Another Election Upset: ABC's Coverage Beats NBC; CNN almost catches Fox; MSNBC gains

[DeepModem Mom]

WP: Another Election Upset: ABC's Coverage
By Lisa de Moraes
Thursday, November 9, 2006; Page C07

Congress wasn't the only scene of a stunning upset on Election Night. While the Democrats were taking control of the House on Tuesday, ABC News was unseating perennial election coverage front-runner NBC News on broadcast television, and on cable in prime time, CNN pulled to within spitting distance of Fox News Channel and beat FNC among the 25-to-54 viewers advertisers hope to reach with news programming.

ABC News shrewdly started its "Vote 2006" coverage at 9:30 p.m. -- half an hour earlier than NBC and CBS -- to take advantage of the more than 23 million viewers delivered to Charlie Gibson's doorstep by "Dancing With the Stars."...Overall, from 9:30 to 11 p.m., ABC News clocked an average of 9.67 million viewers.

And for 10 to 11 p.m., when the three broadcast news operations were going head-to-head, ABC News was still hanging on to 8.38 million viewers, thumping NBC News's 7 million and CBS News's 6.3 million....

The cable news election-night race was just as exciting. NBC cable cousin MSNBC suddenly sprang to life, averaging nearly 1 million viewers -- a 107 percent increase over its coverage of the 2002 midterms.

CNN logged just under 3 million viewers in prime time; Fox News Channel posted nearly 3.1 million viewers.

And, again in prime time, CNN had a slight edge over FNC among those 25-to-54-year-olds -- 1.33 million viewers to FNC's 1.25 million....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/08/AR2006110802280.html

[rzemanfl]

1. Keith was the only reason I had MSBC on from 6 p.m. until

2:30 a.m. I have to confess I went to Faux a couple of times to watch the dour expressions, though.

[marmar]

2. I hope another casualty of the election is Faux and right-wing radio...

But I suppose there will always be hardcore koolaid drinkers.

[llmart]

4. Yes, there will and they are all over 54...............

as someone else here on DU pointed out - old, fascist white men with nothing better to do but sit in their armchairs and watch right wing propaganda and get angrier by the minute.

[Scooter24]

3. I watched both MSNBC and CNN

In my opinion, the two networks had very different styles. CNN concentrated more on number analysis and frequently showed gains and percentages. I found their scale to be the best of all the networks in seeing how well we were doing. MSNBC had a lot more commentary and guests.

[knight_of_the_star]

6. I watched CNN

Couldn't get the other networks from the hotel room I was in, but I liked how they did it, covering the numbers and focusing more on the data and keeping things up to date and less so on the pundits than I expected they would do. Most of the requests from the commentators was for more info as well, not as much for opinions. That and I loved watching it for the shit eating grin on Carville's face as the night got better.

[feminazi]

5. I streamed AAR's Send Out the Clowns

with Rachel and David Bender most of the night. The TV was turned on to MSNBC, but muted when Matthews was talking.