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I think we live in a time where one political party has made an extreme shift yet everyone except MSNBC is covering politics like it's 1994 instead of 2024. Every other source of TV political news, including NBC News, is so afraid of looking partisan they either go out of their way to justify & sane wash Republicans or they negatively cover Democrats unfairly to appear balanced. I don't think this is good journalism. Both sides can't agree on facts because one side is disputing facts and NBC/CBS/ABC/CNN/NewsNation, etc. is giving them a platform to do it. I don't want to watch manufactured political news coverage that is worried about saying anything that will upset half the country, if a political party does something evil, I want them to call it evil, I don't want to see it justified no matter what, I don't want to watch TV news where there is no moral red line, I know when I watch MSNBC, they will tell it like it is, they aren't worried about upsetting Republicans, they aren't worried about trying to make Republicans & Democrats look equally good or bad. They also are not the anti-Republican news channel, they are the anti extreme news channel. They do have moderate Republicans on, and as you brought up, Bernie Sanders who is on the extreme left didn't like how MSNBC covered him in 2020, Tulsi Gabbard who was an extreme crazy Democrat running for president in 2020 also was upset with how MSNBC covered her. The bad actors on the left don't get a free pass from MSNBC. I don't agree with everything I see on MSNBC or every view expressed by MSNBC hosts or guests, but I know overall the network is in the same reality I am. I can't say that about any other television source for political news.

One thing I don't think non-MSNBC viewers understand about MSNBC is that it's not the FOX News Channel of the left. MSNBC hosts express left wing opinions, but they still rely on facts. They are not spewing propaganda and lies like FOX News Channel does. FOX News Channel had to pay hundreds of millions in a settlement for spewing lies about the 2020 election and the voting machines, the text messages released in this lawsuit between FOX News hosts and anchors like Bret Baier just proved how this is a network that does zero journalism, it's a propaganda outlet that is terrified of angering its far right audience. They invested millions in 2020 so they could make quicker election calls, and then panicked when their early Arizona election call angered its audience, to the point where they held off calling Nevada for Biden because they didn't want to be first to call an election for Biden, instead choosing to wait to be the last network to make the call. This type of stuff is simply is not happening at MSNBC. There is no denying that MSNBC is news with a left wing view, but it's still news. In my view CNN & NewsNation are not doing responsible journalism by staying in the middle. We don't live in a reality where both political parties are equally bad doing equally bad things at the exact same time. The way CNN, NewsNation, NBC, CBS, ABC etc... go out of their way to criticize and praise both political parties equally all the time just to appear unbiased is so infuriating. CNN can't even agree to fact check a debate because they are scared of looking biased. A great way for CNN to counterprogram against MSNBC & FOX News would be to stop focusing on politics and cover all the other actual news going on, but CNN has instead decided to devote most of its schedule to covering politics and political opinions with people arguing all the time. They deserve their horrible ratings. It's also worth pointing out that MSNBC has actually tried having right wing opinion shows on the network along with left wing shows, and it's a massive failure every single time. It's extremely hard to have a successful news network targeting totally different audiences each hour, networks want to do everything they can to stop people from changing the channel, nothing ensures people will change the channel more than putting a left wing show after or before a show hosted by Ben Shapiro. One of the things that makes MSNBC so enjoyable to watch is the fact that all the hosts & guests get along with each other. It's the total opposite of CNN which at times looks like a Real Housewives reunion special with guests screaming at each other.

The ratings are in for last night. FOX News Channel won overall, followed by ABC News which was closely followed by MSNBC. MSNBC beat NBC again (after beating them in 2020 & the 2022 mid-terms) and beat CNN for the first time (although they did beat CNN for the 2022 mid-terms). CNN had its lowest ratings since 1996. So while the country may have elected a far right leader, it's still a very divided country and there is clearly still an audience for the left leaning news MSNBC provides. If Comcast does spin off the NBCU cable networks I hope the new company realizes this and doesn't turn MSNBC into just another bland low rated "both sides" news channel.

I watched the CNBC coverage they posted online when this was breaking, and there was no mention of MSNBC losing money. Comcast never said in their shareholder comments about MSNBC losing money. Are you sure you heard correctly? They talked about how cable networks are a drain on the company due to subscriber declines, but there was no mention of MSNBC being unprofitable or losing money. None of the media stories covering this, including outlets very hostile to MSNBC, have mentioned MSNBC losing money. It's only this discussion forum where MSNBC losing money is considered fact.

Despite their website schedule claiming otherwise, MSNBC repeated their primetime lineup as usual from 12:00am to 5:00am ET. The only difference is a repeat of The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell aired at 3:00am ET instead of the usual repeat of All In With Chris Hayes. MSNBC's primetime shows pretty much split their time between politics and hurricane coverage. As a loyal MSNBC viewer, I'm fine with this as I'm not interested in watching hours and hours of non-stop hurricane coverage especially before the hurricane makes landfall, but it does look really bad for MSNBC to devote half their primetime shows to hurricane coverage before the hurricane makes landfall and then air repeats of that same coverage at the peak time of landfall. You spend all day talking about how 12:00am/1:00am/2:00am will be the biggest and then when that time comes you go to repeats of the 9:00pm hour. If they didn't want to do live non-stop coverage overnight they at least could have aired the primetime repeats with live hurricane updates replacing the hours old hurricane coverage from before. I remember they used to go wall to wall coverage for hurricanes and would have anchors like Richard Lui anchor overnight coverage (it appears Richard Lui still works for MSNBC even though they almost never break in to cover breaking news on weekends overnight now)

Yeah they now have repeats of Dr Phil airing at 4:00am with KCAL News starting at 5:00am. I understand them getting rid of the 4:00am hour. KTLA & ABC are so established and have a huge advantage in the mornings, KCAL is basically building its morning news audience from nothing and likely relying on those who watch KCAL's primetime news to tune in, but how many people watching KCAL News in primetime are waking up at 4:00am?

I don't watch and have actually never watched the Today show besides some clips online, but I think it will be Craig Melvin. Today viewers already know him, and they probably don't have to pay him anything close to 20 million. It looks like the days of spending millions and millions on network anchors is coming to an end. It still disgusts me that Megyn Kelly was not only hired by NBC, but was also paid $69 million for a 3 year contract just to anchor the 9:00am hour. It's actually kind of funny Today spends so much on talent yet they have more problems with talent than any other show. They spend millions to get Ann Curry off the show in the middle of her contract, hire Billy Bush only for it to blow up in their face shortly after, replace the well liked Tamron Hall with the disaster known as Megyn Kelly at a way higher cost which also results in Tamron Hall jumping to ABC, pay millions to Matt Lauer until his awful actions become public, and that's just a few things I can think of off the top of my head. CBS various morning shows have had constant talent and format shakeups, but I doubt they spent anywhere close to what Today has on bad talent decisions. I think Tom Llamas has it in his contract that he will be the one to replace Lester Holt. It doesn't make sense for him to leave ABC News, which is higher rated than NBC News, just to host an online streaming show on NBC News Now, especially since he was already doing streaming news on ABC News Live which ranks higher than NBC News Now. It also doesn't make sense for NBC to spend the money to lure away a high profile highly paid ABC News anchor just for a streaming show.

I do think the way they do news (a mix of local news, national news, weather, celebrity news, police pursuits, and fun banter) just works for the all day news format. It also helps that their news is properly funded. This isn't some broke Sinclair station producing 16 hours of news a day, they have the staff and resources to cover LA news properly. Yeah if you watch it all day long non stop it could get boring but you could say the same thing watching hours and hours of court shows or talk shows all day. They cover serious news when needed yet allow talent to have fun in a way that is unparalleled to any other station. Their talent is so beloved by viewers that they can basically do a whole hour of them having an unscripted conversation (Off The Clock) and it works. It's also worth pointing out that 15 years ago they only had a morning newscast and hour at 10:00pm. Daytime used to be full of Jerry Springer, Maury, Steve Wilkos, and other conflict talkers. Repeats of Family Guy aired in the evening. They slowly built up over the years starting with news at times when other stations had entertainment programming and then expanding to compete against the other newscasts head on.

Starting September 16, KTLA is launching a new half hour 7pm newscast "KTLA News at 7" LA Unscripted will move to 7:30pm replacing Two and a Half Men. KTLA is all new and local every weekday from 4:00am to 8:00pm. Plus weekends live from 6:00am to 11:00am, 4:00pm to 7:00pm, and 10:00pm to 12:05am, although sports will impact the weekend schedule on some dates.

The True Crime News website has a list of where is it currently scheduled. Most of the stations listed have it scheduled as TBA and the few stations to have it actually scheduled are the FOX O&O's. Looks like it will mostly be airing on FOX's MyNetworkTV stations in most markets and not on the actual FOX station. For example it's only listed as airing on KCOP in LA, WWOR in New York, etc. KCPQ in Seattle does plan to air it at 7:30pm (which also confirms the show will be 30 minutes with FOX primetime starting at 8:00pm) It does appear that the show will be given 2 runs, but given how they are scheduled it looks like only a 30 minute original episode with the 2nd airing being an encore (similar to what Entertainment Tonight does) as no stations have it scheduled back to back and most of the 2nd run broadcasts are scheduled overnight (ex WWOR has it scheduled for 6:30pm with another airing at 1:00am) in some markets like Seattle and Chicago it will air one airing on the FOX station with another run on the MyNetworkTV station (ex 1:00pm on WFLD, 10:00pm on WPWR) Not many other stations on the list and it's on the CW Plus in a lot of cities. Not really sure what the point was for FOX to get on board with this show if they only plan to dump it mostly on MyNetworkTV stations or low profile slots on the few FOX stations. Crime Watch Daily had a stronger group of stations

Any news on the local ratings since KCAL launched morning news and the KCAL News brand replaced the CBS Los Angeles branding?

I watch a lot of MSNBC and they call out Sinclair every now and then. It's nothing new and Sinclair has bigger problems to worry about. I could see them getting upset if they were being called out on NBC News programming that Sinclair owned stations actually broadcast like NBC Nightly News or Meet The Press but Sinclair really isn't in any position to make a fuss about MSNBC programming.