Cable News Ratings for Tuesday, January 1, 2013

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1. Patrick W.

   Posted January 3, 2013 at 3:48 PM

   Foxnews is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2. David Howell

   Posted January 3, 2013 at 3:49 PM

   Impressive numbers for CNN, clearly the vote in Congress was enough of a “big story” for them to get a ratings boost!

3. Ralph Hahn

   Posted January 3, 2013 at 4:05 PM

   Thursday and Friday’s ratings will show everything back to normal.

   If MSNBC’s ratings for the first day of the new year are indicative of the numbers that they will pull in for all of 2013, Comcast would be smart to change the format to yet another shopping channel, maybe, and get rid of the dead weight at MSDNC.

4. cathy

   Posted January 3, 2013 at 4:22 PM

   @ Mark
   “Honestly who the hell votes for her? Michele Bachmann again tries to repeal Obamacare”

   What a stupid question, you silly little boy. Her constituency is against the health care bill and she is doing what she was elected to do.

   What a democratic spin on the story. Polls show that 52% of Americans favor repealing the health care law and that’s before they have even seen the cost of the act in the pay checks.
   The cost of Michele Bachmann putting forward this bill or any bill is $0. Congress gets paid work or not.

5. LMorris

   Posted January 3, 2013 at 5:03 PM

   If you add all the numbers for the other networks, they outweigh the number of people watching Fox News. I think this goes to show how the United States voted in the 2012 election; a little less than half voted for Romney (Fox News) a little over half voted for President Obama (all OTHER News). Interesting…

6. Bobbyv

   Posted January 3, 2013 at 5:16 PM

   Ah, another person admitting the media bias

7. ron300

   Posted January 3, 2013 at 5:22 PM

   I am from the Seattle area. I listen to alot of the talk radio shows and found that Progressive radio in Seattle and Portland have been shut down due to lack of listerners. In the Seattle market in the last ratings period KTPK was just behind Mexican Regional…in Seattle!!!! It’s going the same direction for MSNBC, no one wants to listen to it, just like the radio, it is full of nothing but BS and nonsense.

8. Mark

   Posted January 3, 2013 at 5:45 PM

   Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

   Albert Einstein

   @cathy
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   What a stupid question, you silly little boy. Her constituency is against the health care bill and she is doing what she was elected to do.
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   Here is the problem, the chances of Harry Reid putting it up for vote is slim, the chances of it passing if he did is even slimmer and in the very unlikely event Reid puts it up and it passes there is no chance in hell Obama will sign it. Simple fact is this is the 34th time they pulled this symbolic move with the exact same result the other 33 times(see above quote), their has to be more important things they can be trying to fix

9. Mark

   Posted January 3, 2013 at 6:08 PM

   eta: when I say more important things to do I mean things that actually can pass and help this country as opposed to symbolic gestures that we all know won’t go anywhere and just waste time in the long run

10. cathy

    Posted January 3, 2013 at 8:02 PM

    @Mark, It’s not the same bill each time it’s present. And the result is not only measured by what Harry Reid or Obama does with the bill. Plus many as Republicans just have High Hopes.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54yGSDBXdCM for 1966

    There is nothing important to the country that the house, senate and Obama agree about. So from what you are saying they should all do nothing because anything they do won’t be passed by the other party. Oh, wait a minute that’s would Reid and the democrats in the Senate are already doing. The cliff bill just pushed the can down the road two months.

    I believe the only reason republicans went for it was so Obama couldn’t blame the health care tax increases on the non-renewal of the Bush tax cuts.

11. CNN WTF

    Posted January 3, 2013 at 8:23 PM

    CNN should be very thankful for Ali Velshi’s coverage of fiscal cliff. He was plastered all over CNN on New Year’s Eve and Day. Burnett was no where to be found. That explains the ratings bump.

12. Jay Raskin

    Posted January 3, 2013 at 8:31 PM

    When MSNBC started to have critical hosts, starting with Keith Olbermann in 2003, its demo ratings were about 20% of Fox’s. When Rachel Maddow came aboard in 2008, its demo ratings were about 40% of Fox’s. Its primetime ratings are now up to 80% of Fox’s. In the next year, it should surpass Fox’s ratings. Fox News was only able to dominate because it offered a coherent (albeit fascist) view of the world. It was the only network offering a coherent view. As soon as MSNBC offered a coherent optimistic view of the world, people started to watch.

    This movement towards caring and humanity and away from fear and fascism is part of a great change that has happened in the United States over the last 10 years. The fact that the Republican-Conservatives wrecked the economy under George Bush and created the greatest economic recession in 70 years probably has something to do with it.

13. Mark

    Posted January 3, 2013 at 8:35 PM

    @Jay R

    Fox news has a niche audience of about 1.5-2M(3M for O’Reilly) that I don’t see them losing. The only negative of that audience is I think alot are 65+ which I guess over time will not be with us, so it might whittle away a bit over time but that is still a good 10 years from now.

    As for MSNBC I see them going back to 1M viewers(maybe slightly higher which would be a slight increase but not enough to beat Fox anytime soon)

14. 1966

    Posted January 3, 2013 at 8:48 PM

    thanks cathy,Iremeber playing that song on my moms record player when I was 6 or 7 years old. ratboy likes frank sinatra too.

15. 1966

    Posted January 3, 2013 at 8:59 PM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=k1ptA7GJX7o
    for you cathy. we will have to wait 4 years but our day will come.

16. smg77

    Posted January 3, 2013 at 9:28 PM

    There is no (legitimate) poll that shows 52% of Americans want Obamacare repealed.

17. Matthew

    Posted January 3, 2013 at 10:05 PM

    There is nothing important to the country that the house, senate and Obama agree about. So from what you are saying they should all do nothing because anything they do won’t be passed by the other party.

    Well, it’s accurate to say that it is impossible for this Congress to pass Republican legislation; they can either negotiate Republican ideas into (mostly) Democratic legislation, or they can do nothing.

    The question is, if your goal is to ultimately do things like repeal Obamacare, pass deep spending cuts, or deregulate, is the GOP playing a good long-game by being obstructionist? If the 2012 results say anything (and I think they do), you could argue that they are not. After all, before you can actually do those things, you have to win the Congress and the WH.

    Think of where the Democrats were in 2006 – They’d signed on to lots of things (such as the Iraq War) that ultimately proved to be unpopular, but Bush and the Republicans took all of the blame, and all of the electoral consequences. When you look at 2012, you could argue that the Democrats should have suffered a similar defeat: The economy is sluggish, Afghanistan continues to be a pointless quagmire, Obama failed on a lot of his campaign promises.

    Unfortunately for the GOP, I think they found themselves getting hit with the double-edged sword of obstructionism. On the one hand, by obstructing legislation, a lot of these people are standing by their principles; on the other hand, they also gave the Democrats a plausible argument, which is to blame GOP obstruction for the state of things. For the sake of politics, the argument doesn’t have to be true, it only has to be plausible.

    Is the GOP’s current course of action giving them a clear course to passing conservative legislation within the next 2 years? The next 4? If not, then what’s the freaking point?

18. Stan T

    Posted January 3, 2013 at 10:12 PM

    Jay Raskin
    Posted January 3, 2013 at 8:31 PM

    As soon as MSNBC offered a coherent optimistic view of the world, people started to watch.

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    You call MSNBC coherent? Really? Have you spent even 2 minutes watching that network? It’s just like liberal talk radio….24/7 hate speech against republicans, conservatives, the religious right, gun owners…basically anyone not as far left as they are. And it’s not news…it’s all opinion shows…and there is no balance whatsoever. At least Fox News has on liberals all the time…of course, they prove just how rediculous a liberal sounds outside the echo chamber, but they do give both sides…MSNBC gives only one side, and only give it if it doesn’t hurt democrats.

19. cathy

    Posted January 3, 2013 at 10:15 PM

    Jay Raskin, Your statement shows that you are brainwashed. The U.S. has always been loaded with caring and humanity. Only a radical or a brainwashed fool could be blind to that fact. And of course you bring up Bush as the reason of the economy. Obama’s be in charge for four years and did you see the unemployment numbers this week? For how many years are you people going to blame Bush.
    And you need to look up the word Fascism, Fascism advocates a state-controlled and regulated mixed economy. This sounds more like what Obama is trying to do.
    Only fools look at one party as being all good and the other party as being all bad.

    My call on the MSNBC up turn in ratings is that Obama supporters need to turn on MSNBC and get their daily “The U.S. is doing fine, Obama is the greatest. You did the right thing for voting for him.” Because as they go through their day to day life they see that things aren’t getting better in the U.S.

20. Stan T

    Posted January 3, 2013 at 10:18 PM

    smg77
    Posted January 3, 2013 at 9:28 PM
    There is no (legitimate) poll that shows 52% of Americans want Obamacare repealed.

    You mean they dont say that on MSNBC? Because i’ve seen plenty of polls that showed 52% wanted it repealed and anothe 20% wanted it changed…
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    @Matthew

    Actually, tomorrow it’s gonna dawn on people how little Obama and the democrats care about the middle class when they get a 2% increase in their FICA taxes tomorrow. And let’s not forget all the obamacare taxes that are starting to come in…you didn’t hear about all the democrats that are pissed off because they suddenly realized that all those medical manufacturing companies getting that great big tax increase from Obamacare are in their democratic voting districts…lol