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Laura Ingraham reduced to taking 'bottom feeder' ads as major advertisers still won't touch her show (Original Post)
Gothmog
Oct 2018
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donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)1. I had no idea the boycott was holding strong...
....with not too bad ratings, I thought the boycott might eventually fade - but it's doing so well. I am glad.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. Good news!
Let Murdoch subsidize her hate show LOL
ProfessorGAC
(65,111 posts)3. Surging Ratings!!
HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!
Yeah, sure. Surging amongst which demographic, and from 1000 people to 5000 people is a surge, only in relative terms.
Gothmog
(145,427 posts)8. Good ratings without ad sales are called "empty calories"
A boycott by advertisers eventually doomed the Glen Beck show of Fox. Beck had okay ratings but no ad sales and so empty calories
Initech
(100,090 posts)4. Bottom feeders?
Like Boost Mobile and Cash 4 Gold? Those kinds of bottom feeders?
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)5. A vile human being. Racist piece of garbage.
JHB
(37,161 posts)6. So she's among her own kind?
Must be very comfortable.
Gothmog
(145,427 posts)7. Big advertisers still shunning Ingraham's Fox News show months after boycotts
This makes me smile https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/16/ingraham-fox-news-advertising-902466
Ingraham, the conservative radio talker-turned-Fox News opinion host, infuriated gun-control advocates in March when she mocked Parkland, Fla., shooting survivor and activist David Hogg for being rejected by a handful of colleges. Hogg called for his supporters to boycott brands until they stopped advertising on Ingrahams show, leading several major companies to drop out. He renewed the call in June, after Ingraham compared facilities at which immigrant children were being held to summer camps.
Its not unusual for advertisers to flee temporarily when controversy strikes a television program. But the sustained loss of advertising minutes and big, nationally recognized brands from "The Ingraham Angle" shows the power of activist-led boycotts and the depth of major corporations' concerns about offending would-be consumers in the hyperpoliticized era of President Donald Trump.
Early this year, Ingrahams show averaged nearly 15 minutes of advertisements per hour, in line with those of her Fox News prime-time colleagues Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, according to an analysis for POLITICO by Kantar Media.
Its not unusual for advertisers to flee temporarily when controversy strikes a television program. But the sustained loss of advertising minutes and big, nationally recognized brands from "The Ingraham Angle" shows the power of activist-led boycotts and the depth of major corporations' concerns about offending would-be consumers in the hyperpoliticized era of President Donald Trump.
Early this year, Ingrahams show averaged nearly 15 minutes of advertisements per hour, in line with those of her Fox News prime-time colleagues Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, according to an analysis for POLITICO by Kantar Media.