Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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LOL! Wake up, dude:

http://www.ohio.com/entertainment/27342939.html

Political shows boost ratings of Fox News
By Paul J. Gough
Hollywood Reporter


Published on Monday, Aug 25, 2008

NEW YORK: Political-themed programming last week worked wonders for the already high Fox News Channel ratings.

Special Character & Conduct profiles of the two presidential candidates scored high in the ratings taking the place of the vacationing Bill O'Reilly.

On Monday, the Barack Obama documentary averaged 2.3 million viewers, Nielsen Media Research said. That compared with 1.1 million for MSNBC's Countdown and 687,000 for CNN's Election Center. It also beat The O'Reilly Factor average July ratings, which are 2.2 million.

Tuesday's documentary on John McCain averaged 2.6 million viewers, compared with 1.3 million for MSNBC's Countdown and 499,000 for CNN's Election Center.

That's all atop Fox News Channel's win on Aug. 23 among the three cable newsers of the Saddleback Presidential Forum, where Obama and McCain were interviewed by the Rev. Rick Warren. Fox News' two-hour coverage averaged 2.8 million viewers with CNN's 1.9 million and MSNBC's 871,000.

NEW YORK: Political-themed programming last week worked wonders for the already high Fox News Channel ratings.

Special Character & Conduct profiles of the two presidential candidates scored high in the ratings taking the place of the vacationing Bill O'Reilly.

On Monday, the Barack Obama documentary averaged 2.3 million viewers, Nielsen Media Research said. That compared with 1.1 million for MSNBC's Countdown and 687,000 for CNN's Election Center. It also beat The O'Reilly Factor average July ratings, which are 2.2 million.

Tuesday's documentary on John McCain averaged 2.6 million viewers, compared with 1.3 million for MSNBC's Countdown and 499,000 for CNN's Election Center.

That's all atop Fox News Channel's win on Aug. 23 among the three cable newsers of the Saddleback Presidential Forum, where Obama and McCain were interviewed by the Rev. Rick Warren. Fox News' two-hour coverage averaged 2.8 million viewers with CNN's 1.9 million and MSNBC's 871,000.


In a nut shell, your bias will pick up the demographic for any one show.

Edit - Those folks that switched to the other channels for the DNC viewing lost their RNC cards. They can still vote for McCain though so don't get your hopes up.


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