No balloon boy this week, and the 5pm ratings pattern reverts to the recent norm.
Glenn Beck vs. The Combined Competition TV Ratings Since He Moved To Fox News:
The trend lines above are 30 day moving averages. These charts are a collaboration between two of our readers. Reader Dave created the chart using the data patiently assembled by reader MikeS.
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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
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Oh oh….the President is going to have another sleepless night again. You go get them Glenn…..
Man, that’s just embarrasing. FOX doesn’t even have any competition anymore.
I wonder why Becks ratings skyrocketed in august.
Glenn is right. Check out the Press
Enterprise Newspaper in Riverside, CA. The
Press DROPPED the retirees’ medical insurance
plan effective 1-1-10! It’s starting to
happen earlier than I ever dreamed! It will
be a disaster for seniors on medicare.
Is there informations about the age structure of Becks viewers?
I can see, that lot and lot of older people who are willing to go with someone *they* believe talks “straight” to them in a (seemingly) honest and “logical” way. What should they do anyway at 5pm? The west is getting older and older and Beck seems to have found a very republican-ish target audience who can’t get enough of him. He is quite consistent with his shows, and surely a character.
The “Alternatives” have to many other things todo at 5pm I guess, and much more different things they CAN do than watch TV.
Becks fame in August came probably with the Town Hall madness.
SteveR
But Beck gets roughly 65% of the younger viewers (24-55). The others get only 45% combined. So I’m not sure its just “old people” watching.
People are waking up (as Glenn puts it). I listened to his radio show for years. He’s neither republican or democrat, which aids him greatly in his appeal. Its easier to listen to someone who is on both sides of the map, showing equal dislike for both parties. For anyone new – he never sang the praises of Bush, so this is not an Obama hate party. Go Glenn! Make people think!
Glenn is showing us exactly how they are trying to take over the country and spin us into some weird socialist-communist-marxist hybrid.
Anybody that wants to talk politics can join our forum created by user Mike B:
http://www.voyagertrans.com/forum1/index.php
Its pretty liberal free, so its fair, balances level head discussion there! The liberals can’t figure out the internet so far as to join up it seems or are afraid of fair and balanced discussions.
Beck tells it like it is folks.
My daughter is @ the college of W&M in Virginia. she says all the dem college students are shocked that they voted for this guy. she has been in the Young Republicans club on campus for two years and she noted the past three months “membership is way up”
I guess the kiddies are waking up and realizing this is their problem in the not too distant future.
The Fox oriented right wingers will always go to watch and listen to content that re-inforces their fears and opinions. The rest of America is interested in the challenge of watching and hearing a variety of facts and perspectives. This explains the ditto-heads going to Fox – hence their higher ratings – and everyone else dividing their time across other news networks
While Fox is busy showing a wide range of news items, the others are busy opining about Fox. As a viewer interested in fair and balanced news, I prefer watching the real thing instead of getting badly digested seconds.
Glenn has personality, heart and a sense of humor. It is painful to watch anyone on MSNBC’s primetime lineup– as they think they are funny but are not at all. It’s very uncomfortable and weird.
Man, if Beck was a stock, I’d be jumping in.
Just in case anyone is interested, Chris Matthews’ viewership on 10/20 was 409k … that data point on the first chart (green dot) is obscured by HLN (purple dot) which had 398k viewers.
It’s not competition until the sides are somewhat competitive. Beck annihilates Matthews daily. Beck has no competitors.
Charlie, liberals haven’t figured out the Internet yet because most of them are still trying to master their second language – English.
If you ever watch Beck, the guy is awesome, he can make you feel like your in class learning something and he makes it entertaining while you listening. Beck is also going heavy after the female viewer, having moms etc on his show, very smart.
Oh I really want to see if or how Glenn will report on this. http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/93122?fp=1
Sharon,
No, Glenn won’t cover that story! Why would he? It’s a stupid story that has no significance or interest to people. Let Olbermann and Maddow cover it. They like to spend all their time complaining about Rush, FOX, etc, and covering insignificant stories that don’t interest viewers. That’s precisely why their ratings are in the tank. Nobody’s interested … it’s a perfect story for MSNBC! You should send it to them.
BTW, I have a great idea! Why don’t you do us all a favor and vow to hold your breath until Glenn Beck covers this story?
To everyone else here, forgive me. I know I should just ignore Sharon, but sometimes I just can’t resist. She is just too infuriating! I suspect that is her goal … to infuriate people with her mindless dribble. It guess it worked again.
Oh Coda, give here a break. She probably spent her whole day trying to find something and that was the best she could do. Really sad if you think about it.
Haha, is that the best you can do Sharon? that was pathetic, wow, better alert the the world about that story. You had to really search for that story, must of took you all day.