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Fox Picks Up Executive Ousted at NBC
NYTimes ^ | 7-10-07

Posted on 07/10/2007 10:04:23 AM PDT by STARWISE

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1 posted on 07/10/2007 10:04:26 AM PDT by STARWISE
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To: STARWISE

Lots more creative freedom at FOX.


2 posted on 07/10/2007 10:06:24 AM PDT by rintense (I'm 4 Thompson!)
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To: rintense
Lots more creative freedom at FOX.

Is that the case?

Or is this like the Yankees signing Mario Mendoza, aka The Mendoza Line, to bat clean-up?

3 posted on 07/10/2007 10:09:36 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
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To: rintense

Starting to worry about FOX. Hiring somebody from NBC is like hiring a New York Times editor.

FOX has made some incredibly stupid personnel changes recently. They dumped a very bright lady - E.D.Hill - for an insipid mediocrity, and retained two male dufusses on their morning show which is beginning to look more and more like a supermarket tabloid than a real news station.

The unholy Triad of Larrison (Democrat Mouthpiece), Barnes (Super Bushbot) and Kondracke (totally clueless) are well edged out by Lou Dobbs.


4 posted on 07/10/2007 10:11:39 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: STARWISE

Fox is UNWATCHABLE because there are SOOOOOO many LIEBERALS on it!


5 posted on 07/10/2007 10:12:26 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy (Hillary in '08.....Her PHONINESS is GENUINE !!!!)
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To: ZULU

That’s the news division. This is the entertainment division, responsible for shows on FOX (like 24) and F/X.


6 posted on 07/10/2007 10:14:18 AM PDT by rintense (I'm 4 Thompson!)
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To: rintense

Oh.

Well, then it looks like the Entertainment Division is taking over the News Division for the reasons I mentioned.


7 posted on 07/10/2007 10:16:41 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: STARWISE

Umm, why would you want to bring in execs from failing networks?


8 posted on 07/10/2007 10:17:11 AM PDT by DesScorp
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>Six weeks after being removed as the head of NBC’s entertainment division, Kevin Reilly resurfaced at the Fox network yesterday, assuming the position of president of the entertainment division

Sell your curdled milk
to the folks next door. To them
it might still be fresh?!
9 posted on 07/10/2007 10:17:32 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: STARWISE

Do we know whatever happened to Rita Cosby?


10 posted on 07/10/2007 10:21:33 AM PDT by YaYa123
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To: Grampa Dave; gpapa; Enchante; the Real fifi; rodguy911; Phsstpok; Alas Babylon!; AliVeritas; ...
More lamestream media IMPLODING --- PING !
11 posted on 07/10/2007 10:21:42 AM PDT by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: STARWISE
from wikipedia I found this:

Early in his career at NBC, Reilly was involved with Law & Order in its first season and developed ER. He also worked at Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, where he developed shows including The Sopranos, NewsRadio, and Just Shoot Me. Before rejoining NBC in May 2004, he developed The Shield and Nip/Tuck for FX, and acquired the Denis Leary show Rescue Me for the network.

At NBC, Reilly's vocal support of The Office helped it survive it's low-rating first season. He is credited with developing hits such as My Name is Earl and Heroes, but also for critically acclaimed but low-rating shows such as 30 Rock and Friday Night Lights.

Looks like a pretty damn good track record, if you ask me.

12 posted on 07/10/2007 10:22:36 AM PDT by gunservative
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Wish him success at Fox and more problems for NBC!


13 posted on 07/10/2007 10:23:08 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Support Free Republic with donations, That is the conservative way. No Freeploading!)
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To: Grampa Dave

I love Fox News....but Fox entertainment is pure trash...would never watch it.


14 posted on 07/10/2007 10:30:40 AM PDT by Gopher Broke (Run Fred, Run http://www.imwithfred.com/)
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To: ZULU
The unholy Triad...

Two of those are the reasons I rarely watch Brit Hume any more. I can tolerate idiot liberals now and then.

Dufesses are another matter.

I don't watch FX that much, either. Too many annoying during-the-program advertisements. And, they have to have annoying sound effects as well.

F'em? I X'd them.

15 posted on 07/10/2007 10:33:46 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Gopher Broke

Not much I like about Fox these days either in the News and definitely not the entertainment side.. TV by large is a bit of a wasteland anyway. Slim pickings fer sure.


16 posted on 07/10/2007 10:36:14 AM PDT by tflabo
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To: YaYa123

http://www.jossip.com/gossip/rita-cosby/

— Tue, Apr 3, 2007 —
Rita Cosby Gets Sirius, Turns Down Job Offers And Talks

Yesterday, Rita Cosby went on Sirius radio** to address those rumors that she was forced out at MSNBC (turns out the decision was mutual!) and discusses the “plethora of things” she’s contemplating as her next potential gig (teaching, TV shows, radio shows, and more!) And, in between enlightening us as to the real reason behind her departure, Rita opened up about her one-of-a-kind journalistic approach.

I didn’t want to do what sort of everybody else is doing. I want to do roll-up-my-sleeves, get out there, go to these places, go get the guests.

Which, incidentally, is exactly the sort of ingenuity Rita demonstrated by crashing Anna Nicole Smith’s funeral.

CONTINUED »


17 posted on 07/10/2007 10:44:41 AM PDT by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: YaYa123

Whatever happened to Rita Cosby, I assure you it was not enough. She was the Rachel Ray of broadcast news. SO glad she is gone from Fox. But then there is Kimberly Whatsits.... You can’t win.


18 posted on 07/10/2007 10:51:24 AM PDT by twonie (Keep your guns - and stockpile ammo.)
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To: STARWISE

man oh man, ask you a question and get an answer. Thanks mucho!!


19 posted on 07/10/2007 10:53:37 AM PDT by YaYa123
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To: STARWISE

Had she been there at the time, Cosby would have crashed the Resurrection.


20 posted on 07/10/2007 10:54:20 AM PDT by twonie (Keep your guns - and stockpile ammo.)
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