May drop it's last place news casts.
It doesn't matter to be but I bet it does bother their one viewer.
Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006 1:21 p.m. EDT
MSNBC May Drop Live Newscasts
Industry buzz has it that MSNBC, the perennial also-ran in cable news, is considering the prospect of essentially dropping its live-news format and devoting itself entirely to taped, newsmagazine-style programming.
And much of its content could likely be repackaged from NBC News. One indication of the possible move came in July when the network launched a newsmagazine, "MSNBC Investigates,” the industry publication Broadcasting & Cable points out in a recent edition.
Also, NBC News President Steve Capus said this summer that more product from "Dateline: NBC” would show up on MSNBC.
And during the past few months there have been discussions about moving the cable channel’s Secaucus, N.J., headquarters to Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, where it would have easier access to the NBC News library.
"The unspoken truth in all of this speculation is that there are simply too many all-news networks and only so many people to watch them,” according to Broadcasting & Cable.
"As the owner of a network that’s stuck at the bottom of the cable news heap, NBC Universal has little choice but to make a radical change if it wants to differentiate MSNBC from what the other guys are doing.”
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2006-10-04
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