Jan 30th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Glenn Beck’s HLN Replacement Allready Beating Him in the Ratings
It’s almost as if the public’s appetite for right-wing sociopaths has limits:
Jane Velez-Mitchell, the HLN host who replaced Glenn Beck when he jumped ship for Fox News, is already topping Beck’s ratings from when he held the time slot.
In its third full month on the air, “Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell” posted HLN’s largest 7PM audience since it launched its primetime block in February 2005. For January 2009, “Issues” averaged 531,000 total viewers and 221,000 Adults 25-54, a 50% increase in total viewers and a 46% increase in the demo over Beck’s January 2008 ratings.
I have this crazy idea that if liberals were allowed on television outside of a two-hour block on MSNBC that some people might watch it.
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January 30th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
I have this crazy idea that if the nightly news shows covered any one of hundreds of important stories of the day, but not the obvious ones they all cover in exactly the same way, in a manner that was ever so slightly skewed from the conventional narrative, like even the hardly revolutionary 60 Minutes, that a ratings monster would be born.
Everyone hates the bland conventional narratives although most people are unable to articulate it that way. They are inured to it. It’s a give to them. Simply the way it is.
January 30th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
“I have this crazy idea that if liberals were allowed on television outside of a two-hour block on MSNBC that some people might watch it.”
I have this crazy idea that liberals like Matthew might want to occasionally talk about EFCA, even if Obama won’t.
January 30th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Beck is utterly unwatchable. At least Limbaugh is a talented performance artist.
January 30th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
People want the truth about their money, but they want comforting stories about their politics. Trouble is, the comforting story can cost you your life savings.
January 30th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
rapier- I think the popularity of the This American Life episode on the financial crisis proves you right. It was called The Giant Pool of Money, I think. I wonder if Ira Glass has any proteges in the news business.
January 30th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Naah. Most people think watching a panda-cam has more intrinsic value than watching Beck. At least watching panda-cam, you might learn something & be entertained.
January 30th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Re “is already topping Beck’s ratings”
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Yeah, but I bet Glenn Beck could drink him under the table.
And Rush Limbaugh could handle more hits of Oxycontin.
ANd Bill O’Reilly could whisper filthier messages over the phone to the Dial A Porn girls.
Are we seeing a pattern here?
January 30th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
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January 30th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Pardon me for interrupting the 7:01 to 7:03 Of Hate/Feeding Time at the Zoo, but perhaps to be (don’t laugh!) intellectually honest and avoid engaging in yet another fallacy, MattY might consider the topics being covered. Havine never seen the show I don’t know what’s covered, but (IIRC) GB is not a celeb reporter.
(Can anyone at CAP think?)
January 30th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Headline writer: nice speeling as usual.
At least that 2 hour block (on the 24/7 Pat Buchanan network) has discovered the charms of MattY. Now if you could get up early and do something about Morning Joe, which has become unwatchable.
January 30th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
You want us to think and do your homework too #9??
January 30th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
I would nominate Elizabeth Warren of the Congressional Oversight Panel to make the daily rounds of cable news. We need more honesty like this.
January 30th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
In my timezone, depending on Daylight Savings, Beck was a lunch time treat… for about five minutes. Granted, CNN has opinionated segments, but Lou Dobbs comes off looking like Jim Lehrer next to Beck. Why CNN felt the need to give someone who wanted to be the Rush of Gen Y a perch… I can only guess they wanted to see if he made money fall from the sky. IMO, he had to be like nails on a chalkboard for the average CNN viewer.
January 30th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
At least the last time I checked, Maddow’s ratings went up in the 25-54 demographic, but seem to be much, much higher than before outside that demo. Which can likely only mean the 18-24 market. Why anyone wouldn’t want to repeat that success is beyond me.
January 30th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
The problem with this theory is that Nancy Grace beat Olberman for the 2nd straight month (a point made in the article this quote was taken from).
While I haven’t been watching Nancy Grace, neither have I been watching Olberman since Thanksgiving. He just starts to grate and I tend go 2 months on, 2 months off with Olberman. Maddow I watch religiously.
I’d really like to see Eugene Robinson, Richard Engal, Michelle Bernard or Gwen Ifill (some Village reservations about her) in the 10 p.m. slot. I’d enjoy a show that presented both liberal and conservative points of view, but I am having a hard time thinking of a conservative who is entertaining and thoughtful enough to keep it from dissolving into a poorly-argued shouting match. Maybe Andrew Sullivan, but it is a mighty thin bench.
January 30th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
I believe the word already has one L, not two.
January 30th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Okay, I’m not laughing. What are you suggesting–that Beck has no control over what topics are discussed on his own shows? Or what?
January 30th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
I’m pretty sure it’s “Already” not “Allready”.
January 31st, 2009 at 12:01 am
Jon Stewart on Glenn Beck:
“Finally, a guy who says what people who aren’t thinking are thinking!”
He would be a lot more watchable (and explainable) if he went back to being a stumble-down drunk again.
I’d watch him every night if the whole show consisted of him getting ripped and chasing bikini girls around the studio while the Mormon Tabernacle Choir played in the background.
January 31st, 2009 at 12:24 am
I think the British had a very popular comedy with this sort of thing.
January 31st, 2009 at 7:10 am
I think the British had a very popular comedy with this sort of thing.
January 31st, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Notorious P.A.T.: Didn’t I implicitly exhort thinking in my comment above? Why didn’t you? I haven’t seen her current show, but JVZ was until recently a celeb reporter on another show covering, for instance, the fetching-but-nuts Anthony girl. Such topics tend to be more ratings-friendly than others.
Really, seriously, was Jennifer Palmieri bogarting the CAP thinking cap when MattY wrote this?
January 31st, 2009 at 6:31 pm
My favourite Glenn Beck moment ever was right before the election, when he had Toby Keith on, and he kept trying to get all culture war-y, and kept trying to force Keith to say something bad about elitist liberals or whatever, and it ended with Keith telling Beck that he is, in fact, a Democrat.
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