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flowomo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 09:34 PM
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someone asked recently about cable news ratings....
here's how the various shows finished this week (per Drudge, who tracks this stuff):

FOXNEWS O'REILLY 2,612,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY/COLMES 1,645,000
FOXNEWS BRIT HUME 1,615,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 1,604,000
FOXNEWS SHEP SMITH 1,552,000
CNN LARRY KING 1,311,000
CNN AARON BROWN 1,198,000
CNN ZAHN 858,000
CNN ANDERSON 786,000
CNNHN GRACE 724,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 494,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 469,000
MSNBC RITA 399,000
MSNBC SCARBOROUGH 344,000
MSNBC TUCKER 296,000
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ElectroPrincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 09:37 PM
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1. Peanut Gallery Comment ...
DRUDGE?!? Yes, Rove made a phone call recently to his most loyal media whore ---> "Drudgy, please please post this?" :puke: :rofl:
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waiting for hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 09:39 PM
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2. How in hell does Faux get the
top five? Oh yeah, they have a deal with the landlord of the underworld.....:evilgrin:
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flowomo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 09:42 PM
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3. market penetration is part of it, I think....
on basic cable where I live, you get Fox and not CNN
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rusty charly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 09:44 PM
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4. plus
when i travel around and anywhere there's a public TV running, it always seems to be on FAUX.
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waiting for hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 09:44 PM
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5. Well that sucks.....
can you get the Dish to bypass?
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flowomo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 09:47 PM
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6. I only have the cable TV because it came with cable modem...
we have satellite for the TV. But I do watch Fox -- and CNN and MSNBC and CSPAN and anything that has anything to do with news/current affairs. If I'm going to praise/criticize, then I want to know for myself what's going on and not hide my head in the ideological sand.
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waiting for hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 09:49 PM
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7. Understood....
But, by God, it can make you really lose your appetite.
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flowomo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 09:51 PM
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8. it sure is hard sometimes!
O'Reilly is a tough pill to swallow. But I want to see what he's doing for myself. Same with Limbaugh -- spent a whole year once listening every day. Wouldn't do it again, but I can speak for myself about what it's like.
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Eric J in MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 09:54 PM
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9. If there were a liberal version of Fox News, how would that do
in the ratings?
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flowomo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 09:58 PM
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10. a whole network... who knows? One show? That's Olbermann
I suspect the network would trail Fox.... just as AAR is having a tough time catching on with a mass audience vs., say, Limbaugh and other rightwing bigmouths.
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Eric J in MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 11:30 PM
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11. Keith Olbermann doesn't give his opinion on each show
like Bill O'Reilly does with "Tonight's Talking Points Memo."
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 11:33 PM
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12. Do you have Stewart and Colbert raitings??
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-29-05 12:12 AM
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13. CNN



Larry King is a douchebag.

I'm glad to see Brown ahead of Cooper. CNN has been giving Cooper a lot of exposure related to Katrina coverage. Brown has a laid back approach to the news that I like.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-29-05 02:07 AM
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14. Rightwingers knwo exactly what they will get on Fox, so they ALL go there
If CNN were a televised version of Air America, WE would concentrate on that one channel instead of flipping between the others..

It's about dedicating your channel to ONE distinct niche market, and never wavering.

We are a fickle bunch because we can never be confortable watching any ONE station..

If CNN or MSRNC would ever be brave enough to "go liberal", they would double their viewership, and totally shut the remaining one down..
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