Why does morning joe on MSNBC repeat the first hour instead of showing the third hour?

Answer 1

I'm not positive on this but i have a few theories about it because they don't do it all them time, albeit more often than not. First, I think it might be hard to produce three hours of content every day so when they are short they do the repeat. Also, it isn't the whole first hour they repeat, its about 20 minutes, basically the first segment of the show up until the first commercial break. Some days they don't do it, like the show Friday from Chicago they didn't do any repeats. Also, one day they had George Clooney on during that time and didn't do a repeat. Without fail though it is right at the two hour mark when they do it. I'm in California so I obviously TiVo it and it is frustrating because after the repeat they have a lot of commercials before they do the "Business before the bell" segment and then it is basically over.

My second theory has to do with Joe and Mika's old schedule. They had a radio show for awhile so maybe they were planning for it or they were actually leaving a little early to go to the radio studio to prep for that show. Maybe they just kept doing it after their radio show was pulled.

Either way, I love the show and i wish they would just buck up and put in the extra 20 minutes of great programming. They have a long format with longer interviews so i think they could fill the time if they wanted to. I'm sure they weren't considering that many people TiVo a morning news show so they probably thought people wouldn't notice. They try to cover it by dubbing in Mika saying "it's 8 o'clock and welcome back to morning Joe" and they just started doing this lately I'm assuming because of the complaints.

I thought I noticed the other day that they mixed in another interview during the replay to make it less noticeable, but I could be wrong. It is one of the rare shows that I dread when it is going to end, I did this with The Sopranos and haven't liked a show this much since.