Friday, April 17, 2009

Amazing what happens to news TV ratings.......

...... when news networks refuse to cover the news! Here are the ratings this week during the hundreds of 'Teas Parties' in all fifty States across the nation...... guess which networks tried to ignore them in hopes they would ...... just go away...


FOX RATINGS SURGE ON PROTEST COVERAGE
8-11 PM ET

FOXNEWS 3,390,000
MSNBC 1,210,000
CNN 1,070,000
CNN HEADLINE 909,000


FOXNEWS O'REILLY 3,980,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 3,239,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 2,947,000
FOXNEWS BECK 2,740,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,401,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 2,185,000
COMEDY DAILY SHOW 1,777,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,499,000
COMEDY COLBERT 1,446,000
CNNHN GRACE 1,336,000
CNN KING 1,292,000
MSNBC MADDOW 1,149,000
CNN COOPER 1,021,000


I find it hilarious that Keith Olbermann, the cartoon character of journalism, is rated exactly between the only two acknowledged news comedy shows on the Comedy Channel. I reckon that gives us three sources of news comedians.....??

I guess Anderson Cooper's guest gigs filling in for Regis Philbin to expand his journalistic credentials hasn't helped too much. Maybe he could get Kelly Rippa to fill in for his news gig sometime to help raise the ratings and the program's IQ..

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ge Reported this morning - NBC and CNBC ad revenues are down a whopping 49% !
Imagine losing half your business in a single quarter, this is a fast sinking ship being towed along by a conglomerate that also makes turbines.