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General Category => Sports/Entertainment/MSM/Social Media => Topic started by: mystery-ak on August 19, 2013, 06:08:18 pm
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http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/19/msnbc-replaces-5-p-m-broadcast-of-chris-matthews-hardball-with-the-ed-show/ (http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/19/msnbc-replaces-5-p-m-broadcast-of-chris-matthews-hardball-with-the-ed-show/)
MSNBC replaces 5 p.m. broadcast of Chris Matthews’ ‘Hardball’ with ‘The ED Show’
12:05 PM 08/19/2013
Jeff Poor
On Monday, MSNBC announced that on weekdays, the 5 p.m. ET broadcast of “Hardball” hosted by Chris Matthews will be replaced with “The ED Show,” hosted by Ed Schultz.
“Chris Matthews and the ‘Hardball’ team have been pulling double duty for years,” MSNBC President Phil Griffin said in a tstatement. “This move will concentrate the ‘Hardball’ audience to one key time period and enhance the flow of our evening programming. Ed Schultz is a force of nature and an important voice to the MSNBC audience. I can’t wait to have him back on weeknights.”
“The ED Show” has held numerous time slots in its four-year history at MSNBC. It debuted at 6 p.m. in April 2009. In January 2011, with the departure of Keith Olbermann from the network, “The ED Show” was moved to 10 p.m. In October 2011, “The ED Show” swapped time slots with Lawrence O’Donnell’s program, “The Last Word” and aired at 8 p.m. ET.
Last May, however, “The ED Show” was moved to weekends and Schultz’s 8 p.m. time slot was given to Chris Hayes for his “All In” program.
“Hardball,” the release reads, ”will continue at 7 p.m. ET.”
Schultz will have some tough competition at 5 p.m. ET, going up against Fox News Channel’s “The Five,” which has been dominating MSNBC’s “Hardball” and CNN’s “The Situation Room” since its premiere in July 2011.
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The idjits at MSNBC somehow think the country just can't live without the rantings of this fat lefty. He's never done well, anywhere, and he'll be at the bottom of the ratings barrel again in no time.
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Different guy, same straightjacket.
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Mental disorders, whether they are associated with alchohol or not aren't going to be percieved that much differently by the public at large. If anything, ed's rantings are even more irrelevant than chrisie's
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They'd get higher ratings with reruns of "Mr. Ed."
Helloooo, Wilbur!
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They'd get higher ratings with reruns of "Mr. Ed."
Helloooo, Wilbur!
They'd get more intelligent conversation, too. :smokin:
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They'd get more intelligent conversation, too. :smokin:
A dope is a dope, as dumb as soap
And no one should talk to a dope, I hope
But I'd say "nope" unless the dope is the crazy Mr. Ed.
He's mentally unfit, just ask the twit
He'll give you an answer that's full of shit
He's always on a ranting bit
Talk to Mr. Ed.