More Booking Wars…
The Business Insider’s John Carney writes about Charlie Gasparino being banned from going on MSNBC’s Morning Meeting with Dylan Ratigan. This is to be expected since the two networks have been locked in a bitter ratings battle for…hey…waitaminute… MSNBC and CNBC are on the same side. What gives?
We’re told that by a person familiar with the matter that Gasparino has been told he cannot appear on Dylan Ratigan’s MSNBC show to promote the book. It appears that CNBC executives are still upset over Dylan’s defection from the network.
“The Dylan thing is still weird,” one CNBC insider said.
Ok, I’m going to speculate that the bad blood, if this story is accurate, extends to the highest levels at CNBC. That’s the only way a ban could be enforced because it otherwise would have been stamped out by the upper echelons who would instinctively know that cross-network discord in the NBCU family would be frowned upon by Jeff Zucker.
Odd, that this story doesn’t have the usual “we contacted CNBC for comment” blurb in it…
