Report: Ed Schultz out at MSNBC

[onehandle]

Source: Inforum

Ed Schultz's "The Ed Show," a news commentary program on MSNBC, is being canceled as part of a shakeup in its afternoon lineup, the website Mediaite reported overnight.

The article says a “well-placed” source claims MSNBC will make the announcement today.

In addition to former Fargo sportscaster’s show, "The Cycle" and "Now with Alex Wagner" are also being canceled, the report states.

Schultz began his broadcasting career in the 1980s as a sportscaster with WDAY and rose to prominence with "News and Views" and the syndicated "The Ed Schultz Show" on KFGO AM. He still owns a home near Detroit Lakes, Minn.

Read more: http://www.inforum.com/news/3802941-report-ed-schultz-out-msnbc

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I'm beginning to believe that the Keith Olbermann rumor has legs. Big election coming up. They could use that notorious of a personality.

I remember when I was one of the few Ed boosters here a few years ago. I was told at DU that he was a 'secret Republican.'

[onecaliberal]

1. Really. What the hell he's practically the only one worth watching.

[brush]

3. They've been trying to get rid of Ed for a while now

For some reason they don't like his blue-collar appeal and audience.

Have you heard that Chuck Toad is getting his time slot.

He's going to bring those ratings down just like he's doing for Meet the Press.

Guess they'll also bring back David Gregory too.

[onecaliberal]

36. What! No, I didn't hear that. I will seriously block

The whole fucking station from my teevee if they put Upchuck Toad on there.

[brush]

56. "Upchuck Toad" — Hah hah hah . . .

I love that.

And you can bet I won't be watching either.

[roguevalley]

62. I love ed. is he still on sirius or whatever it is? I will have to get it.

[onecaliberal]

67. No, he's no longer on the radio.

OS, gave me a tip about another couple of folks worth listening to. I will be getting it too.

[hollysmom]

2. Yeah replaced by Todd, well, this sounds like a good hour to walk the dog before dinner.

[Botany]

4. Ed had a good run but he was better suited for the 8:00 PM time slot

I wish big Eddy well and hope he keeps on speaking out along w/
hunting, fishing, flying his planes, and running his businesses.

Chuck Todd are you kidding me?

[LittleGirl]

21. +1 n/t

[Jimbo S]

5. Nuts!

He was my favorite on MSNBC (albeit I don't watch it that much). I don't have the opportunity to watch him much since his move to the afternoons, I don't get from work early enough.

I think he is the one with the best appeal to working class people.

[whathehell]

80. Ed is the only MSNBC host to discuss Unions and the TPP

The only supposedly "progressive" show to discuss Economic issues -- Is this why he's being canned?

[Mass]

6. Firing them will not fix the problem if they do not add a fundamentally different concept

The problem with MSNBC is that each show repeats what the other one is saying, with mostly the same guests and the same stories. It gets boring.

[LittleGirl]

22. +1 n/t

[groundloop]

26. EXACTLY.... I've been saying that too.

I don't care to watch for three hours while the 2 or 3 topics-de-jour are discussed over and over and over. As much as I hate to say it they need to copy some basic concepts from Faux as far as presenting a broad range of stories all the way from human interest to politics, with a splattering of in-depth analysis from Rachel thrown in. IMO THAT would make it worth watching.

[Cleita]

35. You are so right, but Ed always tries to put something of interest up

on labor and other topics besides what the rest are huffing about so his show is more interesting, to me anyway. I think MSNBC really likes going with just a couple of stories sucking up the news cycle 24/7. Maybe it's cheaper for them not to have to send out teams of reporters to chase down stories. After all they have sponsors like Boeing giving them money. Have you ever asked yourself why Boeing advertises? It's not like the majority of us are going to run out and buy a jet.

[JDPriestly]

50. Very, very good point about Boeing.

They buy time to exert influence. That's the only reason.

They want political influence. Bernie is so right about the billionaires, the oligarchs.

They even control what news stories get covered.

Ed Schultz is a big loss to all of America even those who don't watch his show.

He was just about the only person on television who really cared about working people's problems.

The only one.

[lark]

7. Fuck MSNBC

Ed is the main populist in their programming, the working class equivalent to the more cerebral Rachel. They keep taking away the populists and progressives and giving sharks like Andrea Mitchell and Todd more airtime when they totally suck and are truly in the 1%ers camp. This will just mean I spend even less time watching that channel.

[rurallib]

8. Ed wasn't a secret Republican. He was a former republican

who was brought to the light by his wife, Wendy. Or at least that is what I remember him saying on his radio show.
It was most interesting to listen to him evolve over the years on radio.
Sure wish him well. He was a true fighter for the working class and one of the few willing to admit he was wrong.

[onehandle]

11. Yeah, but many here say once a Republican, always a Republican.

For instance Hillary was a Republican until she was 21, mostly for her family.

Unforgivable.

Elizabeth Warren was a Republican well into her 40s.

Wait... That one is 'no big deal.'

[SoLeftIAmRight]

31. is is good on a few issues - but...

inside he is still not anything but a old time middle of the road pug

[libdem4life]

96. I was raised Republican but changed to Liberal

when I went to college. In some way that makes you stronger when you think and find out yourself and then have to justify it to your family.

[wheniwasincongress]

9. However we'll keep Morning Joke on

and give them another afternoon show and lots more money! MSNBC doesn't care that Joe is not insulting the network literally every week!

[JDPriestly]

53. This looks like pressure from advertisers to make sure that a conservative, either a

Republican or Hillary wins the next election.

This is politics on TV, not news on TV.

Americans are stupid to keep paying cable companies to interfere in politics in this way.

This is an obviously political move. Just like the fact that Fox is part of basic cable although it is strictly a propaganda organ of the extreme right-wing.

Stop your cable subscription. Subscribe to the news programming you want on-line. Real News Network, Cenk with The Young Turks, the Pacifica Network, so much good information and news on-line. Who in the world needs cable TV.

You can subscribe to other shows via Netflix and Hulu and similar internet services. Use your TV as an extension of the internet and you don't have to pay your dues to the right wing that owns cable.

[udbcrzy2]

83. He was always talking about labor n/t

[JDPriestly]

86. He was great. The only person in the news programming who talked about labor issues.

The oligarchs struck again.

Don't subscribe to cable. Cable companies do not deserve your business. They are a propaganda organ of the right wing, and that is all.

[Omaha Steve]

10. FIRE morning Joe

I guess Ed will go back to radio.

[Cleita]

37. Unfortunately, there is no radio to go back to if you are progressive.

Most of the radio stations across the nation are owned by a few right wing corporations and they won't air progressive shows.

[kimbutgar]

77. You can stream on the Internet a lot of progressive shows.

Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartman, Norman Goldman you can stream.

I subscribe to Sirruis for about $11 a month to hear progressive talk. Urban and Insight. I listen on my IPad and on the Internet. You can also buy a receiver for $50 that you can plug into you car.

[Cleita]

81. True but they are all struggling.

Ed would have to build his own studio and hire staff if he became an independent like Stepanie and Thom had to. Many of us can't afford Sirius or pay podcasts.

[DAMANgoldberg]

94. He actually has that in place...

but he chose to get out. He did self syndicate, and his home studio came as part of the MSNBC gig.

[hedda_foil]

95. You know, you can stream WCPT around the clock.

Press, Stephanie, Hartmann, a new guy at 3, Norman G, Democracy Now and the fish out of water that is Alan Colmes. Just download the free tune in radio app.

[onecaliberal]

38. ^^That^^

Is why they are a joke. Morning blow is nothing more than a con meme fest. There is no way anyone could think MSGOP is legit so long as Blow, and Toad have shows.

[Omaha Steve]

48. Sirius Progressive

Drop Make it Plain. Put Rick Smith on the slot behind that. Sirius is ONLINE too.

http://ricksmithshow.com/

http://ricksmithshow.com/meet-rick-smith

In 2005, The Rick Smith Show stepped into a local radio world devoid of progressive talk. Rick took his straight shooting no nonsense Teamster outlook to the air and started mixing it up with conservatives from one of the reddest areas north of the Mason Dixon line. His show grew steadily, attracting listeners starved for a voice that spoke to working stiffs who felt the economic floor crumbling beneath them.

Five years after the start of his weekend program, Rick moved to new time slots and new stations. His show now airs Monday-Friday 3pm-6pm on several stations across the state of Pennsylvania where he offers hard truth and commentary with a unique blend of clear-headed, gruff analysis and bemused observation. Lest things get too serious, he spices things up with a laugh or two.

Rick comes by his outlook honestly. He grew up in the projects of Cleveland, ducking local gangs while doing paper routes and odd jobs to help feed his family. After high school, he went out on his own, driving 18 wheelers as a proud union member. Nowadays, Rick, a father of three, is on the front lines of the class work every weekday from 3pm-6pm. He feels the calling to spread the word about the desperate needs facing workers, and to make the world a better place for kids growing up in what is becoming an America of rich and poor.

Rick believes somebody has to wake up the American working class to engage in the democratic process, but not in the corporate-funded Tea Party fashion. He has the rough edges and the grit of a Teamster; he’s a street talker, but a street talker with charm.

[onecaliberal]

59. Awesome. Thank you for the tip.

[BumRushDaShow]

64. So you want to drop the one black talk host on Sirius Progress-

Mark Thompson. I suppose it's preferred that he be segregated from the whites there and sent back to SiriusXM (recently renamed from "The Power&quot "Urban View" (where he originally was).

[Omaha Steve]

65. The Agenda with Ari Rabin-Havt

Put Mark on Weekdays 6 am ET. I listen to Bill Press in that slot on Progressive plus. That is only online.

The point was to give Ed the drive home spot he has on MSNBC on Sirius now.

[BumRushDaShow]

68. Ed used to have the 12 - 3 slot

to run against Limbaugh. Bill Press was in the early morning slot and would often interact with Joe Madison running at the same time on Urban View (they would appear on each other's show). Then Stephanie Miller was on after and then they cut an hour or so from Bill's slot... etc. When Mark Thompson moved to Progress (after Cathy Hughes, CEO of Radio One ceased programming for "The Power", now Urban View), he was put on at 6 pm on Progress. I actually consider "drive time" as 4 - 7 pm (which is the slot that Savage Weiner scored for himself broadcasting out of SF from 1 - 4 PT to appear live at drive time for the east coast).

I originally subscribed to XM radio back in 2007 right as they were merging with Sirius, but got the "XM Everything" and "Best of Sirius" package, and I know there was a big shakeup because for awhile, there were 2 channels (I think "Sirius Left" and XM's "America Left" or similar) that they eventually merged into the one.

[Omaha Steve]

71. It would make it simple if Sirius just put Progress Plus on the dial too

They need to hear from sirius subscribers that are progressive.

[jalan48]

12. Looks like the corporate media is getting ready for the 2016 elections.

Look for Ed to return in January of 2017.

[tabasco]

97. You understand.

I wish everyone would understand and TURN IT OFF.

[truebrit71]

13. Wonder if he wishes he hadn't dumped his radio show...

....I hope Keef comes back, but I haven't watched that network since he left, and with this move I see no reason to revise that policy now....UNLESS Countdown comes back...

[yurbud]

78. I didn't know he dumped it. The trick is finding stations that will run progressive programming

[wheniwasincongress]

14. If they bring Keith back

I would bet he doesn't last long. He is a big drama queen.

[tularetom]

28. He can't save MSNBC

It's going into the shitter in a big hurry.

I think they're just trying to keep it going until baby Russert starts to shave and then Chunk Turd will get the axe on MTP so they can bring the little boy in to replace him.

Besides, they know Olbermann. They've already fired him twice, as much trouble as they're in they don't need his little snits.

[StevieM]

61. I think they will probably move Luke Russet into the MTP job at some point in 2017.

If they give Chuck Todd three years at the helm of the show then that means that he will stay until September 2017. At that point Russert will have just turned 32.

[dem in texas]

15. Please MSNBC - No Chuck Todd!

He's a super bore and is incoherent half the time. If MSNBC brings him on, it will show how totally out of touch MSNBC is with their view audience. You are right, they need to kiss and make up with Keith Olbermann. He'd breathe some life into their network.

[ann---]

16. I used to watch him but

he's always so angry - can't take it.

[Paladin]

17. Chuck Todd is coming back, according to MSNBC online.

Which is a damn shame, in my opinion. MSNBC needs Olbermann a lot more than they need that little weasel, Todd.

[ebbie15644]

18. Love Ed Shultz!

Unfortunately they put him in a bad time slot for me to watch. Should get rid of Morning Joe!

[femmocrat]

19. That's a shame.

I really like Ed, but that 5:00 time slot is really inconvenient. I loved his radio show, too.

[turbinetree]

20. Really..................

and they are going to continue with one of the most disingenuous people(s). Scarborough and Toodles.
Better yet they are going to keep broadcasting with Luke Russert, " is an American television and radio news performer."

That's just great they keep "performers" just like the clown car that's now in progress

Maybe they are getting rid of Big Eddy because he did broadcast over 500 times about TPP and he has Bernie on quite a bit.

And Alex liked to put corrupt people in there place and also and didn't really hold back.
As for the "cycle" I couldn't stand it with Abbie and two others I will not mention

[7962]

33. "clown car"... perfect description of Sharpton

[Joey Liberal]

23. I like Ed

I also like Alex Wagner. Hate to see them go. I refuse to watch MSNBC in the morning with crazy Joe.

[Novara]

24. I hadn't heard any Keith Olbermann rumors

Anybody care to enlighten me?

They've been talking about getting rid of Ed, Sharpton, and Chris Hayes, last I heard. I'm not sad to see the Cycle go. I never watch it anymore but I never liked it. However, I like Alex Wagner and think they need her voice. They really need to get rid of the entire Morning Joe crew. Don't they have another morning show that runs two hours? At least one too many, IMO.

[geretogo]

25. What Schultz talked about just doesn't fit in a non democratic oligarch owned and ruled

corporatacracy with a Totalitarian top down right wing government like ours .

[Android3.14]

27. The libanchor choices of old guys, abrasive intellectuals and off-putting women has to be on purpose

I rarely watch network video news, but I've never watched more than two minutes of Ed Schultz, because he looks and sounds like he has an axe to grind. Olbermann comes off as too wacky for many people, and Maddow (whom I do enjoy for five or so minutes) is threatening to a lot of men and spends too much time on a given topic.

CNN has much more aesthetically pleasing anchors without descending into the dippy wasteland of Fox bimbos and facemen.

Even for MSNBC, there has to be a nouveau Walter Cronkite out there. They just aren't looking hard enough.

Combined with the network's penchant for prison shows, I cannot help but wonder if it is intentional.

[lancer78]

42. Maddow is threatening?

Wow, a lot of men need to stop acting like a bunch of snotty nosed preparatory school boys when they discover their "hankie" is dirty.

[Android3.14]

47. Not saying it's right; just saying it is so

It seems like MSNBC makes little effort to find anchors that present news with an aesthetic that would attract a broader audience.

[bigdarryl]

29. I hope he gets his Sirius XM radio time slot back at 12:00PM to 3:00PM

That was a bad move on his part to give up his radio gig.I'm sick of hearing Tom Hartman's conspiracy theory bullshit

[SoLeftIAmRight]

30. glad to see that republican go

he is good on a few issues... h

[7962]

32. And yet Sharpton remains. Guess they still buy his threats

What a joke

[Judi Lynn]

66. There are enough of us who appreciate Rev. Al to make up for racist hate mongers. n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

72. +1 gazillion

[kimbutgar]

79. I like the Rev and his viewpoints.

[7962]

87. Dont like a black guy so you MUST be racist. Guess you LOVE Clarence Thomas.

Otherwise you are obviously a racist

[Judi Lynn]

98. Nice try. n/t

[7962]

99. Dont have to "try", Sharpton is a crook & a tax cheat.

Not to mention all the other terrible things he's done in his past.
And I'm not the only one here who remembers either.
You're free to buy into his bullshit, but he doesnt deserve his own show. Of course, judging from his ratings, not many people think he does. But His bosses are aware of his past and let him slide.

[blackspade]

34. Sounds like MSNBC is clearing out liberals that could cause problems

during the next election cycle.
They can't have the establishment challenged on air this time around.

[Plucketeer]

40. You might be right on that.

Ed seemed rather cozy with Sanders.

[restorefreedom]

41. exactamundo

who is staying/arriving
andrea mitchell greenspan
joe "moderate in his own mind" scarborough
tom roberts (news guy so is pretty neutral)
chuck "i should be working for fox news" Todd
chris "tingle up my leg" matthews
rachel and lawrence we can only hope

who is going/already gone
joy reid ..progressive, strong voice for women and minorities
alex wagner...progressive, strong voice for women and progressive issues
cycle...2 progressives (ari, toure), 1 moderate (crystal), 1 conservative (abby)
ED -huge voice for labor and bernie, anti tpp, anti keystone xl

hmmm so they are clearing out the strong progressive voices who support bernie and his values and keeping or bringing in corporate mouthpieces for the gop wack agenda

can't imagine what they might be thinking....



edited to add: i am done with m$nbc. they took off the only voices really moving the progressive causes and are bringing in the gop shills. i had already stopped matthews after he had joan "i pose as a journalist but support hillary" walsh. now they targeted ed. bye bye hope your ratings plunge even further corporate gop hacks...

[RKP5637]

55. Yep, exactly what is going on. MSNBC is no friend to any liberal cause except to suck money

from liberals as a profit channel. They are Comcast owned. MSNBC is a fake liberal program for money extraction.

[Plucketeer]

57. I have to confess

This very moment was predicted a couple of years back - when MSNBC was "absorbed" Of course, we DO have FSTV and TYT and DP and others for lifelines. Let's see what's left once the dust settles. As much as I fell for Olbermann's time on Countdown, his Prima Donna persona makes me wary of his coming back to politics TV.

[Plucketeer]

39. This pisses me off!

Must've been Ed's segment he intro'd each evening by saying: "This is for the folks who take a shower AFTER work!"

[colsohlibgal]

43. Come On Down Keith

No real confirmed word on Keith will come till he wraps up his ESPN show tomorrow.

But it sure looks like Keith time may be close.

As for Ed, I don't dislike him but Thom Hartmann is more to my taste, I would like to see Thom get one of those opening slots as well.

[old guy]

44. When they get through,

MSNBC will be little more than a Fox clone.

[oldandhappy]

45. Hmmm I like Alex

Agree that Maddow goes to long on opening story. Will not watch Todd. Argh.

The repeat of the same stories has forced me to watch StarTrek a lot recently!! Who can stomach that many stories on Trump. Back to BBC and NPR!!!!

I know the network does not care what I think.

[dmosh42]

46. Probably replaced by corporate ass-kissers, maybe some blonde bimbos from 'Fox News'!

[dreamnightwind]

49. Bummer!

Ed was on our side. Most of their staff, not so much. Sorry to see him go.

[fredamae]

51. I just called MSNBC

Corporate at 212-664-4444 "press 8" for all "other shows"...

I Will leave MS-FOXLite-NBC. Ed Show and TRMS are Only reason I pay for Premium services And I will notify my service provider Why I am giving them less money as well.
Fk this.

[Dont call me Shirley]

52. There's always Free Speech TV

[Cosmic Kitten]

54. Now Ed can join Bernie's campaign?

[Third Doctor]

58. WTF??

Ed was really the only person reporting on working class blue collar concerns on that channel and now he is out? We need to start a petition drive. The dumb fox watchers love to say the MSNBC is just as to the left and Fox is to the right and that's simply not true.

[DonCoquixote]

60. is anyone really surprised?

really? this was written on the wall for years.

[OKNancy]

63. Keith will not be returning to MSNBC

Execs at network town hall meeting also tell staffers Brian Williams doesn’t want his own show
MSNBC president Phil Griffin poured cold water on swirling rumors of a possible Keith Olbermann return Thursday, telling staffers at a town hall that he hasn’t spoken with the former network star.

“They were asked about Keith, and Phil said he hasn’t spoken to him,” a network insider told TheWrap. “Of course (NBC News/MSNBC Chairman Andrew) Lack stayed out of that question.”

Rumors of Olbermann’s return to the network at which he once starred began shortly after the anchor’s recent exit from ESPN, which didn’t renew his contract.

http://www.thewrap.com/insider-msnbc-not-talking-to-keith-olbermann/

[Coventina]

69. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

He was an important voice for the working class and unions!
Not to mention climate change and the environment!

I am soooo upset by this news!!

[Judi Lynn]

70. What a rotten shame. His steadfastness has been unequaled in so many ways.

No one approaches his hard work, and concern for his subjects.

He will be missed by so many.

What a rotten shame.

Looking forward to the intelligent man/woman who will decide to put him back where he belongs.

[senseandsensibility]

73. Replacing him with CT is a slap in the face.

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Ed's ratings may not be the best, but CT's will be worse. I'm done with MSNBC.

[madamesilverspurs]

76. Not a slap in the face.

Spit in the face is more like it, accompanied by an evil cackle.

[senseandsensibility]

84. Right.

Best to look for the humor if you can. I'm sorry to say, though, that I'm not quite there yet.

[TuxedoKat]

91. Damn

I hope Ed lands on his feet somewhere else. It sucks that his replacement is Chuck Todd.

[George II]

74. Does Al Sharlatan get to keep his show?

The man is a total fraud - he STILL won't fess up to his full part in the Tawana Brawley case, and he owes something like $6M in back taxes to the Federal government.

Just as Ed starts to introduce him each night I switch to "Three and a Half Men"!

[7962]

88. According to post #66, YOU are a racist. Like me.

Yet everything you post is true; and there's even MORE you could have posted.

[George II]

89. Fans of "Rev" Al should look into his background sometime.

[7962]

90. You would think, right? If he were a republican, they'd be calling for his head.

[iamthebandfanman]

75. Even tho i stopped watching MSNBC

a while back...
this is sad news...

probably because he likes Bernie so much, in my opinion.

I was never a big fan of eds, but he definitely is a different guy than he was 20 some years ago.

[INdemo]

82. The TPP issue and bashing Obama is probably

what got ED Shultz in hot water plus having Bernie Sanders on his show several times.
Remember when Obama was defending the TPP and mentioned MSNBC of not having the facts straight. Then Ed came back with "yes Mr. President the facts are correct" and having Union leaders on to talk about the TPP.

That is what I think ended Mr. Shultz's MSNBC stint As the corporate world runs the media show it seems this time they were covering for their corporatist puppet and the puppet won out. Guess one isn't allowed to speak so boldly about corporate sponsored leaders.

I hope they have to pay Ed Shultz big time and I don't think this is last we will see of Shultz

[freshwest]

85. MSNBC. MEH. n/t

[dembotoz]

92. loved ed but it appears his ratings sucked

have to admit there is not enuf on msnbc now for me to pay the extra bucks for more channels on time warbler

that would change if ko comes back

[DAMANgoldberg]

93. Olbermann is not going to MSNBC

The only 2 organizations he hasn't "burned bridges" are CNN/Time Warner and CBS. Time Warner has a share in MLB baseball, a sports love of KO, and as the election approaches, an open spot @ 9PM ET, and a network focused on the subject. He would also fit between the "hard news" blocks of AC360 and CNN Tonight/Don Lemon. Now you have a show on CNN for about 2 years, and can also do sports w/Turner and ultimately CBS Sports, which I predict will merge with Turner Sports (They already collaborate on NCAA). This will be the first stage of the eventual combination of CBS News and Sports with CNN/Turner. The entertainment division will be separated from this and may ultimately reunite with Viacom. This makes sense for all parties involved.