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Weak Lead-In Programming Takes a Toll on the News Ratings
NY Times ^
| 3/12/07
| JACQUES STEINBERG
Posted on 03/12/2007 9:40:43 AM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: martin_fierro; Grampa Dave; abb; george76
Here's the problem.
Couric brought a slew of Today show people with her to CBS------they 're running the news like it was a morning talk show.
As another wit said----"Katie, all people want is for you to tell them what happened in the world that day."
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posted on
03/12/2007 10:20:31 AM PDT
by
Liz
(Hunter: For some candidates, a conservative constituency is an inconvenience. For me, it is my hope.)
To: LdSentinal
For the author of this article to blame the low ratings of left wing lunatic Katie Kouric news broadcast on others shows low ratings is either extreme delusion, or extreme stupidity, or just extreme lying.
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posted on
03/12/2007 10:23:07 AM PDT
by
jveritas
(Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
To: LdSentinal
Despite that nice things that I can say for Judge Judy the person, folks watching "Judge Judy" the show are likely switching channels to something other than the news at 6pm, or just switching the set off.
The funny thing is, one of the biggest factors affecting the 6pm news isn't the Internet competition or cable news or even the (lack of) personalties on the newscast. People just aren't getting home from work by 6pm anymore. Between mandatory overtime (or even unpaid overtime to get the job done) and longer commutes, people are walking in their homes around 6:30 or 7:00.
And back when I was stuck in traffic, I'd have on the news station to get the latest on the traffic. So when I got home, I wanted food, not the network news. And time with my kids (though I think I could be in the minority about that one).
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posted on
03/12/2007 10:28:55 AM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a Liberal when I married her.)
To: LdSentinal
TEE HEE......so now it's the leadin programming that causes folks to flee from couric.
To: martin_fierro; potlatch; abb; george76; Liz; Milhous
Thanks to Potlatch for the Perky Katy reality shown below:
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posted on
03/12/2007 12:40:29 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(GW has more Honor and Integrity in his little finger than ALL of the losers on the "hate Bush" band)
To: Grampa Dave; Liz
CBS would have been smarter to hire Judge Judy to read the news. .
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posted on
03/12/2007 3:38:01 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: 3AngelaD
I cannot believe they don't know the problem is their slant. It is just that they are so invested in their role as inculcator that they cannot abandon it.
Blaming your customer is right up there with believing your own PR: certain failure. They also seem to think they own the viewer.
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posted on
03/12/2007 4:45:31 PM PDT
by
reformedliberal
(If the troops are mostly home by November 2008, how will the Dems disenfranchise them, this time?)
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