Wednesday’s Numbers…
Cable News Daily Ratings for March 14, 2007
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 768,000 viewers
CNN – 493,000 viewers
MSNBC – 266,000 viewers
CNBC – 210,000 viewers
HLN – 235,000 viewers
P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 1,679,000 viewers
CNN – 796,000 viewers
MSNBC –462,000 viewers
CNBC- 118,000 viewers
HLN – 480,000 viewers
25-54 Total Day
FNC – 212,000 viewers
CNN – 165,000 viewers
MSNBC – 108,000 viewers
CNBC – 84,000 viewers
HLN – 111,000 viewers
25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 348,000 viewers
CNN – 236,000 viewers
MSNBC – 120,000 viewers
CNBC – 66,000 viewers
HLN – 196,000 viewers
Morning programs P2+ (25-54)
FOX & Friends – 719,000 viewers (291,000)
American Morning – 331,000 viewers (124,000)
Imus in the Morning– 326,000 viewers (136,000)
Robin & Co. – 180,000 viewers (90,000)
6PM - P2+ (25-54)
Special Report w/ Brit Hume- 1,117,000 viewers (258,000)
Lou Dobbs- 911,000 viewers (238,000)
Tucker Carlson- 158,000 viewers (64,000)
Mad Money- 212,000 viewers (73,000)
Prime News- 231,000 viewers (114,000)
7PM - P2+ (25-54)
FOX Report with Shepard Smith – 1,017,000 viewers (272,000)
Situation Room – 726,000 viewers (197,000)
Hardball – 321,000 viewers (113,000)
On the Money – 152,000 viewers (74,000)
Glenn Beck – 253,000 viewers (132,000)
8PM - P2+ (25-54)
O’Reilly Factor – 2,242,000 viewers (467,000)
Paula Zahn– 500,000 viewers (154,000)
Countdown w/ Olbermann – 627,000 viewers (143,000)
Fast Money – 167,000 viewers (95,000)
Nancy Grace – 662,000 viewers (245,000)
9 PM - P2+ (25-54)
Hannity & Colmes– 1,385,000 viewers (289,000)
Larry King Live – 1,046,000 viewers (277,000)
Scarborough Country- 402,000 viewers ( 85,000)
Conversations w/ Eisner– a scratch with 67,000 viewers (a scratch with 40,000)
Glenn Beck – 338,000 viewers (132,000)
10 PM P2+ (25-54)
On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren- 1,408,000 viewers (288,000)
Anderson Cooper- 841,000 viewers (279,000)
MSNBC Special- 356,000 viewers (131,000)
Donny Deutsch – 119,000 viewers (62,000)
Nancy Grace – 440,000 viewers (209,000)
11 PM P2+ (25-54)
The O’Reilly Factor– 1,069,000 viewers (278,000)
Anderson Cooper- 378,000 viewers (167,000)
MSNBC Special- 346,000 viewers (117,000)
Mad Money– a scratch with 106,000 viewers (a scratch with 40,000)
Showbiz Tonight – 243,000 viewers (122,000)
Gasp! Olby 4th in the beloved, critical, coveted all important key demo! 3rd overall! It must be ANS. I mean, it has been only a month plus since she died?
Comment by Edward Schatz — March 15, 2007 @ 5:45 pm
No wait, it had to be that @^#%@& American Idol taking ratings away from Countdown! Oh. You mean it wasn’t on until 9pm Eastern? Okay. Never mind. Guess his ratings just sucked last night.
Comment by Alison — March 15, 2007 @ 6:22 pm
Yeah, but he’s nipping on the heels of O’Reilly according to the mainstream media. He’ll pass him any day now….
Especially w/ more segments using racial slurs against a hispanic and questioning the sexuality of the American Idol host.
Comment by bigred — March 15, 2007 @ 6:23 pm
bigred — Imus talked about the American Idol host/Anderson Cooper segment on Countdown. They showed the clip and Imus said turn it off it made him sick. He mocked Keith saying “This guy gets about 500,000 viewers and he has the nerve to say Ryan Seacrest’s name and say “Whoever that is” when Idol gets about 35,000,000 viewers”.
Comment by Aunt Mary — March 15, 2007 @ 7:22 pm
Thanks Mary. I’m glad Imus has no qualms about slamming a show on his own channel. It’s too bad the mainstream media will only give Olbermann purely positive coverage, and never, ever point the many sickening comments he makes.
Comment by bigred — March 15, 2007 @ 8:13 pm
Uhmm bired please provide me that link of KO using that racial slur. BTW i’m assuming you live under a rock as there have been numerous peolple who have joked and commented on Ryan Seacrest’s dubious sexuality, he’s hardly the first- infact he’s a few seasons late. Even Simon himself has made quips at Ryan seacrest about it.
Comment by Sam — March 15, 2007 @ 8:23 pm
Olberman is just tryin to maitain six hundred thou is his average just like oriely is two mill
Comment by Clak — March 15, 2007 @ 9:18 pm
Sam, it might be hard for you believe on OlbyPlanet, but Man on Fan referred to AG Gonzalez as a “house boy” following his guest James Moore used it. Not the first time Olbermann has used such language. Chris Wallace as a “monkey” (Chris Wallace is Jewish and monkey is the premier slur) and his various misogynistic language.
Comment by Edward Schatz — March 15, 2007 @ 10:02 pm
Sam, you can go to msnbc’s website and watch last night’s segment for yourself. He called Gonzales a “house boy” twice.
Then he spent a whole segment laughing and telling jokes about Seacrest. Is your argument really that since it’s been done before, it’s ok?
Comment by bigred — March 15, 2007 @ 10:08 pm
Sam, we point these things out about Olbermann because MSNBC puts him forth as someone with enough in-teg-ri-ty, (adherence to MORAL and ETHICAL principles) to co-anchor during elections, etc. They can not have it both ways either you present yourself as a gentleman like Tom Brokaw or you have a SLIME show.
Comment by Aunt Mary — March 15, 2007 @ 11:01 pm
In other news, Tucker is slipping…
Comment by erljr — March 15, 2007 @ 11:19 pm
The Only, THE ONLY reason Olby is getting what he is getting is because he has sold himself to the crazies. Last night #3(t), #4(d). If he would have any balance on his show at this point the crazies would leave him and his ratings would fall so far he wouldn’t be able to beat a test pattern on CNBC. Again until I see Olby get a million viewers a night for a month straight, Folks like Sam are talking. But it ain’t out of their mouth.
Comment by puck — March 15, 2007 @ 11:21 pm
I can’t remember.. was it Cronkite or Murrow who first made the journalistic breakthrough of making jokes about his competition’s sexual preferences?
Murrow is supposedly Olbermann’s hero, so it must have been him.
Comment by bigred — March 16, 2007 @ 1:22 am
Given the long and uninterupted history of abysmal ratings for Olbermann and Chris Matthews, can we get Dan Abrams to explain how long he will continue with those failures circling the drain.
Comment by Tom — March 16, 2007 @ 1:26 am
You guys are ridiculous, it has always been KO’s persona to joke around (look at his oddball section), infact the number 1 story on “countdown” is usually one related to pop culture, in which he invites someone like Moe Rocca, Michael Musto and the sort and they tend to poke fun at celebs and stuff. C’mon if you think him making fun of seacrest is offensive, you must live in a crazy pc world. Him making quips at secrest’s sexuality is no more offensive than if he was to make quips about Naomi campbell having anger issues, Paris Hilton being slutty, or Michael jackson being crazy.
Another thing, he called Chris wallace a journalistic monkey, now that may be insultive but it was not racially insensitive, since the word monkey is used to denote someone who cant be taken seriously, a clown, somone who’s a joke, a simpleton of sorts. I know the term can be used as a derogatory word for blacks, but last time i checked Chris wallace wasn’t black.BTW i totally think he was off base in his critique of chris, but i in no way saw the comment as racially motivated.
BTW if you guys dont like Olbermann why dont you desist from watching his shows, why would you even care who watches his shows. You guys can change the station if you despise him so much. There are cable news shows i dont care too much for but you dont see me coming on a blog and whinning about it.
Comment by Sam — March 16, 2007 @ 1:49 am
Sam I watch many other shows on MSNBC — have watched Matthews since the O.J. days — I always watched Dan Abrams, he was a good reporter when he was to Geraldo as Schuster is to Matthews. I never missed Countdown until last year when Olbermann became a “left wing nut case”. So no I do not watch his show — however, I comment on all things MSNBC — it is important that MSNBC, CNN and FOX NEWS all stay strong and on the air — it benefits me the viewer.
Comment by Aunt Mary — March 16, 2007 @ 2:22 am
Sam, Wallace is Jewish. The term is offensive to them as well. Whether it was meant that way or not, it’s disgusting.
As is calling a Hispanic, or anyone, a houseboy.
As is making jokes about Anderson Cooper in the same way he did about Seacrest.
He calls himself a “journalist”. Somehow, I don’t think Murrow would approve.
Comment by bigred — March 16, 2007 @ 3:15 am
bigred, what did ko say about AC sexualty?- surely it cant be worst than when IMUS and his buddies piled on AC, one of the guys i believed referred to AC as an F word (but it wouldn’t be the first time that word was used on Imus’s show), but for some reason you were quite mute on that.
Again i will say that the word monkey is not used to denote jewish people, but actually is a british slur used at one point to denograte blacks. so unless you can read hearts and minds i suggest you stop going around saying that people made anti-semitic comments.
AS for houseboy- that’s the term for a male servant,saying someone behaves like servant to somone else isn’t racist, insulting to the person yes, but cant be said to be racist.
Comment by Sam — March 16, 2007 @ 4:34 am
“bigred, what did ko say about AC sexualty?- surely it cant be worst than when IMUS and his buddies piled on AC ”
As long as Imus does it, I guess it is fair game for Keith, Charlie, Katie, et al. Imus is the Gold Standard for all journalists!! Wow!!
Comment by Jim — March 16, 2007 @ 6:31 am
It didn’t surprise me that no one mentioned the stunt Imus and gang pulled at all but were quick to discuss Musto and KO’s comments. For what it’s worth I feel both programs were out of line with their comments. From reading here I have noticed that many of the people who like to “discuss” KO are Imus fans. It reminds me of when KO bashed AC awhile back and there was so much indignation but a week later John Gibson bashed AC and nary a comment from the FNC viewers.
Comment by myview — March 16, 2007 @ 9:49 am
IMUS gets a pass just like hot blonde teachers who have sex with underaged boys.
Comment by Lurker — March 16, 2007 @ 10:10 am
myview, Anderson is on CNN not FNC.
Comment by Noelle — March 16, 2007 @ 10:15 am
I’m quite aware of that Noelle. My point about FNC viewers was they were quick to jump all over KO for his snide comments about AC but gave a pass to John Gibson.
Comment by myview — March 16, 2007 @ 10:27 am
“Another thing, he called Chris wallace a journalistic monkey, now that may be insultive but it was not racially insensitive, since the word monkey is used to denote someone who cant be taken seriously, a clown, somone who’s a joke, a simpleton of sorts”
Sam,
Iranians, Palestinians , Hamas and Hezbollah all use “monkey” as a slur for Jews. Chris Wallace is Jewish. Olbermann called him a monkey. That’s a racial slur. You can rationalize it all day long, but it is still an anti-Semitic remark and he should be roundly condemned by anyone with a rational mind.
Comment by Joltin Joe — March 16, 2007 @ 11:00 am
Joltin Joe, do you play the “anti semitic card” often or is this a special occasion?
Comment by Terance — March 16, 2007 @ 11:29 am
Sam, do me a favor..walk up to the first Hispanic you see today and call him a “house boy”. Then come back here and tell me what kind of response you get.
Then go find a Jewish person and call him a “monkey”. Both are racial slurs. Period. As I said earlier, whether Olbermann meant them that way or not, he did use the terms, and both are disgusting.
Comment by bigred — March 16, 2007 @ 1:46 pm
Bigred, if i went up and call anybody a houseboy they would not like it as your calling them a servant and belittling them, but still that doesn’t make the person racist. As for monkey thing i keep on saying that i dont know it to be a racial slur for jews, and if it is it must be a lesser known interpretation of the word. I know you guys have used the phrase “stop monkeying around” before. Are you going to tell me that that phrase translates as “stop being so jewish”. The word means to be a joke, a clown- someone who cant be taken seriously. So unless you guys are able to read minds, how can you say he was being anti-semitic or that his intent was to use the word in an anti-semitic way.
Comment by Sam — March 16, 2007 @ 3:12 pm
Sam, how butt-blind are you? I’ve said in at least two previous posts on this string that I don’t know if Olbermann meant them as racist or not… but we know both phrases ARE racist, and in whatever tone they’re used, they’re despicable.
Are you going to argue now that your hero Olbermann is a “journalist”, because I don’t know of any journalist or journalism school that believes calling people monkeys, house boys, sluts, making jokes about their sexuality, etc. is respectable.
Comment by bigred — March 16, 2007 @ 3:32 pm
BigRed, spare your fingers. There is no use in debating with OlbyLoons. It requires using OlbyLogic.
Comment by Edward Schatz — March 16, 2007 @ 4:08 pm
Well of course he was being disrespectful, i dont think his aim was to show appreciation when he called CW a journalism monkey or Gonzales a houseboy. Infact i dont know how you guys see this as anything new, KO has always been acerbic, when he was over at ESPN he was acerbic about sports figure he didn’tcare too much for, when he just began countdown he was acerbic towards certain celebs (still is) and now he’s being harsh to politicians and commentators he dislikes.
Another thing how can the use of a word such as monkey be dispicable in ALL context- is it dispicable to call someone a joke or a clown? To say that you’re assuming the word always has a racial connotation, which it doesn’t. when my friends are being silly and i tell them to “stop monkeying around”- am i using a DISPICABLE racial slur?
BTW i’m not saying what he said was admirable or respectful.
As for the AC thing, i’m still waiting for you to be outrage about IMUS and his gang for doing the same thing. I personally would prefer if news personnels refrained from commenting on the private lives of other news personnel.
But everyone knows what Michael Musto is about and he’s famous for poking fun at celebrities and ratting them out and i guess one could consider AC a celeb.
Comment by Sam — March 16, 2007 @ 5:31 pm
For Sam and those who justify the “house boy” comments:
Speech by Barack Obama from Selma, Alabama (2007): “….And I tried to explain, you don’t understand. You see, my Grandfather was a cook to the British in Kenya. Grew up in a small village and all his life, that’s all he was — a cook and a house boy. And that’s what they called him, even when he was 60 years old. They called him a house boy. They wouldn’t call him by his last name. Sound familiar?”
Comment by Obama in 08! — March 19, 2007 @ 4:42 pm