General Discussion
Showing Original Post only (View all)NBC denies David Gregory is out on Meet the Press replaced by Joe Scarborough [View all]
After a bad couple of weeks clunkily extracting Ann Curry as co-host of its morning infotainment show, NBC News found itself dealing with another unpleasant personnel report this week: David Gregory is on his way out as host of the networks Sunday Beltway show, Meet the Press.
This week, the iPad news service The Daily ran a report that Gregory was right behind Curry in the NBC News Tumbril.
The report about Gregory is not new it surfaced a couple of months ago (at that time, Joe Scarborough was said to be his replacement). But stone-cold denials were issued by Meet the Press exec producer Betsy Fischer and NBC News President Steve Capus.
Another stone-cold denial was issued this week: The rumors recklessly reported by The Daily are categorically untrue, NBC News said in a statement. That, even though this time, The Daily reported that Meet the Press anchor Tim Russert was spinning in his grave over the shows numbers. Russert ruled the Sunday Beltway show ratings until his sudden death in June of 2008.
Last month, Meet the Presss weekly rating hit a 20-year low among viewers between the ages of 25 and 54 the currency of news programming.
On the first Sunday of June, the public-affairs show averaged 2.46?million total viewers of all ages but just 687,000 viewers in that key age bracket which was its smallest 25-to-54 demographic performance for a regular broadcast since July of 92. Meet the Press got beat in the demographic by ABC Newss This Week that week the first time it bested both Gregorys show and CBSs Face the Nation in two years.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/tv-column/post/nbc-news-execs-deny-david-gregory-is-out-at-meet-the-press/2012/07/05/gJQATBTLQW_blog.html
It should be replaced by info commercials from the republican party and oil companies.