On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Jon Delfin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 6:13 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Their challenge will be that almost certainly the large fraction of >> Colbert Nation will be switching to CBS at 11:35 - and most of them are >> also part of TDS audience. >> > [snip] > > And how many people are we talking about here? I saw something recently > that said neither TDS nor CR has a live audience of as many as a million > people. Is that accurate? > It was probably referring to the numbers in the demo. Total views for CR is about 1.5M, for TDS about 1.7M: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/04/03/wednesday-cable-ratings-american-pickers-wins-night-workaholics-real-world-ex-plosion-baby-daddy-the-americans-more/250631/ Fallon got 4.3M total viewers the week before Dave announced his retirement, Dave got 2.9M (had to use the week before - Dave had gotten a big ratings bounce since his retirement, no doubt short-lived). Of course only the demo numbers really matter to the networks, but in real people terms, Colbert is about to roughly double his audience. It will be interesting to see what he does in the ratings once everything evens out. Colbert is easily the most genuinely liberal person to be given his own network television show since, well, I don't know when. I was going to say Dick Cavett, but Cavett was not really what in my very politically liberal home would have been called a real liberal - he was more of what we would have called a cultural liberal. Colbert is a true blue liberal, much more liberal than Jon Stewart. But he is also a talented and shrewd performer, who certainly does not need to be political to be funny or entertaining. He is not exactly in the midwest, aw shucks tradition, but I think he is going to do well. And if the Fox News crowd starting agitating against him, really, all the better. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
