[RATINGS] Donahue's days are numbered on MSNBC, FOX leads the way

[StattlichPassat]

'DONAHUE' STAYS IN CABLE CELLAR
[Thursday Night 9/12/02]

FOX- O'REILLY 2.3
FOX- HANNITY/COLMES 1.7
CNN- LARRY KING 1.3
FOX- SHEP SMITH 1.3
FOX- GRETA 1.2
FOX- BRIT HUME 1.2
CNN- AARON BROWN .9
CNN- CONNIE CHUNG .8
CNN- CROSSFIRE .7
MSNBC- HARDBALL .6
MSNBC- DONAHUE .5

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[badluck]

big surprise......riiiiiight.....

 

[Smolek]

Yep, been very surprised. Never expected he would be O'reilly but still his numbers are pathetic.

 

[Tallgeese]

Good riddance

 

[charrison]

WOW!
FOX is giving CNN a good beating.

 

[JellyBaby]

When MSNBC dropped Alan Keyes' show there was no longer any reason to watch that channel.

I did give Donahue a try again yesterday. There's a reason why his ratings are in the crapper. The show is pretty bad.

 

[SuperTool]

Fox=Tabloid style news. Not that TV news isn't an oxymoron anyways.
Also, who still watches Larry King. The guy has a gift for finding people that noone cares about.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: SuperTool
Fox=Tabloid style news. Not that TV news isn't an oxymoron anyways.
Also, who still watches Larry King. The guy has a gift for finding people that noone cares about.

FOX- O'REILLY 2.3
FOX- HANNITY/COLMES 1.7
CNN- LARRY KING 1.3
CNN- CONNIE CHUNG .8
CNN- CROSSFIRE .7
MSNBC- HARDBALL .6


All these shows arein the same class. Is this what you consider tabloid news?

 

[BigNeko]

Funny thing about Donahue. After watching his original show a few times, I thought he was kinda dumb. Then I saw some PBS roundtable show about the state of journalism (this was a number of years back) and turns out Donahue is very intelligent. I mean VERY intelligent. Just turned me off from him completely that he was dumbing himself down for "the masses".

 

[FSUpaintball]

I can only hope Geraldo is next. Again.

 

[bozo1]

Yea but MSNBC's rating is much higher with Donahue in that time slot that it was before. High enuf to justify his salary, I dunno but I don't think they will pull the plug anytime soon.

 

[Smolek]

Originally posted by: bozo1
Yea but MSNBC's rating is much higher with Donahue in that time slot that it was before. High enuf to justify his salary, I dunno but I don't think they will pull the plug anytime soon.

not really. Donahue one night did the lowest rating possible (0.1).

 

[Lucky]

Originally posted by: JellyBaby
When MSNBC dropped Alan Keyes' show there was no longer any reason to watch that channel.

I like Hardball :Q

 

[SuperTool]

Hardball is great IMO. Too bad MSNBC is trying to imitate Fox and is tabloitizing themselves. They used to have great shows, North&Begalla, John Gibson. Now just Hardball is great, the rest is boring. Donahue is good because there aren't enough liberal shows on cable news. I don't see what the big deal with Bill O'Reilly is. He is an a$shole IMO. He doesn't think about the negative consequences of his stories. He was there villifying Red Cross and United Way, after which I lost all respect for him. I donated money to the red cross sep 11 relief effort, and I have no problem with red cross using part of that money on other things aside from 9/11. It seems like the federal government is already taking care of the victims fine. I never intended my money to make them millionaires anyways. But the way O'Reilly put it was that Red Cross is some evil organization stealing money from the victims families. The consequence of that is of couse people are going to donate less to the Red Cross, and a lot of other programs that Red Cross does will go unfunded. Of course O'Reilly could care less, as long as his ratings are high.