Speech Had Big Audience Despite Networks' Action

New York Times ^ | 10/08/02 | JIM RUTENBERG

[Dianna]

These figures of 17million also do not include the radio audience.

And it doesn't count all the local ABCCBSNBC affiliates who carried it too. From the thread yesterday it seemed like quite a few markets carried it locally.

The only suprising thing in the article is that 12 million people watched Fear Factor....

[The Great Satan]

The networks said they did not carry it because the administration did not expressly ask them to

Strategery. Dubya knew the lib networks would take a pass, exposing millions of new viewers to Fox. It's called "building your base." Gotta think more than one move ahead if you want to outsmart Dubya.

[Lion's Cub]

This is good news.

But I think millions more would have watched if they'd known about it.

Hopefully, lots of people who saw it brought it up at work the next day so that those who didn't know about it got a chance to be ticked off with the alphabets :)

Of course, the really bad news is that we have 28.4 million brain-dead who watched the ABC-NBC-CBS fare...