May 2006 Cable News Ratings (Why we are winning).

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[MNJohnnie]

May 2006 Weekday Competitive Program Ranker

May 2006: 5/1/2006 - 5/26/2006

NETWORK PROGRAM NAME AA% AA(000) AA(000) AA(000)

FOX THE OREILLY FACTOR 1.8 1,558 2,003 375

FOXN HANNITY & COLMES 1.2 1,096 1,378 296

FOXN ON THE RECORD W/GRETA 1.2 1,034 1,284 280

FOXN THE FOX REPORT W/S.SMITH 1.1 968 1,211 290

FOXN SPECIAL REPORTW/BRIT HUME 1.1 950 1,186 226

FOXN THE OREILLY FACTOR (RPT) 1.0 845 1,068 287

CNN LARRY KING LIVE 0.9 841 992 194

FOXN THE BIG STORY W/J GIBSON 0.8 752 898 166

FOXN FOX AND FRIENDS 0.9 775 863 333

FOXN STUDIO B W/S.SMITH 0.8 741 852 200

CNN LOU DOBBS TONIGHT 0.8 702 803 200

FOXN YOUR WORLD W/NEIL CAVUTO 0.8 683 794 175

FOXN FOX NEWS LIVE 0.8 692 786 207

FOXN DAYSIDE 0.8 676 756 215

CNN ANDERSON COOPER 360 0.6 549 635 214

CNN SITUATION ROOM 0.5 487 550 157

CNN PAULA ZAHN NOW 0.5 477 549 129

FOXN FOX & FRIENDS FIRST 0.5 486 512 225

CNN CNN LIVE 0.4 351 389 137

CNN LIVE FROM 0.4 356 388 125

CNN AMERICAN MORNING 0.4 340 372 151

MSNB MSNBC INVESTIGATES 0.4 311 369 195

HLN NANCY GRACE 0.3 303 368 120

MSNB HARDBALL WITH C. MATTHEWS 0.4 313 358 116

CNN CNN YOUR WORLD TODAY 0.4 324 354 122

MSNB COUNTDOWN W/ K. OLBERMANN 0.3 264 314 114

MSNB SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY 0.3 269 312 105

MSNB IMUS IN THE MORNING 0.3 273 295 107

Source: Nielsen Media Research, all regularly scheduled programs airing M-F 6am-12am excluding breaking news & specials. Program Name Averages. Only scheduled programs with 2+ telecasts included.

[jlasoon]

I'm pretty sure both of them go on at 3 PM pacific.

[Just A Nobody]

Perfect!

[RogerWilko]

Hey! The link doesn't work! Maybe it won't allow linking articles or something crazy like that! See if this link to the site will work:

USA

[MNJohnnie]

Nope not that one either. Just find the story header if you do a cite search. That is odd. Wonder why that story went bye bye?

[Common Tator]

Cable still has such a teeny, tiny percent of viewers. I remember getting a call from Nielson asking if the network I was working for was "off the air" because it was only registering 2 million viewers...and that was daytime. That was then. This is now. CBS evening news with Rather only had 5 million viewers.

Years ago an advertiser could buy all 3 networks (ABC, NBC, and CBS) and reach 90 percent of the people in the USA. Today less than 30 percent can be reached that way.

A network newscast like NBC eveing news reaches at best 9 million viewers. But that is in one half hour. If you compare FOX News during that half hour Fox News has 10 percent of the NBC news viewers. But Fox news is on 24 hours a day.. What is the NBC evning news audience at 9PM? It is zero. It is not on the air. What is Fox News audience at 9PM? .. About 2 million..

The total number of people reached by FOX News greatly dwarfs the MSM.. simply because the MSM has Today and its clones, and an eveing newscast and few Sunday News talk shows. That is it. Fox News goes 24/7. That makes a big difference.

The true measure of clout is in total people reached each day, not those reached during the half hour the MSM has a newscast.

[MNJohnnie]

Larry Elder (positively NO "S"!)

Wow, is he nationally syndicated? Sounds like our kind of guy on his website.

[tobyhill]

Hardball couldn't even beat Nancy Grace. Way to hang on to the "Plame Leak" case Chrissy.

[adm5]

I've listened to Rush, Hannity & Laura Ingraham etc etc for years and years, and I would put him at that top level in terms of quality.

He is a liberal assassin.

[MNJohnnie]

Really funny watch how reality smacks the Leftist Junk Media types pretensions right in the face.

[MNJohnnie]

Well maybe the next Rush Limbaugh? Our first string is getting older, we got to be thinking stategic. Have to check him out. Know when he is on?

[ElkGroveDan]

...and Ailes is UPSET by this?

[MNJohnnie]

Over all the Cable TV market is shrinking. Especially in the 25-40 year old demographic. Seems the Internet is not just killing the Published Media. I mean, why watch a TV show when I know more about the News of the day then the "Journalists" just by spending 15 mins or so on line?

[BW2221]

Tucker Carlson's show would improve if he would change the format. Ditch Max Kellerman and the phony "debates" and the woman with the Goodwill Industries wardrobe.

[adm5]

I catch him on XM 5pm - 8pm CST.

But from his website: "The Larry Elder Show" is a nationally syndicated talk show on ABC Radio Networks, as of August 12, 2002. "The Larry Elder Show" broadcasts live from 6-9 PM (ET), Monday through Friday.

[maine-iac7]

Please put Brit on in Gretta's time slot!

I'll vote for that.

Gretta beats her stories to death - month upon month upon month on one story, as if there were nothing else going on the world...

[edzo4]

did you notice this little number in front of the total number of viewers?

for exmple:

MSNB HARDBALL WITH C. MATTHEWS 0.4

that number is the share or
the percentage of the TV's that are turned on that are tuned in
so in this case chris matthews had a whopping 0.4% not even 1% kind of makes the presidents 40% approval numbers look a little better than yours mr hardhead

[tobyhill]

Soon MSNBC will have to pay people to view their shows.

[MNJohnnie]

HAAA! Excellent point.

[R.W.Ratikal]

I would love to see Lou Dobbs leave C(X)NN and go to FOX. Robert Novak did.

[Personal Responsibility]

Get it right! It's Screwball with Screwball!

(Hat tip: The Great One!)