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The dog days of summer took their toll on cable news in August, as ratings for all three of the main channels were down this month. Even so, there were some bright spots.
MSNBC's "The Ed Show" had its best month ever, especially in the coveted A25-54 demo. The show, which was the second-fast growing in all of cable news in August, drew 625,000 total viewers and 176,000 in the demo.
Overall, MSNBC averaged 681,000 total viewers in prime time, and 232,000 in the demo.
If MNSBC had something to celebrate, CNN, which is in a period of extreme transition, had yet another month of bad ratings news. The channel had its lowest prime time viewership since 2000, averaging just 486,000 total viewers, with 144,000 in the A25-54 demo. The 10 PM repeat of "Countdown" even beat "Anderson Cooper 360" in both the demo (202,000 vs. 172,000 viewers) and in total viewers (560,000 vs. 559,000.) Of course, while CNN and MSNBC were tussling over second place, Fox News towered over the competition as usual. The channel averaged 1,821,000 viewers in prime time and 441,000 in the A25-54 demo--nearly three times the ratings of second-place MSNBC.
Uh oh..could we be seeing a crack in the GOP propaganda machine? Or maybe just a lot of their viewers are dying off...after all, the median age of Faux worshipers is above 60..
I check out msnbc and can't believe the hate that spew. It is really bad.I can take only a few minutes of it if not seconds. Very liberal and hateful. They twist the facts to fit their agenda. Brainwashing.
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Obviously O'Reilly has had way more time to cultivate a career and viewership.
How silly to compare the two now when one is a long time veteran. Maddow will be around for quite awhile with the advantage of appealing to the generation that is coming of age.
During the late 1970s and 1980s, he worked as a news reporter for various local television stations in the United States and eventually for CBS News and ABC News. From 1991 to 1995, he was anchor of the entertainment news program Inside Edition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_O'Reilly_(political_commentator)
Obviously O'Reilly has had way more time to cultivate a career and viewership.
How silly to compare the two now when one is a long time veteran. Maddow will be around for quite awhile with the advantage of appealing to the generation that is coming of age.
By 'coming of age' Ill assume you means those kids in grade school now. Because she sure isn't appealing to young adults. Or middle aged ones, for that matter.
During the late 1970s and 1980s, he worked as a news reporter for various local television stations in the United States and eventually for CBS News and ABC News. From 1991 to 1995, he was anchor of the entertainment news program Inside Edition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_O&...al_commentator)
Obviously O'Reilly has had way more time to cultivate a career and viewership.
How silly to compare the two now when one is a long time veteran. Maddow will be around for quite awhile with the advantage of appealing to the generation that is coming of age.
Boy do you and a few others live on some other planet? Of course he has been around a lot longer, of course this would affect the standing to some degree, but the fact is: 1-young people do not watch these programs like people 40 plus do and 2-she is a nut case and MSNBC is not well recieved.
I read that MSNBC has beat CNN for the last 3 Qtrs. Didn't Lou Dobbs leave CNN a little over 3 Qtrs ago.
I don't think quite that long ago, maybe 6 months or so.
Nita
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