Fox News soars in ratings -- Bill O'Reilly rolls on

ZonTV-Baltimore Sun ^ | 9-2-09 | David Zurawik

[STARWISE]

The August ratings are out, and once again, the ratings for the Fox News Channel are phenomenal.

Rather than throwing a million pieces of data that every channel is spinning into madness, I ask you to consider just this one: On Sunday night, the third episode of AMC's highly-publicized and much-discussed series, "Mad Men," drew an audience of 1.6 million viewers at 10 p.m. when it debuted.

Throughout the month of August, Fox News Channel averaged an audience of 2.29 million viewers during every single hour of prime time. And some nights, Bill O'Reilly drew an audience twice as large as that of "Mad Men."

My question for this news-savvy group of readers: Why? How does Fox News Channel keep running these kind of numbers? (And by the way, what about the relatively small size of audience for "Mad Men"?)

For starters, forget MSNBC and CNN -- they are not in the same galaxy as the Fox folks on this discussion.

[STARWISE]

Go, Rupert!

[allmost]

O’Reilly, WTH?

[wombtotomb]

And to think, Glenn used to be on MSNBC LOL. Talk about killing the golden goose LOL

[MNJohnnie]

Beck at 5 draws almost 2xs what MSNBC pulls in prime time. They are Fox, hear them ROAR!

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/

Ratings
The Scoreboard: Thursday, Sept. 3
By Chris Ariens on Sep 04, 2009 04:29 PM
25-54 demographic: (L +SD)

Total day: FNC: 410 | CNN: 218 | MSNBC: 153 | HLN: 152

Prime: FNC: 658 | CNN: 308 | MSNBC: 270 | HLN: 181

5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC Beck: Baier: Shep: O’Reilly: Hannity: Greta: O’Reilly:
664 496 507 684 710 568 434
CNN Blitzer: Blitzer: Dobbs: Brown: King: Cooper: Cooper:
120 113 124 143 323 458 598
MSNBC Matthews: EdShow: Matthews: Olbermann: Maddow: Olbermann: Maddow:
145 192 203 345 253 211 248
HLN Prime: Prime: Issues: Grace: Issues: Grace: Showbiz:
95 114 131 207 150 192 219

Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

[MNJohnnie]

Flip Beck to O’reilly’’s slot and I bet they crack 10 million

[allmost]

I like Beck. Haven’t watched anything for some months now. Football that’s it...

[STARWISE]

~~PING!

[what's up]

But what do you think? That's what I'm wondering today.

Because the other channels are outlets for lies upon lies.

[DGHoodini]

Uhhmmm...Beck used to be on CNN, not PMSDNC.

I wonder...Do you suppose Crap Matthews or Creep OlberButtmunch has ever seen this:

‘Obama-Cult of Personality’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITRPsCtqB9o

>Bo)

[wombtotomb]

I knew it was on one of those networks I don’t watch LOL. Thanks for the correction.

[gunnyg]

I really wonder who is behind the Glenn Beck thing???

“the short answer is obvious—he is a stooge for fauxnoose—but there are certain topics faux cannot handle—9/11; those “camps;” and there is that “birther” issue, etc.—but they still want to skim the gravy off the top, and GB is their Huckleberry!”

[Reagan Man]

Fox news is way ahead with viewers because unlike the liberal media, Fox is holding Obama accountable. Fox appeals to traditionalists, conservatives and Republicans. O’Reilly leads the pack by pulling in independents and moderates. Hannity attacks Obama with a smile. While Beck goes for the jugular.

Fox wins big time. CNN and msnbc keep on losing.

[gunnyg]

“I really wonder who is behind the Glenn Beck thing???

“the short answer is obvious—he is a stooge for fauxnoose—but there are certain topics faux cannot handle—9/11; those “camps;” and there is that “birther” issue, etc.—but they still want to skim the gravy off the top, and GB is their Huckleberry!”
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Of course, that doesn’t eexplain 0’pinhead—but what’s to explain—you know thisn’t Heaven don’t ya???

[penelopesire]

AWESOME!!

FYI...just found a very interesting video of the Russian Communist Party leader praising Lenin,Marx,Obama and saying the Jesus was the first communist...lol. The guy was implicated in the Oil For Food Scandal as I recall.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1510276/posts?q=1&&page=51

Here it is if you are interested:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IatoF2H-pnQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2F74%2E125%2E95%2E132%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3AuTy1i1oOeXcJ%3Avideo%2Ekylekeeton%2Ecom%2F2009%2F04%2Frussian%2Dvideo%2Dgennady%2Dzyuganov%2Dabout%2Ehtml%2B%2522Genna&feature=player_embedded#t=726

He meet with Obama not too long ago.

[sourcery]

Fox News is now the cable news channel of record.

[raptor29]

O’Reilly sucks, he’s a phony who sold out the audience who put him in the top spot. Now, he is carried by the talent in the Fox shows around him. O’Reilly, you suck and you’re a sellout.

[MNJohnnie]

I wonder who you work for? Who pays you to rush from thread to thread here spamming us with the same idiot Anti Right propaganda slime?

So who do you work for stooge? Moveon.org? Act Up? Colors of Change? Which commie symp organization do you work for?

Come out of the closet fraud.

Why is it you never post a word critical of the Left?

Instead you spend all your time pretending to be "uber conservative" while doing nothing but hysterically trash talking everyone to the right of center?

Either you are an ignorant fool who does not realize you are acting just like a Leftist PR agent or your are lying about your real political leanings.

Which is it? Are you a fraud or a fool?

[LostInBayport]

For starters, forget MSNBC and CNN -- they are not in the same galaxy as the Fox folks on this discussion.

The entire viewing audience of Lardball with Christine Matthews is outraged...outraged! at this statement. Every single one of them will be picketing the author's home. They will be traveling in the same car, and have asked me to announce that there is one seat left remaining.

[Vision]

My question for this news-savvy group of readers: Why? How does Fox News Channel keep running these kind of numbers?

Your head has to be completely up your butt to be clueless on this.

[gunnyg]

Final word:
what you are shouts so loudly I cannot hear you!

Fino