Agreed. That's a mighty small pooch to have managed such a loud bark.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Joe" <geezerfreak@> wrote:
> >
> > Is that really accurate Judy? 3 million?
>
> I couldn't remember where I saw the stat, so I double-
> checked elsewhere, and apparently it is accurate. This
> is from the magazine/Web site Broadcasting and Cable:
>
> "...Fox News will finish 2009 as the top-rated cable news
> network, a perch it has enjoyed for eight years running.
> But 2009--the first year of the Obama administration--
> also marks FNC's highest rated year in the channel's 13
> -year-history.
>
> "FNC topped the competition in all dayparts: morning (1
> million total viewers, 340,000 viewers in news' target
> demographic of 25-54-year-olds [referred to as "the
> demo"--JS]); total day (1.2 million viewers, 323,000 in
> the demo); primetime (2.2 million viewers, 551,000 in
> the demo). Those numbers mark year-to-year demo gains of
> 14% in the morning, 16% in total day and 10% in primetime
> (Mon-Sun), according to Nielsen.
>
> "FNC saw double-digit gains for all of its programs.
> Year-to-year, Glenn Beck is up 96% among total viewers
> (2.3 million) and 148% in the demo (612,000). Special
> Report with Bret Baier posted gains of 25% among total
> viewers (2 million) and 33% in the demo (454,000). The
> O'Reilly Factor is up 13% among total viewers (3.3
> million) and 27% (801,000) in the demo, marking its
> tenth consecutive year as the No. 1 cable news program."
>
> http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/440766-Cable_News_Ratings_Fox_News_Has_Highest_Rated_Year_In_Network_History.php
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ye93h5y
>
> > I had no idea.....fascinating. (And kind of a relief!)
>
> I was surprised too. I knew it wasn't huge, but I didn't
> realize it was that low. It certainly seems to make noise
> way out of proportion to the size of its audience. It
> seems almost silly for Obama & Co. to have gone to the
> trouble to publicly denounce it a few months back.
>
