[BC] Station Positioning

[Rich Wood]

------ At 10:35 PM 1/7/2006, DHultsman5 at aol.com wrote: -------

>I believe that Fox many times has two sides especially  O;Reilly,   But the
>ratings are what we live by as you know  Rich.  PBS's News Hour has 
>been around
>a long time and is a long way from  the Fox cable channels numbers that came
>along and took all of the  establish cable news channels rating.

O'Reilly might have a representative from the other side who's 
willing to be slaughtered. It won't be a reasoned debate. That 
doesn't get ratings. By FOX's standards of superficial glitz The News 
Hour is deadly dull. One is The Enquirer and the other is the New York Times.

>I amazed how they are all hiring each others old and new staffs.  Fox  has a
>SCOOP wow  after 25 years at CNN  Novak goes to FOX???   And a 
>couple of young
>folk from Fox went to CNN.  Arthel  from  O'Reilly's show went to CNN.

Why does this surprise you? In most markets they play musical chairs. 
In New York they jump back and forth. I think WABC-TV brings in blown 
dry generic anchors so as not to upset their suburban viewers who 
feel uncomfortable with ethnic anchors. Some years ago there was a 
big stink about the firing of an Asian anchor. Someone spread the 
word the company wanted pretty white boys, Newspapers had a field day.

Rich