The cable companies are going down, especially the super, uber-duber, liberal cable companies. Just as Donald Trump, it's a new all-time high in the polling. All is right with the world on this Friday. Welcome to the show, everyone. I am Trish Riegan. It's wonderful to have you here. We get a lot going on. We are packed. I hope you subscribe.

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First off, we begin with MSNBC because they're going to be making some changes, like some really big changes.

Don't forget, just in about eight weeks or so, they are spinning off this Versant, or Versant.

I guess that's how they say it. I was trying to give them a little extra something,

you know, a little French in there to kind of go with their socialist mentality.

Anyway, Versant is going to be this new spin-off from Comcast,

and they're going to take all the cable companies that they've got that they don't want any more

over at NBC, and they are going to sell them to the public separately. Now, who's going to buy that stock?

What do you think? Anyone? Anyone? No, no one. No one is going to buy it. So what does that mean? They've got to come up with a brand new way to be relevant and to be profitable. And I'm not so sure that MSNBC is going to get them there. I mean, they get some good players right over at CNBC and they have maybe, you know, some other networks, lifestyle type networks and the sci-fi network and this, that,

and the other that they might be able to salvage. But what's going to actually happen to the likes of

Rachel Maddow, who allegedly is demanding $25 million a year? That's down from apparently 30,

for one show a week, mind you, and the likes of Jen Saki, who took over her spot and has managed to take it to new lows overnight. All right, she was supposed to be the next greatest thing. They thought that somehow she was going to solve their problems instead. She's digging them in deeper. Listen, I'll tell you, overall, to be fair to MSNBC, like, it is brutal. It is brutal out there in Cableland. I am thankful. Can I just say that again? I'm very thankful that I'm no longer in the cable news business because it is a dying business. I used to be in the network news business, having worked for a network. Right, because when I was a little kid, I was growing up and like we would watch the ABC evening news or NBC evening news or CBS evening news. and I thought, oh, well, I want to be a

reporter and I want to be on TV. So that'll be just great. But not, not, not. Unfortunately, I should

have gone straight to cable, but I was at network and I thought, well, this is it, right? Until I realized,

you know, everything is so tightly controlled and tightly wound and you're lucky if you

get 12 seconds on the air for your live tag. God help you make it at 13. 13. And you're getting

a call from the executive producer saying you went one second over because they time it all out.

They have to. They get 22 minutes of programming. And so it's scripted. It's tightly wound and you can feel it, right?

As a viewer on the air. So forget network. That's over. Then along came cable. By the time I got

to cable, I was like, well, this is great. You know, we actually have a little bit more freedom here.

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