NBC Insider: 'Total Panic' Over Megyn Kelly's Morning Show

[DonViejo]

Megyn Kelly begins her 9 a.m. NBC show in four weeks’ time. NBC colleagues are nervous that the poor showing of her Sunday night current-affairs show will follow her to ‘Today.’

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08.30.17 1:00 AM ET

Four weeks before the Sept. 25 debut of Megyn Kelly Today—the 9 a.m. replacement for the venerable morning show’s third hour, Today’s Take—some NBC insiders are expressing doubts, and even worries, about the network news division’s plan to scrap a reliable long-running program in order to morph the former Fox News anchor and Donald Trump nemesis into an accessible, female-friendly personality for an ethnically diverse daytime viewership. Officially, of course, NBC News is excited and upbeat about the new show, which will feature a live audience in a specially built studio at 30 Rock.

A self-described “combination of Mike Wallace, Oprah Winfrey, and Larry the Cable Guy” (as she famously confided to pernicious conspiracy monger Alex Jones in his leaked audiotape of her telephone pitch to secure an interview for her Sunday magazine show), the 46-year-old Kelly is a gifted broadcaster.

She thrived as a prime-time star on the right-leaning cable channel with a male-skewing viewership—“a TV network for people 55 to dead,” as the late Fox News founder Roger Ailes once joked.

“A lot of people were watching the magazine show to try to get a sense of her appeal to the daytime demographic and a sense of how she would be outside of the Fox environment,” said a veteran daytime television impresario, who noted that the nationwide audience in that time period is not only heavily female but from 25 to 30 percent African American and Latino. “Fox News skews very male… I always tend to think of her as more of a guy’s girl than a girl’s girl… It’s extremely challenging, and I’m not sure Megyn’s personality really connects with women.”

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[haveahart]

1. Now tell me the black women they let go to make room for her.

[joeybee12]

2. She's not any good at what she does

She didn't like the Orange turd so the idiots that be in the media assumed she knew what she was doing. She's nothing more than a con artist like trump

[uponit7771]

7. +1

[joeybee12]

21. thanks

Well, it's not my money she conned me out of

[Proud Liberal Dem]

14. She went back and kissed his ring later though and "apologized" to him for her lack of fealty.

[joeybee12]

20. Yup, a right wing turd. Nt

[tanyev]

3. FFS, what did they think would happen?

Fox viewers would follow her to MSNBC? Rachel Maddow viewers would embrace her? Idjits.

[DonViejo]

4. She was never on MSNBC, it's NBC

[tanyev]

5. Thank you for the correction.

My point still stands, though. In the eyes of the typical Fox viewer they are exactly the same.

[DonViejo]

8. That doesn't mean she won't show up on MSNBC when she flops on the Today show...

but, for now anyway, it's NBC. I'm surprised RT hasn't picked up her contract.

[DetlefK]

6. "Donald Trump Nemesis"???

Behaving like a decent journalist that one time already turns you into a politician's Nemesis???

[monmouth4]

9. Maybe she just needs to look at other job opportunities. n/t

[Dulcinea]

10. Isn't she a lawyer?

She can always go back to the legal profession.

[underpants]

11. Maybe include a glass of wine on the desk

Like Kathy Lee and Hoda do. Seriously, drinking at 10 am?

Being the follow up to the Fox flagship show, O'Reilly, was like a layup drill. Even a dunderhead like Hannity could pull that off.

[Demsrule86]

13. I like Kathy Lee and Hoda...and hey its 5:00 somewhere.

[Demsrule86]

12. I despise Megyn Kelly...she of the 'white Jesus and black Santa pernicious comments

She got viewers in a male skewed audience with short skirts and low cut tops. Everything about her makes me ill. I will not be watching.

[RockaFowler]

15. Personal story here . . .

I'm scared to death that her show will fail. Why?? I work in Sales at an NBC station. If her show tanks, that can ruin the ratings for the rest of the day for us. Especially the afternoon.

[Demsrule86]

17. Well I hope they get rid of her quickly because I just don't think she is a good match for the

NBC audience. She really hurt herself with the Alex Jones thing. She might have been OK if she hadn't started right wing crap right away.

[dhol82]

19. Wonder if she will take down KL and Hoda?

If she becomes a pariah lead-in their numbers will tank also.

Well, at least the local news comes on at eleven.

[SharonClark]

16. Is she still around? I thought she had already been cancelled.

[kstewart33]

18. Kelly will make progress if she remembers one thing.

Women broadcasters and reporters on the mainstream networks and on CNN and MSNBC don't dress like call girls. They dress like professionals in their business.

So if she keeps her cocktail dresses in the closet and her skirts/dresses aren't hiked up four inches above the knees, at least visually she'll make some progress.

[TheBlackAdder]

22. If Tucker Carlson can replace her, and maintain or grow the ratings... it wasn't anything Megyn did.