Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews to be relegated to CNBC?

[Katheryn]

Are these super-lefties to be dumped by NBC?

Good idea or bad?

Olbermann, Matthews to CNBC?
Posted by Greg Sheffield on October 19, 2006 - 15:58.
NBC's efforts to reestablish itself have gone poorly, and its cable network MSNBC is still stuck in last place. Execs are considering putting MSNBC's two biggest stars, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, on business channel CNBC, and using the rest of MSNBC for taped programming about "murder mysteries" and similar tabloid material. From Broadcasting and Cable:

NBC Universal employees are bracing for the worst as Chairman-CEO Bob Wright and NBC U TV Group CEO Jeff Zucker are convening town hall meetings in Los Angeles and New York for what is expected to be news of restructuring and job cuts.

Sources say Wright will appear on the Universal Studios lot near Burbank on Thursday while Zucker holds a similar meeting with East Coast employee in New York. NBC press reps were not available at press time.

The sessions follow weeks of smaller job cuts at NBC's syndication unit, for example, and rumors of much wider layoffs and other belt-tightening measures. While the expensive acquisition of NFL football games on Sunday night is driving NBC's average primetime ratings up this season, the network is suffering crucial misfires....

On the cable side, NBC U has been considering drastic measures, including scrapping all of MSNBC's live programming and switching to a taped, magazine-like format, while switching successful personalities Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann over to sibling CNBC's primetime slate.

http://newsbusters.org/node/8454

 

[Insane_Panda]

Bad. Nor can they be declared as super-lefties. Left of center, yes, but not super-lefty.

These two guys are MSNBC's only attraction. Cutting them in favor of murder documentaries about how some rednecks killed eachother in gruesome ways is stupid.

 

[skadistic]

I can't stand either one and stopped watching MSNBC when they took Tucker Carlson off the 11:00pm slot. Its a good move because MSNBC won't be around much longer.

 

[Katheryn]

I can't stand either one and stopped watching MSNBC when they took Tucker Carlson off the 11:00pm slot. Its a good move because MSNBC won't be around much longer.

I like Chris Matthews but the talk about partisan politics gets stale and boring. He so obviously pushes the Democratic side. I think Keith Olbermann is a little creepy.

 

[El_Machinae]

Olbermann is 'super-left'?
My main information about him is refuting Ann Coulter's writings. I wouldn't label that as 'super left'

 

[JollyRoger]

I like Chris Matthews but the talk about partisan politics gets stale and boring. He so obviously pushes the Democratic side. I think Keith Olbermann is a little creepy.

Chris Matthews pushes the Democratic side? Hardly. He fawned for months over the Mission Accomplished speech & consistently pushes right wing talking points. I would say he is more of a bubblehead than anything else. Olbermann is the only sane commenator with a show these days. Neither are ultra-left. Matthews is just shallow and Olbermann is reality-based.

 

[Chieftess]

I'm not sure about "Superleft", but I like Keith Olbermann because of his "Oddball" segment. I watch CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News equally, BTW. Maybe MSNBC less if they move Olbermann.

 

[woody60707]

Not Matthews, maybe alittle left, but just a little.

But Keith Olbermann is a super lefty. He wasn't always one, but he's been moving more and more left for over a year or so now. But then again, so have most people in the US, just not as much.

EDIT: he may just be mad at Pres Bush and showing it, but again, so are most people.