So, in a nutshell Proud Liberal, your article from the Daily Kos, or MSNBC, or wherever you pulled this great piece of info, states in part:
*" Beck's peak audience of 3.4 million is down to 3 million. On Friday, Beck pulled in 1.776 million viewers, which was good enough to handily win his time slot, Beck is still averaging 3 million total viewers a day, which is down from his all time high of 3.4 million plus viewers a day.* " So?? On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:25 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Panic Time at Fox News as Glenn Beck loses 50% of his > Viewers<http://www.politicususa.com/en/glenn-beck-ratings-drop> > > <http://www.politicususa.com/en/glenn-beck-ratings-drop#comments> > > *Viewers continue to leave Glenn Beck* > > Glenn Beck has been in denial about his ratings slide for weeks now. First, > he claimed that there is no ratings decline for his Fox News show, and then > he claimed that the weather was to blame for his 33% drop in viewership. > However by attracting only 1.7 million viewers on Friday, Beck hit a new all > time low which is now *50% off of his peak audience of 3.4 million*. > > On Friday, Beck pulled an* all time low of 1.776 million viewers, and > while this is good enough to handily win his time slot, this marked a new > low which has quickly turned into a free fall since January*. At the close > of 2009, *Beck was still averaging 3 million total viewers a > day*<http://www.politicususa.com/en/beck-ratings-drop>. > At his peak, Beck could draw 3.4 million plus viewers a day. There was talk > of him eventually supplanting cable news king Bill O’Reilly. > > The story for Glenn Beck last week was the same as it has been for all of > the other weeks over the past few months. He starts strong on Monday, but he > loses viewers on each of the following days of the week. Last Monday, Beck > had 2.3 million viewers. By Tuesday, he had 2.1 million viewers. On > Wednesday and Thursday, he had 2 million viewers, and by Friday he was down > to 1.77 million viewers. What should be most troubling to Fox News is that > Beck did not have one below average day. He had three. Beck’s average number > of viewers had fallen to 2.2 million viewers, but on Wednesday, Thursday and > Friday, he was under that. > > *The root of the problem remains Glenn Beck himself. Beck fancies himself > to be a political leader now, not an entertainer. On his radio show on April > 20, Beck said, “When we were, and I’ve never told this story before, when we > were starting the TV show, there were things that I did that I wouldn’t do > now because I had to be more of an entertainer to get people to go what is > this show at five o’clock? I never said anything I didn’t believe, but I may > have said things in an entertaining fashion.” The problem is that viewers > don’t seem to like the new serious Glenn Beck.* > > In reaction to the ratings drop,* Beck has tried to spice things up by > adding lots more God into his program in an effort to bring back the > Evangelicals, and he started the gimmick Founders’ Friday which comes > complete with a studio audience. Since Founders’ Friday led to his lowest > numbers ever, I would say that it isn’t working. Beck has gone to the three > Fox News G’s (God, Guns, and Gimmicks), and yet his audience continues to > erode. * > > While Beck refuses to admit that he is losing viewers*, Fox News is > saddled with a program that generates no ad revenue, and sagging viewership > totals.* If Beck’s show starts pulling under the 2 million viewers a day > Fox News averages on a consistent basis, changes will be made. Whether he > wants to admit or not, Glenn Beck has a real problem here. His viewers are > slowly eroding away. *The Beck fad appears to be over, and what Fox News > has left is redundant, repetitive, one trick pony of a host.* > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at > http://www.PoliticalForum.com/<http://www.politicalforum.com/> > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
