I've seen a handful weekday daytime NBC special reports simulcast on MSNBC over the years (IIRC, the confirmation of Michael Jackson's death was one such example), and I've never gotten a sense of rhyme or reason behind when or why those happen.
Late at night and on the weekend, I assume that it's because they only have one camera-ready person on hand and/or only enough staff to run one control room. IIRC, Mara Schiavocampo, who did the late night special reports for the West, Texas explosion and for the Boston manhunt is also the host of "Early Today." On 20 April 2013 02:31, Jim Ellwanger <train...@ellwanger.tv> wrote: > On Apr 19, 2013, at 11:06 PM, Wesley (in Colorado) wrote: > > > OK, this is a topic I can irresponsibly speculate on safely without > facts or evidence, so I shall. It might be an artifact of corporate > structure when MSNBC was a separate division from NBC News, itself an > artifact from when Microsoft owned a percentage of it. (It's still a > sister-division today.) Or it might be affiliate relations. > > > > Anyway, I do not get MSNBC yet so I could not see how they performed, or > how much their coverage diverged from NBC's, but I do agree NBC News did a > good job of coverage. > > Since I was up too late watching it, I can tell you that the special > report that aired on NBC early Friday morning from 3:15 to 4:00 > Eastern/12:15 to 1:00 Pacific originated from MSNBC, which is something > I've seen happen before during "off hours." > > I guess the policy is that they'll simulcast MSNBC over on NBC, but they > won't simulcast NBC over on MSNBC. I'm thinking you might be on to > something with the "affiliate relations" idea, that they've promised the > affiliates that live NBC News-with-a-capital-N programming will stay > exclusive to the broadcast network -- so they don't have to worry about, > for example, MSNBC cannibalizing "Today" viewership by simulcasting it at > 7:00 Eastern, with no local news/weather/commercial inserts. > > -- > Jim Ellwanger <train...@ellwanger.tv> > <http://www.ellwanger.tv> > > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- David J. Lynch djly...@gmail.com -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
