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Viewers Doing A 180 On Anderson Cooper's '360'
LA Times ^ | May 11th 2009

Posted on 05/11/2009 7:33:25 PM PDT by Steelfish

Viewers doing a 180 on Anderson Cooper's '360'

May 11 2009

Kay Jones, a producer on CNN's Anderson Cooper's "AC360," recently blogged on the show's website that she "deserve[s] the month of May off." Well, she might as well take it because Cooper's fan base is doing just that already.

Cooper's ratings have been in a sharp decline all year, and so far the month of May is no exception. According to Nielsen, the audience for the 10-11 p.m. hour of his show so far this month is 933,000 viewers.

This is the first time he's fallen below the one-million mark since the dog days of last August.

Anderson is losing almost 20% of his lead-in from Larry King and is in danger of being passed in the ratings by MSNBC's 10 p.m. repeat of "Countdown with Keith Olbermann."

Since the start of 2009, Cooper has lost one-third of his audience.

CNN has invested heavily into marketing Cooper as the face of the network. The hype has never really translated into commercial success, and now that MSNBC is suddenly competitive, CNN finds itself being flanked on the right and the left.

-- Joe Flint

(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cnn; liberalmedia; teabagging
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1 posted on 05/11/2009 7:33:25 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Here’s how little I know about MSNBC, I have no idea what Anderson Cooper looks like, but I do hope his small intenstine fails.


2 posted on 05/11/2009 7:36:11 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Steelfish

His ratings fall seems to correspond to his outing as a homosexual in May 2007.


3 posted on 05/11/2009 7:36:13 PM PDT by icwhatudo
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To: Steelfish

Both of them? Well, he’s Gloria Vanderbilt’s son, so I doubt if he’ll have to worry about where his next meal is coming from...


4 posted on 05/11/2009 7:36:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet ("The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible." Machiavelli)
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To: Steelfish

Meanwhile, let’s see, how is Rush’s ratings?? And he has a RADIO show...


5 posted on 05/11/2009 7:39:24 PM PDT by brushcop (SFC Sallie, CPL Long, LTHarris, SSG Brown, PVT Simmons KIA OIF lll&V, they died for you, honor them)
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To: icwhatudo

I think the “tea-bagging” comment sealed his fate.


6 posted on 05/11/2009 7:39:43 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is he really? I had no idea.


7 posted on 05/11/2009 7:41:17 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well, he’s Gloria Vanderbilt’s son

I don't think any kid could emerge from that household and wind up straight.

8 posted on 05/11/2009 7:42:30 PM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: rabidralph

lol


9 posted on 05/11/2009 7:43:07 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Steelfish

It’s not too hard to figure out. The liberals are watching MSNBC and of course conservatives aren’t going to watch CNN. CNN is the Arlen Specter of cable news.


10 posted on 05/11/2009 7:43:10 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope" - Rush Limbaugh 02/28)
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To: Steelfish

OMG! Outdone by olberputz?! Oh the shame! Oh the humiliation!


11 posted on 05/11/2009 7:44:46 PM PDT by rockrr (Global warming is to science what Islam is to religion)
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To: rabidralph; dfwgator

Anderson Cooper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_Cooper


12 posted on 05/11/2009 7:46:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet ("The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible." Machiavelli)
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To: Steelfish

So where are the ratings for Fox News during the same hour?


13 posted on 05/11/2009 7:48:01 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (One Man's Messiah is another Man's Fuhrer...)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

CNN is far more conservative than Arlen,

sarc


14 posted on 05/11/2009 7:48:47 PM PDT by pennboricua
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To: muawiyah

I have no idea who Anderson Cooper is either. Maybe that’s his problem.


15 posted on 05/11/2009 7:49:08 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, I just read it. He’s a creepy guy.


16 posted on 05/11/2009 7:50:05 PM PDT by rabidralph
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Just passed my little humorous comment past the family and they tell me he's the gay guy on CNN.

Which one?

17 posted on 05/11/2009 7:50:27 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Steelfish

Not that I’ve ever watched him, but that “teabagging” remark that I read about ensures I never shall.


18 posted on 05/11/2009 7:51:33 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
From age 10 to 13, Cooper modeled with Ford Models for Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Macy's.[4]

Well there's your answer right there! Poor dweeb never had a chance.

19 posted on 05/11/2009 7:51:42 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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20 posted on 05/11/2009 7:53:14 PM PDT by Cyber Ninja (His legacy is a stain OnTheDress)
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