Comments on: The Hazards of Live TV: #24,935

by: don

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:12:25 +0000

omg omg i see cnn in a background monitoer on msnbc while harball is broadcasting live from 30rock tonight is this a hazzard to?

by: Kevin

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:41:42 +0000

Here’s the video…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EmIvbfFe7M

by: puck

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:03:38 +0000

Somebody forget to change a channel?

by: Ira

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:17:40 +0000

Until recently Dennis Neale was a regular on “Forbes On Fox” so maybe he was a tad homesick!

by: oldold

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:58:10 +0000

Christ, is Fox that desperate that someone watches CNBC all day just looking for FBN in the background?

by: Dead Air

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:31:42 +0000

CNBC has monitors that ring the whole newsroom from east wall (that monitor over Kneale’s shoulder is over an entry way) all the way to the west wall. Maybe twelve monitors in all, that carry a variety of channels, and yes the competition. MS, CNN, FOX, FBN, Bloomberg, CNBC World. Fairly standard for any network to monitor its competition. Spud, you were inside the facility, you should know this.

You guys are making much more out of this than it needs to be.

by: Chris

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:32:16 +0000

Nick, a very faint and barely noticeable screen in the background of a competing network is to pump up ratings? I guess I could see the point that it shouldn’t be on while you’re on your own network, but what about all the times MSNBC has screens of CNN and whatnot behind their anchors depending on the position they are at in the set?

by: Anonymous

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:47:35 +0000

#2…what a bunch of jibberish for a relatively light issue…

by: Nick D.

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:30:45 +0000

Hey…if MSNBC can grab video to star Bill O’Reilly nightly to pump up the pathetic “Countdown” ratings, where would you expect CNBC to grab their stuff from???

Under Capus, NBC News in all its forms just keep sinking to lower and lower levels, although you gotta be really loathsome to bury yourself below superimposing the NBC logo all over The Virginia Tech mass murderer’s home video {like it was a masterstroke of “journalism” to have a homicidal maniac pick you out of the cable stew to mail it to}….

I know….all mass media constantly check each other out every minute…but to broadcast the fact is junior high professionalism.

by: Aaron

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:02:09 +0000

I guess someone is watching FBN.