Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann October Ratings Down 63% vs. 2008

TV By The Numbers ^ | October 28, 2009 | by Bill Gorman

[Oldeconomybuyer]

With lots of cable news shows, the feast of the 2008 election has lead to famine in 2009.

Countdown with Keith Olberman’s ratings are in the famine range as well, with October year over year ratings down 53% in the cable news target adults 25-54 demo, and down 53% in average viewership. Although I don’t have a trend chart, October is also Olbermann’s lowest rated month so far in 2009 in both 25-54 and average viewers.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[EricT.]

So he only has 294 viewers?

[Patrick1]

I can’t possibly imagine why.

[RC2]

Olbermann is a fool and an insult to the average persons intellegence. If the studio can’t do any better, they deserve to go out of business. Even the jet set, if they still call them that, have figured this out.

[Parley Baer]

The ratings are in the tank for the worst person in the world. Bwahahahahahahahaha.

[JPG]

Bash Bush and Cheney some more. That should perk up the numbers. s/

[jimfree]

I’d be fired for this.

[icwhatudo]

08 was an election year.

Without a comparison and charts to other networks, this info is meaningless.

If oberdork went down 60% and everyone else went down 70%, this would actually be good news for him. Need more info before (hopefully) gloating.

[MNlurker]

How much money is he now getting per viewer? LOL

Honestly good for Olby. I think the guy is a total loon and an embarrassment to the human race, but he’s getting paid millions for contributing nothing to MSNBC’s ratings...jokes on them I guess.

[GOPJ]

How low can he go? How LOW can he go before CNN wakes up and cuts their losses?

[Rick_Michael]

Couldn’t happen to a better man!?

[frogjerk]

Was this “Unexpected”? I don’t think so.

[OldDeckHand]

"Bash Bush and Cheney some more. That should perk up the numbers. s/"

I don't know why, but I've caught Jay Leno's monologue a few times in the last two weeks. Every time, he's had at least two Bush/Cheney jokes, and nothing about Obama. And yet, he's drawing fewer viewers than Univision on some nights.

Jay, and the programming chiefs over at MSNBC, should look at the ratings for FNC, and make adjustments accordingly, that is if it's really about profits, and not about pushing agendas.

[b4its2late]

They have to get him off NBC Sports too. He’s a peckerhead there too.

[SoldierDad]

So, what is 53% of 2 viewers?

[cookcounty]

CountDOWN with Keith Olbermann!

[556x45]

Yes, but when its one of the few products your company has that’s not an option. Liberals love to talk about diversity but have little clue what its all about. If they were truly diverse they’d have conservative shows too. As it is they’re all drowning in the same kool-aid barrel.

[domenad]

Well of course his viewership is down. How long can you watch his head bobbing, with periodic comments from Obama to “watch the teeth” ?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

This is gonna break Levin’s heart, LOL.

[TNCMAXQ]

So when are the intelligentsia going to proclaim “the American people reject the hate offered by Olberman?!” I won’t hold my breath.

[F15Eagle]

LOL

[cookcounty]

"Without a comparison and charts to other networks, this info is meaningless."

I don't have charts or numbers, but IIRC, FOX did recently report that it is maintaining its viewership at last year's levels, and actually increasing over the election period.....

[meandog]

He wasn’t any good when he just did ESPN with Dan Patrick so who the hell wants to watch Oberführer drool, scrape and bow to his master in the W.H. each night?

[SlowBoat407]

As go their loyalties, so go their ratings - both in the tank for Obama.

[kempster]

He’s not on CNN. MSNBC will keep him on forever. These shows are only on so that GE can advertise their products on them. IMHO.

[pallis]

His audience consists of two angry teens in a drug rehabilitation program. The channel is stuck.

[clintonh8r]

“Countdown”...how deliciously ironic.

[libs_kma]

I bet if they looked at Sunday Night Football ratings when Olber-turd comes on they'd find a drop too.

I change the channel everytime I see Olberman, and the only place I would ever see him is Sunday Night Football.

And I know I'm not the only one...

[Danae]

LOL Yet another symptom of the coming Dim wipeout of 2010.

[GOPJ]

Gads, it’s really bad when someone like me - a newsie - has no clue what station they guy’s on...

[sickoflibs]

MSNBC Maddow and Schulz are promoting the ‘single payer/public plan’ causes and so my guess is Olbermann’s antics are wearing thin and the libs have shifted to the above two.

I started watching Maddow and Schulz to keep an eye on the libs(who are fighting the moderates) , got bored with Olbermann. Also the first two actually have republican and conservative guests Olbermann never does.

[who knows what evil?]

08 was an election year.

Exactly. We need comparisons to O'Reilly and others in the same period over the last year.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

With lots of cable news shows, the feast of the 2008 election has lead to famine in 2009.

No famine for Fox.

[uncitizen]

Finally, the liberal media is reaping their due reward for the lies they’ve sowed oh these many many years.

[careyb]

Change we can believe in.

[VR-21]

Perhaps they’re (CNN) just marking time until the media gets nationalized. The ratings will surely improve when people like Olbermann are all there is.

[longtermmemmory]

isn’t anything lower than 300 the same as a test pattern playing on the screen?

[left that other site]

Schadenfreude is a dish that is best served COLD! :-)

[LeonardFMason]

Olbermann looks like the kid in my school who had to wear Keds sneakers when everyone else wore Converse (Chuck Taylor). He was the kid with the top button of his polo shirt fastened. He was the nerd who had to change in to “play clothes” when he got home from school.

[nina0113]

So, what is 53% of 2 viewers?

The first viewer sits on the couch and watches, and we chop the ears off the second one and put them on the coffee table.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

And even so, Maddow’s ratings are going down too.

[truthguy]

The real villain here is Phil Griffin-head of MSNBC. And the super villain is Jeffery Immelt of GE.

Immelt has done more to destroy a great American Company than anyone else I can remember. Why the shareholders haven't kicked him out is beyond me. He's just one more in a long line of Ivy League A**holes who also went to Harvard Business School and has destroyed business in America. I doubt he's ever worked in a factory. I doubt he's ever produced anything. He's a total BS artist.

When are we (USA) going to learn to dismiss these parasites. The shareholders seem enamored with these types. Their track record is terrible. They have overseen the decline of American Business and American Manufacturing. These guys are the scum of the earth.

GE shareholders will get wise one day and give this creep the boot. I hope there is something left of the company.

Why do you think it is that Olbermann is still around despite these horrible ratings? That's the real question that nobody seems to have an answer for.

[sportutegrl]

08 was an election year.

Somehow O'Reilly's numbers are up over last year. Not that I am an O'R fan or even watch his show. (If you go by FR postings, it seems that NOBODY watches O'Reilly, yet he somehow gets good ratings.)

[Ann Archy]

Doberman is a Bully.

[GonzoGOP]

How LOW can he go before CNN

Well since he's on MSNBC he can go fairly low before CNN cuts their losses. The sad part is that at the moment CNN is lower than MSNBC so they might pick him up.

[sickoflibs]

Well of course, they are waching Hannity. I switch channels back and forth not being a big Hannity fan, I like Megn Kelly, Cavuto and Beck. Greta has gotten better too.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

His producers were actually wise to select Obermann for the slot then name the program “Countdown” .... such forethought!! (and its counting down ... tick, tick).

[GonzoGOP]

then name the program “Countdown"

I would have thought Throw Up with Keith Obermann would have been a better choice. Right after dinner, you have that bloated feeling, three minutes with Keith and suddenly its gone.

[reagandemocrat]

“At the White House, as we like to say, we love MSNBC”

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/05/05/obama-official-white-house-we-love-msnbc

Woo Hoo!

[GOPJ]

LOL - check out post #30