Give it up RosieFollow

I'm willing to pay NBC $5 a month to keep Rosie off the air. I'm sure there are enough other people willing to do the same they can just leave that hour blank and still make more money then Ms. O'Donnell would bring in.

She's gonna kick Larry's *** with gems like that.

Say what you will, but her being on The View raised viewership. /shrug

Why would that puzzle you? It's a totally different audience.

To me, a talk show is more suited for radio, because of the design of television. Allow me to explain.


I watch television to watch something that would ultimately be too difficult or unrealistic to explain on radio. However, talk shows, while having a great range of different emotions, doesn't require a visual. I don't need to *see* Dr. Drew talk on his show 'Love Line' to get the crux of what he is talking about.

Gays don't fade away. They go out in style.

Depends on which.

Opie and Anthony, Howard stern and Imus got great ratings and they are a talk show on the radio. Then again they are not your everyday talk show.

Ratings went up so much when she was on the View, I guess we have to get used to her. I think she is petty but damnit, she may be the only honest woman on television.

And I disagree with the above poster who doesn't explain why Oprah is the only black billionaire in the US and she's self-made, mostly from her daytime talk show.

Edited, Nov 6th 2007 8:07pm by Annabella

Oprah is the exception. She has done very well for herself. But she slowly built her show up. Look her up and see just how long she has been doing this. And besides, she is not exclusive to just one network. Her show runs on a 3 day delay(Generally), and is not a same day show like "The View" is. And she is able to distribute her show to any station that wants her(some restrictions on that one), which is why she has made her show so damn huge. "The View" cannot do such, since "The View" is ABC specific. Oprah is not restricted to the same constrants as "The View", as she can network herself globally to any station.


And her show isn't restricted to the same time slot everyday like "The View" is. Whatever local stations has the rights to air her show, can play with when they air her show during the day, to maximize ratings.

You can't really compare Oprah to Rosie or "The View". Because if the OP is correct than Rosie will be held to the same restrictions as "The View".

But my statement that Daytime TV and Late Night TV aren't held to high standards like Primetime, is completely correct. Oprah just knows how to be a businesswoman, she is the exception to it all.

Edited, Nov 6th 2007 6:40pm by Nuhnisgodly

I actually like Rosie O'Donnell. I'd be willing to watch the show.

Well Annabella, MSNBC isn't in the same setting as Oprah's show or daytime TV. MSNBC is cable and satellite, they have more leway(sp?) with what they can air. They don't need huge numbers to keep their shows on air, at any part of the day. But they will pull a show if it fails to pull numbers regardless. It's far more competitive outside of Cable and Satellite, when you need advertisers money to keep you afloat. MSNBC relies mainly on the money NBC pulls in from all its holdings, like Universal for instance. If MSNBC does low enough numbers for a few years, NBC will yank that network itself eventually.

So basically MSNBC doesn't have to worry about its numbers really, until it becomes a complete drain on NBC, then it will have to worry about them.

I don't know the overall numbers of MSNBC, as I am in the affiliate networks demo. And MSNBC's numbers do not show up on the overall ratings every week.

But my point is this: Oprah's show isn't timeslot/network specific, which means she can pull in huge numbers. Due to each station in the USA being free to air her show at any time during the day(except during network timeslots). Rosies show(if the OP is correct) will not be up for syndication(unless NBC decides to syndicate her show), and constrained to specific timeslots and aired exclusively on a certian network. Exactly like "The View" is.

And due to the fact that Oprah slowly built up her fan/viewer base over time, and has a huge viewer base. She is able to pull in huge numbers. Rosie on the otherhand has only a fraction of Oprah's fan/viewer base, due in most part to her dumb remarks, she is famous for. In which case she will have to work harder, much harder than Oprah has to get a bigger fan/viewer base. Which in turn puts her show in jeopardy from the moment it goes on air.

Other examples of how daytime talk shows don't need to pull in huge numbers:

Ellen
Tyra
Jerry Springer
Maury
Montel
and so on.....

...to stay on air. As mediocre numbers do just fine. And the major networks center themselves around Primetime. As do all your local stations. It's only when shows due low numbers that they start getting yanked from stations/networks. Anyone remember "The Jane Pauley show"? Anyone still see "Dr. Keith Ablow" on your local station? Most likely not, since those shows did such low numbers that they got yanked from stations. My station had "Ellen" for a whole 2 months before it got yanked.

Rosie can only hope for mediocre numbers, and even so being on the network she will be on, she will only need mediocre numbers to stay on air. I seriously doubt she will even touch the threshold of Oprah, and I don't think she'll be heard from that much, if at all.

Bah, let her have her show, let everyone ignore it, and let's hope she fades away.

Yeah, but she'll have more freedom with those comments on Cable/Satellite than she did on "The View". Which will most likely be the reason she takes the job.