Via ABC press release:
| Ratings Report: ABC News Programming For the Week of September 22-26, 2008 |
| “World News with Charles Gibson” Ranks #1 Among Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 & Households
Marks Third Consecutive Week the ABC Broadcast Has Placed 1st Among Total Viewers; 2nd Time in 3 Weeks in the Key Demo “World News” Posts Gains Among Total & Demo Viewers Year to Year and Week to Week |
| In the first week of the 2008-09 primetime television season, ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” ranked #1 among Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Households. The ABC News broadcast averaged 8.07 million Total Viewers, outperforming NBC’s “Nightly News” by 90,000 for the week. Among Adults 25-54, ABC and NBC tied for first place, with both programs averaging 2.57 million and a 2.1/9.
This marks the third week in a row “World News” has won among Total Viewers and the second time in three weeks the broadcast has placed first in the key demo. Year to year and week to week, “World News” posted gains among both Total Viewers and Adults 25-54. Compared to this week last year, ABC grew 5% among Total Viewers and 8% in the key adult demo. Week to week “World News” was up 3% in Total Viewers and 7% in the demo. On last week’s “World News,” Charlie Gibson interviewed both Senators John McCain and Barack Obama following their meeting at the White House on the $700 billion bailout plan for Wall Street. Throughout the week, the broadcast devoted significant time to the rescue package and the turmoil facing the financial markets, featuring reports from Wall Street, Main Street, Capitol Hill, the White House and the campaign trail. Jon Banner is the executive producer of “ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson.” EVENING NEWS (Week of September 22, 2008) Total Viewers Adults 25-54 Households ABC 8,070,000 2.1/9; 2,570,000 5.5/11 NBC 7,980,000 2.1/9; 2,570,000 5.4/11 CBS 5,990,000 1.5/6; 1,910,000 4.1/8 Source: Nielsen Media Research, NTI |
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2008 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
The times they are a changing! With Brokaw gone NBC News is vulnerable and the audience is up for grabs. It also doesn’t help that NBC doesn’t have strong shows in primetime to give its news bulletin a helping hand.
CBS and Katie ought to get a big boost from their Palin and Palin-McCain exclusives. I disagree with Cameron about Brokaw; I can only stand watching NBC now that that phoney-baloney elitist snoot Brokaw is gone, and I turn it off when he makes appearances (which are too frequent). I only watch ABC for George Stephanopolos. Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer both make my skin crawl.
Katie Currick is out of her league – viewers know it, ratings show it. Brian Williams isn’t doing much better. They both are better suited for morning T.V. discussing the latest diet plans or the new spring shoe fashions. They just are not journalists. They belong on the View where their opinions can be expressed without bother of pretending to be anything more than talking puppets of the extreme liberal left. It is no wonder their view ratings are poor. Throw in Letterman with those two and you have a perfect triade of pseudo intellectuals not connecting with the audiences they wish they had. If only the average person were intelligent enough to relize how dumb he is and thus open our minds to being educated what to think by Katie, Williams and Letterman. I’m sure they believe it is a shame we are not enlightened enough to appreciate their style and substance.
Charlie Gibson needs to get off Sarah Palin’s back. It looks like he has an agenda. Could it be he is working for the democratic party to which I once belonged, but am now an Independent? These people need to be more professional and leave their biases at home when reporting the news. I’ll never forget Charlie looking down his nose while interviewing Palin. I guess that was to let us know he didn’t approve of her. Nice to know you can trust the news media to be fair and balanced. That was sarcasm, in case you didn’t know.