Olbermann Booming

4:26 pm EST October 31st, 2006 | Media | 4 Comments

The efforts of the continually wacky Olbermannwatch (motto: We don’t like Keith Olbermann so we’ll just make stuff up) notwithstanding, Keith Olbermann’s ratings are moving up (an increase of 67% over a year ago). Bill O’Reilly is still the big dog, but he’s lost 22% of his viewers in the last year – to the tune of over half a million people. Long time cable news watchers will remember when O’Reilly was in the ratings doldrums, dominated by Larry King. Fox stuck to O’Reilly and he overtook him. In contrast to their past horrible decisions (like “The Doc Block”) MSNBC should learn the lesson here – Olbermann is an alternative to the GOP’s strangle hold on the rest of cable news, and people are watching.

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4 Responses to “Olbermann Booming”

  1. Nimrod Gently says:
    October 31, 2006 at 5:25 pm

    Pre-empting Dugger: “hate” is what Michael Savage preaches. I wouldn’t even call Billo a “hatemonger”. Hateful, maybe.

  2. Jody says:
    October 31, 2006 at 11:34 pm

    …look for an ABC style blacklist of advertisers for Olbermann any time now.

  3. Duros62 says:
    November 1, 2006 at 11:26 am

    Bill O’Reilly is still the big dog, but he’s lost 22% of his viewers in the last year

    To natural causes, no doubt.

  4. factcheck says:
    November 1, 2006 at 12:12 pm

    And how many of O’Really’s viewers (like me) watch just because he’s a cartoon. It’s as funny as Stephen Colbert. And his joke of a book? Would anyone actually admit to reading that crap? It’s kind of like the NY Post or Daily News, noone wants to admit they buy it because it’s a mark of low educational levels.