Posted on 11/06/2009 7:12:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
With the news that Oprah Winfrey may take her daily talk show away from broadcast affiliates and to her own OWN cable network, that got us wondering: should Glenn Beck, now the #2 show on cable despite airing in he afternoons, be Oprah's syndicated replacement?
Beck is well-rounded. Between his #1 best-selling books and comedy shows he's a three-dimensional talent that could easily adapt to daytimes. He could also use his radio audience to promote to local affiliates.
Just yesterday, the New York Times reported novelists are considering Beck to be the "New Oprah," when it comes to endorsing political thrillers. "He's our Oprah," author Brad Thor told The Times' Motoko Rich. "God love him, we're very fortunate."
Oprah Winfrey averages about 6.8 million viewers a day airing at various times across the country (9am in Chicago, 3pm in Los Angeles, 4pm in New York.) In October, Beck's live and same-day DVR average was 2.7M daily viewers, and that's on cable.
Heck, even CBS' Les Moonves has Beck to thank for a good quarterly report.
Beck is locked in to a multi-year deal with Fox News which would probably keep him from jumping anytime soon. His show premiered in January, and quickly shot past all competitors and even programs on his own channel, which air later in the evening to larger available audiences.
So, what do you think?
I’m a Beckistani
I seriously doubt he is going to get all those stations to replace Oprah with Beck. Please, they’d put him on at 3AM and pre-empt every episode with local weather.
Oprah would be insane to put her show on cable-only
I do not get the whole Oprah thing? Personally I can not stand her! I really dislike her a lot, in fact I would go as far as calling her a tramp!
I’ve never gotten it either.
I’d rather see him take the BO’R’s time slot.
That’s who I was referring to (Rush calls BOR “Ted Baxter”)
Way back in the day when she did a live show I saw one of the greatest moments of television.
She had a caller who called and said he needed to confess that he had had sex with his wife’s three sisters. She asked how did it happen.
He said “All 3 of them b**ches came on to me and I F***ed them all” and hung up. The look on her face was priceless.
lol.
Is that when they stopped taking callers?
I read somewhere that since oprah endorsed Obama, her ratings have been slipping. If that is true and it continues, then maybe she wants an excuse. “My ratings are down because I’m on cable”.
Does seeBS want a Beck program to help its dwindling ratings or to blunt the popularity of Beck?
Apparently Palin will be on the show. I look for Oprah to be very negative.
O’Reilly mentioned earlier this week that he and Beck would have some sort of big-deal joint announcement today, but apparently Beck’s trip to the hospital with appendicitis yesterday is going to delay whatever it is - maybe some joint programming the two are going to do on a permanent basis?.......
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