Wednesday, March 11, 2009

A little reminder on who rules cable news...

From Drudge, the latest Nielsen ratings are in and...

CABLE NEWS RACE
TUES., MARCH 10, 2009

FOXNEWS O'REILLY 3,212,000(8pm EST)
FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,376,000 (9pm EST)
FOXNEWS BECK 2,331,000 (5pm EST)
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,274,000 (6pm EST)
FOXNEWS SHEP 2,044,000 (7pm EST)
FOXNEWS GRETA 1,965,000 (10pm EST)
CNN COOPER 1,214,000 (10pm EST)
CNN KING 1,185,000 (9pm EST)
MSNBC MADDOW 1,041,000 (9pm EST)
CNNHN GRACE 986,000 (9pm EST)
MSNBC OLBERMANN 928,000 (8pm EST)

wow fucking clean sweep for FoxNews. Not even close. I added the programs time on the side because I'd like to point out that newcomer to Fox, Glenn Beck, gets literally 2.5X the audience that Olbermann gets and Keith's show is primetime while most people are at work or on their way home when Beck's show airs. If he can pull 2.3 million viewers at 5pm EST he could probably at least double that if he got O'Reilly's slot (which I think he will personally, eventually). FoxNews is everyone's bitch and I love it.

3 comments:

K-Rod said...

They are not news programs; they are commentary / opinion programs.

Sure there is bias, and obviously from the numbers that is what veiwers can connect with and want to watch.

Anonymous said...

Olbergirlymann = epic fail.

Ben said...

agreed Matron, and yes K-Rod good point.