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"Handful"? More like "way too many".... And, yet, FX still devotes way too much of their primetime schedule to endless repeats of popular genre movies from the last few decades, while multiple flavors of HBO keep chewing up cable companies' bandwidth.

I saw it live yesterday and it looked like he was sick. I do hope he is okay because he is a really good anchor.

And one of the most cited reasons people don’t watch is because it isn’t the way it used to be. Just because times change doesn’t mean you need to throw the baby out with the bath water. The 90’s weren’t radically different from the 70’s really. But now is radically different from the 90’s. Legacy media is as ignorant of what ails it as the American automakers were while they declined for 30 years.

Meh, it seems fine with one anchor.

Is it that hard to watch some old newscasts, take notes and then do that? It’s a hell of a lot easier than losing viewers by reinventing the wheel and annoying them endlessly.

As sad as I am to see reporters lose their job, are national bureaus for station groups necessary? Don't network affiliations already fill that void? The only beneficiary I can see is an independent station. It's duplicative for WSB to need Cox Washington packages when ABC News can already cover that. Despite the vast array of media services available to a local station they all cover the same thing. How many sources do we need providing a package on AAA Thanksgiving travel predictions? Wow! Sucks. He had a legacy tie to the station as his dad was big time local anchor Don Farmer. Justin always did this weird singing thing in his anchoring cadence. Has anyone ever noticed this?

IDK if this has been asked yet but will MSNBC remain at Rockefeller Center when it cuts ries with NBC/Comcast? What happens with CNBC's NJ HQ, assuming that's still in operation?

These kind of pre-emptions are bad news these days. It's not like it was 20 years ago where a CBS station in a non-SEC market pre-empted the game for a J-P (Raycom) Sports Network ACC game of the local team.

The Talk will quiet down for its final week of shows starting Dec. 16, and finally goes silent on Dec. 20. https://deadline.com/2024/11/the-talk-finale-date-cbs-1236187740/

I don't have any insight or information, but having a new job and an ongoing relationship with the station makes me think this was a planned exit by him. A quiet and short notice without the pomp and circumstance is the ideal departure for many people. News anchors come and go, and maybe he didn't want to make himself the news or at least minimize the time when he is the center of attention. The tribute and retrospective PKGs are awkward and have no viewer benefit. Newsroom cakes and speeches are just painfully awkward.

Justin Farmer is retiring from WSB-TV Atlanta and broadcast news in general after 17 years at the station. His final day... TOMORROW. https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/channel-2-anchor-justin-farmer-announces-career-change-after-17-years-wsb-tv/KC5ONRNIKBBSJNZNHVTJH7LX3Y/

FOX56 in Lexington viewers were mad that they didn't air Ohio ST. VS IU game for high school basketball couldn't they have put those high school basketball games on a subchannel. That would've been the smart move than putting it on the main channel and not airing Ohio ST. VS IU. You blew it Nexstar.

As others have said I always thought NBC News thought of MSNBC as the stepchild and didn't really like them that much their living sperate lives for many years now. I was surprised that that they wanted to spin CNBC & MSNBC along with USA Network. But I guess they did that so the new company had some major networks than just the smaller cable networks. As some have mention FOX local TV stations and FOX News and thinking that there all the same, I know the difference one was entertainment with sports as I like to call it Big FOX & one with conservative news FOX News on cable. The only 2 don't really mention FOX in the name is FOX in Boston going by 25 News & WSVN in Miami.

Perhaps CBS realizes that the majority of the news audience they have watch streaming instead of broadcast, and in turn are turning to their streaming anchors to be the new face of the division? Can we also hypothesize that DuBois and Dickerson together are probably still less expensive than O'Donnell salary-wise, and CBS is doing it on the cheap realizing no matter what, they are likely to stay in 3rd place?

Indeed it does feel weird. Haven't seen much promotion on air or online for this new arrangement. I don't think I've seen Nora announce (on-air) that she'll be stepping down. Looks like CBS is relying on news articles to spread the word. Maurice has a body of work outside of the NYC area. He has filled in on the CBS Evening News numerous times over the past decade. Maurice also did a special for BET, and if I'm not mistaken, he's done reports for CBS Sunday Morning. There's no mistaking that he is qualified, I just don't know if pairing him with John Dickerson is the right answer.

The whole plan is weird. I'm not convinced it's going to last, and I'm not convinced that CBS management thinks this is going to last. Did Wendy McMahon take Neeraj's place, or is that still vacant? This anchor lineup feels like more of a placeholder idea until there's a clear idea of who's leading the news department. Whoever it is will probably want to put their footprint on it and redo the Evening News, just like what every other former head of the news department has wanted to do. Maurice is a smooth anchor, don't get me wrong, but is he a national name yet? Does he even have any body of reporting outside the tristate area? Dickerson's not awful, but he's never seemingly been super successful with any chair he's been given, and he's now basically been in them all (mornings, Face the Nation, streaming.)

It's nice of CBS to give Nora the opportunity to cover all of these things, but it would be smart to start building an audience around their two new anchors. We should have seen Maurice and John together during election coverage. It would also be smart to start increasing their appearances together during the transition and inaugural coverage.

Many choose to keep their private business just that: private. They are under no obligation to make public disclosures. We should respect that.

If you read the linked article, it says no other details are known. Don't assume unless you know the facts.

My how Clancy Burke's former station has fallen. If they're gonna have that title card after EVERY story at least remove the darn sound effect. We don't need to hear it every 45 seconds lol. Looks like they still have anchors in the morning, I wonder if or when that goes away totally.

I have to wonder if Sinclair has been building up to this LONG before it was a reality. Newscasts have become more video & graphically oriented. Talent intros have been systematically eliminated. It just seemed like newscasts just appeared on the air like they came back from a break. You don't know if something is live or not....the list goes on and on. It doesn't take much to set up a camera shot somewhere, so these shows are becoming so mundane, someone with little to no experience could direct a show just by hot-punching the right buttons on a switcher.

While you & me would like a news heavy channel, it seems like every network thinks most Americans wont. CNN & NewsNation are both in a better position to focus more on other news, and they are still spending a lot of time focusing on politics, and when they aren't focusing on politics, the focus seems to be on more sensational stories designed more to entertain than inform. It appears NewsNation likes to focus on true crime & UFO's when they aren't covering politics. In the past CNN focused on things like missing planes & aired reality style programming in primetime. The streaming news channels are not much better. There seems to be a theory that most Americans don't care about news from other parts of the country unless it's something sensational. The only stories from different parts of the country that get wide coverage are things like mass shootings or major storms. International coverage is even worse. Unless it's something like a war or terror attack, most international news is ignored. National newscasts in Australia & Canada do a much better job at covering international news than any of the major network newscasts, and they do so with far fewer resources. I think political news will increase for everyone in 2025, and with NBC News splitting from MSNBC, the channel formally known as MSNBC will have every reason to focus more on politics.

Good for her, man. Over the years, she's been a very recognizable face at WITI's Wake Up News alongside Rob Haswell and Gus Gnorski, among others and it has remained #1 a bit in part due to her presence so it'll be weird to see her doing nights now but its very deserving for her as she approaches 25 years at WITI next year.

Could there possibly be a plan afoot to create a larger worldwide news organization by combining other Comcast news assets - which are also losing money - with MSNBC / CNBC into a single, streamlined news organization under their "Sky News" brand? Apparently, the Comcast acquisition of Sky only requires keeping Sky News in existence until 2028 - this could be an attempt to not only protect Comcast NBC but to help rescue Sky News UK / TG24 Italia simultaneously,

And that always bugged me because MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS all push agendas, they're just not as blatant and conspiracy-driven as Fox News.

As per the New York Post, Around The Horn is ending next year.

I'd think that that would severely impact brand recognition. This is good for NBC News as it no longer has a left-biased news network attached to its brand while operating as a "neutral" news network.

CNBC, from a strategy pov, could embrace being the Consumer News and Business Channel and be fine moving forward. It's MSNBC, USA and Syfy that would require some serious work. MSNBC needs a 'news' component and if they don't plan to combine resources with CNBC, then I'm not sure how successful the network will be without a news partner. Couple with a likely name change, if I was an employee at MSNBC, I would be very worried. USA and Syfy will require original programming to grow and prosper and hopefully there are big plans in the works for them. Overall, there are a lot of unanswered questions surrounding this new company....

For MSNBC, it might be that their opinion shows are hurting the brand of both the NBC network news and the affiliates' local news operations by association while no longer bringing in enough ratings to justify it. I'm just guessing, but I do recall reading years ago that FOX affiliates have complained about viewers confusing them with FOX News Channel, so it isn't a farfetched idea. I'm less sure what the strategy is with USA and CNBC. USA seems to just be a dumping ground now for the sporting events that used to air on NBCSN, so maybe they think they can just move all that content to Peacock and viewers will get used to it. There isn't an obvious replacement for CNBC and unlike the others, it's an international brand.

The irony of MSNBC now being a useless acronym now that it's not only separate from Microsoft, but also NBC. And the timing couldn't be any worse, given the "changes" that could take place next year....

You know they all know these complications, right? They didn’t come into something like this without thinking through the complexities even if not every detail is laid out just yet.

MSNBC and CNBC are completely intertwined in NBC. Same news gathering. Most anchors are also on NBC (exception is the evening hosts, but then again Ruhle has an NBC News role). Their operation is intertwined into NBC News at 30 Rock. Even with licensing, how they split staff, how they cover events, how they even go about news gathering is going to be very difficult separation. Then how does NBC News Now end up competing with a former sister operation, rather than being a companion piece. As for USA, it thrives on NBCU repeats and gives NBC Sports, especially the very expensive US right to the Premier League Soccer, an outlet. Where will all that go? And as someone mentioned earlier, it is a key station for Olympics coverage. We may need more today (Wednesday) when the actual announcement is made. I also can't fully understand the Bravo situation. All of the cable stations have channels on Peacock. The reality is the Housewives of XXX is a bunch of escapism dreck and nothing more. Why keep that when that would be valuable to the new company.

How many people are shared between them (NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC)? One would assume the resources of MSNBC and CNBC will be combined so, in theory, there shouldn't be a huge disruption in their day-to-day operation once this spinoff is complete. Plus, there's likely going to be licensing agreements (and the like) galore between all parties involved. Things should be interesting indeed. While I agree, I think it comes down to how financially successful would this new company be without MSNBC, CNBC and USA in the portfolio. I do hope that there's an effort to strengthen USA and Syfy and return them to their former glory.

It does not make sense to separate msnbc, cnbc, & USA from NBC. The other channels, I can understand getting rid of them.

Not sure MSNBC and CNBC can go it alone without NBC News. Shared talent and news gathering. Should be interesting.

As I asked in the other post for election coverage, Why doesn't MSNBC just focus on reporting on the actual news of the day, with indepth coverage of breaking news during evening hours, instead of just focusing on politics? The channel can put political opinionated programs, but I feel like they put way too much on the air. I try not to watch the news channels because they're too focused on these types of programs, but when I watch, I turn to msnbc, mainly because I watch NBC for regular news. The main issue with NBC and the other networks are that they don't provide additional reporting & coverage of important events of the day. It's only half an hour in the evening for the major news headlines of the entire country and maybe additional coverage in the morning. That' is why I hope msnbc & cnn would be an an outlet to provide that coverage. Fox News probably won't because what they're doing is not news, just viewpoints from certain personalities.

The moderators will complain that we're turning this into the MSNBC thread so all in all... Yes one party maybe more of the aggressor in our country's current issues, but all sides have to be subject to vigorous fact-checking and questioning. Yes channels like MSNBC should have room for opposing voices if they are not seeking a bickering match or spreading conspiracies/lies. (Understandably, that last part is going to be extremely difficult to accomplish with the incoming administration).

If you can't beat him, join him, lol. I'm all about having alternate opinions on the network but we have to be cautious about giving a platform to conspiracies and lies. Unless they are going to have Trump on and debate/fact check his claims in real time, what is the point of restarting communications with him? Do Joe and Mika actually think they'd be able to reason with Trump or influence his policy decisions?

The move from science fiction to reality and fantasy based programming has damaged it too.

His X bio says "was a reporter for WABC", so it seems he has parted ways with WABC without any mention. Since he was there so long, it must not have been an amicable parting if there was no send off.

What was up with the frame rate on today's episode? Everything looks weirdly digitized, And the picture color was significantly warmer. Today weird: Yesterday, Normal: I appreciated the warm picture color in the weird one. So much of daytime television today looks washed out and fluorescent which isn't helped by HD. The lighting on The Real was particularly bad.

I haven't seen any distrust of NBC affiliates because of MSNBC. As for USA and Syfy, I think it's now even more likely that Syfy's remaining programming will be folded into USA and its channel space flipped into something else.

I would say over the last few years MSNBC & CNBC have become much less intertwined with NBC News than before. While reporters appear on both NBC & MSNBC, most MSNBC anchors now stay exclusively to MSNBC. NBC's Andrea Mitchell announced she will no longer host an hour on MSNBC a few weeks ago, the only other MSNBC anchor who also anchors on NBC is Jose Diaz-Balart. I guess you could include Willie Geist who does both Morning Joe & NBC's Sunday Today, but even then that's 2 anchors for the entire network that share an anchor role with both MSNBC & NBC News. I would say NBC News Now is already directly competing with MSNBC as opposed to acting as a companion. They don't cross promote each other or collaborate at all. I watch MSNBC quite often and they don't even acknowledge NBC News Now exists. When it's a slow news day MSNBC Reports will check in with someone from CNBC but there is zero synergy between MSNBC & the NBC News streaming channel. It's even rare when anything from NBC News gets mentioned. Before NBC News Now was launched, NBC would use MSNBC for special reports when breaking news happened at unexpected times, but even that rarely happens now. When it comes to splitting staff and covering events, I think it will be much less difficult to separate them now compared to 5 or 10 years ago. It's kind of like NBC & MSNBC already divorced but have continued living in the same house even after NBC has already moved on with NBC News Now. As for why Bravo is staying, they probably feel losing the Bravo escapism dreck would harm Peacock, so they don't want to part with it.

It's official...More details emerge...SpinCo. https://deadline.com/2024/11/comcast-to-spin-off-cable-networks-in-major-restructuring-linear-assets-1236182014/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/comcast-nbcuniversal-cable-networks-spinoff-usa-msnbc-mark-lazarus-1236067237/ https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/matt-strauss-donna-langley-lead-nbcuniversal-1236215272/

Full speed ahead. And MSNBC/CNBC and NBC News are going spiltsville.

Appears Morning Joe is ready to kiss and make up with Trump.

Science fiction and fantasy have always been joined at the hip -- both fall under the term "speculative fiction" -- so the fantasy-based programming has never bothered me. Reality programming is a problem shared by nearly all channels, be they broadcast, cable, or streaming. The real problem for Syfy at this point is more fundamental: Is it even needed anymore? When the channel launched in 1992, the broadcast networks were still king, there were fewer cable channels (and even fewer with original programming), and there were few ways for a sci-fi or fantasy show to be seen. The best option was broadcast syndication, which usually meant airing at odd hours because shows were either on network affiliates that had obligations or independent stations that had no interest in giving up time slots they used for second-run movies. But the television landscape has changed radically in the 32 years since then, and there are more possible homes for genre programming than ever. It's possible, maybe even likely, that Syfy's time has come and gone.