Lauer’s obvious replacement?

[PCLoadLetter]

I think he’s good at what he does. Not sure he’s a great fit for mornings, where soft news rules.

ABC already has this problem. Not sure why CBS is joining them.

CBS has tried to differentiate itself in the morning by not doing as much soft news as the other two. This fits with that, but I'm not sold on the move.

 

[User 149557]

"Don't call it a comeback!" -Bob Schieffer screaming on Les Moonves' answering machine

 

[exmediahack]

John Dickerson.

Nice, nice man.

With the personality to match.

He's the Chris Myers of news.

 

[DanOregon]

CBS News seems to have a bunch of people who fit that profile. Pelley is as close as they came to having an alpha personality (male or female). All of the networks seem to have moved away from making their anchors the face of their news operations. They are all replaceable.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

CBS News seems to have a bunch of people who fit that profile. Pelley is as close as they came to having an alpha personality (male or female). All of the networks seem to have moved away from making their anchors the face of their news operations. They are all replaceable.

CBS certainly did that with Jeff Glor, who is ****ing awful.

 

[Webster]

John Dickerson.

Nice, nice man.

With the personality to match.

He's the Chris Myers of news.

He's great. The Whistlestop and Face the Nation Diary podcasts are must listens for me.

 

[Liut]

I'm a Face the Nation regular and think Dickerson was in his wheelhouse. This is a mistake, IMHO.

I've continued to watch CBS This Morning after Rose's firing. However, that's about to end. I cannot stand Gayle King anymore. She editorializes too much and has long had issues reading the teleprompter. And it's just my opinion, but she's way too close to Oprah Winfrey. I get the friendship but, professionally, I feel it's a conflict. That and vacationing with her and the Obamas. It's a bad look, but she's got CBS by its balls. What is it going to do? Get rid of her?

I sent in diary information last week. Deadline was Jan 17. If selected, I guess it will be for the February sweeps. CBS This Morning won't be getting any love from me.

 

[Liut]

CBS News seems to have a bunch of people who fit that profile. Pelley is as close as they came to having an alpha personality (male or female). All of the networks seem to have moved away from making their anchors the face of their news operations. They are all replaceable.

I'm with you for the most part, but Norah O'Donnell often shows more stones than her male counterparts. She grilled Michael Wolff pretty hard Monday morning.

 

[YankeeFan]

I'm with you for the most part, but Norah O'Donnell often shows more stones than her male counterparts. She grilled Michael Wulff pretty hard Monday morning.

Wulff.

@typefitter is going to have a heart attack.

 

[Liut]

Wulff.

@typefitter is going to have a heart attack.

LOL! I was just about to edit it, YF, but you were too damn fast!

 

[PCLoadLetter]

I'm a Face the Nation regular and think Dickerson was in his wheelhouse. This is a mistake, IMHO.

I've continued to watch CBS This Morning after Rose's firing. However, that's about to end. I cannot stand Gayle King anymore. She editorializes too much and has long had issues reading the teleprompter. And it's just my opinion, but she's way too close to Oprah Winfrey. I get the friendship but, professionally, I feel it's a conflict. That and vacationing with her and the Obamas. It's a bad look, but she's got CBS by its balls. What is it going to do? Get rid of her?

I sent in diary information last week. Deadline was Jan 17. If selected, I guess it will be for the February sweeps. CBS This Morning won't be getting in love from me.

Gayle's only got a conflict if Oprah runs, and Oprah's not going to run.

(And for what it's worth, I've never liked Gayle's presence on that show. She was originally the light news/entertainment anchor who came in at 8am and at some point they expended that role. I don't think she adds anything.)

 

[exmediahack]

CBS certainly did that with Jeff Glor, who is ****ing awful.

As you well know, PCLL, they have a different audience. CBS is a little older, a little safer. They've been this way going back to Raymond and CSI (which is modern Matlock).

I think there is a market for morning news that isn't the ABC fluff or NBC's endless self importance. It's just that CBS almost always gets someone else's castoffs.

 

[DanOregon]

It is kind of odd how I can't remember when CBS primetime finished third or lower and it's been a good thirty years since their Morning and Evening news have been above third.

 

[sgreenwell]

It is kind of odd how I can't remember when CBS primetime finished third or lower and it's been a good thirty years since their Morning and Evening news have been above third.

I think for the past 20 years or so, they've been content to just put out formulaic shows that draw big, older audiences. Might not get the same ad rates than if they had the highest share of 18-35 viewers, but it's still a healthy, stable amount of revenue for them to cater to. In a way, they kind of remind me of Nintendo, who never really has the cutting edge gaming machine, but they're almost always profitable and do what they know.

 

[User 149557]

All this discussion of targeting older viewers makes me wonder if Netflix, Hulu or Amazon will ever go after the syndicated game show audience. They're the one television program that almost seems enhanced by commercials. The ads give a break between puzzles or rounds. And I'm not sure if people would watch Jeopardy, The Price Is Right or Wheel of Fortune on a streaming service. I do use Amazon to watch old episodes of Press Your Luck and Family Feud as a lark every once in a while, but I wouldn't watch them daily like I used to watch Jeopardy and The Price Is Right religously as a kid and during college.

 

[DanOregon]

Dan Patrick and Sports Jeopardy agree with this. (Though I do think they ran ad breaks between segments when it was on Crackle).

 

[User 149557]

Dan Patrick and Sports Jeopardy agree with this. (Though I do think they ran ad breaks between segments when it was on Crackle).

That sh0w didn't work because the questions were too easy.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

And half the show was the "tell me about yourself" stuff, which is insufferable.

 

[sgreenwell]

All this discussion of targeting older viewers makes me wonder if Netflix, Hulu or Amazon will ever go after the syndicated game show audience. They're the one television program that almost seems enhanced by commercials. The ads give a break between puzzles or rounds. And I'm not sure if people would watch Jeopardy, The Price Is Right or Wheel of Fortune on a streaming service. I do use Amazon to watch old episodes of Press Your Luck and Family Feud as a lark every once in a while, but I wouldn't watch them daily like I used to watch Jeopardy and The Price Is Right religously as a kid and during college.

Game shows and the weekly procedural (CSI, NCIS, Law and Order, etc.) strike me as the two genres that are particularly ill-suited for streaming, just because there isn't a lot of incentive to just sit around and watch them all in a row. I mean, I'll get sucked into a L&O marathon on Ion or TNT, but they're so saturated on various channels I'm not sure there is much value to Netflix or Hulu making their own.

 

[justgladtobehere]

I think for the past 20 years or so, they've been content to just put out formulaic shows that draw big, older audiences. Might not get the same ad rates than if they had the highest share of 18-35 viewers, but it's still a healthy, stable amount of revenue for them to cater to. In a way, they kind of remind me of Nintendo, who never really has the cutting edge gaming machine, but they're almost always profitable and do what they know.

The shows do relatively well in syndication because the episodes can stand alone and CBS also produces most (all?) of the shows so its gets money from that source on top of the network run.