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Lately, I've also seen Peter working the White House beat and titled "NBC News National Correspondent". But if Kasie moves to anchoring, does that mean Garrett Haake moves to take her Capitol Hill beat? MSNBC Daytime is weird.

Short answer is no. No matter what platform they are using to post their tweets, you can see the picture you're posting with your post. Once was a really bad mistake. But to post the same picture TWICE to two different stories, gives rise to intentional acts.

So... he should host segments with the First Lady?

Boris has responded. Here now, the "rebuttal":

Sinclair's Chief Political Analyst (and former Trump Campaign Resident Russian) Boris Epshteyn will get his thrice per week must-run segments increased to nine airings a week, per POLITICO. It is also reported that the segments will be "billboarded" aka sponsored, but "will not be sponsored content" says Sinclair. I'm not a fan of the must-runs, and granted, I also avoid news-broadcasting Sinclair stations like the plague*, but it's within the perogative of the station group, clearly. But, of all their must runs, Boris gets a nine-time airing? Why not their beloved Mark Hyman? Or better yet, daily Terrorism Watch Desk reports? *except when I was in Pensacola for eight months. I had to force myself to watch WPMI as an alternative to WALA

She never got good ratings for two reasons: 1) Her time slot was also awkward -- She followed Chuck Todd and the last NBC News branded "straight news" program, and preceded Chris Matthews and all that is him. Her ability to be the merging point for those two just never materialized. 2) You also have to remember, some of the big breaking stories that have happened over the past six months either happened or was dropped by the print media between 4-6pm... and she just doesn't have the chops for breaking news. If you need an example, just remember Comey's firing day -- she had Dershowitz and some other person on, and they just weren't inspiring. I remember watching for maybe 10 minutes before dumping (reluctantly) to CNN. I don't think this could be said enough. Outside of her weakness as a broadcaster, she has never had a good production value or (outside of the politicians) no good guests on any of her shows. Evem at FOX News, where your really don't need a good production team since the viewers are pretty damn loyal, her show seemed lackluster at best. Even in the deep forest that is weekend primetime, I think she would have suffered. She's a lawyer by trade, and she'd probably have been better off as either a legal contributor to Rachel (since they're friends and all) or even as a Legal Analyst alongside Ari Melber, the networks chief legal correspondent (who ironically is taking her slot). It's neither all her fault nor all MSNBC. They both fucked up.

I think they just might hang on to it -- it's a minority stake, and Sinclairibune might just want to keep its little bit of cheap cash.

So they either agreed to do it together, or TEGNA decided to give up control first, and Sinclair/Tribune chose to reduce their share as well. Also, with Apollo having probably close to 60% control now, how long does McClatchy hang in there? I know they have som form of integration into their dailies, but there will be the inevitable large cost cutting that always comes from private equity takeovers.

As gesticulated by yours truly, TEGNA is continuing its march towards becoming "pure play media" by announcing that it is selling of a portion of its ownership in CareerBuilder.com to private equity firm Apollo Global Management. Sale expected to close by Q3 of this year. With this move, TEGNA will reduce ownership from a controlling 53% stake to 12.5%, and will afterwards be a media-only company, which again raises the prospects that TEGNA is either trying to clean itself up to be acquisition bait (Nexstar is still lurking), or that they may go on another acquisition spree themselves.

It's ok....even if we don't have Mr. Mardek, we have someone else representing Oklahom... I mean the Emerald. -side eyes-

So, I literally said that in my post, the one you quoted:

Maybe Jonathan will come back down 64 for a third time...

By selling sponsorship to the "breaking news" coverage, it does a couple of things. One is the distaste factor, but the other is that they will now be WAY MORE likely to actually use the breaking news banner, if only because some sponsor is going to want their money's worth.

According to our partners at FTVLive, the Richmond Nexstar outlet WRIC sold the rights to breaking news coverage to a Richmond area personal injury attorney. No, really. On screen elements for breaking news will now be showing the logo of the law firm. Cue the TVNT breaking news memery in 3...2...

I love how the news release lists the shell corporation station renewals, as if they are no longer attempting to maintain a modicum of separateness.

Seems to me that with that management change and spinoff, they eliminated are trying to eliminate the "digital" brands they got stuck with in the TEGNA/Gannett spinoff and go straight media. All thats left of the TEGNA Digital (outside of their advertising subs) is CareerBuilder, which they'd be best to get rid of before the Tribune-Sinclair deal becomes final. (Tribune & McClatchy are 1/3 owners with TEGNA). That same fact also bodes well if Nexstar really is trying to buy them. Becoming pure media makes them prime bait for an M&A.

The Nexstar - TEGNA rumor is still hot, according to a report in Broadcasting & Cable. Although the rumor has been flying around for months, it got new life this week when, according to the report, a Nexstar executive told investors that they are eyeing said company. If they were to strike a deal, it could be announced as soon as May 31, which would be the date TEGNA will complete its spinoff of Cars.com. Add into that the response from TEGNA was that it "will be a pure play broadcaster pursuing an aggressive growth strategy" once it spins off Cars.com, and, folks, you have a smoldering hot rumor. If you thought Sinclaribune was bad, wait until you get NexTEGNAstar.

Katie Tur was the MSNBC embed for Trump's campaign. Typically, the embed for the winning campaign will get the Chief WH gig. I assume, since she got the attention from the then candidate while on the trail, and since the broadcast network embed (Hallie) got the chief WH gig, they found a way to give her more visibility vis-a-vis, during prime daytime hours, and of course on the leading political show of the day, MTP Daily.

Putting BriWi at 6pm would extend the daypart hours to 6pm (the NBC News branding ends with MTP Daily), so there's the Andy Luck thing of bringing the news back to the channel. As for Greta, she does struggle in both delivery and lead-in, but in all fairness, it's probably the softest place they could put her -- against the third daily hour of Wolf Blitzer on CNN, and whatever is over there on Fox. Putting her at either 10 or 11pm would garner the same results either the first or second hour of CNN's Lemonade Tonight or at 10, against Sean Hannity, something she probably wants to avoid.

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Nicole Wallace's new show premieres today on MSNBC. The title? "Deadline: White House" :meh:

Nope, I find it hilarious as well. Dude is the president, who could literally do ANYTHING he wants...and he wakes up at 7 am to tweet. I can barely get myself out of bed before 9am...and probably don't start social media until at least noon.

SNL's cold open making a play on the Scarbzinskis (or are we going with Brezinzbouroughs?) and their weird Morning Joe to home relationship was priceless...

I definitely agree. And I've followed her on Facebook for a while now, and she gets quite a few...shall we say "strange" comments every post, be it a personal post or a weather post...

That has got to be rough on her being so young and after moving into the market for the job just a year or so ago.