MSNBC will be choosing the host of a prime-time news show soon.

[blackangrydem]

Norville is leaving.

Who will replace her?


Norville Signs Off MSNBC


By Allison Romano -- Broadcasting & Cable, 12/17/2004 11:22:00 AM

Deborah Norville, who does double duty hosting an MSNBC show and syndicated magazine Inside Edition, is ending her cable news show in mid-January. She will continue to host Inside Edition.

Her Deborah Norville Tonight, which airs weeknights at 9 p.m., runs a distant third against its cable news competitors Larry King Live on CNN and Fox News’ Hannity & Colmes. She routinely attracts less than 300,000 viewers, compared to King’s 1 million-plus viewers and Hannity & Colmes’ regularly pulling in more than 2 million viewers.


In a note to staffers, Norville said juggling two shows and her family proved too much. ‘Time constraints prevented me from being able to book guests and research segments to my own high standards,” she said. “And, unless someone invents a time-stretching machine, that likely won't change.”

MSNBC President Rick Kaplan is searching for a replacement show. This is his first opportunity to develop a new prime time show since he took over the third-place cable news channel last February.

[lazarus]

1. Falwell?

The ghost of McCarthy? Coulter? I'm sure they'll pick a nice moderate person like that. :eyes:

[NMDemDist2]

2. Let's start an email campaign to draft Ed Schulz

he'd be great!

[Celeborn Skywalker]

14. I'm up for that

I love Ed Schultz and try to catch him on the radio when I can. He'd be perfect for reaching out to middle America.

[LittleClarkie]

19. He made me cry today

saying that these people are destroying the values that make America great.

He said the soldier who asked Rummy the question should be man of the year. In one fell swoop, he brought the past, present and future of this war into focus.

I just discovered Ed this week. So happy to have a liberal voice to listen to.

[Northern Experiment]

23. If Big Ed get a tv show....

I'll be EXTREMELY happy!
He is the only thing I listen to on the radio, period. (Don't listen to the radio garbage music just my cds.) I would be sure to watch the show or record it everynight.

[Shopaholic]

3. The gossip says that it's going to be someone with

hard-news credentials--someone surprising is the rumor. Go read the latest at www.tvnewser.com

[AmerDem]

22. Well, I sure hope Kaplan doesn't pick another repuke

time will tell I guess. Kaplan does have a good Dem. record but it's more of what GE is looking for.

[Liberty Belle]

25. would Moyers come out of retirement?

[blackangrydem]

4. Will MSNBC try to lure John Stewart

away from the Comedy Channel?

Money talks, and he would get good ratings.

[BrainRants]

10. Send Stewert to FAUX and replace girly man Colmes

I'd pay god money to see Stewart make inSannity look like a knucklehead and every night.

[pbartch]

29. They should choose BILL CLINTON

I would watch him every night.

[onecitizen]

5. They wouldn't have this trouble if..........

they had LEFT PHIL DONAHUE alone!!:mad:

[BrainRants]

7. No Shit!

Phil had a great show and could have gone toe-to-toe with O'Liely given half the chance.

Norville had a nice face but she's a shit-for-brains as a host. Send her back to her little entertainment gig and get her the hell off anything resembling news.

[blackangrydem]

9. If a pretty face is not enough is Paula Zahn worried?

[BrainRants]

12. She's a small step above Norville...

but not much. IMHO both are tabloid "journalists" (used very loosely!)

[blackangrydem]

15. with similarly poor ratings

[JerseygirlCT]

18. Why did they pull him?

I thought it was a good show.

[LiviaOlivia]

6. Mr. Kaplan (you corporate whore) choose a LIBERAL.

How about Joe Conason? He's got a great voice and mind. Also he is better looking than that PIG-EYED Scarborough.

Be brave. Take a chance.

Yours truly,

An All-American Lefty from way back.

[newsguyatl]

8. kaplan's a democrat

and a very smart man... and i have an inkling he'll do what's smart.

msnbc has a real chance to become the un-fox.

sooner or later, they'll get it.

[LiviaOlivia]

11. Kaplan got Imus for "That Speech" against Clinton .

If Kaplan is a Liberal/Progressive before he is a "Do anything for a Position/Paycheck" he will have to prove it.

He won't.

[LittleClarkie]

20. Conason!

Yes. I love his salon.com stuff.

[Nordic]

26. Conason would be awesome

IMHO

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

13. Her show gets on my nerves anyway. How about Ron Reagan?

I know he's supposed to be co-hosting a show on MSNBC (sort of their version of Hannity & Colmes, right?).

[bullimiami]

16. dont watch it. dont care.

i cant stomach corporate news, especially cable. whatever.

[Im_Your_Huckleberry]

17. i remember when she started out

as a cub reporter at a local chicago station.

[in_cog_ni_to]

21. Get Phil Donahue back!!!

Yeah, right. When hell freezes over. :(

[propagandafreegal]

24. She is leaving because the Scott Peterson case is over. That is all she

ever talked about.

[TheDonkey]

27. Ron Reagan, Al Sharpton, Al Franken ;)

Definetly needs a liberal show to shake things up but I'm prepared for the Fallwell Factor or Coulter Live

[eSTIV]

28. I VOTE FOR

BILL CROWLEY !!!

MISTER CROWLEYYYYYYYY!!!!