23 June, 2013

Disappointing Fall for ‘Rock Center,’ a News Program With Big Ambitions - NYTimes.com

Disappointing Fall for ‘Rock Center,’ a News Program With Big Ambitions - NYTimes.com: The ambitious NBC newsmagazine was scheduled to be shown for the final time on Friday night. Within NBC News, employees expressed a sense of disappointment — not so much in the quality of the program, but that it was not rated highly enough to remain on the network schedule. To those who invested much in producing the show, its demise raises doubts about whether any new newsmagazine can succeed on network television these days.

To that point, Rome Hartman, the founding producer of “Rock Center,” said in an interview: “I hope that’s not true. I sure hope that somebody figures it out.”