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| Patricia Fili-Krushel |
Since NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke pressed Patricia
Fili-Krushel into service in July 2012 in a newly created position designed to
leverage the company's vast news assets --
the executive is back to sleeping with her iPhone on the nightstand.
Little wonder: Her vast portfolio includes NBC News, MSNBC,
CNBC, The Weather Channel, NBC News Digital, MSNBC.com and CNBC.com. With 2,300
employees and revenue of more than $2.1 billion in 2012, according to a Pew Research
Center
Fili-Krushel, 59, was recently interviewd by The Hollywood Reporter
for its November 1 issue.
Do MSNBC's ratings dips during slow political news cycles worry
you?
- [MSNBC president] Phil Griffin and I have talked a lot about how it's a balancing act: Viewers are coming for MSNBC's personalities, and CNN definitely gets the bump during breaking news. But we have to play in both spaces. When Phil was quoted as saying we don't do breaking news, I know if he could have [taken it back], he would have.
He also recently hired Ronan Farrow, who doesn't have a lot
of TV experience.
- In television, you create your own stars. We're not going to
throw him right up on his own show -- it will be gradual. But it's no surprise
that news skews a little older. Part of it is trying to appeal to a broader
swath of people. Ronan can go from
Does it concern you that ABC's World News toppled Nightly
News in the demo last summer?
- Well, it happens so rarely. But when you look at the Nielsen sample, nine households are the CNBC sample. That's the flaw. [The entire Nielsen sample] is 40,000 households. We're all in the same boat. Whether it's on iPads or DVRs, we're just not getting access to those metrics. If news consumption wasn't going up, I'd be worried.
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