Posted on 10/26/2009 7:15:46 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
It’s a nine-percent bump in the two weeks since Anita Dunn’s whine heard ’round the world — in terms of overall audience.
Among the coveted 25-54 demographic? A 14-percent bump.
Good work, Barry. People keep telling me that this PR offensive by the White House benefits both sides but I don’t see how that’s true. If the goal is to contain Fox by framing the stories it breaks — Van Jones, ACORN, etc — as somehow illegitimate, then every tenth of a point that Fox’s ratings go up undermines that goal.
There will come a point where other news nets will follow Fox’s lead simply for business reasons, ideology or no ideology; follow the link, eyeball the list of top 20 news shows, and ask yourself how far we are from that point, really.
To put it in perspective: “Red Eye,” at 3 a.m., is beating Campbell Brown at 8 p.m. on CNN in the demo.
(Worse, perhaps: Anderson Cooper is getting beat by … re-runs of Nancy Grace.) CNN’s made a noble attempt at semi-objective coverage in primetime while FNC and MSNBC resort to bombthrowers, but this experiment must be near its end.
I wonder what they’ll end up putting in the 8 p.m. slot. Some sort of updated version of “Crossfire,” perhaps, with a new, younger, edgier cast? Andrea Tantaros versus Meghan McCain on a nightly basis? I’d watch.
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Keep talking BO.
Lol, I predicted a 25% bump in Fox’s ratings, but thought I was exaggerating. Maybe not, because it’ll be a few more weeks before this settles down.
Ping
“Please don’t throw me in that briar patch!”
I’m still afraid he’ll be able to intimidate potential advertisers. Almost all big accounts have to deal with the Government is some way or another. They can’t affort to be seen as hostile.
How did it ever come to this in America?
My answer, short and sweet, the lefties got hold of the schools and the sheople are too ignorant to notice.
If every freeper turned all TVs in house on to FOX and left them on 24/7, I wonder how much the ratings would jump!
I wish that Roger Ailes would sign up Laura Ingram (sp) and Ann Coulter for shows that run back- to back.
Then Fox would be smoking!!!!
Ann Coulter is great. I like Laura, she’s nice but I admit she sounds a little dry on my radio.
lol, that wouldn't work...but if you bought a really, really BIG television and kept it on 24/7 Fox's rating would go up.
Just like he’s already made NRA Salesman of the Year, unintended consequences.
bwaaaaaahhhhh!
Ouch!
Worse, perhaps: Anderson Cooper is getting beat by … re-runs of Nancy Grace.
Double Ouch!
At least Bozo isn’t losing any sleep over them.
Pray for AMerica’s Freedom
Here is what I do, when I sleep I have my Dish network receiver set up so it automatically tunes into FOX at 2am when FNF airs, and it records Beck.
Dish network knows of course what I am watching and they share that information.
Prezzadizzle heez da shizzle wit da sizzle;
Mmm, mmm, mmm: dat beez Rakki 0'Bozo.
;-/
Something featuring those two and Michelle Malkin would be great. Maybe a show where the three collaborate. Since they all already have busy careers, they might not want five day per week TV responsibilities.
Anne, Laura, Michelle plus Liz cheney.......add a way out liberal to ridicule and call it “A Conservative VIEW”.
The list, ping
The list, ping
They wouldn’t, because there would need to be more Nielson families tune in and record that they’ve done so. :-)
haha...sad and true.
There are 2 TVs that still broadcast CNN, and the political identifications are clear by the viewers sitting in front of them.
...and it’ll keep going up now that the word is fully out. I guess Charlie Gibson met his Waterloo after all. I wonder what he thinks of the Obama Media Doctrine.
A couple of sites offering rebroadcast software apparently received cease and desist orders from Fox. Before they’d have 600 - 1,000 people viewing. Now it’s around 100 and even less:
About 80%+ of their viewers must have been watching Fox.
I doubt it. They'll beg for bailouts; blame the VRWC; anything to avoid giving up their religion.
Maybe they will be able to intimidate SOME, but THIS showed up as an ad on Fox this morning.
Link to the ad is on the site.
http://www.henryrepeating.com/
I wouldn’t worry about Fox losing advertisers. Looks like they are attracting just the kind of advertisers I wanna see. So freakin’ sick of AARP ads. Gahhh!
Could it be that Jimmy Carter is no longer the best thing to happen to the conservative movement?
Malkin, Coulter and Ingraham...now there’s a show I would “view” ;-)
I'd love to see that, also, and that "view" wouldn't be a group of airheads with lots of opinions and little knowledge.
Now THAT would be a totally kick-@ss show!
Then they could compare the ratings between the View and the conservative show.
It would be an embarrassing blow out. Ha ha!
I work at a new grocery store that has been open since January of this year. The break room TV had been on CNN for the entire time up until about 3 weeks ago when someone had it changed. No idea who, but I’d like to thank them.
At least now I don’t feel like hurling when I have my lunch. :P
Delicious. Good work, BO.
If this clueless amalgam of Chicago political thugs and university pansies can’t beat Fox News, what are the chances of them out-smarting Putin or even the Taliban?
My stupid, always-on digital Comcast cable boxes are always tuned to Fox News. Even while I'm watching something else on my digital television.
People have remote controls and can watch whatever channel they want. People tend to watch channels which agree with what they ALREADY BELIEVE.
The truth for liberals is far more devastating than just worrying about clamping down on those annoyingly truthful broadcasters. FOX isn't causing people to rebel. We are already REBELS, and we watch stations which broadcast the TRUTH, however inconvenient for the WH resident.
Let’s see: gun sales and ammo at record levels since January, and Fox News viewers at record levels since January. Barack Hussein Obama: helping the cause of conservatism since 2009.
To me, the best part is the flip side of all of this. If FOX is already getting more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined, and it is likely that some portion of their uptick is coming from those two networks (maybe one-half), then the 10% increase for Fox corresponds to more then a ten percent DEcrease for the others.
I went to the source for the actual numbers. They confirmed what I already thought...
Joy Behar is only slightly ahead of Anderson Cooper, down in the cellar.
Essentially, they are tied.
When HLN was touting her upcoming new show, I kept asking myself...”What are they THINKING?!?!?!?!”
HRR is working a niche market, as is Hillsdale College. The niche marketing guys cannot keep Fox afloat, no matter how many eyeballs they get, if the government succeeds in scaring off advertisers. I think the "Chicago way" crowd has made it clear that advertisers who support non compliant media are asking for regulatory trouble. The Democrats have made it abundantly clear they intend to make trouble for broadcastes carrying Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives, for instance.
"Nice little radio station you got here. Be a shame if something should, you know, happen to it. Like maybe you lose your broadcast license. I'm aahhh selling 'lisence insurance', if ya know what I mean."
Yet, CNN promotes and props Anderson Cooper as the most serious news journalist they have in their arsenal.
Let’s have a view of his professional resume:
Anderson Hays Cooper was born on June 3, 1967, in New York City, the younger son of the writer Wyatt Emory Cooper and the artist, designer, writer, and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, great-great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt of the prominent Vanderbilt shipping fortune.
Cooper’s media experience began early. As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus for Harper’s Bazaar.At the age of three, Cooper was a guest on The Tonight Show on September 17, 1970, appearing with his mother.From age 10 to 13, Cooper modeled with Ford Models for Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Macy’s.
Cooper graduated from The Dalton School in 1985. He continued his education at Yale University, where he resided in Trumbull College, and claimed membership in Manuscript Society. He studied both Political Science and International Relations and graduated in 1989.
During college, he spent two summers as an intern at the Central Intelligence Agency. Although he technically has no formal journalistic education, he opted to pursue a career in journalism rather than stay with the agency after school,having been a “news junkie” “since I was ‘in utero.’ “
After his first correspondence work in the early 1990s, he took a break from reporting and lived in Vietnam for a year, during which time he studied the Vietnamese language at the University of Hanoi. Speaking on his experiences in Vietnam on C-SPAN’s Students & Leaders, he said he has since forgotten how to speak the language.
After Cooper graduated from Yale University, he tried to gain entry-level employment with ABC answering telephones, but was unsuccessful. Finding it hard to get his foot in the door of on-air reporting, Cooper decided to enlist the help of a friend in making a fake press pass. At the time, Cooper was working as a fact checker for the small news agency Channel One, which produces a youth-oriented news program that is broadcast to many junior high and high schools in the United States. Cooper then entered Myanmar on his own with his forged press pass and met with students fighting the Burmese government.He was ultimately able to sell his home-made news segments to Channel One.
After reporting from Myanmar, Cooper lived in Vietnam for a year to study Vietnamese language at the University of Hanoi. Persuading Channel One to allow him to bring a Hi-8 camera with him, Anderson soon began filming and assembling reports of Vietnamese life and culture that aired on Channel One. He later returned to filming stories from a variety of war-torn regions around the globe, including Somalia, Bosnia and Rwanda. Haunted by his brother’s suicide, Cooper explains, “The only thing I really knew is that I was hurting and needed to go someplace where the pain outside matched the pain I was feeling inside.” Cooper describes himself as having become “fascinated with conflict” during this dangerous period of his life.
In 1995, Cooper became a correspondent for ABC News, eventually rising to the position of co-anchor on its overnight World News Now program on September 21, 1999. In 2000 he switched career paths, taking a job as the host of ABC’s reality show The Mole.
He left The Mole after its second season to return to broadcast news in 2001 at CNN, commenting: “Two seasons was enough, and 9/11 happened, and I thought I needed to be getting back to news. [7]” His first position at CNN was to anchor alongside Paula Zahn on American Morning. In 2002 he became CNN’s weekend prime-time anchor. Since 2002, he has hosted CNN’s New Year’s Eve special from Times Square. On September 8, 2003, he was made anchor of Anderson Cooper 360°.
My talk radio now has Fox News. Not sure when they started use mute news but forgot one day and found Fox News not MSM.
So we are moving on up as Jeffersons says.
This is SO sweet!
Hey Rahm 0b0z0 thugs, please keep up the facist attacks on Fox News. Fox grows audience wise, while CNN drops like a rock!
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CNN Slips To Last Place In Prime-Time Programming
npr ^ | October 26, 2009 | David Folkenflik and Robert Siegel
Posted on Monday, October 26, 2009 10:15:31 PM by george76
CNN’s prime-time programs finished fourth and last among the cable news networks in October.
CNN’s programs finished behind not only Fox News and MSNBC, but also its own sister network HLN.
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