Maybe the news channels will wake up and realize what they are doing isn’t working: After years of audience growth, cable news may have hit a wall. According to the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s annual State of the News Media report, cable news viewership for CNN, MSNBC and Fox News fell substantially in 2010 […]
Image via Wikipedia Anderson Cooper is seeing his ratings plummet: The respected CNN anchor has seen his numbers slip significantly through the past year. His 10 p.m. show, “Anderson Cooper 360,” has declined 62% in total viewers and 70% in adults 25-54 from November 2008, according to Nielsen figures. Last month, in Cooper’s time slot, […]
Steve Benen explains: I especially loved the “Exclusive!” with the exclamation point, as if this were a rare, special occurrence. For those keeping score at home, as of this weekend, there will have been 47 Sundays since President Obama’s inauguration in January. With this 16th appearance on a Sunday morning talk show this week, John […]
According to a new study just released, 80% of consumers would not be willing to pay for access to online content: A similar study was done by the Boston Consulting Group and found only 48% of the respondents would pay for online access to news, and the average monthly price they would be willing to […]
Scarborough continued his attack on bloggers this morning, saying we are a bunch of Cheetos eating, Harry Potter watching basement dwellers. Ignore the fact that I don’t even like Harry Potter, let’s look at something more interesting – the ratings. Here’s the breakdown of morning shows courtesy of TVNewser: Show (6-9amET) Network A25-54 Total Viewers […]
It amazed me a few weeks ago when a federal judge ruled that Google had to turn over the viewer logs for YouTube to Viacom, in Viacom’s lawsuit. I read a lot of blogs that quickly blasted the decision as an invasion of privacy. It looks like they were following the tinfoil hat committee: Google […]
From Raw Story: The ratings for CNN and MSNBC in the month of August have risen since last summer, while Fox News Channel’s prime time ratings plummeted. According to the Nielsen ratings, as compiled by TV Newser, Fox News Channel’s total viewership dropped 7 percent from last August, and it’s prime time audience is down […]
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The February ratings are out and it shows a nasty picture for Fox with O’Reilly leading the nose dive. CNN is not in the top slot for the entire day with a 4% increase in viewership over the last year. FOX is in second, down 13% and MSNBC is in third with an increase of […]