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Topic: ´Today´ show suffering in ratings because
Matt Lauer´s ´brand is damaged,´
prominent former NBC News exec says |
´Today´ show suffering in ratings because
Matt Lauer´s ´brand is damaged,´
prominent former NBC News exec says
New York Daily News, by Don Kaplan
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Original Article
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Posted By:FlyRight, 11/14/2012 7:30:03 AM
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| Matt Lauer is so yesterday.TV industry insiders say no amount of NBC executive reshuffling can save the embattled “Today” show — until its longtime co-host throws in the towel.Lauer has been blamed for the show’s ratings woes, which intensified in June when co-host Ann Curry was suddenly ditched and replaced by Savannah Guthrie.“This problem is not going to go away until Matt Lauer does,” a prominent former NBC News exec told the Daily News on Tuesday. “He’s great, but fairly or unfairly, his brand is damaged.”
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
rolanddd, 11/14/2012 7:34:40 AM (No. 9013114)
No matter what angle I view the screen from
I just keep seeing "brain is damaged".
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
provide, 11/14/2012 7:37:45 AM (No. 9013124)
This can´t be a reason, since Whoopie´s brand was damaged long ago and that toad is still leading the band.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
adguy47, 11/14/2012 7:41:18 AM (No. 9013134)
The problem isn´t Matt Lauer,Ann Curry, Savannah Guthrie, Williard Scott or any regular. It´s that Today is produced by NBC News and there isn´t anyone in America who doesn´t know that, of all the network news organizations, NBC has the least journalistic integrity. Why wants to start their morning off listening to propaganda?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
skedaddle, 11/14/2012 7:44:48 AM (No. 9013143)
I´m sorry but the picture of Alexandra Wallace looks like a bad Saturday Night Live skit.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Topic Thunder, 11/14/2012 7:47:01 AM (No. 9013148)
I think the only hope is to replace Lauer with Rosie O´Donnell.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
kanphil, 11/14/2012 7:47:40 AM (No. 9013149)
Matt Lauer = Horse´s patoot
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Freeloader, 11/14/2012 7:49:14 AM (No. 9013154)
And whatever became of J. Fred Muggs?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Catherine, 11/14/2012 7:51:26 AM (No. 9013163)
A teary eyed Ann Curry did him in. He´s an egomaniac anyway. Not worth nearly as much as he thinks he is and the ratings prove it. However, this is NBC, they do what they want no matter what their viewers want. Didn´t I read they got a lot of money from the government recently? I think so.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Not your typical New Yorker, 11/14/2012 7:57:21 AM (No. 9013182)
The NBC brand is damaged but in this case they´ll blame the idiot Lauer, whatev´s, as long as they all go down together.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Bazi, 11/14/2012 8:14:30 AM (No. 9013221)
Maybe if he started drinking martinis during the show, more people would tune in to see The Loopy Lauer Hour. My dentist had the today show on at 10 am yesterday, and the hostesses were chugging red wine from enormous glasses. Next thing I know they were chugging white wine. The message being, you have to get drunk to get through this stupid production. Go for it Matt.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
scarface67, 11/14/2012 8:26:18 AM (No. 9013249)
It´s not Lauer´s brand that´s damaged, it´s his brain.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JAN, 11/14/2012 8:29:01 AM (No. 9013255)
Who is more odious. Brian Williams or Matt Lauer.
Ugh
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Newtsche, 11/14/2012 8:35:25 AM (No. 9013274)
Great, waiting in the wings is a shiny and new liar propagandist. Hey America, want that excrement sandwich on rye or whole wheat?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 11/14/2012 8:38:16 AM (No. 9013281)
There are certain people who make my skin crawl.
Whoopi Goldberg, Will Ferrell, Katie Couric, president zero, john kerry, nancy pelosi, and ...Matt Lauer.
The list is longer, but the people listed are sufficient to make my point.
Am I alone in this?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
uno, 11/14/2012 8:42:51 AM (No. 9013292)
#7 - He died, but his grandson Jay Fred Cardboard is now the Obamboozler´s press secretary.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Fiesta del sol, 11/14/2012 8:47:09 AM (No. 9013305)
Let´s have this exec opine on Brian Williams´ "brand". Williams is supposedly a respected news,an, yet he has yet to mention Benghazi, he bowed!! to Obama, he regularly goes on NBC sitcoms. His "news" division is shared by Al Sharpton, Ed Schultz, Melissa Perry, all leftists, and a coupled those names are also racists.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
The Architect, 11/14/2012 8:50:19 AM (No. 9013310)
The last time the Today show had a decent product was when Dave Garroway and J. Fred Muggs were hosting. Come to think of it, Lauer does resemble J. Fred a bit. J. Fred had a little more hair.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Pinchem, 11/14/2012 8:50:33 AM (No. 9013313)
Lauer has one last chance. Get a Mistress and be caught nude and having sex in Central Park. He´ll be an overnight sensation.
/s
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
The Architect, 11/14/2012 8:53:02 AM (No. 9013321)
I remember the first time I saw Williams on NBC. He had just come up from one of their affiliates and was in a spot promoting his new time slot. He actually said that what is best about NBC News is not just that they report they news, but that they "shape it" so its easy to understand.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Bubbasuncle, 11/14/2012 9:06:52 AM (No. 9013359)
Close #18, but it would be better if he left his wife for Anderson Cooper and then they could be a co-hosting couple.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
saucy, 11/14/2012 9:07:16 AM (No. 9013365)
Savannah was so snarky and biased during the campaign that she made me sick.
NBC is Nothin´ But Crap - totally in the tank for Obamlooser.
Since election have REFUSED to watch MSM.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
earlybird, 11/14/2012 9:11:48 AM (No. 9013384)
"Brand is damaged" is televisionese for "over the hill", "no one watches him any more".
In my opinion he never had the popularity that he and his NBC promoters seemed to think he had.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
formerNYer, 11/14/2012 9:15:05 AM (No. 9013389)
So they will replace Lauer with another brain dead liberal to keep spouting the left´s agenda.
It´s institutional and because 0bummer´s win they think they have won too.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 11/14/2012 10:03:42 AM (No. 9013535)
Anderson Cooper would be an excellent replacement for Saint Matthew the Limited.
cooper is better trained in journalism than anyone else on network tv, and while I do not watch his daytime show, Mrs. Lakerman does, and I have seen enough of Cooper to respect his abilities.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
fritzilou, 11/14/2012 10:46:28 AM (No. 9013694)
I guess the MSM isn´t getting the message, we don´t watch them any more. Why watch them when everything is slanted to the left.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
tisHimself, 11/14/2012 10:49:22 AM (No. 9013703)
A national morning wakeup show with the slightest bit of objectivity would clean up in the ratings..
And bonus points if it is headquatered away from Manhattan.
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