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In May, Lower Ratings for Larry King
mediadecoder ^ | 6/3/10 | BRIAN STELTER

Posted on 06/03/2010 10:56:18 AM PDT by Nachum

In May “Larry King Live” scored its lowest monthly viewer total in nearly 20 years.

According to Nielsen data, the struggling CNN talk show had an average of 653,000 viewers each night in May, its lowest average since the data started being electronically stored in the early 1990s.

He had been averaging about 700,000 viewers each night this year, down markedly from last year.

Last week The New York Times detailed the low ratings of “Larry King Live,” a symbol of CNN’s struggle to compete in a partisan cable news environment.

(Excerpt) Read more at mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: king; larry; lower; ratings
See ya.
1 posted on 06/03/2010 10:56:19 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

“Let’s go to the phones. Hello? Hello? Anybody there?”


2 posted on 06/03/2010 11:00:25 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Nachum

Maybe because no one watches him?


3 posted on 06/03/2010 11:01:18 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Nachum

The mummified remains of Larry King have a ratings decline.

If it wasn’t for innocent civilians trapped and tortured in airports, CNN would have no ratings at all.


4 posted on 06/03/2010 11:03:39 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember ("Subtlety is not going to win this fight": NJ Governor Chris Christie)
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To: Nachum

He looks like he has bad breath. Such an unattractive creature shouldn’t be on television. Perhaps as a freak at the circus!


5 posted on 06/03/2010 11:04:50 AM PDT by albie
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To: ilovesarah2012
Maybe because no one watches him?

Well, according to the ratings, 653,000 people have nothing better to do than watch Larry King.

Poor souls.

6 posted on 06/03/2010 11:04:57 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: Nachum

Difficult to say how Larry could have lower ratings. How can anybody stand to watch him?


7 posted on 06/03/2010 11:05:07 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Nachum

Red Eye on Fox at 3AM has higher ratings than anyone on the pathetic CNN Prime Time Line-up.

End of story.


8 posted on 06/03/2010 11:06:10 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember ("Subtlety is not going to win this fight": NJ Governor Chris Christie)
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To: Nachum
How low can you go? How low can you go?

9 posted on 06/03/2010 11:06:31 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Nachum

Didn’t realize they tracked negative viewing numbers.


10 posted on 06/03/2010 11:07:39 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: FormerACLUmember

Larry King Live = Mortuary Cam


11 posted on 06/03/2010 11:08:27 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: albie

He looks like he has bad breath. Such an unattractive creature shouldn’t be on television. Perhaps as a freak at the circus!


Supposedly he has a major farting problem. No Kidding. So bad, that, they have to watch where they place the mics during his show....at any time he may blow


12 posted on 06/03/2010 11:10:18 AM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (JD Hayworth for Senate ..... jdforsenate.com)
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To: Nachum

Larry King is awful
happened to see him interviewing the Dalai Lama, so I stopped to watch.

It reminded of the Cheech and Chong interview with Mr. Rogers.


13 posted on 06/03/2010 11:10:53 AM PDT by PGR88
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“Supposedly he has a major farting problem. No Kidding”

...ROFLMAO!


14 posted on 06/03/2010 11:13:12 AM PDT by albie
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To: Nachum

15 posted on 06/03/2010 11:14:41 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Nachum

Everybody Larry Limbo now

How low can you go?


16 posted on 06/03/2010 11:24:11 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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In the early days of cable some local systems used to just point a camera at a tropical fish tank to fill an unused channel. It seemed quite popular. Maybe CNN should consider...


17 posted on 06/03/2010 11:48:29 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Good one! He’s a staple on the dead pool. If I were Larry I wouldn’t be buying any green bananas.


18 posted on 06/03/2010 12:10:15 PM PDT by RU88
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