The industriousness of reader MikeS has yet to reach its bounds. Courtesy of his work, we now have an adults 25-54 demo (which is the group targeted by cable news advertisers) long term chart as well as an average viewership chart.
Long Term Trend of O'Reilly vs. Olbermann vs. Campbell Brown TV Ratings:
The trend lines above are 30 day moving averages.
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Nielsen Cable Network Coverage Estimates (as of September, 2009)
CNN/HLN: 99.10 million HHs
CNBC: 96.78 million HHs
FNC: 96.26 million HHs
MSNBC: 92.64 million HHs
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
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Wow, the trend for O’Reilly is going up in his 25-54 demo, while Olbermann has not gone up…..
It’s O’Reiley by a…….not by a nose, but by light years. Poor MSPMS it pretty pathetic, CNN is even worse.
Even Juan Williams hosting the Factor does a decent job for a Lib, this is what FOX news is all about, they tell the truth.
Wow! O’Reilly is in a whole other galaxy.
Wish I could see Olby’s face everytime the ratings come in
OB THE CLOWN IS USE TO LOW RATING, WHO WANTS TO WASTES THEIR TIME LISTENING TO THIS CLOWNS LIES. WHO IS A WORSE LAIR OB OBAMA?
IT’S THE IRISH EVERY TIME!!!!!!!!!!
Poor old Paradiddle Olbermann he just froths and grasps away,
those crows feet are showing along with the forked tongue, work
is needed there and other places too.
Has Olbermann ever won a single day? This is sad….
Adam says:
October 16, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Has Olbermann ever won a single day? This is sad….
He has NEVER won at anything in his life.
Where are all the leftwingers?! I know they got pretty beat up and put in their place this week here, but that hasn’t kept them away before!
I can’t watch Olberman. He makes me ill, and he is just not a happy person.
Thank you Mike for this fun and very creative chart. It really says it all!
Olberdork has been talking about his dad wett’n himself all week offering this as a reason to support healthcare reform. Honestly I dont give to Shites about Obie or his dad… He wets himself (so frigg’n what) why is that my problem… Ko has money, he oughta buy his ole man some depends and shut up …
Dangerclose says:
“Olberdork has been talking about his dad wett’n himself all week offering this as a reason to support healthcare reform. Honestly I dont give to Shites about Obie or his dad… He wets himself (so frigg’n what) why is that my problem… Ko has money, he oughta buy his ole man some depends and shut up …”
Sounds like a rich Jew name, too.
Heh, heh, “Depends,” heh, die Blasen geborsten, Judas Iscariot! Die Judas pisse, har, you betcha!
The reason olbermanns ratings have tanked is because he spends 99 percent of his show bashing republicans and fox news. Bashing Michelle Bachman. Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and his other usual targets are old and tiresome. Oreilly Beck and Hannity at least debate people with differeing views. Olbermann doesnt because he is a coward who would rather attack and smear from afar rather than have the guts to debate those with differing views. The taliban is more fair and balanced than olbermann is.
wait haha i hear the libs i think there leaving! let france deal with them
madd says:
“wait haha i hear the libs i think there leaving! let france deal with them”
There going to nail there foaces on the Ifful tower! LOL!
I hope Philosopher Jay sees these charts!! This is how data is compared, Jay. I will cut you a break since all you do is teach philosophy.
I saw last nite why Olbermann never has anyone on that would argue with him. Juan Williams sitting in for Bill O’Reilly had a debate with a black liberal talk show host discussing Rush and the NFL. They went back and forth with Juan defending Rush– the talk show host finally reverted to the argument all liberals go to when getting beat in a debate and told Juan to “go back to the porch” or in other words called him an Uncle Tom. The talk show host did exactly what he was accusing Rush of allegedly doing and showed he was a racist. Can you imagine what trouble Keith would get into if he had to defend some of his strange positions. He would be off the air in a week. So he is probably smart not to have people he disagrees with on his show– he won’t ever get high ratings but he may last a little longer.
Keith Dolbermann and Rachel Madcow will always have low ratings. They could bring them up a little if there were someone on their show with an apposing view. They also have to stop with all the hate. It just isn’t working. I haven’t seen this much hate since the 1930′s in Germany.
I watch Dolbermann and Madcow for two or three minute a night and that’s a long time for those two. And did you see Dolbermann pretending to be mad last night. I had to turn him off after 30 seconds. Not a good actor at all.
I cant stand watching “Odor”mann or any other shows on msnbc. Same goes for CNN. Unfortunately I have some friends who are very left-winged and they love watching those two networks. Myself, I watch just enough to get a feel for what they are preaching to their audience. It’s make me that much stronger when debating with my left friends since they purely just mimmick what they hear on those two network. I love fox news because its ability to ask real honest questions and sticking with truthful journalism, keep up with the good work!
Kudos to Mike S for the effort he is putting into these charts. I confess I’m a charts and graph junkie and I appreciate his work.
Good to see that MSNBC and Team Evil are losing. Still, sad that sub-human scum like Olbermann attract anyone at all. The Progressive Left is a cancer on the nation. Human cockroaches, the lot of them.
Buck Ofama.