FTVLive (subscription required) tells of a "storm brewing between NBC executives and MSNBC’s resident DC veteran Tammy Haddad just as the network approaches Election Day." The must-read zine adds, "FTVLive hears she’s being forced out despite her new deal."
Wow. The gist of it is that Haddad is unhappy with her MSNBC gig and that she wants more power at NBC. But TCG reckons that Haddad won't get anything if she gets fired first.
Undeniably, Haddad is talented. But just as undeniably, she is turf-conscious, aggressive, and difficult to work with, or for. Indeed, her enemies are legion among former employers, which include both CNN and FNC. So when FTV reports, "Tammy spends half her days bad-mouthing [DC Bureau Chief Tim} Russert to anyone who will listen in hopes of grabbing some power at the network level"--plenty of TV veterans say to themselves, "Yup, that's Tammy's m.o."
And of course, this is the wrong time to be rocking the boat at NBC, which is in downsizing mode. Sources tell TCG that part of Haddad's problem is that she is not in tune with the new mood at NBC, which is cut-cut-cut, including cuts at those two over-costly and under-performing step-child networks, MSNBC and CNBC. Perhaps Haddad needs to understand that empire-building is even harder and riskier when the overall NBC empire is shrinking so dramatically.
With more cuts looming in the future, TCG hears.
