Rush gone from WRKO

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Fri, 22 May 2015 16:07:58 -0400, "Don" <Donald_Astelle@Yahoo.com> said:

>> From: "Larry Weil"
>> 
>> In part this is because many cable and satellite systems carry MSNBC on a
>> higher tier than Fox News, and thus fewer people are able to watch
>> MSNBC...

> Is this the cause...or the effect?

Neither.

If NBC wanted to use its retrans-consent muscle to get better carriage
for MSNBC, as Fox does for its channels, they certainly could.  But
NBC being owned by Comcast puts them in a rather different situation
both legally and economically -- and it's also pretty clear that NBC
doesn't actually care *that* much about MSNBC's carriage, as compared
to their other properties like USA and CNBC.  (Leaving sports networks
out of it as that's a totally different marketplace driven more by
play-by-play rights than anything.)

-GAWollman