We didn’t get the daily cable news ratings for October 28, but reader MikeS did, and here are his latest charts. Note: I think he did forget to update the title of the first chart.
Long Term Trend of O’Reilly vs. Olbermann vs. Campbell Brown TV Ratings:
The trend lines above are 30 day moving averages.
For complete information on all cable news ratings check our daily cable news ratings posts.
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Nielsen Cable Network Coverage Estimates (as of September, 2009)
CNN/HLN: 99.10 million HHs
CNBC: 96.78 million HHs
FNC: 96.26 million HHs
MSNBC: 92.64 million HHs
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
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Thanks Mike. The numbers show a continuing trend both for fox(up) but for all the others as well(down).
Thank God for Fox News
It’s amazing to me that the “Power to the People” and “Down with the Administration” crowd of the 60’s and 70’s now are in the administrative seat, and in the MSM giving us the “approved news” from the WH, and all this administration wants to do is take all the power away from the people and grow the Government exponentially.
Fox News is more interesting to watch. They also have the HOTTEST girls on Cable News
Rosie, excellent point!!
Thanks for the update, MikeS. Somewhere in ‘CNN’ and ‘HLN’ must be the prefix ‘necro’.
Ironic how badly Olbermann and MSNBC needed Bush. Without Bush in the WH, his ratings, which were always below average anyway, just tanked. Being a mouthpiece for the party in total power doesn’t create interesting television. Being the opposition is what is driving Fox News through the roof.
Simple formula. Liberal in the WH, conservative media goes up. Conservative in the WH, mainstream/liberal media goes up.
Keith Olbermann and company are not afraid of taking people to task. The “confrontational” style requires a lot of courage. Like on Friday, Lawrence O’Donnell, substituting for Olbermann, really let Liz Chenney have it for something she said earlier. He stared her down, lectured her. Liz didn’t talk back… she wasn’t in the studio.
Apple Stinx— sarcasm right???
One of the problems that Olbermann has is the hate he has for Fox News and the endless shots he takes at them. Oreilly never mentions him by name and only comments on the network. Another problem for crybaby Keith, is he can’t find anything negative about Obama and that really hurts.
Thanks for setting the guidelines about personal attacks and political comments!
I guess my question, relating to these numbers, is HOW can Olbermann remain on TV? O’Rielly has more than triple his audience. Advertising spots must be very cheap during his show! And O’Rielly ad spots must command a good price!
The encounter between Lawrence O’Donnell and an image of Liz Cheney on MSNBC was factual. These guys must have to garner a lot of strength and self-confidence before they go on the air so their inner child grows up momentarily to face the adult opponent, even when said opponent is not within a mile. O’Donnell must have felt totally spent after the encounter and sought reassurance from producers and yeah-sayers. A sense of relief and accomplishment must have reigned over the studio afterwards and everyone present must have felt that they just witnessed something special.
Fox News has been around sense the stone age. The people who grew up with it are now retired sitting at home watching it all the while not noticing as it slowly turned from News to Right wing opinion.
Fox is consistently well ahead of other networks. Could it be that the type of viewers Fox attracts are more likely to watch TV than read a book or newspaper? Or perhaps Fox’s audience less computer literate than that of the other networks–and therefore more likely to watch TV than surf the Internet? Could it be?