In One Night, Keith Olbermann Obliterates Eric Bolling’s Fox Ratings
June 23, 2011 9:08 am ET by Eric Boehlert
This week, Keith Olbermann debuted his Countdown show on Current TV, having left MSNBC earlier this year. According to Nielsen numbers released by Current, Countdown’s Monday night debut attracted 179,000 viewers between the ages of 25-54. It was an impressive showing for Current, a cable channel whose primetime audience in the past has hovered around 30,000 viewers.
Countdown did well enough to beat out its CNN competition in the 8 p.m. time slot. What’s also telling is how, in just one night, Olbermann managed to completely obliterate the ratings of Fox’s Eric Bolling, whose nightly Fox Business show continues to be mired in a ratings wasteland.
We recently detailed Bolling’s Nielsen woes and how the rising Fox News star seems to failing upward under Roger Ailes. And we noted that for the all-important 25-54 demo, Bolling's nightly program this spring averaged just 14,000 viewers. (For the record, there are 122 million 25-54 year-olds in America; just 14,000 of them watch Bolling.)
So, 179,000 demo viewers for Current newcomer Olbermann vs. 14,000 demo viewers for established Fox anchor Bolling.
What must also be embarrassing for Bolling is that Fox Business and Current TV are available in roughly the same number of cable homes in America; 60 million. It’s just that early on at least, a lot more people are watching Olberman than are watching Bolling.
The article is about Keith Olbermann and Eric Bolling. If you want to bring O'Reilly into the talk, write your own blog.
There is a little box about mid-way down. Type in your zip code, and it will tell you if your media company (Cable/Satillite/FTTH) carries it, and on which channel.
I think another factor that should be considered is that non-wingnuts sometimes watch Fox channels to keep an eye on the enemies of the country, while Foxbots generally are afraid to watch anything that might expose them to some truth.
That being said, the whole ratings game is pretty irrelevant to me. I understand MMFA's point in reporting this, as a response to the Wingnut CReed of Ratings=Truth, but I hope they don't get too caught up in it.
Which does make me wonder about my generation (boomers) how they are so messed up.
Wow, time to see a psychologist.
I could argue that people choosing to watch Olbermann over Bolling is clear evidence of "evolution".
If so, I only hope that instead this brings him what he truly and richly deserves!
So at 8 pm EST, I happily tune in to Channel 192, and after a few seconds of black screen, the following message pops up:
"YOU ARE NOT SUBSCRIBED TO CURRENT TV. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SUBSCRIBE, PLEASE...."
ARRRGGGGGG!!!!!
Current TV could do the same.
WELCOME BACK, KEITH!
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OT, but I'm at home this am, and just saw a bit on TV with the new Miss USA. Let me make it clear, I generally have no interest in beauty pageants, but it was sort of cool to see a winner ( from my state, no less) who sounds a lot more lucid and bright than Sarah of the North, and is very vocal about her support of legalized marijuana and gay marriage.
Mostly because I know it's gotta burn to the Real America beauty pageant fans.
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Thank you.
http://thepiratebay.org/search/countdown%20keith%20current/0/99/0
will return all relevant results. Grab Vuze (or another torrent program), download the file and watch away on your favorite video player until the cable giants give the viewers access to the channels they desire. These files are clean 99 percent of the time, if you're untrustworthy just check out the comments.
After all, if you don't have the channel, downloading it online is not "stealing" the program or harming his ratings (assuming you're a nielsen family), because you don't have the channel anyways.
Well, to be fair, Olbermann is a lot more established of a media figure than Bolling will ever hope to be, but the latter has obviously been on television a lot more recently while Keith has been off the air for 6 months, until Monday's debut.
Regardless, it's an embarrassing statistic to see how terrible Fox Business' numbers are. They will continue to wallow in the waste pit... their programming is atrocious.
MMFA is comparing Bolling to Olberman! Even after they have made such a huge effort to tell everyone how little ratings matter.
Everyone knows Bolling is a bust, and FOX will give him the hatchet soon enough.
This must be MFMA's attempt at comedic relief.
CNN is the only true fair and balanced news
current tv is so poor I cant even see my tv screen picture
We need More Keith Obermans, walter Cronkites and dan rathers.
But they fight and prevent them at any cost. they will purchase and intimidate all those who oppose the nazi regime of the Tea and republican brown shirt goosestepping morons of the nazi States of America