If Jay Leno failed in primetime, what chance do they really think Williams has with a News program? I say close to zero. Cable news is where the people go.

This should be even better than Ted Koppel’s Dance Party , ABC 1997 – 2004 .

All right! I’ll Tivo it along with The Cape.

As I commented to the previous post about the proposed show, I personally favor long-form journalism similar to the old “NBC White Paper” with some documentary/profile stuff in off-weeks as filler.

Hopefully, if they hold “60 Minutes” out as a model, they’ll produce better quality this time around and not just cheap, cheesy fluff. After all, “Dateline” may have started by blowing-up cars for story enhancement, but there were a couple years of over-produced, not half-bad reporting before the program fully evolved into a sad joke.

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Liberal Tormentor said:
If Jay Leno failed in primetime, what chance do they really think Williams has with a News program? I say close to zero. Cable news is where the people go.

News magazines are cheap and it sounds as if this one will mostly uses existing resources, so though they’d like it to win, if it can create some buzz and get better than a zero, they come out ahead.

As for the Leno experiment, I’m not sure how it compared in the ratings against the cable news channels, but my gut tells me that he likely beat them most, if not every night. Of course, he wasn’t competitive against the other broadcast networks and he was probably beat sometimes by USA and TNT, but the reach of broadcast and the lower end of the dial is still an advantage.

Not to mention, the Williams show could also be rebroadcast on MS or CNBC.

Liberal Tormentor said:
If Jay Leno failed in primetime, what chance do they really think Williams has with a News program? I say close to zero. Cable news is where the people go.

Don’t let the facts get in the way there, Michelle-in-Utah. Cable “news” is where Rightist Reactionaries go to seek affirmation of the prejudices. News is not of much value there. Given the utter trouncing of the cable “news” stations by the broadcast news programs (23M news average v. FOX’s 2M, which equals to more than 10 times), and, in particular, the primacy of NBC News (9M v. 2M, or over 4 times), I think you are simply pushing around your old very smelly kart o’ krap. Again, don’t let the facts worry you.

NBC Will Add Brian Williams Prime Time Show To Lineup ‘As Soon As It’s Ready’.

Who really gives a _____ if Brian ( oh he’s so f***ing funny I pissed my pants…..yeah whatever ) Williams gets a show on NBC, MSNBC or anywhere for that matter…….anyone ?

Barack Must Go said:
NBC Will Add Brian Williams Prime Time Show To Lineup ‘As Soon As It’s Ready’.

Who really gives a _____ if Brian ( oh he’s so f***ing funny I pissed my pants…..yeah whatever ) Williams gets a show on NBC, MSNBC or anywhere for that matter…….anyone ?

At least 9M Americans, apparently, or more than twice the number of people who care if O’Beckerhead, Bill-o and O’Hannity have a show.

THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
At least 9M Americans, apparently, or more than twice the number of people who care if O’Beckerhead, Bill-o and O’Hannity have a show.

Like I said before…….anyone ?

I always care deeply about the ratings of shows I don’t watch.

THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
Don’t let the facts get in the way there, Michelle-in-Utah. Cable “news” is where Rightist Reactionaries go to seek affirmation of the prejudices. News is not of much value there. Given the utter trouncing of the cable “news” stations by the broadcast news programs (23M news average v. FOX’s 2M, which equals to more than 10 times), and, in particular, the primacy of NBC News (9M v. 2M, or over 4 times), I think you are simply pushing around your old very smelly kart o’ krap. Again, don’t let the facts worry you.

Are you really comparing cable news ratings to network news ratings? You’re a fool.

An 0bama/Democrat fluff-a-thon. Prime time Fluffer.

‘As soon as it’s ready’ simply means ‘As soon as Obama needs it.’

Everyone knows this to be true. He cannot and will not win re-election without the full and billowing sails of his adoring, breast-feeding media accomplices. ‘BriWi’ (isn’t that CUTE???) is part of that obvious mosaic.

ChrisNH said:
‘As soon as it’s ready’ simply means ‘As soon as Obama needs it.’

Everyone knows this to be true. He cannot and will not win re-election without the full and billowing sails of his adoring, breast-feeding media accomplices. ‘BriWi’ (isn’t that CUTE???) is part of that obvious mosaic.

Good Lord!
I thought I was seeing things with the “BriWi” nickname! WOW!
That was cute though”
Show can be called “BRIWI IN PRITI”
Ratings magnet!!
I won’t charge NBC for that….

I can hardly wait not to watch brian’s news show. Remember Stone Phillips.. . . .? Hmmmmm

One can almost smell the stench of desperation from the losers at the N(itwit)B(iased-socialist)C(lowns) network.

NBC Will Add Brian Williams Prime Time Show To Lineup ‘As Soon As It’s Ready’

Something else to enjoy not watching.

Liberal Tormentor said:
If Jay Leno failed in primetime, what chance do they really think Williams has with a News program? I say close to zero. Cable news is where the people go.

And the overwhelming majority go to Fox!