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Viewers Flee ABC News and CBS News
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| April 14, 2003
| Carl Limbacher
Posted on 04/15/2003 12:40:01 AM PDT by Future Useless Eater
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this too; [ABC has been behind FOX for TWO MONTHS!]...
ABC still fourth in ratings
By David Bauder, Associated Press, 4/9/2003
NEW YORK - Fox's resurgence over the past few months means ABC is frequently the fourth-place network, and its weakness was evident again last week.
Only two ABC programs - ''Primetime Thursday'' and ''The Bachelor'' - were among the week's 40 most-watched prime-time programs last week, according to Nielsen Media Research.
By contrast, NBC had 16 shows in the top 40, CBS 15, and Fox seven, Nielsen said.
ABC has been the fourth-place network for six of the previous eight weeks. It avoided that fate during the weeks of two special events - the Academy Awards and Martin Bashir's interview with Michael Jackson.
More importantly for ABC, it also placed a distant fourth last week among viewers age 18 to 49, the advertiser-friendly demographic that ABC, NBC, and Fox most aggressively chase...
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posted on
04/15/2003 12:41:58 AM PDT
by
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To: FL_engineer
"The red-faced suits at the long-ago Tiffany Network are blaming ... the Bush administration. They whine that the policy of placing reporters with the military units in Iraq has boosted the cable channels."This is mind boggling. What a slap in the face to John Roberts, eh? It's as if he wasn't even there.
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posted on
04/15/2003 12:57:48 AM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered....)
To: FL_engineer
Gosh - hate to hear this. I know - if they just have more interviews with people such as Castro, Saddam in which they grovel and glorify them as such exalted dignitaries - that will help.
Maybe they can have more interviews with the Hollywood elite so that they can explain why Americans are supposed to patronize their movies and hold them in awe as adoring fans when they deem to explain how evil their country and their president is. Maybe they can more effectively show that the entertainers are really leaders teaching the peons how to think.
And, a few more explanations of how horrible America and its current leaders are viewed in the international community would help.
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posted on
04/15/2003 1:00:19 AM PDT
by
ClancyJ
To: FL_engineer
After all, since the groveling Rather let himself be exploited as a mouthpiece by genocidal madman Saddam, viewership of "CBS Evening News" has plunged more than 15 percent.Maybe CBS can merge with Salon.
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posted on
04/15/2003 1:02:21 AM PDT
by
Roscoe
To: Roscoe
After all, since the groveling Rather let himself be exploited as a mouthpiece by genocidal madman Saddam, viewership of "CBS Evening News" has plunged more than 15 percent. As heard on the Imus Show, (paraphrase) "All you need to know that when Rather interviewed Bush Sr. he picked a fight with him and when he interviewed Saddam he let him have a pass".
To: FL_engineer
The Left cannot be debated, convinced or persuaded. It can only be vanquished.
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posted on
04/15/2003 1:40:16 AM PDT
by
Enduring Freedom
(To smash the ugly face of Socialism is our mission)
To: FL_engineer
This was a reporters' war, not an anchor war; this Oh, gee, aren't we picking on definitions here. Reporters can be as much as anchors and vice versa. Anchor is only a repeater, what value is there in this middle man who can only be original in how he or she distorts the truth.
yep, it was a war for the truth, not for the lies.
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posted on
04/15/2003 2:53:46 AM PDT
by
JudgemAll
To: FL_engineer
So sad. I suppose ABC could always bring back Ellen Degenerate and Bill Maher.
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posted on
04/15/2003 3:08:34 AM PDT
by
Tall_Texan
(Where liberals lead, misery follows.)
To: ClancyJ
Does anybody remember when Barbara Walters interviewed Muammar Gaddafi?
To: FL_engineer
Plus FOX has the best looking women.
To: FL_engineer
Much as I despise ABC and CBS, I think you have to be fair and say that it's more likely due to having no cable presence than simply viewers being turned off by their bias. NBC held its own because its news division continued to be seen on MSNBC and CNBC 24x7 after NBC went back to regular programming. Hopefully, though, like the people of Baghdad, the people who have tasted the freedom of no-ABC/CBS will want more of the same.
In primetime programming, ABC has once again embarked on a mindless sitcom strategy as evidenced by prematurely axing two promising dramas in "Veritas: The Quest" and "Miracles," while giving Daniel Stern yet another shot at flopping in a sitcom.
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posted on
04/15/2003 5:34:51 AM PDT
by
Dahoser
(Son of the tyrant Assad! There's a card with your name on it in the latest edition of the deck.)
To: FL_engineer
BOYCOTT DISNEY: a vortex of seductive evil
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posted on
04/15/2003 5:36:49 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(I'm not always cranky.)
To: Enduring Freedom
The Left cannot be debated, convinced or persuaded. It can only be vanquished. Truer words...
To: FL_engineer
The Sheeple wake up from Clinton to finally see they were living in the land of liars. Now CNN tells the world what lies they were hiding in Baghdad. I wish they would come clean about the lies they hide in America.
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posted on
04/15/2003 5:45:01 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Semper Gumby - Always flexible)
To: bmwcyle
Catch CNN this morning? They're pulling the same
cr@p they pulled in Iraq in Syria now. Those poor misunderstood Syrians...
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posted on
04/15/2003 5:47:59 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
To: FL_engineer
Whole bunch of lefties about to be fired over at ABC. What a shame.
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posted on
04/15/2003 5:49:32 AM PDT
by
Jhensy
To: FL_engineer
Viewers Flee LIBERATED from ABC News and CBS News
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posted on
04/15/2003 5:49:46 AM PDT
by
bvw
To: FL_engineer
"This was a reporters' war, not an anchor war"
A bit more difficult to weed out all the positives on edit when it is a "reporter's war."
Kind of reminds one of the success of some network's slogan:
"WE report, YOU decide."
To: Enduring Freedom
The Left cannot be debated, convinced or persuaded. It can only be vanquished. My nominee for Quote of the Week!
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posted on
04/15/2003 5:51:33 AM PDT
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