Rush gone from WRKO

[Jibguy@aol.com]

And I can't see Comcast wanting to "up the circulation" for msnbc until  
they're able to conservative-ize it.
----BB
 
 
In a message dated 5/22/2015 5:19:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
wollman@bimajority.org writes:

<<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