Cenk Leaves MSNBC (Inside Story)
Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) explains why he turned down a new, significantly larger MSNBC contract after hosting a prime-time show on the network that was beating CNN in the ratings....
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interesting news uh... here it is I am out at MSNBC now whose decision was this well it was both of our decisions I will explain okay in turn not at the same time so when I first came in to MSNBC they told me hey listen you know basically the main thing you gotta do is get good ratings I was like okay that's pretty clear uh... and by the time that I had left I had very good ratings as I'm about to show you in a little bit but uh... I was called in a couple weeks ago and told that I will not get the six o'clock shot I was like whoa that's interesting I said okay well why right well they said uh... you had really ratings you did everything that we asked you to do but we went in a different direction but we want you to stay which ...
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interesting news uh... here it is I am out at MSNBC now whose decision was this well it was both of our decisions I will explain okay in turn not at the same time so when I first came in to MSNBC they told me hey listen you know basically the main thing you gotta do is get good ratings I was like okay that's pretty clear uh... and by the time that I had left I had very good ratings as I'm about to show you in a little bit but uh... I was called in a couple weeks ago and told that I will not get the six o'clock shot I was like whoa that's interesting I said okay well why right well they said uh... you had really ratings you did everything that we asked you to do but we went in a different direction but we want you to stay which ...
