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Media Glenn Beckwatch: The Beginning of the End?
Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:24 AM
While he still leads his timeslot, Glenn Beck's audience has fallen almost 30% since the beginning of the year.
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Did you girls know Fox News makes more money than CNN and MSNBC and the three broadcast network news divisions COMBINED?
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@1 and once advertisers see their ratings are dropping, you think those ad revenues will hold at the same rate?
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@1: Since the only conceivable goal of news organizations is to turn a profit, that must mean they're the finest journalistic organization in the history of news coverage.
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"Glenn Beck's audience has fallen almost 30% since the beginning of the year."
-and that's just in intelligence! (rim shot)
-and that's just in intelligence! (rim shot)
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@4, not really a fair joke.
Underflow errors would certainly make any sort of calculation of those percentages incorrect.
Underflow errors would certainly make any sort of calculation of those percentages incorrect.
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Ha ha ha, he's #1 in the 5pm time slot. Good Lord that hour paints an abysmal picture of his demo.
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Not only has his audience fallen 30%, but it has been reported that roughly two-thirds of them can't get up...
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Who cares? Don't these television news numbers reflect just a small fraction of the population? I don't watch any television news at all - too much spin and not enough substance. I cast a wide digital net, check sources, balance out the reporting where possible, and find my own news.
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Oh - and I still read the hard copy of the daily newspaper just because I like the feel of it.
And oh again - @3 is spot on, agreed.
And oh again - @3 is spot on, agreed.
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@5 That article is only available to subscribers. Here's one publicly available:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_…
Explaining it will cause headaches, but for ease of contextual understanding, just think of it as a divide-by-zero error. Get it? They were so dumb to start with, it's hard to calculate the decrease.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_…
Explaining it will cause headaches, but for ease of contextual understanding, just think of it as a divide-by-zero error. Get it? They were so dumb to start with, it's hard to calculate the decrease.
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even though Fox beats the pulp out of the other cable networks' ratings, they're peak/prime-time viewership is only in the 2-2.5mil range. we're talking about a fraction of a percent of the US population here. it's the beginning of the end of WHO CARES. there are way, way more people who are outraged by glenn beck than there are people who actually take him seriously. it's the perfect love:hate ratio for making a shit-ton of cash (see also palin, sarah), but that's about it.
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"Fox News Channel finishing first in the cable news ratings race is about as newsworthy as Bruce Springsteen closing a show with "Born to Run."
Nonetheless, that the News Corp.-owned cable channel has finished first in viewers and key demographics for 100 months in a row is something of an achievement. In prime time, Fox News averaged about 1.9 million viewers for the month of April. That beat the combined audiences of MSNBC, CNN and HLN.
Not everyone at Fox News is dancing on top of their desks. Glenn Beck has seen his audience fall almost 30% since the start of the year, from about 2.9 million viewers in January to 2.1 million in April.
While the Beck sensation may be slowing, the decline in his audience has hardly made a dent on the lead he enjoys for his 5 p.m. festival of emotions. His rivals should hold off a little on popping the Champagne.. "
Nonetheless, that the News Corp.-owned cable channel has finished first in viewers and key demographics for 100 months in a row is something of an achievement. In prime time, Fox News averaged about 1.9 million viewers for the month of April. That beat the combined audiences of MSNBC, CNN and HLN.
Not everyone at Fox News is dancing on top of their desks. Glenn Beck has seen his audience fall almost 30% since the start of the year, from about 2.9 million viewers in January to 2.1 million in April.
While the Beck sensation may be slowing, the decline in his audience has hardly made a dent on the lead he enjoys for his 5 p.m. festival of emotions. His rivals should hold off a little on popping the Champagne.. "
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and yet it is 10X the micro fraction of a percent the Liberal whores at MSNBC reach.....
sour grapes mucho?
and yet it is 10X the micro fraction of a percent the Liberal whores at MSNBC reach.....
sour grapes mucho?
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"sour grapes?" more like "bemused by peoples' obsession with cable news ratings." fox's and msnbc's collective influence on american politics is ridiculously over-distorted.
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"Nonetheless, that the News Corp.-owned cable channel has finished first in viewers and key demographics for 100 months in a row is something of an achievement."
Winning the cable new ratings race is like winning the Special Olympics. Yeah, it is nice, but it is not anything special. All 3 network news prime time newscasts slaughter Fox News in ratings. WWE shows featuring sweaty men in tights screaming and wrasslin' get higher ratings.
Winning the cable new ratings race is like winning the Special Olympics. Yeah, it is nice, but it is not anything special. All 3 network news prime time newscasts slaughter Fox News in ratings. WWE shows featuring sweaty men in tights screaming and wrasslin' get higher ratings.
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And despite declining shares over the past decade, network nightly news broadcasts still reach roughly 10 times as many viewers (about 26 mm per day as of January 2009).
Since the talking heads on FOX continue to spew the "myth" of the "mainstream librul (sic) media", I guess that means there are far more people paying attention to it, than to Beck, Hannity, et al.
Since the talking heads on FOX continue to spew the "myth" of the "mainstream librul (sic) media", I guess that means there are far more people paying attention to it, than to Beck, Hannity, et al.
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The correct interpretation of the statistic is "70% of Glenn Beck viewers have not disappeared into off-the-grid militia bunkers."
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Faux News has a large following, but only because they are the only consistently right-wing news source. They are the sole choice for right wingers.
Mainstream viewers have lots of choices for their news: all the major broadcast networks, CNN, MSNBC, local news stations, etc. So their viewership gets split up among all of those choices.
Mainstream viewers have lots of choices for their news: all the major broadcast networks, CNN, MSNBC, local news stations, etc. So their viewership gets split up among all of those choices.
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Comedy Central has minuscule ratings compared to Fox News and yet everyone I know watches Stewart & Colbert - ONLINE. The same for Maddow and the other MSNBC shows. The future is going to look a lot more like the Young Turks on You Tube than anything Murdoch produces. You know what they say about increasing marketshare in a declining market....
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Profession Wresting and Spungebob get 10x the viewership, and I'm comforted by the fact that both are probably more informative.
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Beck is a burnt out cokehead. He shows many of the signs of "cocaine induced paranoia", as the DSM IV would put it. While it is possible to recover from such a disorder, it's unlikely to happen while he's reading paranoia enhancing Bircher books.
And for a grown man to turn to LDS as a recovery vehicle.... egads. More evidence of a complete disconnect from reality. ("Yeah, that Joe Smith talking into his hat deal sounds like the ultimate in truth!")
Prediction: Beck is old, forgotten news by Election Day 2012. Probably a suicide.
And for a grown man to turn to LDS as a recovery vehicle.... egads. More evidence of a complete disconnect from reality. ("Yeah, that Joe Smith talking into his hat deal sounds like the ultimate in truth!")
Prediction: Beck is old, forgotten news by Election Day 2012. Probably a suicide.
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wow, hard to believe that 2/3 of his listeners don't even seem to care whether or not Glenn Beck raped and murdered a 10 year old girl in 1990.
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