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Cable News Ratings: Laura Ingraham Holds O'Reilly's Audience At #1 (Charts)
hotairpundit ^ | 9/5/09 | talkradio03

Posted on 09/05/2009 12:10:02 PM PDT by Talkradio03

Latest Cable News Ratings released from mediabistro,

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To: Talkradio03

I can’t stand BOR any more... he’s gotten so out of touch with reality in recent years and I feel has sold his soul for ratings and book sales. Sad.


21 posted on 09/05/2009 12:29:02 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: My Favorite Headache

Hannity is boring....Beck is much more informative and entertaining.


22 posted on 09/05/2009 12:30:32 PM PDT by lonestar (Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
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To: Talkradio03
Way to go, Blondie (and I mean that in a good way). You've proven that it isn't The Blowhard, it's the audiance.
23 posted on 09/05/2009 12:33:09 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Love my country. Hate my government./Van Jones is an asshole. He said so himself.)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Hannity has no insight whatsoever.....only a few talkingpoints he repeats over and over and over and.......

Unfortunately ... you are right.

24 posted on 09/05/2009 12:36:18 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: savedbygrace

It’s time Fox gave Beck the 10:00 spot, and Ingraham the 7:00 spot. Greta is just trash.


25 posted on 09/05/2009 12:36:22 PM PDT by dangus (I am JimThompson)
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To: harpu

The relevance is that the ratings showed that Beck is beating Hannity. Someone mentioned how low the ratings for the networks that weren’t talking about Van Jones were, and Glenn Beck is the one who started talking about Van Jones on cable. Hannity didn’t credit Beck for starting it.


26 posted on 09/05/2009 12:39:29 PM PDT by Politics4US
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To: dangus

Considering Beck also has a 9-12 morning radio program, an evening TV show would be tough on him and his family. So 5pm is a good time slot and 7pm or later would make for some very long days and too much time away from his family.


27 posted on 09/05/2009 12:41:54 PM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: dangus

I’d like it the other way around—Glenn at seven and Laura at ten.


28 posted on 09/05/2009 12:44:17 PM PDT by Palladin (Obamacare=Emanuelcare=Mengelecare!)
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To: newfreep

Aw...Glenn could do it!

Just keep on feeding him M&Ms for energy!


29 posted on 09/05/2009 12:45:20 PM PDT by Palladin (Obamacare=Emanuelcare=Mengelecare!)
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To: dangus

What I think FNC should do is simply swap Beck & Smith. It would give Fox an early news program and give Beck a larger audience. He would crush the competition.


30 posted on 09/05/2009 12:46:29 PM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: Politics4US
I can't watch Hannity anymore. I despise his giving anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Freedom RATS like Bob Beckel, Willie Brown, etc., a platform to spew their idiotic left-wing talking points.

Screw Hannity.

31 posted on 09/05/2009 12:49:59 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: My Favorite Headache

I agree Hannity is a echo chamber. I can not listen to him too long and I can watch him even less long.

BUT, repeating simple facts so that more and more people hear them is a very important function.


32 posted on 09/05/2009 12:50:37 PM PDT by JLS
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To: My Favorite Headache

I agree Hannity is a echo chamber. I can not listen to him too long and I can watch him even less long.

BUT, repeating simple facts so that more and more people hear them is a very important function.


33 posted on 09/05/2009 12:50:38 PM PDT by JLS
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To: My Favorite Headache

Yeah, those Freedom Concerts that he headlines which has generated millions and millions of dollars for the education of our lost soldiers’ children is totally unoriginal. How many millions of dollars have you raised for that or any cause?


34 posted on 09/05/2009 12:58:25 PM PDT by guido911 (Islamic terrorists are members of the "ROP", the "religion of pu*&ies")
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To: Radagast the Fool

Laura was a co-host on MSNBC years ago and more recently, Fox tried her in the 5 pm slot before Glenn Beck. Her ratings were abysmal (by FNC standards)—no better than those of John Gibson, who was her predecessor in that time slot. She’s much better as a fill-in host, although I believe Michelle Malkin is a better sub for O’Reilly than Laura.

Perhaps the most amazing aspect of Beck’s success is the fact that CNN let him go. He was doing the same kind of show on HLN and he had that network’s second-highest rated show (behind Nancy Grace), despite the fact that CNN never promoted it. At 5 pm on FNC, Beck is absolutely demolishing the competition. CNN would absolutely kill for any show with that kind of audience.


35 posted on 09/05/2009 1:12:54 PM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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To: Falcon28
Fox News should stop beating around the bush and move Beck to 7pm EST - He would get massive ratings.

Oh, I heard better ideas than that. Let me think. On the plus side, Shep would be gone. On the minus side, well there is no minus side. I guess that is the best idea I have ever heard.

36 posted on 09/05/2009 1:16:24 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: lonestar

Sean has his shortcomings, but he invites the enemy into his studio on a regular basis on Fox and radio. Beck invites like minded people and then asks questions and answers them himself, kind of like Mike Francesa. Both Sean and Glenn are valuable to the cause of liberty but I am getting pretty disgusted with the jealousies being displayed. Mark Levin despises Beck. Savage hates all of them. Rush is more magnanimous, but he’s wary of his position as Numero Uno. I realize they’re entertainers as well but I think they need to be less self absorbed and more on the same page.


37 posted on 09/05/2009 1:27:44 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: ExNewsExSpook
She’s much better as a fill-in host, although I believe Michelle Malkin is a better sub for O’Reilly than Laura.

O'Reilly sided with Whoreldo in a dispute between him and Malkin some time back. The infrequent times we now watch BOR, we turn him off immediately when he brings on Whoreldo.

Michelle Malkin is a guest frequently on Hannity - and we'll watch his show just to hear what she has to say then turn it off when he does his panels.

38 posted on 09/05/2009 1:29:56 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: My Favorite Headache
Yep, Hannity is an echo chamber. No original thoughts what-so-ever.

My thoughts, exactly! (no pun intended).

For the life of me, I cannot fathom what the draw to Hannity is.

AS for me, Mark Levin is the sharpest sword in the fight for conservatism.

39 posted on 09/05/2009 1:47:23 PM PDT by mcmuffin (Will American patriots and freedom prevail?)
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To: Politics4US
He must be angry that Beck...

Probably 'cuz Beck is a believer in limited government & calls himself a libertarian (little "L"). Libertarians & big-government Republicans (Neo-cons) don't mix.

40 posted on 09/05/2009 2:09:31 PM PDT by ChrisInAR (The Tenth Amendment is still the Supreme Law of the Land, folks -- start enforcing it for a CHANGE!)
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