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Friday: FBN, CNN's Caucus Coverage and more
January 4, 2008
By Alex Weprin
[That’s Like, Not Good, Right?] Fox Business Network has had a rough few months, while the kinks of launching a new TV network have been ironed out; it appears as though no one may be watching. According to the NY Times, about 6,300 people a day on average watch the network, or just about 2%, yes, 2,%, of CNBC’s audience. Nielsen measures the audience, but has not released the numbers publicly; both CNBC and FBN purchased the ratings reports. Worth noting however that the measurements do not count workplace TV sets.
[Behind the Obamabee (Huckobama?)] Brian Stelter of the NY Times spent the Iowa caucuses in CNN’s New York City newsroom. His report is really interesting, and gives you a pretty good sense of what was going on behind the scenes there. There were also some juicy tidbits such as this: “At 9:25 p.m., the cable news network MSNBC called the race for Mr. Obama. Officially, the CNN producers don’t care. But they can’t help but glance at the monitors on the wall showing the competition. CNN had just entered a commercial break.”
Whoops! CNN called it for Obama a few minutes later.
[Oy, Irony] There may be another WGA strike in the works. This time however, it’s the employees of the WGA that may be striking. The east coast branch of the WGA has unionized coordinators and assistants, who ratified a new agreement with the guild in October. They say that the WGAE changed the content of the contract after it was ratified, and have since refused to sign it, filing a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board. A WGA spokesperson said that the contract dispute was not affecting the strike.
[A War Over Words] Jay Leno is in trouble with the WGA for writing his monologue on his return to the airwaves. The WGA says it breaks the rules, NBC says no it doesn’t. Nikke (24/7) Finke says that Leno met with WGA leadership in a meeting Monday, and they said they would look the other way. It is turning into a messy situation, and it looks like the lawyers are getting involved to sort the whole thing out.
[And CBS With The Interception!] CSTV, CBS’ college sports network, is being folded into CBS Sports, tightening the network’s grip in the network. The move is seen by some as an extension of the network competition between CSTV and ESPNU, ESPN’s college sports network.
Posted by BC Crawler on January 4, 2008 | Comments (0)
