MSNBC solidifies itself as the leftist network

...by canceling conservative Tucker Carlson's show.

The bow tie is out at MNSBC. David Gregory is replacing Tucker Carlson as host of a one-hour show each evening.

The news network is making a handful of changes to respond to heavy political interest. Gregory's new show is called "Race for the White House" and will be on each weekday at 6 p.m. starting next Monday.

Carlson has been at MSNBC for nearly three years.

Carlson's ratings did suck; however, they're hardly much worse than those of Dan Abrams, who hosts the 9:00pm time slot. Abrams' show is so weak that they don't even have a Friday edition.

To compare Abrams to Carlson for last week:

• Monday, 3/3: Abrams beats Carlson 251 to 128, the biggest margin of the week.
• Weds., 3/5: Abrams eeks out Carlson, 147 to 142.
• Thurs., 3/6: Abrams wins 176 to 125.

Tuesday was a wash due to Super Tuesday 2.

In addition, Abrams gets crushed by all the other cable competition in his time slot. Just as a quick snapshot, on Thursday, March 6, Abrams (rating of 176) got hammered by CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck (217), CNN's Larry King (359) and Fox's Hannity & Colmes (431).

Will MSNBC do something about this much-more-coveted-than-6:00pm time slot too? Probably not, as Abrams pretty much just continues what uber-moonbat Keith Olbermann does the hour before.

Posted by Hube at March 12, 2008 04:23 PM | TrackBack