posted on
01/23/2015 11:04:22 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for you. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to kill you.)
To: PJ-Comix
- Its a completely hectic, makeshift process. You are building the airplane at the same time you are flying it, he says.NOT a good idea
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posted on
01/23/2015 11:05:18 AM PST
by
JPG
(The GOPe will always find a way to surrender)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I wonder if between them they register the testosterone level of Rachel Maddow...
To: PJ-Comix
Maybe Farrow should start wearing green lipstick and take a bath in a bowl of Fruit Loops.
President Obama was asked about his 'first wife' in a PR-disaster interview on Thursday after picking three of the most popular YouTube content creators to interview him. GloZell Green, a popular YouTube fixture known for her extreme acts like eating a ladle full of cinnamon, offered the president three samples of her trademark green lipstick as gifts for his daughters and for the woman she called Obama's 'first wife.'
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posted on
01/23/2015 11:07:26 AM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
To: PJ-Comix
Wow, even raw sewage gets a cable network these days.
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posted on
01/23/2015 11:10:01 AM PST
by
Bullish
(He's just NOT presidential material.)
To: N. Theknow
GOD...... I could have done without seeing that....
That thing got an interview with the president?
(words fail me....)
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posted on
01/23/2015 11:15:04 AM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: PJ-Comix
Ronan Farrow?
Is that some kind of bird?
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01/23/2015 11:18:01 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: PJ-Comix
He really enjoys finding the human piece to tell the bigger story and push forward the narrative, he says. It sounds like he might be a serial killer.
As opposed to that crazy woman in the photos above, who is apparently a cereal killer.
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01/23/2015 11:22:30 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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