They're still getting better numbers than they were getting with the short-form video rotation of the old Current. Olbermann knew what he was getting into and that they can't turn around the channel overnight.
And before the teabaggers get too complacent, there are still 300 million Americans who do not watch FNC and among cable channels more people watch the cartoon character who lives in a pineapple under the sea on Nickelodeon or the Monday night rasslin' on USA than they do any cable news biovator. On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 7:26 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Wesley McGee <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Anyone have an idea of ratings for Olbermann? My personal differences >>> with him aside, he was doing just above average on a known and widely >>> available cable network. I can't imagine him performing up to par on a >>> lesser network. >>> >> >> They don't do overnights for Current (though the NYTimes article states >> they may start reporting overnights for them in January). When the show was >> new, it reportedly got 200,000 or so viewers a night. >> >> My cable system does not carry Current. >> > > Current releases its ratings whenever it suits them. Obviously, simply > comparing KO's ratings at Current to his old ones at MSNBC are pretty > meaningless - Current is only in 60 million homes. New Countdown had 319K > viewers its first week, which fell 29% to 253K the second week. It was back > up around 310K the last week in August. The NY Daily News was happy to > report KO's low, which was Labor Day week (142K). The Ed Show gets about > 800K in KO's old time slot. > > I don't know how Kevin would define "par" in his new context - I don't > think anyone ever expected him to get the same ratings he got at MSNBC. I > think maybe a fair bar is something around 300K, and he probably is > averaging somewhere in the mid 200K. > > See: > > http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/07/05/keith-olbermanns-ratings-on-current-drop-in-week-2-still-way-bigger-than-currents-tiny-pre-olbermann-average/97212/ > > http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/keith-olbermann-countdown-drops-brings-lowest-ratings-numbers-september-article-1.955938 > > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
