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Tuesday, June 22, 2004

TopStoryLive: Setting Trends, Ahead Of Its Time?

If you read a CableNewser Exclusive: Coming July 12, A New MSNBC Daytime, you might think Rick Kaplan of MSNBC (what do they call it over there? MS? versus the CNBC or the Network?) was Googling me. Okay, my one-time thought of a big wheel newscast of the day's events isn't exactly what insiders are describing to CableNewser; it's more focused on in-depth to the Nth degree, and doing Every Single Thing And Angle on the quarter-hour's top story. That's in daytime. Interesting. My proposed format was more implausible and starting the entire hour at the location of the day's top story, and moving on from there in a sort of pyramid 10pm-style-hour format (by the end of the newscast you would have gotten to the sports and entertainment and kickers, maybe re-capping the top story at :58). And Kaplan wants to do it ALL DAY instead of just that one hour a la Keith Olberman's "Countdown."

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