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Cable News Ratings Show What America Thinking: Top 6 Shows All FOX, Bottom 3 CNN, Behar Last
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Posted on 10/28/2010 5:40:27 AM PDT by MindBender26

New ratings tell story of average daily viewers

FOXNEWS O'REILLY 3,734,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,720,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 2,296,000<
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,284,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 2,244,000
FOXNEWS BECK 2,154,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,190,000
MSNBC MADDOW 1,087,000
MSNBC O'DONNELL 1,048,000
MSNBC SCHULTZ 724,000
CNNHN GRACE 670,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 628,000
CNN COOPER 591,000
CNN KING 560,000
CNNHN BEHAR 339,000


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: behar; cable; cablenews; cnn; cnnhn; fox; foxnews; joybehar; joylessbehitch; msnbc; news; ratings
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To: RoseofTexas
Unfortunately that creep Olberpuke has over a million idiots watching him. He oughta be in the bottom of the barrel list! Beck beats him by just a few 100 thousand! :(

That's because Beck is on at an hour when everyone west of the Mississippi is still at work and everyone in the east is stuck in traffic.

61 posted on 10/28/2010 8:03:58 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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To: MindBender26

Funny story... there’s a whole cadre of liberals in my office place, and they constantly bitch about FoxNews. They say they lie, obfuscate, pick your Liberal meme.

Every morning I go into the break room, grab a cup of coffee, and turn on the TV. When surfing through the channels, I notice that FoxNews is conspicuously absent. Curious, I go into the TV menu and notice that someone actually took FoxNews out of the TV lineup. You can directly punch the channel number in, but you can’t “surf” to it.

So I put FoxNews back in the lineup, and a few days later I repeat the process and notice it’s out of the lineup again. Feeling a little miffed, I go back, re-enable FoxNews and go one step further and remove CNN, MSNBC, CNNHN, etc. from the lineup.

Wouldn’t you know it, the next day we all get an email from the boss requesting that the TV be left alone from now on.

The next morning I come in, same thing, FoxNews out of the lineup, but I didn’t change anything this time. I told the boss, but he seemed to think it was a childish and stupid thing and not worth bringing up.

So now I just turn on the TV, go to FoxNews and leave it on that channel when I turn off the TV. I’ve heard grumbling from the Libs who go in there when it’s on, but none of them dare argue with me about politics. They know I’d take ‘em down a peg.


62 posted on 10/28/2010 8:05:11 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: JerseyDvl

why does the likes of Hannity never address social issues too like the homosexual agenda?
he doesn’t have to slam their agenda but point out and show their parades.

Everyone of them are in it for the money it seems.


63 posted on 10/28/2010 8:05:13 AM PDT by manc (Homosexuality is a mental disorder and should not be encouraged by anyone.)
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To: ilgipper
"I am less inclined to tune in, as it is just not the same ‘must see’ tv that it was for the first year."

I'm inclined to agree with you. I have found it not as riveting as before...
64 posted on 10/28/2010 8:07:04 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: MindBender26

I can’t stand that Shemp is beating out Beck. Shemp’s lib bias has been much more obvious of late, even in his coverage of the news at 7pm.


65 posted on 10/28/2010 8:10:01 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: JerseyDvl
"What is with the total aversion to Foreign Policy?"

He will mention the soldiers once in a while but yes you are correct. He focuses on domestic policy. However, I believe it's because for the past couple years, the wars abroad have taken a back seat and the cultural war at home for the soul of America is on the front burner. I think if his show had been on in 2005 you would have seen a lot more about the war. However, though he initially supported the war in Iraq, I'm not sure that is his position now...
66 posted on 10/28/2010 8:11:22 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: xsmommy

Beck is hurt by fewer sets turned on (Lower HUT) and the competition of the kids and female-focused shows, such as Oprah, the Judges, cartoons, etc.

Later in the evening, Shep and >, it’s time for serious news and analysis.


67 posted on 10/28/2010 8:21:41 AM PDT by MindBender26 (Fighting the "con" in Conservatism on FR since 1998.)
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To: MindBender26

Yeah, but you’ll have to admit that Behar is a great fund raiser for Republicans! ;)


68 posted on 10/28/2010 8:30:23 AM PDT by MizSterious ("Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -JFK)
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To: MindBender26
1: People watch who they agree with. About 15.5 mil agree with FOX, about 5.5 mil agree with (P)MSNBC, about 2.2 agree with CNN.

I don't think the number of people watching are anywhere near the noted numbers - it's more than likely that the same people are watching more than one show, possibly all the shows on each station. Therefore, O'Reilly is top of the heap - plus he has another million or so watching three hours later. A million less continue watching as Hannity comes on, etc.

69 posted on 10/28/2010 8:30:42 AM PDT by unique
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Beck’s TV show is on at 5PM in the East. This is a bad hour. I only get to see him once or twice a week.


70 posted on 10/28/2010 8:33:16 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: caww

I’ve heard him say such things but didn’t know the Mormonism reference. Weird. I will pray for Beck. He has such a talent to lead.


71 posted on 10/28/2010 8:34:54 AM PDT by Halls (Jesus is my Lord and Savior)
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To: MinuteGal

You’ve just explained why our family doesn’t watch Beck that often these days. That, and the constant doom and gloom without any practical ideas for how improve the situation. An hour of that is really just about too much for us. (Except for “be sure to record this show!”) I suspect he’s a good man, with good intentions, and the rally he headed was outstanding.


72 posted on 10/28/2010 8:39:28 AM PDT by MizSterious ("Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -JFK)
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To: MindBender26
CNNHN BEHAR 339,000

Apparently, there are 339,000 menopausal, short-tempered, overweight, unemployed screeching harpies out there with nothing better to do.


73 posted on 10/28/2010 8:39:47 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Today, Congress. Tomorrow, the White House!)
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To: MindBender26
I so wish that Fox would give Greg Gutfeld a slot somewhere other than o-dark-thirty.

More brains and wit in his little finger than in all of O'Blowhard, Mascara Shep, and Hannity combined.

74 posted on 10/28/2010 8:40:55 AM PDT by Notary Sojac ("Goldman Sachs" is to "US economy" as "lamprey" is to "lake trout")
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To: xzins

Shep makes me feel dirty - like I’m participating in something unwholesome.

The only time he is a good reporter is during fast action breaking news. He does summaries of the sitution that are good.


75 posted on 10/28/2010 8:51:59 AM PDT by donna (The fruits of Feminism: Angry fathers, bitter mothers, fat kids and political correctness.)
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To: MizSterious
Jeez, if you think Beck is "doom and gloom without any practical ideas" you should listen to Michael Savage.

Compared to Savage, Beck is a bright-eyed optimist.

76 posted on 10/28/2010 8:56:59 AM PDT by Notary Sojac ("Goldman Sachs" is to "US economy" as "lamprey" is to "lake trout")
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To: Notary Sojac
I so wish that Fox would give Greg Gutfeld a slot somewhere other than o-dark-thirty.

Red Eye is Very, Very funny. Probably funnier late at night, though.

77 posted on 10/28/2010 9:14:49 AM PDT by Crichton
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To: MindBender26

Love the list — nice to see O’Reilly at the very top and, oops, Joyless Behar at the very bottom................

How appropriate!


78 posted on 10/28/2010 10:00:36 AM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: USS Alaska

Re: “I too, struggle to watch BOR, but can do it for a short period of time and depending on the guest.

Also, not included in that number, was the 2 million that tuned in to watch his 11 PM rerun.

He said the other day that a third of his audience are demonRATs and only 41% are pubbies with the rest being indys.”

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I’m not crazy about O’Reilly either but can sit thru most of his shows — and he’s right that a portion of his viewers are libs — at least the moderate libs — I know a couple of them who really like him and see him as truly ‘fair and balanced.’


79 posted on 10/28/2010 10:05:42 AM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: RoseofTexas

RE: “Unfortunately that creep Olberpuke has over a million idiots watching him. He oughta be in the bottom of the barrel list! Beck beats him by just a few 100 thousand! :(”

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Beck has bad time slots in the So. Cal. area — 2 p.m. and repeats again at 11 p.m. — too early or late for many viewers. If he were on somewhere in between I’m sure he’d do a lot better in the ratings. There may be a gazillion lefties here but there are also a lot of people here watching Fox!


80 posted on 10/28/2010 10:19:59 AM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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