By now, most people have heard that NBC, under the brilliant leadership of Jeff Zucker and Bob Wright, is announcing huge staff cuts.
Remember the days when NBC offspring MSNBC was going to be wave of the future? You know, teaming up with Microsoft? Remember the MTV-ish vibe that MSNBC had back then? That was long ago and far away, even if, in fact, it was 1996.
Meanwhile, Broadcasting & Cable reports that parent company NBC is thinking about "scrapping all of MSNBC's live programming and switching to a taped, magazine-like format, while switching successful personalities Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann over to sibling CNBC's primetime slate."
I guess "successful" is a relative term, over there in NBC cable newsland.
