Posted on 06/18/2017 4:24:03 PM PDT by Enlightened1
NBC News made a “fundamental mistake” when its network executives thought Megyn Kelly was a “super star,” according to a television executive CNN interviewed.
Kelly, the former Fox News talent, has come under fire for her interview with Alex Jones, which is set to air on this Sunday on her Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly show.
“They’ve made a fundamental mistake about Megyn which is they think she’s a super star,” the television executive reportedly told CNN. “What she is is a cable star, and that is a very different solar system.”
While promoting her show, Kelly told numerous outlets that she felt like she was born to be a mainstream media star. In a leaked recording that was released this week, Kelly even tells Alex Jones, “I’m a combination of Mike Wallace, Oprah Winfrey and Larry the Cable Guy.” Kelly was resoundingly mocked after Jones released the audio.
Mainstream media reporters and the families of the Sandy Hook victims also lambasted Kelly for telling Jones in the leaked audio, “It’s not gonna be some gotcha hit piece, I promise you that.”
CNN boss Jeff Zucker said that Kelly’s interview will only work if she is “holding up a picture of the dead kids at Sandy Hook and saying, ‘How dare you?’”
After her supposedly “hard-hitting” interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kelly did not receive stellar reviews even from her new mainstream media peers. Her interview with Erin Andrews for her second show did not draw rave reviews either.
According to reports, NBC executives are realizing already that “people are not tuning in to watch Megyn.” NBC executives are reportedly “freaking out” over the “ratings disaster” that Kelly has turned out to be, questioning the network’s $15 million investment in Kelly.
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“I’m a combination of Mike Wallace, Oprah Winfrey and Larry the Cable Guy.”
It works, if she meant: the feminine empathy of Larry the Cable Guy, the comedic talents of Mike Wallace, and the gravitas of Oprah Winfrey.
There are consequences for not doing due diligence when making a senior level hire. Had NBC done a few focus groups or interviews with prime time Fox News viewers they would have discerned her support was weak and her audience was becoming disgusted by her self serving antics. Had Megyn stayed with Fox, and continued her boorish behavior, her ratings would be in the dust by now.
The Murdoch sons have demonstrated extreme ineptness in their management decision. Perhaps there will someday be a business case on how two sons of the founder destroyed the number one news network in less than 12 months. Actually the history of business in America is filled with stories of the second and third generations destroying the powerhouse business they inherited.
No pun intended, of course.
I came across this article from 2012 which was very much a supportive puff piece about her in Elle.
http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/interviews/a12652/megyn-kelly-profile/
This sort of article just doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
She’s been on a path from the beginning.
Still, they messed up. She’s not all that.
Once she started thinking she was a hot commodity on Fox, she overplayed it & started having a stupid, affected, clipped tone of voice, wearing cocktail dresses (and worse), smart aleck attitude, and bizarre hairstyles. She seemed to think she was a cross between the greatest female journalist EVAAH, and a Victoria’s Secret supermodel, yet she is neither.
I think she has negotiated herself into a no-man’s land, where most Fox viewers already hated her before she left, and NBC viewers will never accept her based on her previous network.
So good luck with all that!
Sports teams? That’s about his speed. He needs to stay in that world, far from having any control, authority and or policy making decisions. Maybe he’ll find his niche in selling fast food slop joint franchises.
"ONLY ROSIE O'DONNELL!"
My theory is they hired her because she was anti-Trump and had some experience along with the looks. However she has stumbled out of the gate and the left sees her as being right wing because of working for Fox.
Poor MeAgain, She will have blood coming out of her,,,whatever
Ohhh... someone should shop him in a ballcap that says MAMA with Make America Mexico Again underneath. He does love his mama.
She’s the new Katie Couric.
Many of us could have told NBC that Meagain was not and would not become a big TV news star.
She lost the conservatives when she tried to play hardball with Trump...she never had a liberal audience to begin with...
She’s going to end up in the 9:00 AM slot being pummelled in the ratings for a year by Kelly Ripa and will be out of work by Christmas 2018...another bimbo bites the dust...
BWAHAHAHAHA
They got what they paid for. The Bottle Blonde Bimbo is exactly who she seems to be
Well, she says she is.
Fake news interviewing fake news about fake news.
Which side of fake do you want to believe?
Shannon Bream of Fox News is both more intelligent and more attractive than Megyn. I watch two minutes of her interview tonight and changed channels.
Megyn is every divorced man’s 1st wife.
Megyn Kelly is one of two things:
1) The world’s luckiest slut
2) An Deep State intelligence operative
Me, I don’t believe in luck.
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