Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Cable News Wars

Drudge has the Nielsen numbers:


CABLE NEWS RACE
MONDAY, APRIL 17, 2006
VIEWERS

FNC O'REILLY 2,424,000

FNC HANNITY/COLMES 1,861,000

FNC GRETA 1,743,000

FNC SHEP SMITH 1,568,000

FNC HUME 1,387,000

CNN KING 1,290,000

CNN DOBBS 885,000

CNN COOPER 770,000

CNNHN GRACE 707,000

CNN BLITZER 624,000

CNN ZAHN 571,000

MSNBC OLBERMANN 511,000

MSNBC SCARBOROUGH 401,000

MSNBC HARDBALL 384,000

MSNBC TUCKER 309,000


Let's have some fun with numbers, shall we?

Total Combined Viewers (for these time slots)

FNC 10,273,000

CNN 4,847,000

MSNBC 1,605,000


That means that FNC is beating both CNN and MSNBC combined.

FNC 10,273,000

CNN/MSNBC 6,452,000


For a difference of:

3,821,000


From a total of 16,725,000 viewers the percentages break down like this:

FNC 61.4%

CNN/MSNBC 38.6%


Now, how's that for a poll?

In political terms, it is a landslide. FNC beats both liberal biased networks combined and almost by a 2:1 margin. The real masses have spoken. And the masses in this instance, are the consumers.

And you want to know what the kicker in all of this is?

CNNHN Grace was an extra show counting in those numbers. Count them, CNN gets credit for six and FNC gets five. That and, MSNBC is so weak, those are the only four shows, they are willing to lose money on.

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