'This Week' Ratings Plummet With Christiane Amanpour As Host

NewsBusters ^ | 09/27/2010 | Noel Sheppard

[SanFranDan]

The Christiane Amanpour as "This Week" host experiment so far is a huge failure for ABC as ratings have plummeted since she took over the Sunday political talk show.

Last Sunday's program attracted 29 percent less viewers than the same day last year.

Making matters worse for ABC executives is the fact that Amanpour's numbers are far worse than interim host Jake Tapper's who did most of the anchoring after George Stephanopoulos left for "Good Morning America."

As Steve Krakauer reported Monday, the decision to bring Amanpour over from CNN is so far not looking like a good one:

[USS Alaska]

Frantzie, the word is BITCH.

I really want to post the word that describes her, but I c*n't.

[Republic of Texas]

Is that show still on?

[BluH2o]

Ms. Amanpooooooooooooor is annoying.

Very annoying ... she seems to ramp up the accent thing for the show. Apparently she's under the impression it gives her gravitas ...

[ken5050]

I suspect that 50% of the audience tunes in to see what Will has to say..

[Texas Eagle]

Geee, who coulda seen that coming?

Stevie Wonder.

[mojito]

This woman’s arrogance and poorly disguised contempt for the American people make her, outside of MSNBC, the most unwatchable figure in broadcast news. And that’s saying something.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Fire her...and bring in Charles Jaco (snicker)

[donaldo]

A good idea, but better yet, open the show with Matthews and Olbermann performing Obama’s ablutions.

[newnhdad]

she’s unwatchable. They don’t produce these shows for the public and the questions are not meant to reveal anything to us. They are talking to each other and the questions are designed to reinforce their own opinions.
There is no audience for this drivel except the people on the upper eastside, LA and DC who have it on in the background while reading the NY Slimes.

She is not likable because she talks down to the audience.