[Future Useless Eater]

There's 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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[JoJo Gunn]

"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.

[ClancyJ]

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.

[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.

Maybe CBS can merge with Salon.

[Enduring Freedom]

The Left cannot be debated, convinced or persuaded. It can only be vanquished.

[JudgemAll]

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.

[Tall_Texan]

So sad. I suppose ABC could always bring back Ellen Degenerate and Bill Maher.

[godlovesrepublicans]

Plus FOX has the best looking women.

[Dahoser]

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.

[Petronski]

BOYCOTT DISNEY: a vortex of seductive evil™

[bmwcyle]

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.

[Jhensy]

Whole bunch of lefties about to be fired over at ABC. What a shame.

[bvw]

Viewers Flee LIBERATED from ABC News and CBS News

[Bluntpoint]

"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."

[George W. Bush]

"The overall decline in the evening news programs' ratings, coming at the same time as the three cable news networks achieved gains of more than 300 percent, could be a watershed moment in how Americans get their news on television," the New York Times noted today.

The Times has to be worried too. The Big Three always looked first to the Times for their basic propaganda line. They were essentially affiliates of the NYT and all of them cited each other as highly credible news sources. So this is very bad news indeed for the Newspaper Of Record. People aren't listening to their television puppets.

[nicmarlo]

BTTT

[Sal]

But ABC continues to prove Goldberg's assertion that the nets are in denial. Its execs "dismissed the shrinking numbers as insignificant, if not completely irrelevant," the Times reported.

Insignificant and completely irrelevant. The epitaph of the commielibsymp press.

IMO this is at least as important in the war for civilization as the one our fine military is finishing up right now.

The now failing Propaganda Ministry was the "elite" division of the left's assault on this country--the powerful front line of our domestic enemies.

Their next strongest battle arm is in the schools IMO, and I hope that's the next front.

[lewislynn]

"This was a reporters' war, not an anchor war; this involved a series of very profound individual vignettes," complained Andrew Heyward,

Gee, the war I saw involved several thousand brave, well trained, well disciplined, well equipped men and women freeing an oppressed people.

I had no Idea the whole thing was a staged reality show for the benefit of news anchors readers vs real reporters.