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CNN Just Clocked Its Worst Primetime Ratings In 10 Years Thanks To Eliot Spitzer And Larry King
Business Insider ^ | 10/12/10 | Joe Pompeo

Posted on 10/12/2010 3:54:14 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

CNN Just Clocked Its Worst Primetime Ratings In 10 Years Thanks To Eliot Spitzer And Larry King

Joe Pompeo | Oct. 12, 2010, 5:51 PM | 161 | comment 6

CNN executives say they want to give Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker's week-old discussion program time to grow. But perhaps they're reconsidering in light of the show's performance Monday night, when it drew just 311,000 viewers at 8 p.m., according to Nielsen Media Research, far fewer than it had any night last week following its Oct. 4 premiere.

The low numbers for "Parker Spitzer" helped give CNN its worst average primetime ratings in 10 years. (See chart below) As did "Larry King Live," whose exclusive interview with Afghan President Hamid Karzai wasn't enough to give him more than 196,000 total viewers at 9 p.m.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cnn; eliotspitzer; larryking; rating
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1 posted on 10/12/2010 3:54:19 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I hear Rick Sanchez is looking for work.


2 posted on 10/12/2010 3:57:13 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: TigerLikesRooster

hahahaha

Maybe they should try to bring some balance... don’t they remember Crossfire??


3 posted on 10/12/2010 3:58:08 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

It’s CNN. Doesn’t matter what face they put on the screen. Viewers know what to expect. Bash Palin, Bash the Tea party, Bash REpublicans, everyone (but them) are Islamphobes, homophobes and racists....blah blah blah...


4 posted on 10/12/2010 3:58:40 PM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

really terrible. they should get the message.


5 posted on 10/12/2010 3:58:49 PM PDT by malkee (Actually I'm an ex-smoker--more than four years now-- But I think about it every day.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

That headline really isn’t fair. I think Kathleen Parker deserves a lot of the thanks.


6 posted on 10/12/2010 3:59:19 PM PDT by lara
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To: TigerLikesRooster; abb

Client #9 and one of those kind of girls is not TV worth watching


7 posted on 10/12/2010 3:59:42 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The ruling class don’t need no stinkin’ audience.


8 posted on 10/12/2010 3:59:47 PM PDT by donna (A new study says that Ritalin may stunt growth. Men ARE getting shorter than women!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
CNN Just Clocked Its Worst Primetime Ratings In 10 Years.

This is just what CNNs owners are looking for, isn't it? They should be delighted.

9 posted on 10/12/2010 4:00:35 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: lara

lol


10 posted on 10/12/2010 4:00:45 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Hold the course CNN. Yes, Spitzer is and will be a drag, but eventually the eye candy aspects of Kathleen Parker will kick in and up the ratings.


11 posted on 10/12/2010 4:03:05 PM PDT by Bertha Fanation
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Stay with it CNN. Spitzer, your format and political ideology are all proven winners!


12 posted on 10/12/2010 4:04:00 PM PDT by SanFranDan
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To: TigerLikesRooster

IF they fired all of the libtards and and made it THE conservative station, they would own the ratings. They could bury Ted Baxter (O’Reilly) with a Michael Savage Show, destroy Hannity with a Mark Levin Show, and eliminate Greta with the Ann Coulter Hour.

But they will continue to put the “C” in Communist.


13 posted on 10/12/2010 4:05:44 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I watched about 10 mintues of the Parker Spitzer show last week. They were discussing what type of tatoo different politicians might get. Son and I had a good laugh and then changed the channel.


14 posted on 10/12/2010 4:06:45 PM PDT by ShandaLear (The price of Obamacare? 30 pieces of silver.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Whoever came up with the “The RINO and the Luv Guv Show” idea should be canned.

Or was he already?


15 posted on 10/12/2010 4:12:16 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Forcing one person to pay for the irresponsibility of another is NOT social justice.)
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To: lara

She is bad enough, but who wants to waste time watching that perv Eliot Spitzer?


16 posted on 10/12/2010 4:12:28 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia

IMHO these two are perfectly matched.

The ICK factor is really in effect with these two.


17 posted on 10/12/2010 4:15:08 PM PDT by Carley (For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Why would they hire that male SXXX? Have they no judgment/
Are they totally uncivilized?

There is no way I would watch such a person.

Evidently a lot of other people think the same way.

There is hope for America.


18 posted on 10/12/2010 4:15:24 PM PDT by amihow
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To: lara

I agree . Spitzer probably brought his 3% audience share to the table; where was Parker’s 2 1/2 % ?


19 posted on 10/12/2010 4:17:29 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Dump Parker and pair Spitzie with his squeeze Ashley Dupre. THEN you'll see the ratings climb


20 posted on 10/12/2010 4:20:42 PM PDT by nascarnation
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