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Bluenorthwest

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12. If you take all three 'cable news' channels and combine their ratings, they are still not doing well

Fri Jan 30, 2015, 10:10 AM

Jan 2015

There is no such thing as actual 'good ratings' in cable news, just ratings that are better relative to other shitty cable news ratings.
Fox News, top of the cable heap. Tiny, niche audience. Most Americans who watch TV news watch Network News programs. The light morning shows on Network get audiences vastly larger than cable morning shows, all three. The evening news hours, the lowest rated broadcast network easily doubles Fox News audience and then there are two more, each with even higher ratings. So while over 20 million are tuned to the networks, maybe 3 million are watching FoxNews. Maybe.
And yet on DU we hear that America gets all its news from FoxNews, that Fox is Number One, Republicans are loyally glued to Fox, broadcast network news is dead.....

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Looks like Big Ed should of kept his radio show he's not doing well in the ratings [View all] bigdarryl Jan 2015 OP

That's a bummer! His is the only MSNBC show I still watch Coventina Jan 2015 #1

I like Ed he was the first one on this Keystone pipeline bigdarryl Jan 2015 #2

Agreed. He actually did some investigative journalism on the ground. Coventina Jan 2015 #4

Agreed. 2naSalit Jan 2015 #15

When a man or woman shows me they have the capacity to change their beliefs madokie Jan 2015 #11

For years I've read and heard Liberals complaining that we don't have liberal shows and programming. BlueCaliDem Jan 2015 #3

The best explanation: Lib audiences have variety in "media universe" - music/non-political stuff UTUSN Jan 2015 #7

Meh, he was better on radio rjsquirrel Jan 2015 #5

He also has the weak time slot. people just leaving work, picking up kids, making dinner, etc. TheNutcracker Jan 2015 #6

+2! 2naSalit Jan 2015 #16

Cable TV in general is dying a slow, painful death. Frank Cannon Jan 2015 #8

There used to be - several years ago now - 2naSalit Jan 2015 #17

Since The Midterms I've Stopped Watching Cable News Altogether..... global1 Jan 2015 #9

Ditto to this, although I'm still watching The Daily and Nightly shows..... a kennedy Jan 2015 #14

Unfortunately, I think the time Lifelong Protester Jan 2015 #10

If you take all three 'cable news' channels and combine their ratings, they are still not doing well Bluenorthwest Jan 2015 #12

I watch him because of all the shows on MSNBC in the evening he is the one I want to watch my jwirr Jan 2015 #13

Too bad rock Jan 2015 #18