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GMA Weekend has left Times Square again Doesn't anyone at the network realize how bad the image is?

Don’t see why it would cause second guessing. The show has been in Times Square as ratings have slipped.

Quality is subjective. Audiences are not looking for the same thing. If there was a big hole out there for something else each night, someone would have exploited it. The hangup over active tense that seems to permeate so often is kind of amusing. And that comes from someone old as darned dirt. Does it work for them? If not, they’d change. And the numbers bear it out. It isn’t what I was taught. It isn’t what I grew up with. That doesn’t make it wrong, and my professors weren’t god almighty. It sometime seems collectively that we’re “ok with change,” so long as it’s the change we deem to be ok. That’s not how life works, though.

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/

Remember when Meredith did this and Gray UN-did it?

"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.

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.

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.

It's positive that NBC News will no longer have a left-wing cable operation dragging down its reputation as a 'neutral" news network. However, I haven't seen much distrust of NBC affiliates because of MSNBC, as much as I see distrust of Fox affiliates because of Fox News Channel. While average news viewers I speak to know that MSNBC is biased, they don't have such a strong rebuke for it as they do with the Fox News Channel. I wonder what the future looks like for MSNBC and CNBC? Being renamed could severely impact their brand recognition. At least NBC can focus its 24/7 news on NBC News Now, a non-partisan operation.

At a town hall at MSNBC headquarters, Mark Lazarus brought up local stations as a potential acquisition target for the new company

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

They've been propped up almost single-handedly by pharmaceutical advertising for years now. If RFK Jr. does get those ads banned like he wants to, I don't know how these cable networks will actually make money anymore.

More dismal numbers for MSNBC: They are basically getting no viewers under the age of 55 anymore. Comcast might actually have a hard time finding a buyer at this rate.

I knew they weren't paying attention to the news jobs when I saw a recruiting post a few months ago that used the image of a meteorologist who left the company a year ago.

I think people in general are just tired of the "all Trump, all the time" monomania on these networks. It's been almost a decade of the same topics on a loop. It makes it that much harder for them to compete with YouTube, Twitch, podcasts, social media, etc. where there's actual choices, not the same programming over and over again.

On one hand, it's like a TV show going into repeats. They just don't want to watch it...again. On the other hand, once Trump takes control and things go off the rails.....

Gray is turning into another Sinclair with these draconian moves. I'll admit it, I let my guard down on this company. They seemed like a cheap company back then as they sucked up companies like Schurz and changed their cheap graphics packages on their stations like dirty underwear every few months. Then Sinclair bought more stations, and Media General succumbed to Nexstar. Then when Raycom "merged" with Gray, there seemed to be some hope. Putting Meredith out of their misery was another accomplishment of theirs along with all of their "committment" to Atlanta, WGCL/WANF, and whatever "Assembly Atlanta" is. But the problem is, and always has been the top-bottom mentality of these companies that has destroyed the stations they've acquired, instead of using the best practices of strong stations to make the company better. (Only problem, it's too expensive) It's a problem that's not unique to TV, it's everywhere as companies are leveraging their assets to the point of selling off the parts to make the top richer and the minions doing the work being laid off and whoever's left getting more work for less pay or not enough to keep up with the rising cost of everything. And if it's ugly now, just wait. God willing if this election goes the wrong way....we're literally screwed as these companies have decimated our news sources and a generation of voters has been sorely misled on what news is. That's it for me now.

And those are just the ones you know about!

KTEN and KXII '90s News clips WITN 7 Eyewitness News 1979 WFLA/WTSP 1992/3 Clips

WCKT (WSVN) Snippets and News briefs 1977. (Taken During an NBC Night at the Movies)