So who's still advertising on Beck? September 8 edition ...
September 08, 2009 6:25 pm ET by Media Matters staff
Here are Glenn Beck's September 8 sponsors, in the order they appeared:
- Rosland Capital
- Hydrolyze
- The Foundation for a Better Life
- Carbonite
- Citrix (GoToMeeting)
- Topdot Mortgage
- News Corp. (The Wall Street Journal)
- Lear Capital
- Clarity Media Group (The Weekly Standard)
- National Geographic Society (National Geographic Channel)
- IRSTaxAgreements.com
- Independent Women Forum
- Zero Technologies (ZeroWater)
- Loan modification help
line 1-888-336-5967
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Come on, Colors. We can get Nat Geo, can't we?
Beck - 2.6 million veiwers
Big Ed - .6
KO - .9
Maddow - .7
And still plenty of advertisers.
beck has more stupid people that watch him to have their insane views reinforced. that means nothing, he has lost his major advertisers. also. if you want to go by ratings then jon and kate plus 8 blow beck away in the ratings. but thats most likely because you can learn more from that show.
The Running Man
just the two movies that sprung to mind.
2.6 million is less than one percent of the population (and I would bet 600,000 tuned in just to laugh at the j@ck@ass.
Could you possibly be any more marginalized?
Where do you keep hearing it?
but I haven't been able to get verification of it.
I don't suppose it can be verified--ratings are based on what's being watched in households, after all--but I wouldn't be surprised. As a quick personal example--there are two McDonald's near my home, and one always has Fox on, and the other always has CNN (Dobbs, etc.). And here we're not talking about bars or gun stores, but in the quintessential lower/middle-class fast-food joint. In other words, they're probably not teeming with conservatives.
Can I say the same thing about what little ratings MSNBC have?
Sure! It probably wouldn't be true, but I don't think that's stopped you before.
Then don't use it in an attempt to make factual numbers meaningless.
"Sure! It probably wouldn't be true, but I don't think that's stopped you before. "
Not sure what this means. Have I ever said anything untrue on this site?
But people who really appreciate music, would rather pour molten metal in their ear canals than listen to the songs featured on the show, even when done by the original artists.
How does PBS do when they present great opera or classical concerts when compared to AI?
How does last years Nobel Prize in literature winner, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio do, when his sales are compared to James Patterson's?
Who sells more cars?
Which car would you rather have?
Are you talking about the few listed above? Because, that's not plenty, especially when NewsCorp (who probably didn't pay for their ads) is one of them.
Here's the point that you ratings guys keep missing. He's got good ratings for a cable TV show, and STILL no major advertisers willing to place product on his show, which means, he's tainted goods.
And I believe it wasn't Becky who dumped Jones..Didn't he quit??
Beck's ratings have increased...he still has plenty of advertisers...and he brought down Van Jones.
Is that what you call winning in liberaland?
For those that have forgotten...BHO said "Look at the people who surround me to understand my policies."
Beck was mearly trying to show that BHO is radical because he is surrounding himself with radicals.
You can't point anything out.
You fail at trying to equate Van Jones' alleged "radicalism" with Obama.
I'm sure his pelt will be on display in the Beck studio for as long as his show remains. As a display of what happens when you miss, oops, mess with the Man. Though I can concieve of events that would lead to him totaly denieghing any responsibility for Jone's departure. I'm also sure you'd be totally supportive of this grave new truth upon its revelation.
In liberaland we are all firm believers in the concept that, sh*t happens.
Is that all you have? Is that the best you can do? Maybe Blech needs a reality czar. (I am sure that you do.)
You apparently have no idea what the concept is if you think Beck's free speech has been affected.
And, as always, Beck is free to purchase his own network, or, stand on the street corner with a megaphone. Or maybe just start his own blog.
You can't just say anything on TV no matter how untrue it is and get away with it (or at least you shouldn't be able to). It's called slander, and since Obama can't really do anything about it its up to his supporters to try to punish Beck. Colorofchange has found an effective way to punish Beck by appealing to the advertisers to distance themselves from his racist propaganda.
Years ago someone, in TV advertising, told me that if one person comments on a show, ten are watching. O.K. Using that example, G.Beck has twenty-six million, (26,000,000), viewers. America has three-hundred and four million, (304,000,000) citizens, approximately. Roughly, that would be a little over twenty (20) percent of the American public, watching G.Beck. I am being most generous, would you agree?
That would imply, by approximation, that 1 in 5 Americans are loony-birds, looking for an excuse to hate. The 4 of 5 are living their lives, as best they can, under current circumstances. The loony-birds flock to the only roost that supports the blood-thirsting limb, on our national tree. That twenty (20) percent want the tree of Liberty watered with blood, as the Thomas Jefferson quote goes. G.Beck is another bark(sic) on that socially unavoidable branch, that all societies have suffered, and have had had in common, historically.
e.g. voter turnout, on election day. The qualified non-voters know about political hypocrisy, and choose not to entertain political intentions. I can not blame them. The political pond, that blood fills, is not welcoming of reason, less objectivity.
The sword of influence will not benefit the masses, but the hand that seeks to fell the tree.
It be it,
Ronin Kannushi.
So, you can take all of what you said and reduce it. there aren't nearly as many loons as it seems - they just squawk the loudest.
Did you miss the part where I wrote, "I am being most generous, would you agree?" I did not mention ratings. Where did you get that?
Adolf Hitler, and someone in the Cheney & Co., et Bush-baby administration,(I forget), said, "If you repeat something loud enough and long enough others will believe it." A loud loon, squawking will get attention, and unfortunately support. Less so, they are called leaders. Back to my original approximation, one(1) in five(5).
You?
Fox News is just ignoring this problem and hoping it goes away. I hope it never goes away and they eventually cancel Beck and bring in someone who can command the first rate advertising dollars once again. I think they are lying when they say this isn't hurting them. They can't move these companies around to different slots and charge them the same price for a show that attracts 500,000 viewers on average as they could for a show that attracts 3 million. If they are charging them the same price then these companies are getting screwed and they should completely take their advertisement dollars off of Fox.
In way, you're right. Now Blech can play the victim/martyr card ad infinitum.
But, you're also wrong. If all the big ticket advertisers leave, all they're left with are potential advertisers who can't AFFORD to pay as much as, say, Home Depot.
My point is Beck is a premium show at 5 PM that draws 3 million viewers. Companies would pay more to be advertised on his program than they would for whatever shows in Fox News at 1 AM that might have 200,000 viewers. They can't possibly charge the same ad rates for every show - it would make no sense. Advertisers pick programs they want their ads shown on based on the demographics of the viewers (ages 18-25, 26-30, etc.) and # of viewers. When you have to move these "prime-time rate" ads around you have to put them with other shows getting comparable audiences. You can't just stick a Geico ad on at 1 AM and charge them the same price you'd charge Geico to run on Glenn Beck's program at 5 PM.
What they might be doing is just running the ad more than once and the total cost ends up being the same as 1 ad on the Glenn Beck show. But even doing that is bad because an ad loses its effectiveness with repeat after 2 viewings so you are not getting as much value for your money.
package. MSNBC is extra;in this economy, many can not afford it.