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I can only think of one person to replace McEnroe as host . . . |
Posted on 12/03/2004 9:54:57 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- CNBC said Friday that John McEnroe's dismal prime-time talk show will be canceled by the end of the year. The viewer numbers for the show, which had its debut in July, were so low at times that they failed to qualify for Nielsen's ratings reports. It was drawing an average audiences of 75,000 a night, CNBC said.
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Last night they had the "best of musical" segments and it was not bad. Maybe he should just host musicians. Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" was very nice in its utter simplicity. He can't hit the high notes anymore but there is a start beauty to him as an older guy that he never had in his prime. Hall and Oates were great. They still can hit the high notes, their band was tight and it was a very complex song. We were spared his one-hit-wonder wife with him jamming on "left handed" guitar.. only 20 seconds played as the credits rolled.
Adios Johnny.
That didn't take long
I was channel surfing the other night and he had Tom Hanks on - and they were talking politics. I was a bit surprised.
"..young males, who enjoyed McEnroe's reputation for throwing temper tantrums on the tennis court and questioning authority"
We "young males" who were fans of McEnroe's antics are in our dotage now, mostly 45-55, and have long outgrown our love of obnoxious behavior. Too bad Johnny Mac didn't grow up with us.
I only saw it once, three weeks ago. McEnroe did a good interview with Tom Hanks, who sounded like a level-headed guy. But it was halfway through the show before I realized the interviewer was McEnroe.
I know that most Freepers are against mercy killings but I thing we should all make an exception here. McEnroe was terrible. If ever a show deserved to die this was the one.
Who's gonna start the pool on when they retread him on another network?
Johnny Mac and Bill Maher should just trade shows every 3 months.
Mac was a great player. Too bad he's gone liberal. He could be a good announcer for tennis if he would stop sucking up to that lesbian gal who also does commentary.
This brings up the question: How is Dennis Miller's show doing in the ratings? I would hate to see Miller cancelled.
He spent most of his time bashing Bush and conservatives. Good riddance.
Doesn't work on radio, either.
I do not think he is doing that well.
It's on right after Dennis Miller.....whose show is pretty good. I tuned in this week and he had himself and 3 other moderate-to-conservatives debating foreign policy and the potential supreme court nominees. I almost dropped my remote - Fox doesn't even carry that. No screaming, no yelling, and there was some reasoned debate.
Your lack of support is what caused it to fail. Your viewership would have doubled the audience and kept it on the air.
It was somewhere between the Chevy Chase Show and the Magic Johnson Hour in terms of being horrible.
Olbermann is a loon.
This is series and hugh.
Tom Daschele is deeply saddened.
All Your Show Are Belong To Us...
Ahhh...thank goodness. His show reminded me of a horrible imitation of Conan o'Brien at times.
After the election, I saw it for the first time, and he had Frank Luntz on and seemed to know absolutely nothing about him, like that he was a Republican or anything. He asked some dumb questions. Luntz had this look on his face, like Mac was a real dunce. LOL
NEW YORK, Dec. 3 — From a TV standpoint, it was a straight-sets loss: John McEnroe's talk show was axed Friday by CNBC after barely six months on the air.
McEnroe may have had more people watch his tennis matches — in person — than watched his talk show some nights.
The show was averaging 75,000 viewers a night, less than half of the viewership for business programming in the time slot before ''McEnroe'' went on the air. On some nights, it didn't get a Nielsen Media Research rating at all, meaning the audience was too small to measure.
It will be replaced next month by ''The Big Idea,'' a talk show with advertising executive Donny Deutsch as host, which has run on CNBC occasionally as a special.
CNBC is happier with comic Dennis Miller, whose talk show is doing better in the ratings.
CNBC has been trying for the past two years to create a prime-time identity. Most of its business-oriented viewers flee when the workday's done.
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I can only think of one person to replace McEnroe as host . . . |
Works for me.
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