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In what must be considered an unwelcome twist for Megyn Kelly and the team haggling over her severance package from NBC News, ratings for the Today shows third hour have measurably improved since she was summarily dropped from the program amid the blackface debacle.
This latest development is unlikely to enhance the former Fox News stars negotiating leverage as her high-powered Hollywood attorney, Bryan Freedman, tries to persuade NBCs upper managementincluding NBC News Chairman Andy Lack and his boss, NBC chief executive Stephen Burketo maximize Kellys payout, midway through a three-year contract reportedly worth $69 million.
In other words, she might not be in a strong position to Settle for More, per the title of a recurring segment on Kellys defunct NBC show, based on various life lessons she presented in her 2016 memoir of the same name.
According to just-released weekly Nielsen averagesfigures provided to The Daily Beast by a media outlet that is not connected to NBC or its parent company, Comcastthe week after Kellys October 26 departure and the abrupt demise of Megyn Kelly Today, total viewership for Todays third hour actually increased by 5 percentfrom 2,522,000 during Kellys final week on the air to 2,649,000 during the week beginning Oct. 29.
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RockRaven
(14,958 posts)But they won't.
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)You can take the girl out of FOX, but the stench lingers forever.