Posted on 05/07/2006 4:00:54 PM PDT by churchillbuff
Young viewers just don't watch The O'Reilly Factor like they used to. April marked Bill O'Reilly's lowest-rated month in the 25-54 demographic since August 2001.
His 415,000 demo viewers in March was a new low, but O'Reilly managed to lose a few more in April, averaging 412,000 in the demo. Here's his post-Katrina track:
Sept: 1,115 / Oct: 518 / Nov: 468 / Dec: 460 / Jan: 472 / Feb: 458 / Mar: 415
But this trend started long before the hurricane. for O'Reilly, April's numbers reflected his lowest demo rating in almost five years.
Among total viewers, O'Reilly delivered a respectable 2,102,000 million viewers for the month. But that, too, was low -- the lowest, in fact, since July of 2004 (when he had 2,042,000). Click continued to feast your eyes on O'Reilly's monthly averages since 2001...
> Update: 7:03pm: An e-mailer says: "O'Reilly has had over two million people watching his show consecutively for almost a year? That's astounding. My question for you is, who has beaten O'Reilly in that 25-54 demo? Unitl somebody does, his lower #'s probably reflect less news than last year. He's still the undisputed king."
If the pompous ass had any competition at all he would never have the first slot...
Who?
I would imagine that the cable news shows rating go down unless there is some great event. I would tend to think that rating for these shows would go up during election seasons and down whenever there is not an election. Also, when these cable news programs dedicate half their shows to the Duke Lacrosse team and the missing blonde of the month people just get tired of that.
Exactly. FOX News has always been full of tabloid crap (with few exceptions). But the Factor has become laughable in the past year or so.
I bet CNN, MSNBC and the rest wish that they had Fox News ratings
Bill O'Reilly's show is becoming a bit repetitive, as has Greta's:
Greta keeps her predictable focus on a handful of over-covered high profile legal cases like the missing blond girl in Aruba, the same four experts arguing the same points endlessly, day after day. And the Duke stipper case. Same points endlessly, day after day.
Bill has become a one-man crusader against child molesters.
Not that that's a bad thing to be, but it gets old. And it's the last thing your average 25 year old wants to watch!
It's child molesters, or carrying on about the words "pithy" and "popinjay".
Both of them need to mix it up a bit more. They're getting lazy, IMHO. And that's two hours in primetime when many viewers have returned home from work, without any hard news, at all!! Just predictable formula stuff.
Can't stand CNN for more than about 3 minutes at a time, but find myself wishing more and more, there was a second Fox, to keep the first one innovating and hungry.
Well, when you compare The Factor to Olberman's show... it looks marvelous.
Mr Bill makes me think of the movie Nell? Tway in da win ...Tway in da wind.
We have those on the extreme left and the extreme right. O'Reilly is an extreme moderate.
Talk about damning with faint praise ...
I'm 25, but I can't say I've ever watched a full O'Reilly show.
I'd rather watch ESPN :)
But you're right - BOR needs to get out of the studio and tour the parts of the country that real people live in, instead of sitting in his studio and being an insider. Term limits for broadcasters?
And Greta just needs to go away, and take the Hannity and Colmes WWF show with her.
That's just it. Until someone else has the clarity to expose the left as they are, he'll have no competition. I don't agree with him on all things, but he calls the left out better than anybody on tv.
It's so odd to hear anyone going on about this guy. I absolutely refuse to read watch or listen to him.
He's a self-admitted jive merchant in the "Infotainment Business". He does'nt care for or believe in anything except ratings...Period.
Plus, he's got mean little beady eyes. He really is not a nice man. ( He actually could be John McCains dead brother.)
You are exactly right. If there is someone out there who can beat out O'Reilly give him a shot at it. Hmm, Al Franken, nah, Al Gore, nah, James Carville, nah. Oh well, as bad as many seem to think O'Reilly is he still gets the ratings. Go figure, will ya!
Actually O'Reilly is beating the pants off all the other cable shows.
May 4th: O'Reilly had 456K viewers in the 25-40 demo, which *trounced" all his competition. Paula Zahn had 193K on CNN; Countdown on MSNBC had 141K; Nancy Grace on Headline 126K; CNBC had the closest audience at 206K.
Overall viewership: O'Reilly had three times the viewers of any competitor. 2.2 million, vs 696 thousand for Zahn; MSNBC and HLN were even worse.
But still he could stand to stray outside his box a bit more.
I never really understood all the excitement about Greta - she's obviously a very bright person, but I just can't get all worked up about lawyers.
Hannity and Combes in my opinion, is the only show of the three, which is genuinely challenging and fun.
Olderwomann has higher ratings than Chrissy Matthews.
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