[quote name=\'FOXSportsFan\' date=\'Feb 24 2006, 03:37 PM\']Query for you folks: If Countdown didn't have to go up against the Faux Factor on Faux News Channel, ya think that might increase primetime ratings for MSNBC?
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[/quote]Off-topic, but: Bill O'Reilly, of all people, is petitioning for MSNBC to get rid of Keith Olbermann and replace him with the man Keith replaced: Phil Donahue. I don't have the raw numbers, but I've been told that Countdown is actually getting
lower ratings than what Donahue was doing when he got cancelled. Talk about Most Ridiculous Item of the Day...
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Feb 24 2006, 06:02 PM\']... NBC is so dependent on that stuff to do monster ratings (and I'm sure it gives them an excuse to suck even more money out of advertisers) that they feel it has to air in prime time nationwide. ...
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[/quote]Well, NBC did shell out over $600M for the rights to these games. They have to do what they do to turn a profit.
[quote name=\'CaseyAbell\' date=\'Feb 24 2006, 10:34 PM\']EDIT: Oh dear, there's an obvious joke involving Johnsons and...forget it.
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[/quote]You've all been watching too much MG98 again, haven't you? ;-p