Glenn Beck has lost 1/3 of its TV audience since January

[CLANG]

Source: Media Matters

Should we blame it on the Massa Moment?

Will that Hindenburg performance soon be seen as the turning point for Glenn Beck: the pivotal moment when the Fox News show began to permanently leak viewers?

Who can forget the March day that will live in cable news infamy, when Beck invited embattled Democratic Congressman Eric Massa onto his show, for an entire hour, to blow the whistle on Democratic Party corruption? Or so Beck thought. Instead, Massa went on and on about tickle fights, and Beck became a laughing stock -- the butt of endless Geraldo-opens-Al-Capone's-vault jokes.

Prior to the Massa Moment, Glenn Beck was averaging 2.6 million viewers each week, and the show was still flying high. And in the short term, the wildly hyped Massa episode produced ratings gold, generating 3.4 million viewers that night, thank you very much. Long-term though, the effects have proven to be disastrous.

Read more: http://mediamatters.org/blog/201004280008

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God let this trend continue...

[Angry Dragon]

1. Perhaps there is a god

[lsewpershad]

7. God has nothing to do with it

Perhaps there are too many gullible Americans.

[demwing]

11. Perhaps has nothing to do with it

There is a God, and they think Beck is an asshole.

[EFerrari]

13. I hope She's laughing Her @ss off.

[zappaman]

77. oops

You meant HE'S laughing HIS ass off, right?
And I'm sure He is!

[YOY]

115. So if god is a he does he have a big unit?

And whom does he use it on?

If god is a she then who exactly does she mate with to "create". Or does god just go fuck him/her/itself?

Ying requires yang.

[MUAD_DIB]

85. Is god a composite organism or just schizophrenic?

[demwing]

99. What, so you can be schizophrenic but not God? You think you're better than God?

Seriously.

:sarcasm:

[RaleighNCDUer]

116. If God is a schizophrenic, whose voice does s/he hear in her/his head? nt

[YOY]

118. Mine...

Glad to annoy that bastard/bitch.

[dotymed]

55. Time for a good

beck cry........:toast:

[quiet.american]

94. Amen! nt

[PinkFloyd]

95. I don't think it's Massa at all....It's Beck!

Beck has just gotten so far-out and full of crap that even the people who normally listen to him don't really believe him anymore. Unless of course it's the teabagger crowd who will believe anything he says as long as it's anti-Obama or Pelosi. He also shot himself in the foot when he said, "it's just entertainment," because that's like admitting his show is crap. Just the other day I heard he was calling Bush a progressive. Anyone with an IQ above 25 knows that's bullcrap.

[Stumbler]

109. Yep, I agree.

And I laughed when I heard him call * a progressive, even though he's been a crusade calling progressives the 'cancer of American politics.'

[Angry Dragon]

120. Beck does not like progressives

Is he now attacking Bush?? Calling him a Nazi??

[bigworld]

2. I'm curious whether this is industry wide

As much as I'd love to say this is great news, have other "news" programs lost similar audience share, or is it perhaps a seasonal thing with the weather getting better?

[edwinmathews]

5. What political shows

are now #1 in that time slot ?

[rurallib]

17. what time is he even on?

[totodeinhere]

48. All of the cable news networks are down, not just Beck.

But just to put this in perspective, here are last night's ratings in Beck's time period courtesy of Mediabistro.com

Beck (Fox) 2343, Blitzer (CNN) 617, Mathews (MSNBC) 599, Showbiz Today (HLN) 195. As you can see Beck beat the competitors combined.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/the_scoreboard_tuesday_april_27_159913.asp#more

[emilyg]

61. Thought so. He's more

popular with his audience than ever.

[michreject]

65. Here's some numbers

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/04/27/cable-news-ratings-for-monday-april-26-2010/49877#more-49877

4-26-10

5PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Glenn Beck – 2,456,000 viewers (745,000) (1,223,000)
Situation Room—617,000 viewers (155,000) (235,000)
Hardball w/ C. Matthews – 546,000 viewers (150,000) (238,000)
Fast Money – 208,000 viewers (a scratch w/50,000) (75,000)
Showbiz Tonight —220,000 viewers (64,000) (86,000)

8PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor – 2,978,000 viewers (731,000) (1,345,000)
Campbell Brown – 452,000 viewers (150,000) (210,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 1,085,000 viewers (296,000) (575,000)
The Apprentice- 181,000 viewers (99,000) (96,000)
Nancy Grace – 713,000 viewers (279,000) (362,000)

9 PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Hannity – 1,899,000 viewers (526,000) (912,000)
Larry King Live —704,000 viewers (235,000) (346,000)
Rachel Maddow Show —1,076,000 viewers (295,000) (514,000)
The Apprentice — 207,000 viewers (112,000) (106,000)
Joy Behar – 717,000 viewers (249,000) (332,000)


It looks like everyone is down. Beck isn't down by a 3rd though. Some numbers are off some where.

[ginnyinWI]

90. I read somewhere that 800,000 households have ditched cable

or satellite and gone back to free TV. That could account for some of this slippage.

We're doing it too--just couldn't justify paying for programming we didn't watch or are really bored with. And my kids (late 20s to mid-30s) are not signing on. They are getting their stuff on the internet instead. They only use their TV sets for Netflix.

We did a trial set up with our new antenna tonight--works great. Now we have to dismantle the Dish so we can install the antenna in its place--it's about the same size and will use the same cables--easy-peasy. Once that is all set up, we're going to buy a TiVo so we can continue to time-shift our programs. The monthly fee for that is far less than any cable or satellite bill. Now that over the air programs are digital there are more than ever--we'll be getting about 27 of them. And since we mostly watch PBS anyway we won't miss the other channels. And there's always Netflix.

[LiberalFighter]

110. Are those numbers just for the time period or also the repeats?

I generally will NOT watch any cable during the local news from 5 til 6:30. And again it is OTA local from 7:30 til 12:30. Only if there is nothing on will I switch to subscription channels.

And nearly 2.5 million viewers out of 300 million plus is pittance.

[michreject]

126. Just for those time periods

The link has all time slots

[RamboLiberal]

131. This week he's been up by about 200,000 viewers in the 25-54

Probably over the Arizona immigration law.

He was around 500,000 for the last couple of weeks so the 1/3rd is probably correct.

[Soylent Brice]

3. muaahahahaaaaa!!

our evil liberal plot is coming to fruition...

:evilgrin:

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Waiting for Drudge's siren headline announcing this important ratings info in 5...4...3...2

...1...0...T -30...T -1000...T -1000000000....still waiting.... :boring:

[TlalocW]

6. I'm impressed by the longevity of people like Limbaugh, O'Reilly, etc.

As well as their listeners. There is a percentage of people who don't burn out on hatred, and that's the core of their audiences, including Beck's. I think Beck thought he needed a gimmick to make it big in an already too crowded field so he decided to be the "crazy" one with all the conspiracy theories, and while there are plenty of tea-baggers just as crazy or crazier than he is, they don't have the national exposure that he does. The rest of them probably started off liking his exuberance, but the more he ratcheted it up, the more they started looking at him a little askance and started going back to their "safer" pundits for their marching orders. Now that he's leaking viewers, the only thing he really can do is get crazier in hopes to attract people back to the spectacle. He can't go the opposite way because that wouldn't be Beck, and it wasn't what FOX hired him to be.

TlalocW

[Warpy]

10. I can explain that

Conservatives love familiarity and hate change. If the shtik never changes, they're really happy. Conservatives are the reason really bad formula shows like "The Love Boat" stayed on the air when liberals with brains got bored halfway through the first season. Conservatives are the reason "The Lawrence Welk Show" is in endless repeats on PBS stations in flyover country.

Add to that familiarity and the unchanging format the element of directing free floating anxiety and anger, and you've got a sure winner with conservatives.

Yes, the radio ranter stuff is old and stale, the "jokes" repeated endlessly show after show, some of them dating from the Carter years. However, it's that plodding familiarity that endears those shows to conservatives.

[demwing]

15. Boy, the way Glen Miller played...

Songs that made the hit parade.
Guys like us, we had it made.
Those were the days.

Didn't need no welfare state.
Everybody pulled his weight.
Gee, our old LaSalle ran great.
Those were the days.

And you know who you were then, girls were girls and men were men.
Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.

People seemed to be content.
Fifty dollars paid the rent.
Freaks were in a circus tent.
Those were the days.

Take a little Sunday spin, go to watch the Dodgers win.
Have yourself a dandy day that cost you under a fin.

Hair was short and skirts were long.
Kate Smith really sold a song.
I don't know just what went wrong.
Those Were The Days.

[BumRushDaShow]

19. Now I won't be able to get the voices

of Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton out of my head! :rofl:

[Jackpine Radical]

35. Meathead.

[John Kerry VonErich]

20. Hey!!!! Don't bring that racist Missouri Senate candidate into this!!!!

:rofl:

[cui bono]

41. I once sang that at a bowling alley karoake in full blown Edithese.

I don't think anyone outside my group knew what that song was or why I was singing it like that. And I don't think they enjoyed it very much either. But I plan on doing it again sometime.

:rofl:

[MrMickeysMom]

57. They don't know Edithese?

They're mentally deprived!

[Junkie Brewster]

114. I once got thrown out of a bar for singing "To All The Girls I've Loved Before"

I'm a woman. My rendition was a hit, but it really made the owner uncomfortable.

}(

BTW- how much did you have to drink before you started singing?

[cui bono]

128. LOL. Unfortunately it doesn't take too much to get me going!

Unfortunately for those around me that is. ;)

[kenfrequed]

113. Thank you

This made my day in a nostalgic way.

[4_TN_TITANS]

32. Good summary but leave Lawrence Welk alone!

I still enjoy the show in a nostalgic sense, brings back memories of nights with my grandparents where granddaddy puffed on his pipe in the recliner and granny knitted stuff.

[Roon]

43. My Grandmother danced with Welk here in Denver

at Elitch theater..lord knows how long ago though.

[olegramps]

103. That was Elitch Gardens. All the big bands played there.

[Roon]

129. Oh yeah

That's what I meant.

[Styxiv]

36. HEY NOW

I'm no concervative but I liked the Love boat LOL (now the later years were pretty bad I'll admit ). But anyway don't think for a minute EVEN if Beck were to continue to lose listeners that these people simply got a brain. They just simply moved back (or just stayed) With Rush and Hannity. I'd love nothing more then to think these people woke up and decided enough is enough but we know they didn't. O'liely and the rest simply have one less person to fight them in the ratings.

Its just like Beck losing sponsors advertising on his show they just moved them to different time slots like O'liely and Hannity is all Murdoch even said as much.

[paulkienitz]

38. still, the crazy of Beck reflects on Fox

even for those viewers who go back to ORLY et al -- they can't forget that Fox News, in addition to telling them what they want to hear, also offers hopeless kookery.

[onager]

44. A-R-G-H-H-H! You had to mention Lawrence F'ing Welk...!

Kids, most of you will find this hard to believe. But back in prehistoric times, most of our caves were only furnished with one TV set.

In our cave, every week that lone TV was tuned to Lawrence Fucking Welk and his Champagne Bullshit.

As Warpy noted, one night I was channel-surfing and was horrified to suddenly see Lawrence Welk and his Polident leer beaming at me.

Jebus. Did I just hit a wormhole/time warp? Isn't he DEAD? Is this a zombie invasion? Night of the Living Bland?

I hurriedly Googled and saw that Welk had indeed shuffled off this mortal coil...no doubt shuffling with a ONE anna TWO anna THREE...some years ago.

Now I'm careful to avoid such traumas.

I wouldn't watch his show if Lawrence staggered onstage butt-naked huffing meth and proceeded to simultaneously sodomize all three of the Lennon Sisters.

Well, OK, for that I might tune in...

[PSzymeczek]

69. There were four

Lennon Sisters.

[Taverner]

70. Did someone mention Lawrence Welk?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg

Here's Lawrence singing a new gospel song, sung by the youths...

[lfairban]

88. Thank you.

Fortunately, it wasn't Lawrence singing.

Those crazy people didn't even listen to the lyrics!

Unfortunately, most people will not grasp the true significance. Who was the bass singer who sang, "Gimi that Forth R Religion", on the show?

This clip was apparently "lost" from its original air date in 1971 until a few years ago, when it started popping up on the internet.

[stlsaxman]

102. How about Lawrence Welk plays "Sister Ray"???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i48BP1PUoFI

[Warpy]

79. I'm always amazed that the makeup was troweled on

with no attempt to blend anything in, the trowel marks clearly visible.

I only catch a glimpse as I channel surf. My own parents were never brain dead enough to tune into a-vun and a-two with the bubble machines pumping away off set.

It's really grotesque in color.

However, it's conventional and familiar in a strike up the bland sort of way and not as obviously cornball as Hee Haw and conservatives, especially those of Generation Suck, seem to lap it up week after week, probably why so many of them are Type II diabetics.

[Taverner]

121. The UK had worse - the Black and White Minstrel Show

Basically Lawrence Welk, but in blackface...

You think I'm joking?

[Warpy]

122. Not shocking, at all

Only the Civil Rights upheavals here in the US finally got rid of the bizarre spectacle of having talented black folks performing in blackface.

One of the last blackface holdouts in the country was the Mummer's Parade in Philadelphia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummers_Parade. These days, it's done with masks and colorful face paint but blackface was a major tradition for decades.

[Taverner]

124. Yes - the B&W Minsterel Show ran well into the 70's

And was still really popular when it went off the air

They tried ditching the blackface, but no one watched

Someone here mentioned that the older you get, the more set in the ways you are...

[olegramps]

104. We used to call them the Lemon Sisters.

Oh my God, but that show was horrible with Brian thumping on the damn accordion and Alice Long as the champagne dancing partner of that old fool and bubbles floating in the air.

[llmart]

132. Tee hee.....

My father used to watch him and he'd always say, "That Goddam d.p. has been in this country for years and he still can't speak English."

My father was another Archie Bunker:)

[struggle4progress]

14. Only the good die young n/t

[rpannier]

76. Evil is a preservative

Example: The late Pinochet

[Turbineguy]

8. My heart bleeds for Glenn

but I lie.

[Ozymanithrax]

9. In March Beck attacked social Justice and Churches that work with the poor...

There are a lot of religious righties out there that do believe Churches should help the poor, since Jesus said so.
http://mediamatters.org/research/201003120055
In April he claimed that God talked him...

There are people out there on the right that think he has gone too far.

But Fox was willing to put him on in England without advertisements. As long as he fills a role as a demagogue, I think they will keep him on, no matter how much it costs them.

[Mike Daniels]

12. Crazy only plays for so long before it stops becoming entertaining

I'm sure that a decent portion of Beck's audience were tuning in just to see what type of train wreck would take place on that given day. Hell, Morning Joe used to make Beck segments a regular feature of "News you Can't Use" back when Beck would go on a crying jag at the drop of a pin.

Over time though the non-stop crazy stops being entertaining and becomes disturbing which will definitely turn off the people who tune in just for the "show".

[HillWilliam]

21. Crazy only plays for so long before it stops becoming entertaining

...and starts being pitiful. Beck has long-since dove head-first into the deep end of pitiful.

[RamboLiberal]

16. I keep an eye on the cable ratings just for the heck of it

And I have noted Beck has been flat and has fallen from previous highs. That being said I don't know what the hell he was broadcasting Monday cause he did have a big uptick.

A good site to keep an eye on cable news ratings is this. http://tvbythenumbers.com/category/ratings/cable-news

A couple of notes. KO is down but Rachel is enjoying good ratings as is Ed Schultz.

Has Keith Olbermann slipped from his top ratings perch within MSNBC?

During the month of April* MSNBC’s Countdown With Keith Olbermann trailed the Rachel Maddow Show in primetime adults 25-54 ratings, the demo group that news advertisers target. Although Countdown also trailed Maddow in March, Keith was gone from the show effectively the entire month.

The Rachel Maddow Show is up noticeably in the adults 25-54 demo since January-February, but Countdown has been flat.

Short term blip or new ratings queen at MSNBC?

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/04/27/keith-olbermann-takes-a-ratings-backseat-to-rachel-maddow-at-msnbcs/49885#more-49885

MSNBC saw the smallest decreases of any network in total viewers. Year-to-year, MSNBC is down -6% in total viewers for both total day and primetime.

MSNBC was #3 in total day/demo viewers behind FNC and HLN. The channel was also #3 in total day/total viewers behind FNC and CNN. MSNBC topped CNN each hour between 6pm-12amET.

"Morning Joe" was the second most watched morning program in total viewers, but struggled in the demo averaging 115K, the fewest of the four.

Dylan Ratigan's 4pmET program was third in its timeslot though saw a small year-to-year increase in demo viewership.

"The Ed Show" was one of the few cable news programs to grow in both total viewers (+25%) and demo viewers (+4%) year-to-year and was the number two program in its time slot. Also, the 5pmET "Hardball" topped "The Situation Room" for the first time in total viewers.

Both "Countdown" and "The Rachel Maddow Show" were down in the demo year-to-year, but Maddow's program did grow slightly (+2%) in total viewers. For the first time since 2000, MSNBC, which airs a replay of "Countdown," topped CNN at 10pmET in total viewers. MSNBC was also #2 in total viewers at 11pmET, which hasn't happened since Maddow's show premiered in 2008.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/april_10_ratings_msnbcs_countdown_down_double_digits_but_cracks_top_10_159747.asp

[dsharp88]

62. KO was down because KO wasn't there

He was MIA because of his father's unfortunate illness and eventual passing

[RamboLiberal]

125. No actually Countdown was down with KO

It was actually doing a little better with Lawrence O' Donnell though it's been down overall. And I'm not criticizing KO - he and Rachel are my must see shows every night on MSNBC. I think Countdown has settled to a plateau in viewers.

The ratings declines for Countdown with Keith Olbermann continue. Year over year declines for the first 3 months of 2010 ranged from 40-45% in the cable news advertiser target adults 25-54 demo, and between 21-29% among average viewership.
While it’s hard to completely attribute cause and effect to TV ratings, it’s interesting to note that Countdown had better ratings (and a less severe year to year ratings and viewership loss) during the month of March, when Keith wasn’t on the air (he was off from 2/24 until last night) than it did during February (and was approximately on par with January).

Dates Program Viewers (P2+) Adults 25-54
(000) (000)
12/29/08-01/25/09 COUNTDOWN W/ K. OLBERMANN 1,416 480
12/28/09-01/31/10 COUNTDOWN W/ K. OLBERMANN 1,003 263
% difference: -29% -45%

01/26/09-02/22/09 COUNTDOWN W/ K. OLBERMANN 1,359 446
02/01/10-02/28/10 COUNTDOWN W/ K. OLBERMANN 963 255
% difference: -29% -43%

02/23/09-03/29/09 COUNTDOWN W/ K. OLBERMANN 1,327 436
!03/01/10-03/28/10 COUNTDOWN W/ K. OLBERMANN 1,052 262
% difference: -21% -40%

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All numbers are Live+Same Day.
Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2010 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/03/30/countdown-ratings-declines-continue-better-off-without-olbermann/46757

[RamboLiberal]

18. Beck's ratings should've been up since it was first anniv of Tea Party

And with Tea Party protests and 2nd Amendment marches (which IMHO fizzled). And April 15th tax day. But he declined. I've said in other threads IMO Beck has shot his wad.

Interestingly, for the first time since he debuted on Fox News, Glenn Beck did not grow year-over-year: in fact, his show was down 7% in total viewers and 6% in the demo.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201004280029

[RoccoR5955]

22. So they'll ALL be gone by the end of the year? GOOD! K & R n/t

[Pharaoh]

23. Rec # 30

:nuke:

[No Elephants]

24. Beck's ratings have nothing to do with Massa. If viewers were loving Beck, one show would not slash

his ratings forevermore.

[Doctor_J]

25. A little surprising. More and more DUers are tuning in

and posting about it.

[Ignis]

26. That's because Jon Stewart does a better Beck than Beck does.

"I'm sorry...I promised myself I would cry."

:rofl:

[pampango]

27. If that's not the best news of the day, it's in the top 5! n/t

[Xenotime]

28. Good. I hope he gives up.

[Scurrilous]

29. K & R

:thumbsup:

[whathehell]

30. Fabulous news....Could sanity be spreading in America?...

We can only HOPE!

[SpiralHawk]

31. Yet another overpaid Chickenhawk Republicon propagandist attains FAIL

How predictable. How fitting.

[classysassy]

130. " Show me the money "

and I'll lie til the cows come home.

[RamboLiberal]

33. Last 2 days his ratings have jumped significantly

Don't know what the rodeo clown has been talking about but did note his ratings went up. Or is it the debate about Arizona?

Tuesday April 27
5PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Glenn Beck – 2,343,000 viewers (645,000) (1,117,000)
Situation Room—617,000 viewers (183,000) (246,000)
Hardball w/ C. Matthews – 599,000 viewers (151,000) (238,000)
Goldman Hearings – 481,000 viewers (115,000) (173,000)
Showbiz Tonight —195,000 viewers (101,000) (102,000)

Monday April 26
5PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Glenn Beck – 2,456,000 viewers (745,000) (1,223,000)
Situation Room—617,000 viewers (155,000) (235,000)
Hardball w/ C. Matthews – 546,000 viewers (150,000) (238,000)
Fast Money – 208,000 viewers (a scratch w/50,000) (75,000)
Showbiz Tonight —220,000 viewers (64,000) (86,000)

http://tvbythenumbers.com/category/ratings/cable-news

[olegramps]

105. I find that number of people that actually watch him to be amazing.

I have never watched FOX News except for a couple of times when it first came on. I thought that O'Reilly was an obnoxious bastard at best. You have to be brain dead to watch that crap. It really is pathetic that millions of our citizens are so brain washed that they actually believe the crap they air. I have watched some of the clips that have been posted here and this Beck asshole is incredible.

[Optimistic]

34. The Commie Libs are manipulating the Numbers

It is true, I saw Obama, Olbermann, the Ghost of Ted Kennedy and Ed Schultz paying Mr Nielson 5 Billion Dollars to show Beck losing his audience.

[southernyankeebelle]

37. Payback's a bitch. It couldn't of happen to a better guy. Hope you keep losing.

[AlbertCat]

39. Seen the latest Tom Tomorrow?

[cui bono]

40. I love that you called him an "it" in your subject line.

How appropriate. If only one could figure out what that it is. I, for one, do not want to try.

[Politicalboi]

42. Maybe they just

Forgot to set their clocks ahead. LOL!

[sakabatou]

45. "God let this trend continue."

Amen.

[totodeinhere]

46. He still beats CNN and MSNBC combined. And by the way, all cable news networks are down.

Keith Olberman is also down.

[Justitia]

82. partypooper

[totodeinhere]

127. LOL. Just telling it like it is my friend. n/t

[tomm2thumbs]

47. that crazy ball just won't bounce as high each time

eventually people just say 'okay, I think I've dined enough on the 'crazy' diet - time to try some real food and vegetables now.

[BrklynLiberal]

49. What the hell is wrong with the other 2/3??

[totodeinhere]

50. There are a lot of stupid teabaggers out there.

And meanwhile that asshole Beck is laughing all the way to the bank pulling in better than $3 million per year.

[BrklynLiberal]

52. Sad isn't it?

[craigmatic]

51. It's good news but still not enough to make him go away permanently. Soon they'll

move him to a late night time slot where nobody will see him. *fingers crossed*

[rocktivity]

53. ...while O'Reilly and Hannity cluck sympathetically.

:eyes:
rocktivity

[yourout]

54. So he has two viewers left?

[Common Sense Party]

68. Who is he up against? MSNBC must be trouncing him.

[NewJeffCT]

108. Not really

Beckster still has a much bigger audience, but MSNBC lost far less than Beck did... (every cable news channel lost viewership). Like 6% to Beck's 33% and CNN's 40%

[MissDeeds]

56. Awesome!

Could not happen to a more deserving right wing idiot.

[alp227]

58. But Fox News = still the #1 cable news channel.

Still this seems to be in the right direction. Beck's brain is oozing out of his ears by the week, and it looks like people are getting sick of his BS. Now, when will people get a brain and STOP WATCHING FOX NEWS ALTOGETHER???

[sheldon]

59. He's too wacky even for the likes of faux newz veiwers.

And the people that watched him for the sheer bizarro entertainment value are sick of him and gave it up.

[The Wizard]

60. He's set for life

But where can he go out in public without some ridicule? He's probably safe in Dog Patch.
As he looses audience Pox will find a way to void his contract for fabricating stories and encouraging viewers to commit crimes against the United States government, and the last time I checked the government is the people. Beck has fomented civil war for profit. That's not American; it's treason.

[ClutchCargo1957]

63. IMHO, He should of Never been Given the Show In the1st Place

He has no talent. He's a moron. Why don't they give more shows to Liberals?

[CoffeeCat]

64. I've been listening to Glenn Beck for years...

...and I have to tell you---you can only take a person so seriously--when they
wake up every morning with their hair on fire, swirling in a cataclysmic vortex
of terror and angst.

After a few years of this, it's hard to take him seriously. At all.

His shtick is unsustainable in the long term. Every day can't be a freak
out and every day can't give way to yet another "We're all gonna die!" moment.

It's just stupid after a while. Especially when anyone with half a brain can see
that life and the world could not continue if things were even 1/100th as bad
as Beck says it is. When good things are happening, and continue to happen--as
Glenn constantly predicts utter doom and gloom--after a while, it's just boring.

I can understand why he's losing ratings. Conservatives needed a mechanism for venting
their anger at losing the election. Glenn decided to amp up the emotion and get
everyone pumped up on lie-based fear and paranoia.

It's just not a sustainable or credible model.

[elias7]

72. how do you do it?

I can't last more than about 1 1/2 minutes before I MUST change the channel. Same with Hannity and O'Rielly. Drive me nutty...

[CoffeeCat]

119. Well...my background is in communication...

I'm a former journalist, corporate writer and media-relations professional.

I'm intrigued by the media, in general--and specifically, how people craft
messages and draw attention to themselves through the media.

Unfortunately, there are some masterful communicators, who are liars and propagandists.
I don't think they should be ignored.

I listen to everything.

However, just like you, I can only listen to Beck for several minutes at a time.

[chollybocker]

66. ...and the other 2/3 who continue to watch have lost 1/3 of their brain cells.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

67. Bwa'ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!

:rofl:

Now THIS is "change we can believe in". We need a Nelson Muntz picture for this thread!!!!

[CLANG]

71. .

[defendandprotect]

73. His brain dead viewers woke up?

[rpannier]

74. It might spell big trouble

But it's also my understanding that ratings are down on all the opinion shows (MSNBC and CNN as well as faux)

With the health care bill long over and tax day finished the only major issue that anyone seems to want to cover (for the better) is financial regulation and that is a losing effort for even beck if he opposes

[Beartracks]

75. That many advertisers???

Applebee's
AT&T
Bank of America
Best Buy
Campbell Soup
CVS
Ditech
Farmers Insurance Group
GEICO
General Mills
Johnson & Johnson
Lowe's
Nutrisystem
Procter & Gamble
Progressive Insurance
RadioShack
Sprint
State Farm Insurance
The UPS Store
Travelers Insurance
Verizon Wireless
Vonage
Wal-Mart

NONE of these companies will advertise on Fox??
:wow:

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[glinda]

78. Not enough loss. I'd like 75% loss.

[Cha]

80. Good ol' Eric Massa..That

was quite the tv hour..or so I heard. I hear beck apologized to his audience for wasting their time..didn't they buy his mea culpa?

[eagertolearn]

81. Yeah the viewers are starting to think!

[MarshalltheIrish]

83. Ambrosial news

Who else is ready to trumpet this upon hearing a rightist proclaim his high ratings and how pivotal he is to the "conservative" movement? Even if the likes of Limpballs and Coultergeist continue to stick around for the next 25 years, I'll take it with a lot less Beck. Now if he just gets a guest even more memorable than Massa, he can complete that descent into inescapable lunacy. Nurse Ratched awaits your, Glenn!

[MarshalltheIrish]

84. *Awaits you

[marshall]

86. Keith will be nipping at his heels soon!

Cable news has a new horizon.

[The Damned]

87. He doesn't need 1/3

The cocksucker only needs 1!

[Quantess]

89. Jon Stewart on Beck's Massa interview, in cased you missed it:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/11/jon-stewart-on-becks-mass_n_494600.html

It's hilarious!

[TheMadMonk]

91. People can't watch TV if they don't have a living room to keep the TV in.

But you can lay London to a housebrick who, or what a lot of them are still blaming for the problems they voted for.

[GreenTea]

92. I certainly never watch. Why would anyone on this forum watch & help this lying assholes ratings?

[cooolandrew]

93. The less Glenn Beck viewers the safer the world, almost but getting there.

[spicegal]

96. Glenn Beck is a freak, a circus side show, nutty as a fruit cake, mentally unstable, whatever

you want to call it. Maybe people are finally catching on.

[LawnKorn]

97. K&R

[Hubert Flottz]

98. The ones left are the real dregs...

Hanging around for the Kool-Aid Kegger with Jim Jones Beck.

[Greenheron]

100. BeckZ

Tough year. 1/3 of his audience and 100% of his mind.

[AsahinaKimi]

101. Kicked Hard and can't Recommend enough!

K&R
:kick:

[melm00se]

106. like the saying

goes:

everyone will have their 15 minutes of fame (or as the moose says: infamy)

[izzybeans]

107. I think a large proportion of Fox viewership is the well-known demographic the Census bureau calls

the "rubbernecking liberal". Perhaps we finally tuned out.

[DainBramaged]

111. Think about the numbers

Beckenstein was averaging about 2.6 million viewers each show. And how many people voted to put President Obama in office? And how many people go through Grand Central Station in NY city each day?


Why do we think this is important? Spongebob gets 4,316,000 viewers each night. Think about that.

http://en-us.nielsen.com/rankings/insights/rankings/television

[CLANG]

117. Thank God "Spongy" is a liberal!

[TheDebbieDee]

112. Well, I won't be satisfied til he loses 3/3 of his audience!

[and-justice-for-all]

123. GOOD!! that lying freak show!!!nt