Posted on 10/11/2013 8:21:01 PM PDT by iowamark
Megyn Kelly blew out Rachel Maddow in the key demo on Tuesday after losing to her the night before. "I have never seen it in all my years of cable," says Phil Griffin.
Phil Griffin, president of MSNBC, says there's something fishy about Tuesday's ratings for the Fox News Channel, which were up significantly from a day earlier when Fox News debuted its new schedule. And he wants an investigation.
"Monday we had a really good day in the key demographic. On the night that Fox News debuted their three shows, we either tied or beat them in those hours," Griffin said at a briefing, according to TVNewser.
"Tuesday -- you guys should be doing some investigations; I have never seen it in all my years of cable -- same overnight, same everything. And they doubled their ratings in a day? It is impossible." Griffin continued, "I have never seen it. They did election-night numbers in the demo Tuesday."
The Nielsen numbers Griffin refers to include MSNBC beating Fox News on Monday in the adults 25-54 demographic at 7 p.m. and tying Fox News at 10 p.m.
At 9 p.m. on Monday, MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show beat Fox News' new The Kelly File, hosted by Megyn Kelly, by a slim 10,000 viewers in the key demo.
By Tuesday, though, Fox News was back to its dominant self, with 573,000 in the key demo compared with 261,000 for MSNBC between the hours of 8 p.m. and 11 p.m.
Perhaps most dramatically, Kelly's narrow loss to Rachel Maddow from a night earlier was significantly reversed, with Kelly drawing an audience of 623,000 in the key demo compared with Maddow's 291,000.
Nielsen has not yet responded to Griffin's remarks.
On Wednesday, Kelly beat Maddow 384,000 to 299,000 in the key demo, with CNN's Piers Morgan Live at 117,000. And on Thursday, Kelly beat Maddow 376,000 to 288,000, with Morgan at 157,000.
Griffin's assertion that Fox News did "election night" numbers on Tuesday may have been hyperbole, considering on Tuesday Fox News had 2.65 million in primetime and 573,000 in the key demo, while on the night of the presidential election Fox News had 7.5 million viewers with 3 million from the key demo, according the Nielsen.
How about an investigation into where OBayMe was the night four Americans were murdered in Benghazi and who ordered the “stand down?”
Not really that hard to understand. Kelly’s first night was nothing but
liberal slant. So Maddow’s liberal viewers tuned in the second night
to hear Kelly’s liberal slant.
The Battle of Liberal vs Liberal Lite begins.
Griffin's a liberal - liberals see only what they want to see...
Our babe beats their guy..
LOL. Is this satire?!
“My competition is killing me by more than I think they should be”.
...liberals...smh
After all, he investigated the Gallup organization when they released a negative poll on Obama, and suddenly Obama went up in the polls again.
It could work for MSNBC, too!
-PJ
It appears to me that a lot of liberals are pissed off about the complete and utter failure of Obamacare and don’t have any interest in being lied to about it by MSNBC.
They know that FOX has been warning of the impending failure and just this once want to get ahead of the game.
I don’t know anyone who watches PMSNBC.
Let’s see a cute, perky blond against an ugly, mean-faced dyke.... Gee who’s gonna win the ratings?
That caught me too. I didn’t think MadCow had enough viewers to even move the needle.
Kelly’s show jumped 116% in the demo and 34% in overall audience. In so doing, she beat CNN’s Piers Morgan and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow combined — in both metrics.
At 8 PM, The O’Reilly Factor continued to snag cable news’s biggest overall audience, 3 million viewers; 578,000 of them fit into the cable news demo. Meanwhile, Greta Van Susteren, who now kicks off FNC’s primetime at 7 PM, attracted an average overall crowd of 1.8 million viewers, 317,000 in the demo, finishing first among cable news nets on both counts. Rounding out the night, FNC’s Hannity scored 2.2 million viewers, 517,000 in the demo. In fact, FNC’s entire primetime lineup came in No. 1 in both metrics, beating MSNBC and CNN combined.
On its first night, Look as though the FNC audience is catching on to the new slate.
Poor Phil. Guess he’s very frustrated because he can’t get a piece of MZ. Maddow. No “bop to the top” for her, or him.
Try a three-way with a goat, Phil. Then you might get some.
he could do that to a goat if he went to school in Kalipornia apparently
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Poor Phil. Guess he’s very frustrated because he can’t get a piece of MZ. Maddow. No “bop to the top” for her, or him.
Try a three-way with a goat, Phil. Then you might get some.
Hmmmm... spend an hour looking at a somewhat attractive blonde news presenter, or spend an hour looking at a brunette news presenter who looks like a 13-year-old boy? Do the math.
Bottom line is your product blows.
Get over it and revamp your line up.
You’re joking me, right?
HS grad pic....tis real.
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