On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 7:57 PM, David Lynch <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think it is more interesting that they immediately went to a > high-profile person from the news department for the prime time show > instead of bringing in Al Michaels (who's doing the studio segments in > daytime and is associated with one of the USA's most memorable moments in > any winter Olympics) and finding whoever happened to be free on any given > day to take over his spot on NBCSN. > > It was already obvious to me that someone at NBC preferred Meredith to > Savannah when she did the opening ceremonies despite every other one I can > recall being hosted by Bob Costas and whoever the current female co-anchor > of Today happened to be at that time. However, I wonder if, after Lauer's > apparent inability to keep the schedule up for more than three days, they > decided to go with someone who can afford to disappear from their other > duties without causing major disruption. > There was a similar situation maybe 3 to 5 Olympics ago, I forget who was ill or injured, and many were suggesting moving one of the hosts from other day parts, and NBC explained that they were not going to do that, since those shows were all planned out and prepared for. Moving one of them to another day part would basically mean having two Olympic shows with unprepared hosts, rather than just one. They preferred having an experienced broadcaster who was not already plugged into a well prepared part of the Olympic show. And I see now that Lauer is back for tonight's show, which suggests that Vierra was there to give him his regular weekend off. Just to be clear, I have not been suggesting any kind of conspiracy by NBC against Guthrie, or even that any of this should be read as a tea leaf indicating her future with Today. Simply that this does demonstrate that NBC does not regard Guthrie as one of their top broadcasters, not even as valuable as a former Today Show host. Today has not been in that situation for a long time (when its junior co-host was not seen as a major broadcast property at the network). -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
