Cable NEws ratings - enemic at best

[samsingh]

i'm not sure what else i need to include, but here are the latest cable news ratings -Source: Drudge

FNC O'REILLY 1.6
FNC HANNITY/COLMES 1.4
FNC GRETA 1.3
FNC SHEP SMITH 1.2
FNC BRIT HUME 1.1
CNN LARRY KING LIVE 0.8
CNN AARON BROWN 0.5
CNN PAULA ZAHN 0.4
MSNBC HARDBALL 0.4
MSNBC OLBERMANN 0.3
MSNBC ABRAMS 0.3
BUCHANAN/PRESS 0.2
SCARBOROUGH 0.2

These are anemic at best and translate to only a few million viewers. in a population of 250,000,000 - this easily equates to the fringe crowd. Most of this is splitting the small right wing viewership. Buffy, at her worst, did better than the top FNC program.

Any broadcaster wanting to make money should consider going back to honest news reporting, instead of providing entertainment programs for the right wing.

Paul Zahn and under round off to 0!

[jenk]

1. Oreilly leads at 1.6, that's pathetic

that's nobody, I mean a west coast Mets game will do better over here and it's also on cable.

Scarborough at 0.2, please pull the plug on this fascist.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. Just Think...

That "EVIL LIBRUL" Dan Rather is getting 10 million viewers a night!!!

:crazy:

[ramapo]

3. Gave them up

I used to watch CNN up until a few years ago when they redesigned it. Then came the fall of the media to the Bush regime. It's boring at best to watch these people spew their vile. The breathless reporting, the bs, the "fair and accurate", who needs to listen to this crap.

[AmericanErrorist]

4. Can Drudge be trusted

with the delivery of ratings. Any outside comfirmation?

[samsingh]

5. i don't see any good news in the numbers for Fox

or any other right wing programs.

in fact - all of the cable news ratings appear to suck

[skudros]

6. Geesh

I dont know, I remember hearing that the network news if doing even worse than the cable networks.

Shalom

[samsingh]

7. Network news programs score a .6.0+ rating on average

i think the difference is that cable news from fox grew rapidly, but that rate cannot be sustained. Seeing the growth caused other cable networks to try and match the right wing approach. but that market is limited in size.

[samsingh]

8. welcome to DU

great to have you join!

[skudros]

9. Thanks

I hope you read some of my other posts in the Ann Coulter and Impeachment boards in the "BUSH & CONSERVATISM" CATEGORY.


Shalom

[samsingh]

10. i'll take a look at them

.

[lazarus]

11. And what

Were Donahue's ratings again? The ratings so bad he needed to be cancelled?

[skudros]

12. Actually they were pretty bad after like the first week

As I recall, I dont know, Im a big Hanity and Combs watcher so I was watching everyones ratings for a while. But whatever

[samsingh]

16. Donahues ratings were like 1.5

much higher than the other ones in the list.

[MattNC]

13. some slack

I tend to cut CNN/MSNBC a little slack for losing to FAUX since they have other cable news stations.

[KoKo]

14. These numbers are so bad...one has to think they are being kept on

by some interesting accounting. Or, by some interests who are happy to chip in some advertising dollars when the cables complain......

That's the big problem. Also that these folks have such a loud voice in our political discussion it would seem....or maybe not. Maybe the Polling groups and the cables are a little "inside the beltway or inside the Repug/Corporate beltway" and not the true reflection of the angry folks out there in America.

Another thought: Maybe all the intelligent folks are on the internet like us....and it's the Ignorant Cable Junkies who are running the show but not seeing the "Silent Internet Poser" which is reflected in the surge of Hoard Dean which seems to have been a big surprise to most of the media and Beltway pundits.

Just thoughts here about those shocking numbers for shows which are so "loud and in your face."

[samsingh]

17. i think ratings represent % of households available to be

tuned in at a particular time. I don't know if it represents an exact number of people though.

[whoYaCallinAlib]

15. Good points, but I would be curious what percentage of all people

watching news do these ratings represent? I'm guessing it's a fairly large chunck, say 20%?