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Tucker Canceled; Other (MSNBC) Programming Changes Ahead (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)
TV Newser ^
| March 9, 2008
| Staff
Posted on 03/09/2008 4:01:34 PM PDT by abb
Insiders tell TVNewser Tucker Carlson's 6pmET show Tucker is getting the axe, but Carlson stays on as a political contributor to all MSNBC shows at least through the 2008 election. The official announcement, expected tomorrow, will include details about who will replace Tucker at 6pmET as well as other political programming additions. Sources say the network is going to beef up its schedule with more NBC News talent.
In recent days, Jossip, as well as other blogs, ratcheted up the talk that Tucker would be replaced "for a new project." In its 33-month run, Carlson's show has had two names, four time slots and multiple formats. At 6pmET, it builds on its Harbdall lead-in on some days, but loses audience on others.
Carlson is expected to host the show through next week, with his new role and title to take effect March 17. We're told he'll also be reporting from the campaign trail.
After the jump, the Tucker Carlson time warp...
Carlson first came to MSNBC in June, 2005 as host of The Situation With Tucker Carlson at 9pmET. That show originated from MSNBC's New Jersey headquarters. In August 2005, the show was moved to 11pmET. In July 2006, the show was renamed "Tucker" and moved to 4pmET (with a repeat airing at 6pmET). In July 2007 the 4pmET hour was scrapped and it aired live at 6pmET only.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dbm; mediawatch; msnbc; nbc; nbcnews; news; television; tuckercarlson
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By the end of this decade or shortly thereafter, television networks as we know them today will cease to exist. They will be just another url on the world wide web competing against millions of others.
Network evening newscasts will go dark after the '08 elections and their news divisions disbanded.
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:01:35 PM PDT
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abb
To: abb
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:01:59 PM PDT
by
abb
(Organized Journalism: Marxist-style collectivism applied to information sharing)
To: 04-Bravo; aimhigh; andyandval; Arizona Carolyn; backhoe; Bahbah; bert; bilhosty; Caipirabob; ...
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:02:22 PM PDT
by
abb
(Organized Journalism: Marxist-style collectivism applied to information sharing)
To: abb
The Situation With Tucker Carlson Sounds like a sit com.
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:06:15 PM PDT
by
Tribune7
(How is inflicting pain and death on an innocent, helpless human being for profit, moral?)
To: abb
That one just zipped off to my entire addressbook...
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:07:13 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
To: abb
Scarborough is rarely on ‘his” show anymore...No doubt it’s name will soon be changed to ‘Menstruings with Mika’
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:07:39 PM PDT
by
DGHoodini
(A person educated without being taught morals, is a menace to society.)
To: abb
Now, if we can just get rid of baseball...
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:07:56 PM PDT
by
MarkeyD
(Just another country bumpkin looking forward to Fred!)
To: Tribune7
Notice the key phrase in this article.
"Sources say the network is going to beef up its schedule with more NBC News talent." That tells me that NBC News will eventually migrate completely to MSNBC.
Presto, NBC News will be no more. They won't describe it that way, but the effect will be the same.
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:10:04 PM PDT
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abb
(Organized Journalism: Marxist-style collectivism applied to information sharing)
To: MarkeyD
Or the NYG of the NFL.....
To: abb
Tucker Carlson and Joe Scarborough are both gelded lisping lib-lovers who will never draw a significant conservative audience (I tried watching both for a short while and gave up in disgust) — yet they will not draw much of a lib audience either, so their ratings are permanently in the tank. No loss if Scarborough goes next....
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:14:14 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Obama: I'll eagerly kiss Castro's cold dead ass, that's my foreign policy!!)
To: abb
You scared me for a minute!
I thought you meant Marshall Tucker!!
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:16:30 PM PDT
by
chicagolady
(Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty Let the American Taxpayer foot the bill !)
To: Petronski
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:16:38 PM PDT
by
jdm
(Contrary to popular belief, the search function works just fine.)
To: abb
LOL... love that cartoon! Looks like the bumper stickers I see here in Connecticut, usually on old junky cars and (oddly) brand-new Subarus...
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:17:07 PM PDT
by
nutmeg
(Obama supporters: Drink the Kool-Aid? Yes we can!)
To: abb
So his problem wasn’t the bow tie?
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:19:10 PM PDT
by
Hacklehead
(Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the hippies.)
To: abb
Accurate and NOT fake NBC van.
what's the meaning of the license plate?
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:20:19 PM PDT
by
newfreep
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
To: abb
How I long for the day, when I hear the same news about Geraldo “The Fake” over at FNC.
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:20:29 PM PDT
by
Capt_Hank
(btu's...kcal's...to kJ's, but my activation energy is still high.)
To: abb
The situation with Tucker is that he isn’t very good at what he does and that is being generous. The only personalities left on the network are there because they couldn’t get a job anywhere else. Maybe Tucker will go back to PBS with his Republican lite style and goofy bow tie. I can’t think of one thing this guy has added to the political discourse. He is the Republican they bring in when they want an easy kill.
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:20:58 PM PDT
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Maelstorm
(Heroism is something that when it is manifest it is undeniable. The same can be said for cowardice.)
To: Enchante
You are right about that. They are exactly the kind of Republicans that liberals want. Republicans with no teeth and no balls.
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:22:43 PM PDT
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Maelstorm
(Heroism is something that when it is manifest it is undeniable. The same can be said for cowardice.)
To: abb
Yet another opportunity for Rosie O’Donnell to get her own show on MSNBC.
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:22:46 PM PDT
by
HAL9000
("If someone who has access to the press says something over and over again, people believe it"- B.C.)
To: Capt_Hank
Ah, you share my dream. But—maybe it’s asking TOO much—I’d like to see him leave in utter and complete disgrace. That would be the best of all outcomes.
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:23:23 PM PDT
by
MizSterious
(The Republican Party is infected with the RINO-virus)
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