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2014-12-30 -Short Attention Span Theater-

MSNBC to widen its scope and make other changes

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Posted by badanov 2014-12-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Evolve? Depends on what you mean by Evolve.

Posted by tipover 2014-12-30 01:00|| 2014-12-30 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Can't wait for the end of bundling and the introduction of paying by channel to watch entire venues disappear off the bandwidth.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-12-30 08:04|| 2014-12-30 08:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Fox News Channel, CNN and MSNBC are all on track finish 2014 with a lower daily average audience than the previous year.

Fox News is averaging 302,000 for the year in the demographic, a 3% increase, while CNN is down 1% with 181,000. MSNBC is a distant second behind Fox News

Maybe I'm missing something but how does Fox has a lower daily audience last year but at the same time grow 3%? Reads like govmint statistics.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-12-30 09:33|| 2014-12-30 09:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Progressive math, same type they're imposing with Common Core.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-12-30 09:49|| 2014-12-30 09:49|| Front Page Top

#5 "we're just becoming more selective in our appeal"

Posted by Frank G 2014-12-30 10:36|| 2014-12-30 10:36|| Front Page Top

#6 JohnQC, either they mean it's an increasing share of a smaller pie, or the absolute increase is in the target demographic, with an overall decrease in all demographics of some unannounced magnitude.

Looking at the source article doesn't help any, but since the only absolute numbers given are in the target demographic, I'm guessing it's the latter.

Posted by Mitch H. 2014-12-30 10:39|| 2014-12-30 10:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Yo, Phil. "Technology" ain't your problem.

Posted by tu3031 2014-12-30 12:29|| 2014-12-30 12:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Nice Spinal Tap reference Frank.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2014-12-30 13:02|| 2014-12-30 13:02|| Front Page Top

#9 ;-)

Posted by Frank G 2014-12-30 13:09|| 2014-12-30 13:09|| Front Page Top

#10 “Technology is continuing to drive unprecedented changes across the media landscape — and we all should be taking a hard, honest look at how we need to evolve along with it,”

Technology? You mean people have better ways to get at the truth?

And I guess you could "evolve" by taking a hard, honest look at telling the whole story. Something you have never been "good" at.

Posted by gorb 2014-12-30 15:21|| 2014-12-30 15:21|| Front Page Top

#11 Andrea Mitchell is in the MSNBC lineup. Yes, it's evolution.

Posted by Pappy 2014-12-30 18:22|| 2014-12-30 18:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Expect them to become not so much in your face liberalism. Kinda like ABC nightly news.

They will however, still suck and fail.

Oh and the math was for the total viewership was down. Fox got more of a smaller pie.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-12-30 18:35|| 2014-12-30 18:35|| Front Page Top

#13 I'd say that was devolution, #11 Pappy.

Posted by Barbara 2014-12-30 18:51|| 2014-12-30 18:51|| Front Page Top

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