Former Fox News host Greta Van Susteren has had her MSNBC show canceled. She will be replaced by Ari Melber.
Unfortunately for MSNBC, they picked up Trump fangirl Van Susteren in January, just as their viewers' demand for Trump skepticism surged. Vanity Fair explains:
The decision comes as much of the rest of MSNBC has been enjoying a ratings resurgence, and, in some cases, dominance over Fox News. For the first time in 17 years, the network beat both Fox News and CNN in prime-time viewership on weeknights in May amongst the crucial 25-to-54 age demographic—a giant 118 percent leap from a year earlier. In the full second quarter, according to ratings released by Nielsen earlier this week, the network came in second behind Fox for total day viewers, but its growth from a year earlier outpaced both its rivals. Much of this growth is due to prime-time anchors like Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell, whose nightly newscasts have tapped into a potent mix of liberal anxiety and schadenfreude over the Trump presidency. In the second quarter, Maddow’s show won the demo in prime-time, though Fox’s Tucker Carlson had the highest number of total viewers. Van Susteren’s show, however, fell behind its rivals in the 6 p.m. hour.
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[NBC's] patience ran out, however, at the same time as [NBC News chairman Andrew] Lack and executives at NBC have been putting out fires with Van Susteren’s former Fox News colleague, Megyn Kelly, who has hit repeated bumps in the road since her Sunday evening show premiered earlier this month.
I'm not particularly confident Kelly will fare any better.
(Van Susteren image via screen grab.)
I don’t think he’ll return either. I would love to see it and return to his old format of having audience members asking the guest questions because the format today of having one person, regardless of which political side they’re on has grown stale to me.
Fox has three shows where they stole the format from The View of having 5 talking heads who are already ready on the payroll, normally with just one liberal playing the part of the villain for the four cons to beat up on except Outnumbered with four females who all have their legs exposed and one male who is usually a conservative and they just all agree with each other like a group of bobbleheads. Boring.
THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
Here’s the reason why: I definitely believe the principal reason MSNBC gave Phil Donahue the heave-ho back in the spring of 2003 is because he was VERY STAUNCHLY OPPOSED to Dumbya Bush’s invasion of Iraq — and keep in mind: General Electric — today still a major owner of NBC Universal (49%), the media entity that includes all of the NBC networks — is a CHARTER MEMBER of the military industrial complex — and naturally, GE MADE A GIGANTIC FINANCIAL KILLING from Dumbya Bush’s TOTAL DISASTER in Iraq!
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She did a great nitty-gritty legal show at CNN and then at Fox until 2008, when they made her switch to politics. If I were CNN HLN, which is now 100 percent crime and tabloid stories, I’d grab her for cheap.
Doors 17, I’m with you. I’d love to have Phil Donahue back.
NOTE TO FOX “NEWS” SENIOR EXECUTIVES
If you decide to bring Greta back give her Hannity’s time slot. The man is not well, as you noticed lately. He needs help.
