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Topic: Today Show bosses SACKED
after flagship NBC program
suffers ratings slump amid
in-fighting on set |
Today Show bosses SACKED
after flagship NBC program
suffers ratings slump amid
in-fighting on set
Daily Mail [UK], by Leslie Larson
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Original Article
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 11/13/2012 9:57:25 AM
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| It is not going to be a good morning at the Today Show. NBC is expected to soon announce the departure of the show´s executive producer, Jim Bell, after the morning program lost its 16-year consecutive ratings win to the competition. The set at Studio 1A in New York´s Rockefeller Center has been in a state of constant flux, with a revolving door among the cast and a lack of viewer confidence in the show that once dominated morning television. New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter broke the news on Monday, citing unnamed
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Comments:
There they go again, moving those deck chairs around. They are losing viewers because people don´t want to watch obnoxious leftists.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
thelmalou, 11/13/2012 10:10:41 AM (No. 9011056)
Vindication for Ann Curry, perhaps? I don´t watch the drivel, but I did have a good opinion of her. Her treatment (at the behest of Lauer, according to those in the know) was atrocious.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lil dotty, 11/13/2012 10:16:41 AM (No. 9011085)
Pardon me...must laugh at this time. Who cares? Pity the fools.
Clip this and frame it. Seldom will you ever see in print The Today Show and conservative in the same sentence.
´16-year consecutive ratings win´
Not exactly the same context many of us use ´Conservative´, but they used the term.
Raise a toast to Auld Lang Syne
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JAN, 11/13/2012 10:20:08 AM (No. 9011100)
Pity.
not
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
batchief, 11/13/2012 10:22:12 AM (No. 9011109)
Dave Garroway is turning over in his grave.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Catherine, 11/13/2012 10:33:00 AM (No. 9011159)
I tried to leave a message saying Lauer is the problem, not everyone else. Big surprise - it didn´t post. Oh well, not like anyone is watching this show anymore.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
FL_Absentee_Voter, 11/13/2012 10:45:51 AM (No. 9011206)
Like the owner who fires his manager while his $100 million players are batting a combined .239...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jalo1951, 11/13/2012 10:59:56 AM (No. 9011242)
This show and these people are so unimportant. It´s all in their little minds.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JHHolliday, 11/13/2012 11:22:01 AM (No. 9011339)
Some shallow, not-very-intelligent left-wing egotists with nothing to be egotistic about. Regular television is killing itself with people like this.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
fljack, 11/13/2012 11:29:50 AM (No. 9011367)
Too many ego-maniacs mugging for the camera at the same time is smudging the lenses.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
gagolfer, 11/13/2012 11:43:34 AM (No. 9011394)
They´re obviously grooming Willie Geist, now the 9-10 AM host to take over from Matt Lauer eventually.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Garage Logician, 11/13/2012 11:44:16 AM (No. 9011397)
J. Fred Muggs is chimp-flipping in his grave.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Calico Al, 11/13/2012 11:56:08 AM (No. 9011430)
If it was for the threads here on LDot.I would never know what goes on at the Today Show.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Boneshaker, 11/13/2012 11:56:14 AM (No. 9011432)
Bring in Chrissy Mathews.
And his half-dozen fans.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mickturn, 11/13/2012 11:56:31 AM (No. 9011435)
Hmmm, a bunch of Lib pre-madonna narcissists on the same set not fighting? What are the odds?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
shepsmum, 11/13/2012 12:21:27 PM (No. 9011500)
Ann Curry must be enjoying this. No love for her, though. She was in way over her head. Her extreme liberal views and the whispering, "caring" persona she often used was annoying. Still, she was treated badly.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
frenesi1, 11/13/2012 12:22:50 PM (No. 9011504)
heh, heh, heh
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Hugh Akston, 11/13/2012 1:48:49 PM (No. 9011701)
I don´t even watch Fox & Friends. Heck, I watch so little TV I wonder why I pay for it. Note to self, drop cable, keep internet.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
stjohnswood, 11/13/2012 2:37:48 PM (No. 9011771)
Maybe try removing the ugly little man with the brush bristle head. He´s difficult to look at and he has nothing interesting to say.
Why would anyone watch?
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