Posted on 04/16/2009 2:28:06 PM PDT by careyb
FOX RATINGS SURGE ON PROTEST COVERAGE
8-11 PM ET
FOXNEWS 3,390,000
MSNBC 1,210,000
CNN 1,070,000
CNN HEADLINE 909,000
FOXNEWS O'REILLY 3,980,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 3,239,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 2,947,000
FOXNEWS BECK 2,740,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,401,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 2,185,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,499,000
CNNHN GRACE 1,336,000
CNN KING 1,292,000
MSNBC MADDOW 1,149,000
CNN COOPER 1,021,000
“Let’s remember too, McCain got 48% of the vote. It was not exactly a mandate for Obama. Yes he won the election, but hardly any mandate to turn this into the USSA.”
I have spoken to a lot of ppl in NJ who voted for Obama and regret it. They bought into the HOPE and CHANGE mantra and now they say they HOPE things will CHANGE from what they got.
Sigh....it’s worse than I thought when our own side is so easily distracted too.
I do , now if only everyone on here turned the two stations off and never have them on no more plus get others their ratings(ratings HA HA HA IS THAT WHAT THEY ARE) will tank even more.
fox now can say that is why we followed it as it was a good business decision and that is why we are in front.
They just dont get it as they still cannot just report but instead name call like little kids , the same with air America or any other liberal radical left wing station on the radio.
They act like kids, do not tell the truth, do not have another voice on and name call like a 5 year old and then they wonder why they are going down
Obama only did one percentage point better then Bush in 2004. Throughout Bush's tenure, he was plagued by questions about "healing a divided" country. But, not ONCE have I heard anything similar asked of Obama. Media bias? You decide.
don’t forget that some parts in the north east and this country in hospitals, waiting rooms, hotels they do not even have fox news or they refuse to put it on.
many times I have stayed in hotels and cannot get fox but they have CNN
The best way to make a boycott effective is to select ONE of the lib channels and boycott it, for an extended period of time, rather than scattershot across all the lib nets. One channel at a time, they can be put in a position to at least moderate their coverage.
Another day in the life for CNN.
I see Anderson is at the bottom of the tea bag.
Yours is a ‘right on’ post. As much as the MSM wants to beat FNC- they go in the opposite direction of them, the people’s choice! LOL! Mental disease - doing the same thing over and over and expect to get different results.
Haven’t turned the TV on for months.
Started scaling back on all consumption, including media consumption, as soon as ‘bammy got elected.
I am happy to report that I am one of those 3million folk. I was there at the protest in spirit!! I did my job and tuned in to FOX ALL DAY!!
I heard a report on a local CBS affiliate in San Antonio that the huge tea party here was organized by Fox news personalities (”the right wing cable news outlet personalities”) to be exact. If I didn’t love my big screen so much I may have thrown something at it. They only mentioned the protest for perhaps 15 seconds. No interviews - nothing. I pray the Neilson people ask me to participate in a ratings sweep.
CNN’s coverage was laughable as usual.
Reports here say 10-15 thousand in attendance from 3pm-9pm around Alamo Plaza. Glenn Beck was there along with our rock and roll hero, Ted Nugent. Our local news website www.mysa.com has a forum and the tea party was a very hot topic of discussion for it’s regulars.
But, but MSM said it was a landslide!
I’m confused./
we can ONLY hope this turns into votes
“It was not exactly a mandate for Obama.”
Yesh, but he got the votes he needed from ACORN, the dead, double voters, and out-of-staters/foreigners.
Fraud.
I guess Chrissy had a decimal point running down his leg.
"Networks TANKS Because They Negelect The Obvious"?
"Networks Have Problems With Their Reporting. Can Not See What's Going On With Their Heads In The Sand."
"Network News SUCKS! Partly cloudy tomorrow, high around 65".
To be fair, these numbers aren’t that much of a surge from their normal ratings. Fox typically beats both CNN and MSNBC by 2 & 3-1 in both total viewers and in the 25-54 demo.
Olbermann’s fantasies about competing with Fox last fall when the Obama campaign was in full swing are now a distant memory. He is lucky to beat Nancy Grace these days. The man has zero credibility outside the fever swamps of DailyKos & Think Progress.
The other $64,000 question is how long the much ballyhooed “Ed Schultz Show” will stay in the lineup. The ratings are absolutely abysmal. He struggles to beat CNN Headline News half the time. I believe he is the lowest rated show in prime time and definitely the lowest rated show in his time slot.
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