Lawrence O'Donnell's excellent ratings from last week

[spooky3]

http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/scoreboard-friday-may-19/329914

He was first in his time slot in total viewers, and a close second in the 25-54 demographic.

See also this thread, with a link to a Salon article that included a link to the adweek statistics:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029102049

[SoCalMusicLover]

1. And Soon He'll Have No Ratings

The writing is on the wall. The fact he commented on the situation, leads me to believe the die has been cast, and any negotiations are just window dressing to make it seem like they are negotiating in good faith.

Donahue & Olbermann both had good ratings when they were canned by NBC, so this will be no different.

The LAST thing they want is for people to watch him, and so good ratings might actually work against them. They want balanced programming, and Lawrence is left-leaning, not good for the conservative rulers.

[spooky3]

8. I'm not sure they want "balanced" programming.

But they certainly ought to be concerned about advertising $, and that is driven by ratings.

Just ask Rush and BillO.

[mopinko]

2. i get the feeling that he has a plan b already.

he said he would appear somewhere if they fired him.

[spooky3]

7. hope so!

[Cha]

3. KICK!

[spooky3]

5. Thanks, Cha!

[stopbush]

4. Rachel on Friday and Joy on Sunday had LO'D on as a guest

and introduced him as the star of "hit show" on MSNBC.

One wonders how far Llack is willing to take this when the on-air talent from MSNBC's highest-rated shows are coming to Lo'Ds defense on air during their shows.

[spooky3]

6. yes, that was great.

And true.

[JI7]

9. they probably don't like it that he gets high ratings

By they i mean Andy lack and others who don't like him for how he goes after trump.