All Cable New channels ratings crash except Fox!

Yahoo news.com ^ | 1/1/03 | Craig Offman

[mathluv]

Ah! You are in California.?.?. That explains your viewpoints.

[Dave S]

There is no "normal." Medians and averages are snapshots of the past, but are in no way, ever, predictors of the future, because human behavior changes---in no small part in anticipation of breaking "normal" cycles.

Im basing it upon my adult lifetime (i.e., since 1968 to present). The last three decades have been used by a lot of econmists. That is the modern era to most of us. Going back to the depression era is a different world.

If you are tring to tell us that 1.5% growth is the best we can count on because "behavior has changed" then we are in for a heap of trouble. Every one percent of growth plays a huge factor in how big the deficits are and whether social security will be solvent in the future without major tax increase. Growth in the US economy has averaged something like 4% throughout most of my lifetime. For some reason you seem more interested in who gets blame or praise for economy than what is occuring. I find that very strange. Its something that a Dem would do. Im out of here. You seem too unwilling to learn so I suggest you get back to propagandizing and sing your pollyish song, the economy is growing, the economy is growing, this Christmas season was great, why do I know? Because LS told me so.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

The online sales numbers ARE in.
http://www.internetnews.com/stats/article.php/1563551


The internet sales were up 34% in 2002 over 2001.

Now, someone needs to combine the two sales records to get the TRUE total.


January 3, 2003
2002 E-Commerce Holiday Wrap-Up
By Robyn Greenspan
BizRate has tallied the numbers for the 2002 holiday online shopping season and found an astounding 40 percent increase over Q4 2001. Fourth quarter online sales in 2002 rang up $17.44 billion, bringing the yearly total to $47.98 billion — a 34 percent increase over 2001's total online sales of $35.87 billion. There were 358.6 million purchases online in 2002 — up 37 percent from 261.7 million orders in 2001.

According to BizRate, fourth quarter growth was driven by:

Convenience — with six fewer shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, consumers began shopping in November from the comfort of their homes.
Value — the sluggish economy motivated shoppers to bargain-hunt and take advantage of free-shipping incentives.
Women — females accounted for 60 percent of the e-commerce sales, compared to 1998 when they were only making 39 percent of the online purchases.
Spending measurements revealed that Monday, December 9, 2002 was the peak shopping day, racking up $367 million in sales, followed by Monday, December 2 and Wednesday, December 11, accounting for $366.2 million and $364.6 million in spending respectively.

"All in-all, this was a buyers' market," said BizRate.com president and chief executive officer Chuck Davis. "Consumers were heavily promoted to, with lower prices and more free shipping offers. Retailers needed to have a very white Christmas and offered a record number of promotional deals, thereby bringing a record number of consumers to shop online."

Online Sales ($billion)

Quarter 2001 2002
% Change

Q1 $8.22 $10.08 23%
Q2 $7.91 $10.45 32%
Q3 $7.32 $10.02 37%
Q4 $12.43 $17.44 40%
Holiday* $6.43 $7.92 23%
Full Year $35.87 $47.98 34%
Source: BizRate. * Holiday period is measured from November 25-December 25, 2002. Holiday period is included in fourth quarter data.


Despite record numbers of shoppers, the average purchase price declined 10 percent for the holiday season, and 2 percent for the year, further indicating the impact of bargain-hunting.

Average Purchase Price

Quarter 2001 2002
% Change

Q1 $119 $127 6%
Q2 $127 $126 -1%
Q3 $161 $145 -10%
Q4 $146 $137 -6%
Holiday* $145 $131 -10%
Full Year $137 $134 -2%
Source: BizRate. * Holiday period is measured from November 25-December 25, 2002. Holiday period is included in fourth quarter data.

[Sir_Ed]

"You live on the river? You've probably chased Dave off your property several times."

Hah hah! Actually, if it weren't for the blackberry bushes, (and the fact that I've never fished once in my entire life, despite having lived on the Kenai in Alaska and the Rogue in OR) I could just toss a fishing line right down to the river and fish!

I almost coulda just reached down and scooped one up, last week!

Ed

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

You've lived on the Kenai & Rogue & don't fish? Thats like having a nun work for Hugh Hefner. Fished four summers on the Kenai..upper & lower. Its because of being spoiled on that river that I don't fish the Rogue much.

[nutmeg]

Er, it's the #1 rated morning show, and is #2 to ALL shows except "Spongebob Squarepants." I love it. It is so refreshing to to see dour Katie or serious Diane or that elitist snob Charlie.

I don't know the actual ratings of these morning shows, but I would guess that Fox & Friends is the highest rated cable morning show. I believe Perky Katie's show is the highest rated morning show over all of them. I hope I'm wrong and F&F is #1. I may not care for the show, but I DO want to see Fox News Channel succeed.

[nutmeg]

But I gotta say that the morning show is more than I can take, sometimes it is painful to watch.

What? Never heard this reaction before. I purposely get up at 5:00 AM just to watch Fox & Friends. It's the highlight of my day. Love their humor. What am I missing in your remarks? Where's the pain part?

I'm sorry, Gracey, Fox & Friends is just not my cup of tea. Although I've seen a few pretty good interviews and topics covered on F&F, overall the show just seems silly and giggly to me. But then again, I've never been a morning person... :-)

Maybe I'll give it another chance one of these days... it's been awhile since I've seen it.

[nutmeg]

When I was on the road every week, any hotel without Fox ALWAYS got a complaint card filled out, requesting an upgrade to a system with Fox. Recently, I declined a stay at a Marriott, and told them it was because they did not have Fox. The reservationist said they had CNN, I said no thanks.

Excellent! I also never miss a chance to fill out those hotel survey cards, complaining if there's no FNC. In person, I always act incredulous and ask "your hotel doesn't have the #1 rated cable news network in America???"