Debt Ceiling Speech Viewership

5 responses to “Debt Ceiling Speech Viewership”

1. DeniseVB

   July 26, 2011 at 10:28 pm

   WOW, Fox came in 2nd of ALL the major broadcast networks, that was a surprise. I didn’t even think to check the regular ratings think “free” t.v. would have whooped the cable news channels.

   Great chart 😀

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   • chrissythehyphenated

     July 27, 2011 at 12:46 am

     I didn’t realize Fox had a broadcast channel at all, never mind that it’s now considered “one of the four major” (rating article’s language, not mine!)

     I thought it was still just “The Big Three” so I’m really glad I had the idea to check broadcast stats and then see who owned what and combine Fox and NBC. Hee hee.

     SECOND! 😛 Pretty much puts a stink bomb into O’blahblah’s stupid “Not a real news station” statement, huh!?!

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   • chrissythehyphenated

     July 27, 2011 at 12:52 am

     Fox came in last of JUST broadcast (blue), first in JUST cable (red). The black numbers are the two combined for Fox and NBC. I figured it was fair to combine the broadcast + cable numbers for the two that had the same owners.

     MSNBC is in last place, but NBC is not … yet. Fox is breathing down their necks. For this half hour, Fox only had 150,000 fewer than NBC!

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     • DeniseVB

       July 27, 2011 at 9:53 am

       Still, combining Fox’s network and cable news numbers makes it a powerful force against *free* broadcasts, including their cable news stepchildren 🙂 I call it the lapdog effect, people are turning away from the Oblahma Slobber 😀

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       • chrissythehyphenated

         July 27, 2011 at 3:25 pm

         I love your Obama Slobber lapdog analogy! LOL I have to wonder though … just speaking as a long-time pet owner and former useful idiot … how many of us who saw him for what he was in 2007 were the ones who didn’t like slobber? And how many of the ones who are pushing him off their laps now had to get peed and pooped on before they got disgusted?

         Anyway, the ratings articles tend to separate broadcast and cable, but I’m interested in the patterns of viewership by potential voters. For that, it shouldn’t matter who’s supposedly getting it free and who isn’t.

         (Where I live, there is NO television reception of any kind without cable. But the cheapest cable plan only brings in the broadcast channels. So there are people who pay to see those stations.)

         I am loving this list. I think it shows there’s been a true upheaval in how thoughtful Americans are consuming their news.

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