Jeff Zucker is an asshole. But I begin to see some merit to this approach to CNN (see the two paragraphs from the story Kevin linked to below).
I think it would be much better for CNN to have actual non-news programs in its primetime schedule than for it to have nominal news programs that are produced as non-news. Presumably CNN will still have a sizeable news staff and infrastructure, and be ready to break into non-news programs when events warrant. If having entertainment shows in primetime decreases their need to turn news shows into entertainment, it might be a boon. "The seamless integration of original series and live news coverage, which has been on display the last two months, is the foundation of our new prime-time lineup," said Jeff Zucker, CNN Worldwide president. CNN had been seeing some historically low ratings earlier this year until the Malaysian airliner went missing several weeks ago. Coverage of that story has since dominated the network, dramatically improving the ratings. On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess it'd be totally out of the question to just run a news hour? I > mean it's not as though actual news (rather than comment) is available to > any massive extent at 9pm. I see that they're doing precisely than at 10pm. > I guess I'm just used to a world in which BBC News Channel (the UK version) > and Sky News both just run news bulletins in rotation with only a hint of > personality shows. Indeed their big fights tend to be over who gets the > next days papers first to review. > > Incidentally, I'm just about to return to the UK after a month of watching > much less television than usual while I travelled around the US. I have two > key observations: > > 1. Barely any hotel or motel has any kind of understanding of aspect > rations. They all have widescreen TVs, but mostly they're somehow > stretching the picture wrongly even though it too is widescreen. And this > has very little bearing on how expensive or not the room is. The best > adjusted TV I came across was in a dirt cheap motel. (I'd have a moan about > HD downgraded to analogue SD before it gets delivered to the room's HD TV, > but that'd be too easy). > > 2, For the entire 29 days of my trip, I don't think I've seen CNN cover > anything apart from that Malaysian plane. Right now, Anderson Cooper is > probably bored to tears as he conducts yet another feature on it. They were > showing how they found the Titanic earlier because that's relevant... > Sometimes, they just make it easy for Fox to make fun of the "Plane > Channel", > > > Adam > > > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]>wrote: > >> At least no single individual will take over the timeslot. CNN execs are >> hoping a random mish-mash of "documentaries" and "specials" (those were >> airquotes, by the way) from the likes of Anthony Bourdain and John Walsh >> will lead to ratings success. >> >> >> http://www.cleveland.com/tv/index.ssf/2014/04/cnn_replacing_piers_morgan_wit.html >> >> -- >> Kevin M. (RPCV) >> >> -- >> -- >> 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/d/optout. >> > > -- > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- -- 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/d/optout.
