Posted on 03/02/2010 12:20:26 PM PST by Beaten Valve
Chief strategist of the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign and current ABC News contributor and political analyst Matthew Dowd will fill the rotating moderator seat on ABC's "This Week" this Sunday, TVNewser has learned.
Dowd is the first non-anchor or correspondent to moderate the program since it began rotating hosts after George Stephanopoulos left the program for "Good Morning America." It will be Dowd's first time anchoring a program.
ABC News tells us, "Since joining ABC in 2007, Matthew Dowd has provided independent and fair analysis on issues confronting the country. He has tremendous ability to speak to and understand all sides of an issue."
Dowd, who often appears on the show's roundtable, joined ABC News in December 2007 after working more than 30 years in politics. In addition to his role with ABC, he consults for general non-political companies and foundations.
ABC is bleeding financially. They must have looked at their Fox numbers and gotten a clue.
The networks finally figured out, along with CNN and MSNBC, calling the viewers the vulgar homosexual term teabaggers isn’t going to work when an election is coming....they need viewers to spin their propaganda and cheerleading on to..
Sunday, January 31, 2010-TOTAL VIEWERS A25-54
ABC “THIS WEEK”.............3,070,000
NBC “MEET THE PRESS”.....3,890,000
CBS “FACE THE NATION”......2,890,000
FOX “FOX NEWS SUNDAY”....1,140,00
Ironically, this was the week that Barbara Walters acted as host and interviewed Scott Brown. Fox probably does a little better than that because it re-airs this broadcast several times later on FNC. But, for the broadcast airing, FNS is always in last place.
Overall Fox News takes in more money then the ABC News division.
One show doesn’t tell the story.
Take in, or keep? As an example, CNN's ad revenue just about mirror Fox News ad revenue. I haven't seen the ad revenue figures for ABCNews, but I'd imagine they're similar to CNN's. FNC just operates more efficiently, so they make more money. I suspect with the massive cutbacks that ABC made last week, they'll too return to profitability.
It's easier to make more than your competitors when your operational overhead is 1/3 of theirs.
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