TV Guide, Nov. 8-14 The Robin's Report on Daily Show ratings (via a blog)

[Gloria]

http://trishwilson.typepad.com/blog/2003/11/the_daily_show_.html


About a week ago, I had written that ratings for "The Daily Show" trounced those for the barking heads on prime time cable news shows. Jon Stewart and "The Daily Show" walk home with awards. Atrios has linked to the declining ratings of those particular news shows. Well, this week's TV Guide drove my point home again.

TV Guide. November 8-14. The Robin's Report. On page 34. (emphasis mine)

"The Max Fact

More young American s get their news from Jon Stewart than anywhere else. Well, sort of. What can't be denied is that Comedy Centrals' "The Daily Show" (11 pm/ET), Stewart's nightly send-up of the news, draws an average 640,000 views among 18-to-49-year olds. That beats Fox News Channel's 527,000, CNN's 286,000, MSNCB's 162,000 and CNBC's 72,000."

[gasperc]

1. let's see that those viewers turn into voters

then we'll win every time

[childslibrarian]

2. This could only be good news

On getting the young people out the the Repubs pockets. I remeber Saturday Night Live was very influential politically back in the day...

[KoKo]

3. So, how are the cables staying in business with those ratings? Don't

answer, I know. Corporate Propaganda Support. And advertising up the wazoo that we pay for in our monthly cable bill so we can watch maybe three shows that have political discussion we can tolerate. And, for some of us there aren't even three shows we can tolerate.

Why do we do this? Pay for crap we don't watch when we only need one show a day? We must be :crazy:

Well, I will add BBC World News on PBS....so maybe there are four shows sporadically that are tolerable or interesting.

[g_philli]

4. TDS Rocks

I so very wish that the daily show would be an hour long show. I know it would be a hard production on a nightly basis but damn it’s good. I mean some of the interviews should be a half hour. Speaking to important political leaders for just a few minutes, doesn’t cut it sometimes.