O'LOOFAH in 2nd Place Ratings. Tweety Off the Scale. K.O. in Sight

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FOXNEWS HANNITY/COLMES 2,466,000
FOXNEWS O'REILLY 2,449,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 2,384,000
CNNHN NANCY GRACE 787,000
CNN PAULA ZAHN 604,000
CNN LARRY KING 590,000
CNN AARON BROWN 566,000
MSNBC SCARBOROUGH 339,000
MSNBC TUCKER CARLSON 273,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 272,000

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1. Tucker above KO?

really doubting that

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2. He has a guest host this week

...and she is somewhat less capable than KO, to put it mildly.

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3. Olbermann's been on vacation alot lately.

I think alot of people turn elsewhere when they see a sub host.

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4. A WH Flack Takes Some Mildly Amusing Shots at Tucker CARLSON

but at the end, one at "Current TV".

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http://www.mullings.com/currentissue.htm

TV Tales

Rich Galen

Wednesday August 03, 2005
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I ran into Greta Van Susteren last week the day after she scored nearly 3 MILLION people watching her show on Fox. I congratulated her and mentioned the fact that MSNBC's Tucker Carlson, that same night, had drawn about 178,000 viewers, six percent of Greta's numbers.
Greta is a very nice person and said how much she liked Tucker and all that.

Within about 48 hours MSNBC decided they had had enough of old Tuck and announced with great fanfare that they were moving him out of the 9:00 pm Eastern time slot to a great new time slot at 11 pm Eastern.

The MSNBC programming geniuses are giving former Fox reporter Rita Cosby a new show which will fill the 9 pm slot saying, with Tucker, they would now have the only live programming on cable at 11 pm.
Carlson was quoted as saying he had always wanted to be on at 11 pm and this was just the swellest possible development, avoiding the obvious question: If so, why didn't they just put the show there in the first place? ....

The last thing we talked about was the new Al Gore cable network which opened for business Monday. In response to a question about how I thought Gore would do, I said - this is true - "Two words: Tucker Carlson."

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5. It's hard to fathom that

almost 2 million 5 hundred thousand people like to get their fucking brains washed by hannity and colmes.

Olbermann is a great untapped resource..a diamond in the rough.

I wonder how many watch The Daily Show?

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7. I Think That at 8 to 10 P.M.ET People Are Watching Lots of Other Things

Like the networks. So Keith and the Rita COSBY/Chucky ZAHN/and LK just can't buck the low tide on cable then.

What's cool - hasn't O'LOOFAH always bragged about being 1st? Isn't this the first time he's not? And Tweety's invisible.

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6. I cant figure out how Larry King is still on the air and all the time

He used to have great guests,better topics,but its all tabloid stuff for the most part and his ratings arent that good.

Im surprised Olbermann's are so low.He does have more guest hosts doing the show more often than before.