I have not been a huge fan of Kelly, though of course it is hard not to be on the side of anyone getting bullied by DJT. One thing I have not been clear on is, does has she qualified as a Fox News "news" person, or as one of their opinion/entertainment people, like O'Riley and Hannity? The NYT article said she thought of herself as a news analyst more than an opinion host, but I don't understand how that impacts her actual classification. I have found over the years that almost everyone on Fox News is able to immunize themselves from charges of bias by saying they are not really on the news side.
The news here seems to be the creation of pretty much a new role and presence for NBC news. "NBC News head Andy Lack has reportedly offered Kelly a role that will radically change the broadcaster’s news agenda: a daytime news and talkshow, a weekly news program on Sunday evenings and a regular role in NBC’s politics and event coverage." Whatever the ideological flavor, a M-F daytime news talk show puts NBC News in competition with the cable news networks (including, oddly it would seem, MSNBC). This is interesting, in part because it seems like this is the role taylor made for Katie Couric, but that she never could find or create for herself after leaving NBC. I am not against this (though I do want to see news operations label these things more transparently) It will be interesting and demoralizing to me if someone like Megan Kelly, closer to the opinion/infotainment side of the spectrum, becomes the defacto face of NBC News, as opposed to the Lester Holt, the Anchor of the Nightly News. I suspect it is already true that she will make more money than he does. On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 12:44 PM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > Kelly trailed OReilly in the ratings but was key to getting a lot of > people to watch FOX who did not do so otherwise. > > > > NBC is betting a lot on Kelly, but what else do they have? > > > > Megyn Kelly leaving Fox News to join NBC News in multiple roles > > > > > https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/03/megyn-kelly-leaving-fox-news-to-join-nbc-news > > > > > > Not sent from an iPhone. > > > On Jan 3, 2017, at 9:41 AM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Megyn Kelly’s new deal, which NBC is expected > > to announce imminently, brings to a close the most anticipated > > television news contract negotiations since Katie Couric signed with CBS > > News in 2006, for $15 million a year. > > (I just added the text above because some email services automatically > consider messages with links alone as spam and filter them) > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/03/business/media/megyn-kelly-nbc-fox-news.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > -- > > > 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. > > > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- -- 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.
