Any word on the overnight ratings of KO?

[Horse with no Name]

I'm dying to hear how he did in Primetime.

[Fearless]

1. Hopefully it went well,

but I'm not holding out hope that it'll continue even with good ratings. He didn't seem to either, if you caught him later on the football halftime show. Did you see the other thread around here somewhere about it being selectively removed from local stations in favor of local broadcasting? Will the stupidity never end??


Edit: I checked but I don't think the ratings are out.

[splat]

2. It wasn't removed. West Coast was always scheduled for 10 p.m.

Morning buzz got the memo

After writing this morning that Keith Olbermann will have a special edition of “Countdown” on NBC at 4 p.m. Sunday, I got an e-mail from NBC saying the West Coast will actually be on a tape delay and the show will air at 10 p.m. — after the Eagles-Steelers preseason dance. (It looks like this bit of info was erroneous up and down the West Coast this morning, which prompted the NBC follow-up.)

They didn't want it to be on at 4 on a Sunday afternoon.

But it sure is embarrassing that all these posters and blogs didn't check their local listings before leaping to a sinister conclusion.

[Fearless]

3. Well if that's true, then...

:rofl: :rofl:

[TahitiNut]

4. Well, after very little promotion and local affiliate blackouts, what can they expect?

I think we'll see some bizarre takes on this before it's over.

[splat]

9. There weren't many local affiliate blackouts, TahitiNut

There were people who assumed a 4 p.m. start time, but the network was afraid of wasting it on a sunny Sunday afternoon and delayed it till 10 p.m. on the coast. (See my post above for a link.) Local listings had it right, but people didn't check those before going ballistic.

Pittsburgh has a pregame show since their team was playing; not sure about Philadelphia, the other team, but that's to be expected.

[katmondoo]

5. I was a little disappointed in last nights show

Too much fluff

[orleans]

6. i noticed the fluff too--i assumed it was to attract the national audience

:shrug:

[calimary]

8. Undoubtedly it was. After all, this was put side-by-side with a frickin'

football game. They undoubtedly reasoned that nobody would be in a mood for anything too serious. Dumb but probably true, and sadder still, probably reasonably concluded. This is Lowest-Common-Denominatorville, folks.

It wasn't his best, but then we have a different definition of what is Keith Olbermann's best - when fire and smoke come out of his ears during his blistering Special Comments. I thought Mo Rocca and that other alleged comedy guy absolutely sucked. Mo Rocca's attempts at double entendres weren't appropriate for a conventional Sunday night mainstream audience, no matter how scanty the cheerleaders at the football game are dressed. The second guy was "so memorable" that I forgot his name about a second after it was uttered. And he wasn't funny.

And sometimes the events don't help much, either. I remember being the anchor of a new young adult radio network that was supposed to be so groundbreaking and iconoclastic and irreverent with this "Rolling Stone" attitude brought to the news to attract album rock audiences. They were going to debut the network officially on my shift. BIGTIME pressure. My boss told me the newscast had to be "stellar." Unfortunately, the news gods decided to take the day off that day. There was NOTHING in the news. NOTHING. Such dregs that the lead story - on a network covering national news - was how alligator meat was now being offered for sale once again and you could soon be eating gator burgers. I kid you not. It was rather sad. Pathetic. And the news gods stayed asleep all the live-long day. The rest of the day's shifts had no better luck finding interesting leads than I'd had. It was all alligator-burgers all the time for a whole day. Sometimes you can't even buy a break.

[countmyvote4real]

10. Is under or not reported news worthy of discussion?

I'm just asking. That's why I come to DU.

[calimary]

16. Of course it was worthy of discussion. But we all had hoped there'd be

something - um - well, more "meaty" to sink our teeth into, maybe adding the then-unique perspective of what were at the time considered rather outlaw encroachers at NBC News. Some of the mainstreamers at what we called "the straight network" looked at us young whippersnappers from the album rock network as though we had three heads each. It would have been nice to have a rip-snorter of a story to showcase, as told from the views of the alleged "counter-culture". Hey, what did we know? It was 1979.

[Berry Cool]

19. Keith said he wasn't doing this show any different from the rest.

If it wasn't "meaty" enough for some, too bad. But the way he spoke of it, it was a one-shot deal from the start, so he wasn't talking any differently at halftime than he was the previous week.

But he always said he wasn't going to water it down. I don't think he did. Neither did he pack it with every hard news story he had in order to prove a point.

[orleans]

11. i don't remember the last guy's name either -- from soup or something?

i left the room.

and mo? i thought they were taking a chance putting him on live (what was it? ass-less chaps or something? and keith "corrected" him with athlete's chaps)

[broadcaster]

12. Agreed, Rocca was awful, same for 'the other guy.'...

..and did anyone think that Costas and his co-anchor seemed to have zero
compatibility on camera? I thought the show was definitely not that
good, and that the pace was off. Rocca was a mistake, and that
nameless other guy was just as bad. The sports guys should have been
only on for the last two minutes, not 10.

One of the sports guys made that mocking 'is Limbaugh really, of all the
people in the e.n.t.i.r.e world, the worst?' comment which I thought was
stupid to do on his part, but I guess he is a Limbaugh fan, so he had
to stick something in KO's eye.

The first half hour was fine, the last half wasn't. imho

[SoCalDem]

13. Mo Rocca has never been particularly funny.. n/t

[bananarepublican]

15. Instead of 'Poops' they'd much prefer 'Do-doo's. n/t

[SoCalDem]

17. That would make them the G. O. D. party

They already THINK they are..:scared: Don't want to encourage them :)

[calimary]

14. Welcome to DU! Yeah, the sports segment at the end was sheer

circle jerk. He had to do a six-minute promo segment to pimp the football programming considering that the network's NFL coverage is what brought him to the dance this time. No different, really, than the Today Show people profiling some star of a new - surprise! - NBC series premiering that night in prime time. But I thought here, it was inappropriate and just too much. And I'm sure that other guy in there with Bob Costas was indeed a limbot, having given himself away with that lame remark. YES, IDJIT. Maybe this comes as news to you since you clearly have had your ears up your ass for awhile now when it comes to your talk radio choices. Hate to break it to ya, but limbaugh IS the Worst Person in the World. HANDS DOWN. Well, except for billo.

The first half hour was okay, although it seldom scores any points when dana milbank is on. But thank God we didn't have to suffer that simpering male White House Press Monica Richard Wolffe. At least we were spared him. Mo Rocca was dismal. And that other guy - well he made quite a smashing impression on the two of us, 'eh? Neither of us can recall his name. Because he was eminently forgettable. Keith had to bob and weave, but maybe he's kinda like Johnny Carson in such cases. Sometimes Johnny did quite fine when one of his jokes bombed or some clinker happened on the show. Even his chagrin could turn really comical. Keith made the best of a bad thing. OH MY how sweet it would have been, though, if someone like Jonathan Turley was on making pointed remarks about Constitutional violations by the White House. All we had was john warner. Kinda scraping bottom since no blood was drawn, figuratively speaking. That would have been nice, and a good way to get some mileage out of all that exposure to new mainstream audiences.

Oh well. At least he didn't have to lead with alligator burgers.

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. Cris Collinsworth is indeed a Republic

According to Newsmeat, he gave $5,000 to the Republic Party of Kentucky in 2004, $1,000 to Bob Portman's campaign in 2002 and $500 to Jim Bunning's campaign in 1990.

http://www.newsmeat.com/sports_political_donations/Cris_Collinsworth.php

No surprise, really. Jocks and ex-jocks with a political bent tend toward the right, which is apparently how their bosses want it. They'd rather their minions avoid anything political or otherwise controversial at all, but they don't seem to complain much when someone like Curt Schilling says he supports the Wregime and the war.

[anniebelle]

20. Who was that Idjit?

I thought Keith handled it perfectly -- just went on like the moron said nothing! My husband and I watch Keith every week night, but I gotta tell you, when he gets to the celebrity segment, I go get the pets in for the night, put dishes in the dishwasher and get ready for, hopefully, A Special Comment.

[monmouth]

22. I heard that too and loved how Keith totally ignored it...lol.

[mwb970]

25. KO had a short response to the Limbaugh remark.

He said "nominated".

[SeattleGirl]

7. KO always does some fluff.

But the most important thing is, he does some heavy-hitting stuff.

[Berry Cool]

21. Yeah. And personally I like Joel McHale from "The Soup."

That's the guy most of you don't recognize. He's an excellent celebrity-skewerer.

It would have been nice to see someone besides Mo Rocca do the story on containment of presidential protests, but aside from that I had no big problems. And what's wrong with Richard Wolfee? He doesn't strike me as a butt-kisser. Oh well, different strokes and all.

[MonkeyFunk]

23. His MSNBC show has too much fluff....

internet videos, worst person in the world, Michael Musto...

[mwb970]

24. To be fair, Countdown always has fluff.

I usually only watch the first 30-35 minutes. Presumably someone else is just tuning in then, to catch the fluff segments.

I really like it that Hardball is all politics. No fluff on Tweety!