Tuesday, October 28, 2003

Ratings

According to the eggman, here are the latest prime time cable news ratings:


FOX O'REILLY 1.9 [RATING]
CNN LARRY KING 1.6
FOX HANNITY/COLMES 1.2
FOX GRETA 0.9
CNN AARON BROWN 0.9
CNN ANDERSON 0.6
CNN ZAHN 0.7
MSNBC HARDBALL 0.3
MSNBC OLBERMANN 0.3
MSNBC SCARBOROUGH 0.3
CNBC BRIAN WILLIAMS 0.3
MSNBC ABRAMS 0.2
CNBC KUDLOW/KRAMER 0.2
CNBC BARTIROMO 0.2


The obvious observation is that the ratings continue to decline across the board for the news networks. The other observation is that on CNN the most "liberal" guy, Brown,* is beating Anderson (fairly neutral) and Zahn (ex-Fox), though comparing across time slots is admittedly problematic.

*Brown, of course, isn't nearly as "liberal" as any of the Fox conservatives are conservative. Hell, he isn't even as liberal as Colmes. He's just, as Alterman put it, "not obviously insane," though he's light years away from being a partisan Democrat.