On Tue, Oct 11, 2016, 8:34 PM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote:
> Former ESPN exec (and NBC News for a brief moment) Jamie Horowitz's > attempt to raise the visibility of Fox's struggling sports channel seems to > be working--since "Skip and Shannon Undisputed," his carbon of the > Worldwide Leader's "First Take" with Skip Bayless moving over as the Idiot > White Guy and Shannon Sharpe replacing Stephen A. Smith as the Pissed Off > Black Guy (and Joy Taylor as the Hot Babe Moderator) started a month ago, > FS1's ratings for the morning show are up in its time slot 358 percent (733 > percent in the demo), and giving a rainbow effect to its lead-out, a talk > show fronted by Colin Cowherd, another ex-ESPNer: > Bayless is out a year after Shannon Sharpe. Bayless had Al Jazeera America level numbers. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-13637733/Skip-Bayless-FS1-hops-final-later-summer-one-year-long-time-host-Shannon-Sharpe-left-Fox-Sports.html > > > I guess it means that as loathsome as these sports debate shows are, they > do have an audience and that there are young males home in the mornings who > would rather watch Bayless and Sharpe yelling at each other instead of > Kelly Ripa or Kathie Lee and Hoda (or even Drew Carey and Wayne > Brady)--until Springer comes on. > > > -- > -- > 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. > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAH5J8ywbpDJxza0pvD6dL1W5RjMgZgq_XBXm7LbRhbqrcZiVVQ%40mail.gmail.com.
