Posted on 04/29/2010 7:59:16 PM PDT by blam
Glenn Beck's Ratings Collapse
Gillian Reagan
Apr. 29, 2010, 4:15 PM
Is Glenn losing his edge? Maybe not.
Fox News' Glenn Beck might be a one-man $32 million media empire (books, radio shows, tours and more!) but what's going on with his marquee Fox News show?
The Los Angeles Times' Joe Flint reports that News Corp.-owned Fox News cable news ratings are still high above the competition. But Glenn Beck's total number of viewers are down by almost 30%, from 2.9 million in January to 2.1 million in April.
Glenn might not be the rising ratings juggernaut month to month, like he has always been. But he's still a powerhouse in the 5 p.m. timeslot. As Joe writes, "the decline in his audience has hardly made a dent on the lead he enjoys for his 5 p.m. festival of emotions. His rivals should hold off a little on popping the Champagne."
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Here's how the other cable news personalities are doing, year over year, in April:
April 09- April 2010 in the 25-54 demo:
* Fox News' Bill O’Reilly– down 3%
* MSNCB's Rachel Maddow – down 8%
* Fox News' Greta Van Sustren – down 13%
* Fox News' Sean Hannity – down 17%
* MSNBC's Chris Matthews – down 23%
* MSNBC's Headline News – down 26%
* MSNBC's Keith Olbermann – down 28%
* CNN's Wolf Blitzer – down 37%
* CNN's Campbell Brown – down 39%
* CNN's Anderson Cooper – down 41%
* CNN's Larry King – down 46%
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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Can't stand O'Reilly, never watch that show anymore. Now he has the ultimate Liberal Juan Williams doing the show, disaster. Juan is an Obama groupie.
Sort of like Chuck Harder, but maybe a little better packaged and on legitimate networks.
The article is about Cable TV ratings...Rush and Levin are strictly radio.
Ping
Well, sorta. Actually, that adds up to 22 minutes/hour if the uninterrupted playback time is 1:54. But you can't count that all as commercial time, because there are national and local news stories broadcast at the top of each hour, as well.
Mark Levin's show has even more breaks. His mp3 versions are usually 110 to 112 minutes, not counting the time he takes complaining about 'backbenchers' or whining about how he does his own research and never gets any ideas from anybody else.
Maybe Beck should ask Barry for his birth certificate instead of criticizing those who do...
Obama's Cloward-Piven Strategy is very effective. Everyday we're bombarded with negative news - with more government taking over every aspect of our lives. How do we keep up? Honestly, I can't keep up. Just skimming through Freeper on a daily basis is exhausting. Everyday, more government control, more media silence and more Americans shrugging their shoulders.
I don't want to be a sunshine patriot - but I'm getting tired. God help our country if conservatives ever become apathetic. But, I am somewhat optimistic as the Tea Party Movement appears to have legs and November will be here in 6 months.
Maybe there's hope on the horizon:
That bastard isn’t going to out-last anybody. His regime is going to face opposition to his marxist plan every day. The states better start moving fast in their support of AZ. It is a start. If Minnesota and San Francisco wants the fall-out then give them all a bus ticket.
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It’s good that he’s doing stuff about history. Young people aren’t being taught that stuff at school. Like others here, I was exhausted after the healthcare debacle and took a little break from Beck and others. I just volunteered to work on the campaign of a local tea party endorsed candidate. Hope lots of freepers will be doing the same—it’s going to take more than just showing up at the polls to unseat the entrenched corrupt politicians.
People got wise to Beck and realized he’s the Gentile Jackie Mason.
He’s ENTERTAINMENT and not News Commentator.
ALSO, he gets people to focus on one issue while Congress passes bills that we don’t learn about until it’s too late to try to persuade Congress not to pass them.
His “watch the other hand” mantra goes double for Beck.
A LOT of people quit watching when he dissed the Birther Movement. People became aware that Beck is Media and so are his bosses. Murdoch and the Saudi Prince.
I haven’t listened to him on radio or watched him on tv for months . . . nearly a year.
Yes, we’re exhausted. We are emotionally overwhelmed. We want it all to just go away.
But it won’t.
And that’s just what they want, for the good down-to-earth hard working American to deny reality, to tell himself that it’s just hyperbole, that surely it can’t be as bad as it feels.
So we tune out the bad news, thinking it will all go away, and while we hide our faces, they win.
I am willing to endure exhaustion to preserve our way of life for my children and my soon-to-arrive grandbaby.
If it means reading and listening to difficult realities, I can do that.
And I appreciate Beck, tears and blackboard, theatrics and all, for what he’s doing. The silliness is just a spoonful of sugar to help us swallow bitter news.
Twice today, he said flat-out that if anything happens to him, it is not an accident. The goons are threatening his life.
So to read the derogatory comments on this thread tonight is somewhat disheartening. Sure, Rush is more fun. Kinda like P.E. vs. calculus. We need both.
The only two I pay attention to while on computer is Neil Cavuto and Gretta.
They both have substance and Greta especially has great guests. Many Republican Sens. and Reps.
She takes on Obama and his adm.
Greta was the one early on who had on Sarah Palin in ‘08
and went to Alaska for interviews.
Am also a long time Mark Levin listener.
‘...His shows this week have been outstanding.’
agree. Glenn does his homework and presents some amazing information, especially when he connects the dots to show that many of the ultra liberal organizations relate to each other and to this Administration. I haven’t heard any other media outlet present the facts that Glenn has uncovered. It does, sometimes, seem that Glenn gets into the weeds BUT the DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS. I would like to see Glenn present the facts he’s uncovered in recent shows to members of Congress.
I have to agree. The decline is slight, and to me consistent with alienating a slice of the audience turned off by a religious message.
He needs more “how to” do citizen advocacy. He doesn’t quite get that yet. He brings on speakers about civil disobedience and gets high centered on the religious aspects of the code that Civil Rights marchers took. He is all into this “faith, hope and charity thing.”
What people need to be familiar with are strategies - how is “corporate” or organizational culture changed? What do those actions look like? Where are resources to show you how to do advocacy things effectively? How were they done in the past? What worked? How do you keep actions from going over the edge to violence?
He needs to have a vision of how things should be, then compare them with how they are now and describe what needs to be changed. Is it new legislation? Is it new representatives? Is it a different allocation of resources? Is it separation of power? Is it reduction of authority and power?
You will never know if you got where you are going if you never articulated where that was in the first place. You are just spinning your wheels loudly.
Your loss.
Please watch the Beck videos in the link at Post 46.
Beck is getting stale. He sticks to the tired old mantra that Democrats and Republicans are all bad. It has been pointed out to Beck by thinking conservatives that all Democrats are bad and many but not all Republicans are bad.
Beck wants to reform both parties? Please, the Dims are a lost cause and they need to be opposed and destroyed. Republicans must be watched closely and constantly curbed, but that’s all we have to work with.
Rush and Levin have solutions, Beck has himself and his dreams of our forefathers.
When/if Beck openly pushes for a third party, he will be toast.
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