Bill O'Reilly Hemorrhaging Viewers? (Americablog Poster)

[Hissyspit]

Post in open thread by Ryan Neat over at Americablog:

O'Reilly hemorrhaging viewers
Cosmic justice seekers rejoice. A CNN insider made this blessed observation: "FNC should be less concerned with Zahn's performance and more concerned with the fact that O'Reilly continues to hemorrhage viewers month-over-month since October."

"The world-class liar and blow-hard has lost over 30% of his viewers since the election -- over 1 million total."

Maybe some of the 'independent' minded folks are finally tiring of the inconsistently and poorly constructed rhetoric of this moron? We can only hope this is one of the watershed turning points where we divert from the current fascist decline of the democracy...
Ryan Neat | 05.10.05 - 3:59 am

[Starfury]

1. The falafel probably didn't help either... nt

[imenja]

2. Does this relate to the falafel flack?

Or is Fox in general down in the post-election period?

[Bluzmann57]

3. Won't vouch for the accuracy of this...

but supposedly Stephanie Miller's radio show has tripled its ratings while at the same time, O'Reilly's ratings have gone down like a stone. They are not on at the same time, but I still thought it was interesting. If O'Reilly's radio show is losing listeners that fast, then Franken's show must be gaining some of those same listeners, or people are just turning the radio off after Stephanie Miller's show. And the tv ratings are down for O'Reilly as well? Sounds like people are waking up.

[Hissyspit]

4. If any can find real ratings numbers, please post...

Comparative numbers with other shows would be nice, too.

[imenja]

6. here are some

http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/politics/cablenewsratings.htm
As of Jan, O'Reilly was still the top rated cable news broadcast.

More recent numbers for O'Reilly that shows a decline: October: 3,166,000 / November: 3,080,000 / December: 2,610,000 / January: 2,478,000 / February: 2,391,000 / March: 2,320,000 / April: 2,178,000 / May-to-date: 2,096,000

http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/politics/cablenewsratings.htm

But Fox still trounces the other cable networks

May 5, 2005 alone. http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2005/05/05/vox-populi-ratings-for-thursday/

[Hissyspit]

9. Thanks, imenja! n/t

[MeDeMax]

17. thank you, good info, well summarized n/t

[PDittie]

8. From Mediabistro:

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/oreillys_postelection_hemorrhage_21299.asp

In response to this morning's post about Paula Zahn's ratings, a CNN insider says: "FNC should be less concerned with Zahn's performance and more concerned with the fact that O'Reilly continues to hemorrhage viewers month-over-month since October." Here are the monthly averages:

October: 3,166,000 / November: 3,080,000 / December: 2,610,000 / January: 2,478,000 / February: 2,391,000 / March: 2,320,000 / April: 2,178,000 / May-to-date: 2,096,000

edit: imenja has the same, above.

[Hissyspit]

10. Thanks, PDittie!

Good to have the quote source. I've not seen that website before.

[tritsofme]

5. His sexcipades

probably hurt him from the right flank of his audience.

Doesn't he go head to head with Limbaugh on the radio? What an idiot.

[Hissyspit]

7. Well, this doesn't help, but says a lot about the U.S.:

Top Ten Cable TV Programs (Total Day)
For week of 4/25/05-5/01/05

Rank*
Program Network
Total U.S.
Household Rating**
Total Viewers***

1 WWE Entertainment (WWE RAW Zone) SPIKE 3.3 5,056,000
2 WWE Entertainment (WWE RAW) SPIKE 3.2 4,727,000
3 SpongeBob NICK 2.8 4,009,000
3 Fairly Odd Parents NICK 2.8 3,892,000
5 SpongeBob NICK 2.7 3,916,000
5 Fairly Odd Parents NICK 2.7 4,044,000
5 SpongeBob NICK 2.7 3,733,000
5 Fairly Odd Parents NICK 2.7 3,808,000
9 SpongeBob NICK 2.6 3,688,000
10 SpongeBob NICK 2.5 3,449,000

[wellst0nev0ter]

13. Hey, I Love Fairly OddParents

And Spongebob and Wrestling is better than Bill O'Lielly anyday :)

[Hissyspit]

14. Well, I love Spongebob. Fox News and wrestling have a lot in common....

Fake. Yelling and screaming. Pseudo-patriotism.

[Hissyspit]

11. Here's a previous thread I didn't see:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3624170

[PDittie]

12. Isn't it interesting that

the first comment on both threads was about falafel.

It's starting to make sense to me why all the intelligent conversation has left this forum and gone over to Kos...

[liberal N proud]

15. It will be a great day when they close his propaganda down

[MADem]

16. I'd much prefer that it be a slow, decisive spiral

...so he can feel the power slipping away, and flail about, desperate to regain his market share, only to be humiliated in the end. Suffer, Vibrator Boy, SUFFER!!!