O'Reilly Factor Ratings Drop Again in May !!!

[stewert]

The big slide continues, once again the factor ratings have dropped for the 7th month in a row. In October of 2004 the factor had a monthly average of 3.1 million viewers. Since then the factor has lost viewers every month. Last month (May) it dropped to a monthly average of 1.7 million. In April it was 1.9, so the factor viewers are still leaving at a rate of about 150,000 to 200,000 a month.

Here are the full ratings for all the cable news shows.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/original/may05ranker.pdf

[FreedomAngel82]

1. Haha!

That's great! So that explains him going on tv earlier today talking about Deep Throat and calling him a hero (ha!).

[ngGale]

31. LOL - Fair and balanced...

leaning to far right in the opinion polls. FOX has become the mouth of the Bush lies, people are catching on.

[sasquatch]

AWWW....Somebody sounds like he's gonna need a loufa

:nopity:

[Singular73]

2. Most people cannot digest hate for long periods of time

Air America also needs to remember this....

Oh wait, I forgot about Limbaugh...nevermind, I'm an asshat.

[sasquatch]

6. That almost sounded like a crack at Malloy

:)
You better be careful, us Malloy fans well tear you a new one.

[ogradda]

3. Goody!

O'Leilly is a loudmouth.

[WI_DEM]

4. Good riddance, O' Really

even FAUX won't stand by you as you become more and more unprofitable. I remember just a couple of years ago O' Really giggling about how he was beating Larry King in the ratings and he was king of the cable news talk shows. Now he is nothing more than court jester.

[Liberal Veteran]

5. His viewership is inversely proportional to his liver spots.....

Perhaps he should start the "International Liver Spot Registry" where you can name a liver spot on his body after a loved one? You'll get a lovely plaque and a photo of the location of the liver spot!

[candy]

8. Thanks a lot! I have liver spots----do you have something against

older folks?

[Liberal Veteran]

13. No....I just have something against HIS liver spots...

It's kind of an old joke where he got all bent out of shape when Al Franken used a photo of him that was "excessively splotchy" on the cover of his book.

[candy]

23. Okay---I feel better now--I didn't know about the Franken photo.

[candy]

7. Fox still has 11 of the top 12 though! I don't get it.

[stewert]

10. It's Pretty Simple........

All the right-wingers love FOX because they bias everything to the right, so they are happy with FOX and they watch it a lot. The rest of us are fed up with the corporate media so we have stopped watching the tv news.

If we had a liberal version of FOX we would all watch it and it would get good ratings too. We have CNN and MSNBC, so we do not watch either one of them.

[candy]

14. I'm not looking for an argument here,believe me,but isn't there

some TV network that tells it the way is is?

I tend to float from one to the other,and am not a deep thinker anyway,so I just sort of watch the news and get most of my information from The Boston Globe,Newsweek,BBC World News,and of course the internet.

[Liberal Veteran]

15. Pretty much the BBC and the net are the best...

I have given up on MSM.

[cestpaspossible]

18. Free Speech TV

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

25. Erm...

No.

Read and watch everything. Trust nothing. Your neighbors will give you a pretty good idea of what the skinny is in your part of the world. (In my neighborhood they're decent and ignorant...not necessarily in that order)

[LynnTheDem]

29. "Fox and everything else". Everything else beats Fox by at least 30 to one

Fox is only No. 1 among 24-hour cable news channels. Fox, like CNN, now reaches about 4 of every 5 television households, so comparisons with broadcast news shows are increasingly valid. And among all television news sources, Fox's performance is nothing to brag about.

The O'Reilly Factor is the best-rated show on Fox , with about 2 million viewers a night. CBS Evening News, the least-watched broadcast network evening news show, routinely gets four or five times as big an audience, and that's seen as a ratings disaster.

Fox's flagship news show, Special Report with Brit Hume, gets a million viewers on a good night...a few thousand more than the local newscast of New York City's WNBC.

If it's true that news can be put into two categories--Fox and everything else--then when Special Report airs, everything else beats Fox by at least 30 to one.

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2005

[Clark2008]

20. Well, "we" don't have CNN and MSNBC.

I watch exactly ONE program on either - an my signature pic makes it clear which one.

Pretty sad, really. I have a "crush" on a man - while very charming and good-looking - because he actually does his job. This is no slight at KO, but it's sad when people who want to hear all the news have only ONE American television source they can consider.

[BillZBubb]

22. That's my reading too.

I don't watch cable news. Period. I rarely watch network news since 11/2004.

All the wingnuts I know religiously watch Faux.

[sonicx]

28. bingo, FOX is like flypaper for right wingers...

liberals have turned to the internet.

It is silly for CNN and MSNBC to copy FOX because the people that watch FOX are sheep and are not going to switch channels to watch a watered down version of right wing news..

[sellitman]

9. Hey O' Reilly ....time to try Oxy-Contin.

That's the "in thing" with dumb fat Reich Wingnut media turds I heard.

[Erika]

11. All of Faux/Bushco news programs are in decline

Bill Clinton made them and now that he's way out of the picture they have little else to talk about except hate liberals, hate liberals, and hate liberals. Then you can go to Hannity which is hate liberals, hate liberals, and hate liberals.

Then Greta comes on as Ms. Boring. But Murdoch made a killing for a while.

[Poiuyt]

12. Isn't it normal for viewership in a political show to go down after the

election? Or have other shows shown a corresponding increase in viewership over the last few months?

[Erika]

17. O'Reilly smutted himself plus he is so boring

Plus, the only theme Faux/Bushco news has is "hate liberals". Really amazing, Bushco has been in power since 2000 but everything is still the liberals fault. It gets old.

CNN and MSNBC will probably continue to rise as they are not so "hate liberals" theme driven.

I hope no democrat will agree to come on Faux, and Faux will dry up and blow away.

[still_one]

16. it looks like he still leads in the dismal ratings though

[SpiralHawk]

19. A suggestion to boost ratings

Why not a special investigative focus on loofahs and felafel as sex aids for men who are addicted to oxycontin, or who have been otherwise revealed as emasculated pervo-bullies.

Now that's getting into the No Spin Zone

[gulfcoastliberal]

30. Loofas? What about anal dildos?

I thought he enjoyed backdoor prostrate ticklers?

Tell that to anyone you know who enjoys the "factor". That O'Reilly is an anal-loving douchebag. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with anal butt when a morality-preacher like O'reilly is caught admitting he penetrates himself anally, the fact should be broadcasted far and wide.

[Clark2008]

21. Oh - wanted to point out that I was correct about something.

I had a very, teeny, tiny disagreement with another DUer regarding Keith Olbermann's ratings. I said he was the top-rated MSNBC news show and they thought Tweety and Squint beat him.
I was right - first MSNBC show on the roster with the highest ratings is KO.
But, I'm sure this DUer would LIKE being wrong about this. :hi:

[Old Vet]

24. Theres still good news

Try to watch Free Speech TV and Link TV on dishnet, Amy Goodman is one of the best!

[Clark2008]

27. I don't have dishnet

And have never heard of those shows (other than a DUer or two mentioning them. Amy Goodman and I don't always see eye to eye, either. She's anti-military and I have a hard time stomaching that, even though I like some of what she says about other topics.)

I don't even know what dishnet is. Seriously, what is it? I don't have satellite.

[chaumont58]

26. Olberman is beating tweety

*

[bridgit]

32. the whole 'fox news thing' is going down imo...

i don't care what their trumped up numbers say it's all predicated upon ignorance along with a short attention span, now their own demographic is bored & tuning out it's perfect. victims of their own business model. God Bless America!

[patricia92243]

33. As the news about his sex scandle get out, more and more people will NOT w

watch him anymore.

[Swamp Rat]

34. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Fuck you O'Lielly! HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! Doomed to mediocrity and obscurity! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[kerry-is-my-prez]

35. I know a couple of people who used to watch him and now sneer at him.

This was BEFORE the loofa incident. It was like they were embarrassed to admit that they had ever watched him.

[Sugarcoated]

36. Yay!

He's foul

[SiouxJ]

37. He must be panicking as lately

They've been running ads for his show on places like "The Weather Channel." I was laughing so hard this morning when I saw it. It goes on and on about how his show is the number 1 cable news show. It looks so incredibly desperate that it makes me laugh. It also makes me want to call up the cable company and have them block Faux from my service. I have it blocked on all my TV's but I want them to block it permanently at their end.

BTW, he looks like hell too in the commercials. I haven't seen him in years and he looks really worn out and tired.