Dylan Ratigan to MSNBC
Its official: Dylan Ratigan, formerly of Bloomberg and CNBC fame — as well as the Big Picture Conference – is going to MSNBC. Ratigan will launch a new program weekdays from 9am to 11 a.m., starting June 29.
Variety reported that:
Ratigan will host his own untitled show at 9 a.m. (ET) weekdays beginning June 29 on sister cabler MSNBC following “Morning Joe.” He will also contribute to various NBC News programs.
“What draws me to MSNBC is that they have offered me a two-hour forum to discuss any and all political issues with no directive other than to provide compelling content, which apparently now I have to do,” said Ratigan, whose contract with CNBC ended on March 31.
Not every Media outlet was as effusive; Gawker was somewhat less complimentary. But the most interesting take came from Marketwatch’s Jon Friedman, who asked, Will Ratigan help MSNBC and hurt CNBC?:
“Dylan Ratigan’s move to join MSNBC could ultimately hurt CNBC, the cable channel at which he made his mark.
Ratigan, who established himself at CNBC as a high-octane expert on the stock market and Wall Street, is joining MSNBC, it was announced Wednesday afternoon. He will anchor a 9-to-11 a.m. show beginning June 29.
It’s great news for Ratigan and MSNBC, but what does it mean for CNBC? After all, the Ratigan hiring also allows MSNBC to compete directly with …CNBC. Both, of course, are properties of General Electric…
For MSNBC, the move embodies a commitment to increase the size of its audience. It’s unrealistic to assume that MSNBC can become No. 1 any time soon in cable news because the Fox News Channel — which, like MarketWatch, is owned by News Corp — has too big a lead in the ratings.”
Good luck at MSNBC !
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Sources:
Ratigan takes on hosting duties
STUART LEVINE
Variety, May 6, 2009, 10:38am PT
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118003254.html
Will Ratigan help MSNBC and hurt CNBC?
Jon Friedman
MarketWatch 3:43 p.m. EDT May 6, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/cf5fqm
Former ‘Fast Money’ Host Moves Elsewhere in NBC
BILL CARTER
NYT, May 6, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/business/media/07ratigan.html
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May 6th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
great thing he saw the writing on the wall @ cnbc. he truly did leave at the top of their market.
do you think the market could really bottom when shows like fast money and mad money still have wide audiences?
could the market really bottom with me still making a living from my livingroom?
anecdotally – i still have to go under to seal the deal on that bottom call. . .
May 6th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
His introduction on Olberman (Republicans need to be campaigning on wasteful spending not teen pregnancy) was less than inspiring.
May 6th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
And they wonder why media outlets, both print and broadcast, are losing their ass.
May 6th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Meet the new boss.
Same as the old boss.
May 6th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
I realize that BR is fond of DR, but I must notice that he (DR) is just moving from one GE-owned media outlet to another, from CNBC to MSNBC.
When he left CNBC I’d hoped that he’d had enough of the malarkey that was propagated by the krewe at CNBC, but now I guess that wasn’t it.
Knealey’s performance today decrying the need for regulation was a great example of the level of total bullshit that the media in America engages in today. They won’t even look at the problems, let alone try to formulate resolutions. The system is broken, and it won’t get fixed until the problems are identified and remedies proposed. That is the whole purpose of the First Amendment, truth in the search of solutions.
May 6th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
larster:
Did you hear that Murdoch said that the worst was now behind Faux Noise?
May 6th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
eh, not what I was hoping for…
9 a.m. – 11 a.m. is a terrible time slot
May 6th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
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May 6th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
may DR have Good Luck!~ and, remember: Ludwig von Mises: “The creative spirit innovates necessarily. It must press forward. It must destroy the old and set the new in its place…. Progress cannot be organized.”
from: http://www.econlib.org/library/Mises/msS.html
and, to stay a step ahead, one like this: http://www.econlib.org/library/Mises/HmA/msHmA.html
May 6th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
D… D… Dylan!
May 6th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
It is odd for him to be moving from one NBC property to another, as BR and others have pointed out.
Or is it? I always took Ratigan for leaning more Democratic than Republican. CNN leans Republican (Lou Dobbs, and they used to have that idiot…Glibb Buck was his name?), Fox News leans lunatic, and MSNBC leans Democratic. He could also go to one of the broadcast news networks, but what would he do…host the market report on ABC News at 6?
It makes the most sense for him to stay on cable news, where he can get a big chunk of time with plenty of leeway to be provocative. And it makes the most sense for him to stick with MSNBC.
It’s a bad time slot for me, being on the West Coast. Every journey starts with a single step, though. Looking forward to catching it when I can!
May 6th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Dylan, GOOD LUCK TO YA!!!!
P.S. no byetta commercials!!!
;)
May 6th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
MSNBC is such a piece of crap that I assume they must have paid him well.
Having said that, CNBC leaves a lot to be desired. They have all those hours of broadcast & often have intelligent guest yet uniformly keep the discussions superficial in the extreme
May 6th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
CNN leans Republican?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA-
good one!
May 6th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Thanks for the update, BR! And also for the Gawker link… I couldn’t resist clicking on the “topless” photo story for Miss California while there. [BR: Me too!]
And to think Ratigan didn’t like my e-mails?!?
Actually, I never sent one. But if he detested viewer e-mails, what in the Lord’s name did he think of that videophone ask a trader segment they had for a while before “Fast Messages”????? Things routinely ground to a halt in those days.
And strange how he doesn’t recall “Bullseye!” on CNBC. Now THAT was a bad show….
May 7th, 2009 at 12:08 am
OT:
BR,
I hope those Oprah ads are a portent of things to come..
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and, another one for DR, on his way to his new digs:
“…As an example of what he meant, Barnes turned to the history of his own nation. “The vast majority of the writing on American history,” he wrote, “has been concerned with its political and legal phases.” And this, he argued, had been a mistake. For
[u]ntil one understands that, however important Washington, Hamilton, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Winfield Scott, Abraham Lincoln, U. S. Grant, James G. Blaine, Elihu Root, or Theodore Roosevelt may have been in American history, they have done less to shape its chief tendencies than such men as Franklin, Eli Whitney, Fulton, Morse, McCormick, Kelley, Field, Bell, J. J. Hill, Edison, Goodyear and Henry Ford, there will be little hope of any serious approach to a vital grasp of the nature of the development of American society. [150]
Barnes’s list of the true shapers of American society implies a certain interest in the economy and in the influence of technology on economic progress. And this interest seems only fitting when we recall that Barnes had done his graduate work in history “at the prewar Columbia of Robinson and Beard.” [151]
The “Robinson” to whom Peter Novick refers here is James Harvey Robinson (1863-1936), who taught at Columbia University from 1895 to 1919 and during those years founded, with Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948), what came to be known as the New History. Robinson was adamant that history should be of real utility to the living. “Our books,” he wrote, “are like very bad memories which insist upon recalling facts that have no assignable relation to our needs, and this is the reason why the practical value of history has so long been obscured.” [152] To remedy this situation, Robinson proposed that historians make more extensive use of the social sciences, particularly economics, sociology, and psychology, in their efforts to understand the past…”
http://lewrockwell.com/riggenbach/riggenbach3-3.html
May 7th, 2009 at 12:16 am
Btw, the new Senate bill that was passed today requested a new foreclosure moratorium:
http://effectivedemand.blogspot.com/2009/05/senate-calls-for-new-foreclosure.html
There are significant changes to Hope for Homeowner as well, makes it much more likely it will be used (i.e. much more of a bailout).
May 7th, 2009 at 12:43 am
” a two-hour forum to discuss any and all political issues with no directive other than to provide compelling content ”
He should have finished the quote with, ” because right now MSNBC has none of that”.
I hope the BHO network doesn’t have cheerleader plans for Ratigan, and Ratigan actually provides complelling content. The problem is that no one is going to watch in that slot.
I belive MSNBC is going to put Dylan in Olberman’s slot eventually, Olberman is a tool and has no class. The complete opposite of Dylan Ratigan.
May 7th, 2009 at 12:53 am
Jon and I played on the same softball team at Stony Brook one summer. He pitched, I led off. Man, that team was awesome, we blew out the rest of the league.
May 7th, 2009 at 1:26 am
WHO cares?
May 7th, 2009 at 6:33 am
I started working with a new ad company, and the marching orders to the advertisers were: No text, no junk, no dancing cowboys crap, no scams, no BS.
The advertisers lined up are Quantas, Delta, Amex, Dell. I told them any company where I don’t have to spend hours checking out if their products are scams are fine.
It turns out that the Marketing person at Oprah is a fan of The Big Picture, and they have some financial related guests coming up. Its only on specific days, and “geo-targeted — a handul of cities. Some 0of you wont see the Oprah ads.
If only I had some finance related product to promote so I could go on the Oprah show . . .
May 7th, 2009 at 6:33 am
Compelling political content… I sure hope it is not what Obama had for lunch.
May 7th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Congratulations to Dylan. I’ll be recording (while at work) just to hear what he says. I suspect he knows a lot that he will be letting “slip” out over time.
I mean that SOP these days, right?
May 7th, 2009 at 9:53 am
barry,
are you saying Elizabeth Edwards is finacially related guest?
Dylan was on Morning Joe today and they were talking about the name for his program. I suggest “Morning After CNBC”
May 7th, 2009 at 10:05 am
Not to worry, everybody, yesterday’s “expert” was Arianna Huffington. Signal that CNBC is now turning Left? Or upside down.