REPORT: SINKING MSNBC PREPARES TO MOVE RIGHT

[Geee]

Brietbart:

Just as it is at the ballot box here in America and Israel, leftism undisguised is dying in cable news. According to a Politico report, MSNBC is sinking fast and prepared to throw everyone overboard not named Joe Scarborough and Rachel Maddow. The new apparent plan is to move the failing cable news channel to the political right, and in some cases not even stopping at the center. It looks as though MSNBC is looking for a conservative host.

 

Year-to-date, MSNBC’s daytime viewership is down 21 percent overall and 41 percent in the coveted 25-to-54 year-old demographic, putting it in fourth place behind Fox News, CNN and CNN’s sister network HLN. Its prime-time ratings are down 24 percent and 42 percent, respectively. In both daytime and prime time, MSNBC is bringing in its smallest share of the demo since 2005, the year before Keith Olbermann’s scorched-earth admonitions of the Bush administration ushered in the current era of Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz and Al Sharpton. …

 

Dayside will go through its own changes. And in a strange twist of fate, the model show for the liberal network’s future may be the one hosted by a conservative.

 

Rachel Maddow disputes everything. She told the left-wing Politico that “there are no plans to move either Rev. Sharpton’s or Chris Hayes’ shows.”

 

Rumors of cancellation around Hayes began almost immediately after his show moved to weekday primetime.

 

[Valin]

Changes Mulled At MSNBC As Audience Yawns, Then Disappears

Adam Buckman

Mar 20 2015

 

Another day, another story about a pending shakeup at MSNBC.

This one comes to us compliments of Politico, which reported Thursday that MSNBC management has apparently taken a hard look at the network’s falling ratings and are realizing they have a problem -- for the umpteenth time.

 

It’s easy to imagine that Pepto-Bismol is the most popular beverage at MSNBC, particularly when the ratings come out.

 

To put it as simply as possible, in the three-way competition in cable news (the competitors being Fox News Channel and CNN), MSNBC is in freefall.

 

Here’s some data for February, for example: For the three hours of prime time (8-11 p.m. Eastern), MSNBC’s three shows -- “All in With Chris Hayes” (8 p.m.), “The Rachel Maddow Show” (9 p.m.) and “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” (10 p.m.) -- had a collective average during the month of 528,000 total viewers, down 27% from February 2014.

 

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H/T Power Line

[RandyM]

"All our dreams can come true...." Walt Disney

[Geee]

"All our dreams can come true...." Walt Disney

This is one of those "I'll believe it when I see it things", but since I never go there - I'll never see it either way.

[Valin]

Someone apparently forgot to tell the management at MSNBC, that there is a reason why Mass Media is called Mass Media.

[SrWoodchuck]

MSLSD moving right.....would still put them only slightly right of Stalin.....

 

Stalin/Lenin->->Alinsky/Killary/Oblunder->->MSLSD->->->->LEFT->->->(300miles to Center & Right 4,000miles->)...

[Cyber_Liberty]

BS. They're used to having an audience that believes them just because they say it, and this "rumor" is just more of the same.

[SrWoodchuck]

BS. They're used to having an audience that believes them just because they say it, and this "rumor" is just more of the same.

 

@Cyber_Liberty

 

Yes. They've steadily worked their audience down from noisy socialist monkeys, with a rare thought blooming between their ears.....to an ort of low information progressive amoeba....who have never experienced independent thought....and need guidance to even perform natural waste functions....because they fear the loss of their progressive cerebral matter.

[Cyber_Liberty]

 

BS. They're used to having an audience that believes them just because they say it, and this "rumor" is just more of the same.

 

@Cyber_Liberty

 

Yes. They've steadily worked their audience down from noisy socialist monkeys, with a rare thought blooming between their ears.....to an ort of low information progressive amoeba....who have never experienced independent thought....and need guidance to even perform natural waste functions....because they fear the loss of their progressive cerebral matter.

 

 

That's about as good an explanation as I've seen....

[Valin]

I could be wrong But....

 

 

This might have something to do with their drop.

[Valin]

The MSNBC ratings keep getting worse.

DYLAN BYERS
3/31/15

 

Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse for MSNBC, along came the quarterly ratings reports.

 

In both daytime and prime time, MSNBC endured its lowest quarterly demo numbers in a decade, and its total viewership since the final quarter of 2007. Prime-time viewership was down 45 percent in the demo from the first quarter of 2014, while daytime viewership was down 39 percent in the demo.

 

On Tuesday, while Fox News and CNN were boasting their own quarterly numbers -- Fox News remained dominant, CNN made major strides in the demo -- MSNBC chose to focus on the month of March instead, where it boasted gains in prime time and a victory for "Morning Joe" over CNN's "New Day."

 

But things are still looking grim for MSNBC: Between the hours of 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Monday, for instance, more people were watching Al Jazeera America than MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, Thomas Roberts and "The Cycle."

 

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