Question of the Weekend…
If you had the power to do so, what one CNBC program would you pull off the air and why?
August 19, 2006
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Conversations with Michael Eisner…dry,dry,dry!
Comment by gdawg — August 19, 2006 @ 4:43 pm
Never watch it………….
Comment by jan — August 19, 2006 @ 4:59 pm
Deal or No Deal - I’ll take dry, dry, dry over superficial anyday.
Comment by Jon — August 19, 2006 @ 6:32 pm
Well you can’t really “pull” any of CNBC’s programming off the air (at least whatever airs from 4am to 5pm). But then we have K&C, which is pretty good (and gets good #s), Mad Money (I love the show, a lot hate it though), On The Money (it’s gotten tremendously better compared to when it first launched), Donny Deutsch (used to be really good, now its just very “tabloidy”), CNBC Prime (meh), Fast Money (my new favourite CNBC program…its great, although not the biggest ratings draw), Survival Guides (VERY, VERY interesting to watch), Suze Orman (a LOT of people don’t like her advice, but her show is pretty entertaining and beats the informercials that air on the show otherwise), High Net Worth (I’m too poor to enjoy that show), and as #1 mentioned, Eisner’s disgusting show.
Out of everything, his show has been a BOMB, even by CNBC standards. I can’t believe they’ve left him on this long…did anyone watch the most recent one when he was interviewing Jimmy Kimmel? Them sitting at the table was SO, SO awkard…terrible stuff.
Comment by Anonymous — August 19, 2006 @ 7:16 pm
Technially you can pull a show off the air during that time. It’s true that it’s just live business news but the formats differ between the programs. So if you pull a program you are pulling a format. But I was referring more to the non business day shows than the business day shows.
Comment by Spud — August 19, 2006 @ 9:39 pm
The Donny Deutsch program is a total donkey — it’s gotta go.
Comment by Peter — August 20, 2006 @ 12:15 am
Deutsch himself is a donkey!
Comment by Missy — August 20, 2006 @ 12:42 am
Sorry, I have never watched any of its programs. And I notice hardly anybody does either. So, does it really matter? Maybe they need to pull the whole plug off.
Comment by RGL — August 20, 2006 @ 8:47 am
^^^^
So, you’ve never watched but think they should pull the plug?
Comment by Terance — August 20, 2006 @ 9:10 am
Deutsch is supposedly a ‘legendary ad man’ in nyc, but none of this alleged advertising ‘wisdom’ seems to have translated to the show. He’d be a lot better off focusing on the back story, behind the scenes aspects of prominent issues, the PR/Marcom macro-perspective. Bring in people like Douglas Rushkoff, Todd Gitlin, Scott Bedbury, or even Noam Chomsky, as regular analysts. No one’s doing anything like this in the media today. It would be like pulling back the curtain on the ‘Great and Powerful Oz’ though, and the powers that be would probably chafe at revealing too many of their tricks-of-the-trade to the public. Most viewers, I would imagine, would never look at mass communications the same way again…
Comment by George — August 20, 2006 @ 9:14 am
1) Kudlow and Company
2) The Big Idea w/Deutch– replace it with a rerun of the 8pm show
3) Conversations w/ Eisner
Comment by ejnkight — August 31, 2006 @ 9:57 pm
I think CNBC should ADD a new show, not cut an existing one. How about “Bad Money”. And make it really dicey and dark and shoot the show in black and white and get Dylan Ratigan to wear a black, sharkskin suit with a black shirt and a white tie - gangster style. Maria Bartiroma could co-anchor the show, wearing a black leather bustier with full cleavage showing. Ratigan and Bartiromo could cover the underbelly of the financial world. It would be great!! Lord knows CNBC could use the jolt. Oh ya, and Dylan could sign on and off by saying, THIS IS DYLAN “THE RAT” RATIGAN”.
Oh well, I guess a gal can dream.
Comment by Lindy M. — September 4, 2006 @ 6:40 am