Fox Taking a Beating - OReally Not Cutting It:

[waiting for hope]

Poll question: Fox Taking a Beating - OReally Not Cutting It:

From a previous post - I decided to have a look see and Lo and Behold!

2/28/2007
The O’Reilly Fracture: Ratings Bad To The Bone
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/original/feb07vs06.pdf

Bill O’Reilly just got some more bad news (pdf). His hairline isn’t the only thing that’s receding. The February ratings show that he has the slowest growing program (11%) of all the cable news primetime programs in the 25-54 demographic. And he is clearly bringing down the Fox network because the same is true for their whole primetime block. This despite the fact that Greta Van Susteren had the 2nd highest growth (49%) after Keith Olbermann’s Countdown (61%).

It’s revealing to look at the trend over the past year. The chart below shows the Factor’s percent growth/loss year over year for each of the last five ratings periods. And just for fun, let’s throw in a comparison to Countdown for the same stretch.

Feb 07 Nov 06 Jul 06 May 06 Feb 06
2+ 25-54 2+ 25-54 2+ 25-54 2+ 25-54 2+ 25-54
Factor 11 17 -18 0 -9 -6 1 -10 -7 -21
Countdown 78 61 54 76 20 39 31 34 38 55

It can’t be making O’Reilly very comfortable knowing that four of the past five sweeps he has been losing viewers while Keith has been packing them in.
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How much longer are we going to have that sorry excuse of a news channel on the air?

[rurallib]

1. I am surprised van Susteren has good ratings

the very little I have ever seen of her is always missing white women. Guess there is a huge market for that.

[waiting for hope]

3. My Mom likes her...

iicck. Perhaps it's the 65-75 yr old market that gets her ratings. I know of No One my age - oops, better refrain, the only republicans I know are my parents and even my Dad is hating them right now.

[saracat]

7. At least Greta Is a democrat! And a liberal on FOX!

[guitar man]

2. Its the message

That's worn out. Liberals are bad, blah blah blah, bu$h is great, blah blah blah, war is great, the liberal media is at fault for all the chimp's failures and blah blah blah....

How can repeating the same tired old rhetoric and spinning bigger and bigger whoppers while the WH self-destructs possibly bring in very many new viewers no matter who the host is??

[BayCityProgressive]

4. the funny thing is

the GOP has demonized liberals/Democrats by calling them socialists for so long that many people I know now view socialist as a good thing LOL. In the long run, the GOP may have hurt themselves by legitimizing socialism with a large segment of the population. My parents have always been conservative Democrats and even now, they say the US needs some form of socialism in healthcare, education, energy and other sectors.

[guitar man]

5. that, and

we've let organized labor in this country decline to the point where they're no longer setting the standard. The blue collar class is getting restless, they had a bunch of them voting repuke and they have been shitm on for it.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. I actually think that the more Chimps self-destructs, the more Fox becomes entertaining

It becomes more and more a caricature of itself. It reminds me of the author of the play Springtime for Hitler in the original "The Producers" when he desperately pleaded with the audience to not make fun of the Fuhrer:

"The Fuhrer never said baby. The Fuhrer was sweet, the Fuhrer was kind, the Fuhrer was good."

[muntrv]

6. The dirty thirty will keep fox snooze in business forever.