Rick Kaplan, head of the ratings-challenged cable news network MSNBC, is likely to be axed by the end of the year, according to a report in the New York Post.
Sources told the Post that Kaplan feels he should have been considered to replace NBC News chief Neal Shapiro, who recently announced he was resigning, even though MSNBC ranks a distant third behind Fox News and CNN.
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Instead, the network gave the job to NBC executive Steve Capus on an interim basis, and Kaplan now reports to Capus.
NBC – currently fourth in the ratings among broadcast networks – is reportedly considering a move to combine its network news division with its cable news outlets, CNBC and MSNBC.
Earlier this year CNBC boss Pamela Thomas-Graham was removed from her post amid plummeting ratings.
An NBC News spokesperson denied that Kaplan’s job is in jeopardy, saying "there’s absolutely no truth to it.”
MSNBC averaged 220,000 viewers in daytime in August, according to the Post, compared to 998,000 for Fox News and 432,000 for CNN.
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