Cable News Talent Wars Are Shifting To Streaming Platforms (axios.com) 77
The vacancies at cable news companies are piling up as networks and journalists begin to eye streaming alternatives. Axios reports: Why it matters: Primetime cable slots and the Sunday shows are no longer the most opportunistic placements for major TV talent.
Driving the news: Long-time "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace is leaving the network after nearly two decades, he announced Sunday. He will be joining CNN as an anchor for its new streaming service, CNN+. Wallace will anchor a new weekday show and will contribute to the network's daily live programming, per CNN. It was his decision not to renew his contract with the network, which expired this year, CNN's Brian Stelter reported.
The big picture: Wallace marks the latest in a string of cable news host departures and shakeups in the past few weeks and months. There are now several holes cable bosses will need to fill in coming weeks. [...] Major networks are investing heavily to lure talent to streaming alternatives in light of the decline of linear television. CNN hired NBC News veteran Kasie Hunt as an anchor and analyst for CNN+, reportedly for a salary of over $1 million. It's hiring hundreds of new roles for the streaming service, set to launch next quarter. NBC News has already hired the majority of the 200+ new jobs it announced over the summer for its new streaming service and digital team, a top executive confirmed to Axios last month. One of its linear TV anchors, Joshua Johnson, moved full-time to host a primetime streaming show for NBC News Now. Fox News launched a new weather-focused streaming service in October. A Fox executive said last week the company is prepared to migrate Fox News to a streaming platform when the time is right. CBS News changed the name of its streaming service recently from CBSN to "CBS News" to represent a new streamlined vision for streaming. "TV networks won't stop seriously investing in linear news programs until sports move out of the cable bundle, and that won't be for another few years," adds Axios.
Driving the news: Long-time "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace is leaving the network after nearly two decades, he announced Sunday. He will be joining CNN as an anchor for its new streaming service, CNN+. Wallace will anchor a new weekday show and will contribute to the network's daily live programming, per CNN. It was his decision not to renew his contract with the network, which expired this year, CNN's Brian Stelter reported.
The big picture: Wallace marks the latest in a string of cable news host departures and shakeups in the past few weeks and months. There are now several holes cable bosses will need to fill in coming weeks. [...] Major networks are investing heavily to lure talent to streaming alternatives in light of the decline of linear television. CNN hired NBC News veteran Kasie Hunt as an anchor and analyst for CNN+, reportedly for a salary of over $1 million. It's hiring hundreds of new roles for the streaming service, set to launch next quarter. NBC News has already hired the majority of the 200+ new jobs it announced over the summer for its new streaming service and digital team, a top executive confirmed to Axios last month. One of its linear TV anchors, Joshua Johnson, moved full-time to host a primetime streaming show for NBC News Now. Fox News launched a new weather-focused streaming service in October. A Fox executive said last week the company is prepared to migrate Fox News to a streaming platform when the time is right. CBS News changed the name of its streaming service recently from CBSN to "CBS News" to represent a new streamlined vision for streaming. "TV networks won't stop seriously investing in linear news programs until sports move out of the cable bundle, and that won't be for another few years," adds Axios.
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Re: Shep Smith left Fox News too (Score:2)
What's RTV?
AFAICT the only reason the BBC has fallen out of grace for American liberals is because trannies don't like the BBC.
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Really? I don't see any yes-don-is-a-conspiracy-nut ones. In fact most conservatives subscribe to Trump's notion that the Vice President can decide not to include electoral votes of states he does not like. That of course means democrats can use that tactic on them in 2024, but conservatives haven't thought that far.
Conservatives are afraid of saying anything that is anti-Trump. I mean, the closest they get is saying Trump got bad advice on doing things like Operation Warp Speed and choosing cabinet members
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Yes, he is bad, you are learning.
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Conservatives are afraid of saying anything that is anti-Trump.
Just wait until you see the mental and verbal gymnastics they use to disavow anything untoward happened on January 6th now that the House Select Committee has released texts and emails [cnn.com] which flew back and forth among his cabinet, family members, and people at the Fox tabloid.
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Their game plan is to run out the clock until the midterms. If the Rs take back the House, then they'll declare that Jan. 6 never happened, it was all fake news, and Dear Leader will be trotted out to honk on about how he's really stable now, and a genius.
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Well if Americans believe the spin of "fiery, but peaceful protests," then I am sure it won't be hard to sell a few illegal trespassers didn't do anything.
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Dear Leader is a man child. Is said "fuck him" about his friend and ally Netanyahu just because Netanyahu congratulated Biden on his election. Just about every world leader congratulates every other world leader when the get into office, it's the tradition, whether they like each other or not. Obama congratulated Trump on his win also. But no, Trump considered that to be disloyalty, something you'd see in a mob movie but not with a president of a first world power.
Oh, but they'll say that Trump never sa
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Conservatives are afraid of saying anything that is anti-Trump. I mean, the closest they get is saying Trump got bad advice on doing things like Operation Warp Speed and choosing cabinet members that he later had to kick out. But they'll never say Trump himself has bad decisions or judgement. As in, he is brilliant but he can get bamboozled easily. Except, you aren't allowed to say bamboozled or tricked, because Trump can't be tricked after all.
Good... Good... Let the hate flow through you.
Stay focused on Trump. Midterms are coming and everyone knows Democrats have nothing to show but failure and Anti-Trump hatred. Brandon is poison for Democrat candidates and only the sky screamers will vote for them. If they even bother.
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No hate here. Certainly none compared to the hate you guys had for Biden and Obama, no doubt.
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Failure? Like the lowest unemployment in 50 years?.
Due to reduced workforce participation rates. People who quit their jobs and those who aren't looking don't fall into unemployment rates.
FALLING death rates among the vaccinated?
And yet, surge after surge after surge and higher total deaths from the guy who promised to stop the virus when elected.
RISING wages?
Again from falling workforce participation. Supply and demand laws apply to labor too.
You also left out
Horrible humiliating Afghanistan withdrawal
Inflation rates not seen in forty years
Empty store shelves
More people dead from Covid in 2021 than u
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1. Russia hoax is exposed.
2. Election audits are happening and show what we all knew when they stopped the count on election night (Stolen.) Look it up (but not on liberal lies network get some facts not spin.
3. All this anti Trump crap is desperate and weak. Trump asked Pence to send back the electors where there was a letter from the state legislator requesting such, so they could resubmit prior to Jan 20. Pence did not wan
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> 1. Russia hoax is exposed.
Just because the driver of a weaving car turns out sober does NOT make the investigation a "hoax". Don is simply a fan of Putin, not a puppet, but the behavior is almost the same.
> 2. Election audits are happening and show what we all knew when they stopped the count on election night (Stolen.) Look it up
I did. You are wrong.
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Trump liked a lot of world leaders, and hated the smug elite fools like Macron and Trudeau. Meanwhile Biden likes anyone who will buy a painting from Hunter.
Trump was harder on Russia than Biden, I hear Biden threatened Russia over Ukraine to pull out and leave them 85 billion worth of US weapons and equipment!
Check the public hearing on election integrity in AZ yesterday.
Check the link in my sig particularly look up Dr Fran
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Check the fact that they counted like 85% in one day then weeks to finish off while they stuffed the ballots with fraud only in places that Trump was winning and then lost by a smidgen.
This was caused by in-person versus mail ballots which was not evenly distributed between R and D.
It was predicted long before the election.
Also, my understanding is that 1) in some places you could have a vote postmarked by the election date (so they arrived late and could not be counted on time) and 2) at least in some places, received mail-in ballots could not be counted before the election day (so they could not be counted on time).
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After a year of digging and scraping, there has been ZERO evidence of mass voter fraud, only anecdotes about "gee, that looks odd to my process-uniformed ass". GOP's false positive rate is Yuuuge.
> Check the Navaro report.
Proved to be crap, like you.
> and leave them 85 billion worth of US weapons and equipment!
Conservatives didn't seem to care when Don left stuff in Syria. Hypocrites. And it's not 85, fake number.
> Trump liked a lot of world leaders,
Mostly dictators, who he envies as he reads thei
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Check the public hearing on election integrity in AZ yesterday.
Not really much of a public hearing, just a wannabe secretary of state spouting off already disproven conspiracy theories.
Check the link in my sig particularly look up Dr Frank.
You may want to find better sources. I don't think too many people believe the My Pillow guy anymore (where is all this rock solid proof he keeps saying he has?) and your Dr. Frank doesn't really provide any actual evidence (just supposition at best).
Check the Navaro report.
Ah, another Trump advisor agreeing with Trump that the election was stolen. Such a surprise.
Check the fact that they counted like 85% in one day then weeks to finish off while they stuffed the ballots with fraud only in places that Trump was winning and then lost by a smidgen.
The reason that 85% of vote can be counted fast
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Don is simply a fan of Putin, not a puppet, but the behavior is almost the same.
The behavior is literally exactly the same as what you'd see if he was a puppet. Nobody has proven he isn't.
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Just for the record, the Afghanistan withdrawal was negotiated by Dear Leader, and it had the Americans leaving in April or May. He essentially threw Biden a hot potato. And this was after he sold out the Kurds and tried to shake down the Europeans figuring that NATO was some sort of protection racket.
Then there was the tax cut for the wealthy that would pay for itself, except it didn't. Russia was no hoax, Dear Leader loves Putin. Putin loves America so much he's screwing with disinformation during our ele
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Take responsibility your president is a total fail.
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1. Russia hoax is exposed.
[citation needed]
2. Election audits are happening and show what we all knew when they stopped the count on election night
Yes, they show that republicans commit more vote fraud than democrats, even if you don't count voter suppression (and I do.)
3. All this anti Trump crap is desperate and weak.
Well, that's true. Trump has a strong hand of fuckheads behind him, and pretending otherwise is stupid. Biden is fucking up big time by not keeping any of his promises and Trump will probably win the next one as a result.
4. Trump was good for the country
Uh no.
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2. Election audits are happening and show what we all knew when they stopped the count on election night (Stolen.) Look it up (but not on liberal lies network get some facts not spin.
This shit has already been through the courts and everything was dismissed. If there is some sort of new evidence that you feel proves everything ask yourself why no one has brought it to court. It's probably because it's so full of shit that it's much better used out of court to manipulate people rather than let it get disproven in court. Otherwise, why wait?
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Boris, turn off the computer, you need the electricity for the heat there in Siberia.
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I find different. Many conservatives I know don't care for Don's antics, but like his SCOTUS picks and evangelical mantra enough to overlook antics. To them it's the least evil compared to "gender deviant socialists".
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For once Pence was right. If he had decided to ignore electoral college votes then every subsequent election would have become a protracted litigation and the country would have been thrown into chaos every 4 years.
I strongly advise you to change that rule though. As we have seen in the UK, all it takes is one guy who just ignores unwritten rules like following the electoral college vote, and you are in deep trouble.
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Really? Most serious conservatives do not agree the VP has that authority. But don't confuse Trump or Trumpists with conservatives, they're not, they're not even neo-cons. Believe me, if Al Gore had decided to influence the electoral vote that declared him the loser, every single conservative would have agreed that the VP did not have that power. Anyone who subscribes to an originalist reading of the constitution, or a respect for the rule of law, would have to agree that the Electoral Count Act of 1887
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Conservatives are generally splitting into the stop-the-stealers vs. yes-don-is-a-conspiracy-nut camps.
Most of the ones I know have moved beyond Trump and are now talking about Brandon.
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Cable News
Talent
Pick one.
Alternate headline... (Score:3)
CNN needed a new anchor because Cuomo got kicked out for helping his brother attack sexual harassment accusers and a producer was just arrested as a pedophile for a scheme in which he is said to have paid a woman $3000 for sex acts with and the opportunity to "train" her and her 9-year-old daughter that women are inferior to men.
But honestly, who watches either station?
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But honestly, who watches either station?
Anyone over the age of 50.
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Captain Obvious is my fav streaming show (Score:1)
It's not news cable is shrinking in place of Big Stream (no double entendre intended).
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Long-time "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace is leaving the network after nearly two decades, he announced Sunday. He will be joining CNN as an anchor for its new streaming service, CNN+. Wallace will anchor a new weekday show and will contribute to the network's daily live programming, per CNN. It was his decision not to renew his contract with the network, which expired this year, CNN's Brian Stelter reported.
You mean ... I won't be able to foam at the mouth and snarl "Fox News!!!" at him anymore?
He will now be considered automatically fair, reasonable, and sagacious?
This is bad news!
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Sarcasm is not your forte.
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Sarcasm is not your forte.
It's not on me to explain why it's okay for some denizen of the evil far right swamp of Fox News to just come over to CNN. Let me know when you have an explanation.
What a load (Score:2)
If they run out of talking heads they could always just hire some of the print journalists they displaced, and give them lobotomies or drugs or something. Training, maybe.
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If they run out of talking heads they could always just hire some of the print journalists they displaced ...
Only the photogenic ones.
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Doesn't sound like much of a shortage.
Re:What a load (Score:4, Insightful)
If one wants news, print (or online text) is a good way to go. You can skip the ads and junk rather easily. The news itself can be scanned and large parts quickly ignored. That leaves the meat, the 'news you can use' which you can quickly absorb and act on where necessary.
OTOH, the audio or video news is 'linear'- you can't easily scan or study a particular paragraph. You can only let it flow by. A 30 minute stream takes 30 minutes, or more if you have to back up for clarification on something. If it was text, you could scan it in 5 minutes. But you'd be missing the fascinating personality delivering the message.
Consider skipping web sites for news. Each news page is covered with ads, slide shows, moving text and animated gifs. It is a hugely diffuse and distracting source of data. There might be a tiny headline and sentence of text that is relevant to you, if you can find it in the chaos. Instead, look for the RSS feed. It may be very hard to find, but it is a treasure. Your email program or a special feed reader can then receive stories from your favorite news sites without all the gobbledygook distractions. You'll have a list of headlines and a bit of supporting text. They will flow in every hour of every day. A click will bring 'the rest of the story', again often without the crap from the web site. You can even copy & paste items of interest for further action.
You are now so far from the time wasting stream of 'news' from the big commercial sites or mass media that you can save hours per day and still be better informed about the news that matters to you.
You may have concerns about Big Media and privacy and the scores of spyware scripts on those sites. You may have concerns about manipulation by opinion reporting and hidden agendas. Text reporting of 'just the facts, ma'am' offers a layer of protection. Persuasive personalities can't misdirect you as they do on certain visual/audio media. You are free to create your own opinions. And ultimately time is your most valuable possession. Make the best of yours.
I've done this for decades. There is a bit of nostalgia when I visit someone and see the news on their TV. Those radiant personalities really seem to bring the news to life. Until you realize that another hour has passed and you are no better informed than you were.
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I don't see ads, slide shows, moving text, or animated gifs when I visit a news page.
Mod parent up! use a RSS reader + uBlock Origin (Score:2)
I'm currently seeing about 2,000 headlines a day in my RSS feed reader. Many duplicates, but sorted by title makes it easy to skip many. Use regex to sort out feeds you don't want to see. Adblocker in the RSS reader and browser and hosts blocking at the DNS level works great for me. Throw in a paywall bypass addons and a citation checker and so on and you'll be good to go. I always start my day with RSS, not loading up a bunch of webpages to see what's new.
Who Actually Watches? (Score:2)
I haven't watched live TV news for at least a decade bar for the occasional major event.
TV news is like soft drink. Sweet but of no nutritional value.
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Over 50's
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I haven't watched live TV news for at least a decade bar for the occasional major event.
You and me both, friend. I haven't watched TV news in decades because the info to fluff ratio is way too low. Oh, and I have no OTA reception and was too cheap to spring for cable.
But we're weird. I'd love to look at the broadcast news demographics. My prediction is there's a huge divide by age. 50 and over? TV viewers. 30 and under? "I sit down at the TV when they say it's on, and if I don't, I miss it? And I can't back it up? Do I also power it by rubbing sticks together?"
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Well obviously he wouldn't be anyone without his dad (or his mother) that is just simple biology.
There might be something here, but Chris Wallace.. (Score:3, Insightful)
. is NOT a part of it.
Right wingers have been angry with Fox for having this talent-free hack, who's only famous as the son of a 60 Minutes icon, at the helm of its Sunday political talking heads show for many years. Wallace's departure will almost certainly cause Fox news ratings to climb - I personally know Fox junkies who deliberately do NOT tune in on Sunday for the Chris Wallace idiocy; they'll probably tune in to whoever replaces him.
Seeing Wallace make the jump (to CNN's internet service, but notably NOT to Fox's internet service - a hint that it's NOT about net vs TV) and concluding it has something to do with a cable-to-internet trend, is like observing a team winning a football game on a full-moon evening, and concluding that wins by that team cause full moons.
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When I first read the title (Score:2)
For a moment or two, I thought that "f" was a "t".
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Fox News jumping to online (Score:2)
Now that's risky. Might be a bridge too far, given their viewers only recently gave up rotary phones.
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Opportune, not opportunistic (Score:3)
Why it matters: Primetime cable slots and the Sunday shows are no longer the most opportunistic placements for major TV talent.
Opportunistic refers to people (or organisms) taking advantage of circumstances. Thus a time slot cannot be opportunistic, but it can be opportune (i.e. favourable).
FSNN? (Score:2)
So the Cable News Network is now becoming the Fox Streaming News Network?
Hiring ex-Fox presenters just because they got high ratings on Fox is neither building good journalism in your enterprise nor guaranteeing the presenter will get high ratings for their new home.
Fox presenters get high ratings on Fox because they are adroit at pandering to the Fox audience. Unless they are good enough to change what they do in order to appeal to a different audience, they'll just turn CNN into Fox-lite which can neither
Wallace got high ratings on Fox? (Score:2)
Nobody cares (Score:2)
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But yet you cared enough to make a reply thread. 8^)
CBS already has a streaming network... (Score:2)
Come to think of it, isn't CNN doing exactly that as well, given that they are owned by TW, which puts CNN's stuff on HBOMax?
Can't wait for the sports streaming dike to break (Score:2)
"TV networks won't stop seriously investing in linear news programs until sports move out of the cable bundle, and that won't be for another few years," adds Axios.
That day can't come soon enough. It's absolutely infuriating trying to follow a sports team with streaming only. Sports broadcasts are very tightly tied to broadcast rights and cable subscriptions. The only solution, and they're all kind of mediocre, are the cloud DVR products (Fubo, YouTubeTV, etc.).
What I want is pretty simple: a San Jose Sharks group on Netflix, where every game shows up, once, as it's played, and sticks around forever. Same with the pre-game and post-game shows. I don't want rebroadcast
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AI Powered Tim Russert (Score:1)