I am less impressed with the argument that this will hurt FN. I may just not understand the nuances here, but it seems to me that just as their must be a dozen bombastic old white guys who could fill O'Reilley's chair, there are dozens of pretty blonde lawyers who can fill MK's.
Vanity Fair is also pessimistic about her ratings future at NBC; they are more explicit in making the point that the pretty blonde prototype is designed to appeal to older white men, who make up a core part of the FN audience. These are the people who eat up MK's assertions that everybody knows Santa Clause is really white, and the Black Lives Matters leaders are thugs. OTOH, minority women make up a big piece of the daytime broadcast tv audience, so if she wants rating success there she will have to modulate her tone. The article though also suggests she might be leaving FN because she wants to move to the middle - the election of DJT revitalized the deplorables (my term) inside FN, and made it less likely FN would be open to more moderate, less sexist POVs. Unlike Politico, VF sees Sunday Night Football as part of the solution, not the problem, for the sunday night MK show. Maybe, but where does it fit? The NBC pregame show is the best program of its kind on television, and starts at 7:00 pm. The game starts at 8:00, and goes to at least 11:00. I guess they could do a 6:00 show for her during the season, airing it at 8:00 or even 9:00 out here on the West Coast, but that would require more of the network convincing affiliates to clear it. Or would NBC consider the old MNF start time of 9:00 pm eastern time, and get MK on at the 60 Minutes 7:00 pm Eastern time slot? That seems like a big risk to take with the highest rated property on TV. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/inside-the-megyn-kelly-fox-news-split?mbid=nl_TH_586c2d63e03efa527a184ac3&CNDID=48051587&spMailingID=10161854&spUserID=MTczMTc5MDExNTU1S0&spJobID=1080226812&spReportId=MTA4MDIyNjgxMgS2 On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 7:40 PM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > Politico's senior media writer calls it a mistake and thinks NBC is > > trying to hurt FOx News more than help itself. > > > http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/megyn-kellys-big-mistake-214595 > > > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Melissa P <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I'm not sure how many Fox News viewers will follow Kelly to NBC, but it's > > > quite possible she will pick up (maybe a lot of) new fans who wouldn't be > > > caught dead watching Fox News. > > > > > > > > > > > > BTW I just saw that she will take over the third hour of Today. That > slot > > > has been a wasteland since its beginning, so anything or anyone would be > an > > > improvement. > > > > > > > > > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > > > Behalf Of Kevin M. > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 10:42 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Megyn Kelly Is Said to Be Leaving Fox News for > NBC > > > > > > > > > > > > even if all of her FoxNews audience follows her to the Peacock, it won't > be > > > nearly enough to keep her on the air more than a few months. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > -- > > > 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. > > -- 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.
