On May 26, 3:08 pm, Bob in Jersey <[email protected]> wrote: > Sources telling Howie Kurtz the details, e.g. the abilities to fly off > to where big stories are, and to contribute to GMA and Nightline. > Couric would have "almost total ownership of the venture," and with it > a far-greater salary... CBS, tho, still has a few days to make > offers... > > http://goo.gl/21Zye
I was prepared to see the soap fans whining in the comments (since initial rumors were that Couric's show would be the coup de gras for "GH"), but instead got the morons calling Couric a "liberal" instead. Should've posted this when I discovered it yesterday, but this article in the new Rolling Stone explains, among other things about Fox News, why Roger Ailes now has more power at News Corp. than Murdoch (long but worth it): http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-roger-ailes-built-the-fox-news-fear-factory-20110525 Personally, I think Ailes' major problem is that in the extra oversights he's received at Fox, he hasn't done anything spectacular. MyTV is only a success on a minor scale, if at all (and lost "Smackdown!" to cable), if it wasn't for "HIMYM" and "Modern Family" reruns, the syndication division would have no potential hits and he seems unable to come up with anything in first-run beyond weekday versions of Fox prime time game shows and if Chicago is like any of the other owned stations, the news operations are in bad shape and morale (and there has been no attempt to make the local news shops carbons of FNC in political tone). And with FNC's audience aging, it all would seem to me that if Murdoch kicks the bucket before Ailes and whichever Murdoch wants to take over (and they all hates Ailes, according to the RS article) will see Ailes as not worth the profits. (Besides, unless Ailes' replacement made a lot of employee changes, I suspect that the Ailes diehards and the Falwell and Robertson school grads who wouldn't be able to get work anywhere else in television would keep FNC going status quo on autopilot for years.) -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
