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Tuesday, January 13, 2004 Ratings Snapshot: Questions for the Cablers
Drudge prints cable news stats for Monday night. Highlights: Shepherd Smith in 2nd place with a 1.6, beating Hannity & Colmes' 1.5. Larry King with a 1.3, and Aaron Brown at .7; Hardball has a .5, Scarborough with a .4, and Olbermann gets .3. FOX: How can you pull Greta up from a 1.1? CNN: Why is Aaron beating Paula's .6? MSNBC: Your political shows get the highest ratings -- why aren't you going election-obsessed yet? 8:25:42 PM CNN Bus Draws "Quite a Crowd"
I'm not impressed with the Election Express yet (if you're going to do it, create a nice real studio in the bus and broadcast live while you're driving), but I do enjoy the daily dispatches from it. Today, the bus driver explains how he is learning television vocab. And a CNN.com'er writes in: "We've managed to draw quite a crowd, with students and candidate supporters who gather to watch the shows." Wednesday, the bus will be at Iowa State Univ., as their school newspaper reports... 8:07:52 PM Is Bill O'Reilly Past His Prime?
Some interesting thoughts on TVHeads: "I think Bill is merely reporting by reputation at this point in his career," one post says. And another agrees: "[It] seems like the ego is taking completely over." Remember last night's Zahn interview with Pete Rose? One viewer says that O'Reilly asked softball, Larry King-style questions, while "Paula sat Pete down and showed how an interview should be done!" 8:07:12 PM Buchanan & Press in Barnes & Noble
Been wondering what Pat and Bill have been up to since "Buchanan & Press" was canned? Well, Bill's working on his new book, "The Top Ten Reasons Why George W. Bush Doesn’t Deserve a Second Term." He started writing shortly after the nightly talkfest was cancelled. Buchanan's writing a new book too, which is due out in January... (The Hill) 7:31:18 PM Caucus Previews on Cable Sunday Night
CNN and FOX will air Iowa Caucus previews on Sunday night. A live CNN Presents, hosted by Aaron Brown, will air at 8pm; "You Decide 2004," with Brit Hume, will air at 9. 6:29:38 PM ! FOX Airing Debate January 22
WMUR, Fox News, the Union Leader, and ABC News will co-sponsor a Democratic candidate debate on January 22 -- the last meeting before the N.H. primary on the 27th. It will air live on FOX News Channel, ABC News Live (online), and their respective radio stations. Excerpts will air on Nightline later. Brit Hume will moderate, with Peter Jennings (yes, THAT Peter Jennings) contributing as lead questioner and moderator towards the end (wow...let that sink in -- gotta wonder how THAT deal was reached). 3:49:44 PM Did Cable Hype or Downplay MoveOn.org Controversy?
Conservative site ChronWatch wrote that "the controversy was huge on Drudge, FOX News and Chronwatch, but the mainstream media did their very best to downplay it." By contrast, the liberal NYPress believed it was overplayed: "Drudge and company were nonetheless successful in spinning their lies into the mainstream press, with the lazy Judy Woodruff and others at CNN only too willing to report the RNC’s talking points as objective news." So which is it? 3:46:15 PM Letting Politicans Lie -- Errr, I Mean, Uh...
CJR has a must-read on how public officials are media-trained -- taught to dodge the question. As the headline says, "the public is the loser." "The captive public sits and watches the waltz glide by," the article says. It also tries to explain why journalists never push hard enough for the truth..."(Hat tip: Romenesko) 3:45:37 PM More Changes to CNBC Schedule
"Don't commit the upcoming CNBC prime-time changes to memory yet," TVWeek writes. The News (with Seigenthaler, starting next week) will "likely" air at 8 and 11, with "Cover to Cover" at 10pm after it premieres next week..."until that hour is filled by another talk show said to be in development." Miller will definitely be at 9, and that's all they know for sure. 3:45:26 PM Debate Ratings Good News for MSNBC
MSNBC noted its highest primetime ratings in five months with their debate telecast on Sunday night. 826,000 total viewers tuned in. Here's the press release. (Update: Digital Spy writes up the news.) 3:22:21 PM FOXNews.com: Lets 'You Decide;' Shares Free Video
FOX has unveiled their You Decide 2004 web site. "Now there's one place on the web for everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask about election 2004," their newsletter today said. Also: CNET reports that the site has "become the latest major media outlet to offer streaming video clips of its TV programs for free on the Web in hopes of attracting more broadband users." 3:21:25 PM Quote of the day
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart calls cable news networks' election coverage "relatively atrocious," and this: "Twenty-four hours a day is not enough. It's good now that they have 24 hours of news and then the crawl, giving you another 24 hours, so basically 48 hours of news. Because it's important, I think, to read the news while you're watching the news. Hopefully, they'll have a town crier also in the corner yelling." (Hartford Courant) 8:22:14 AM First Dry Run for Dennis Miller
Dennis Miller's new show -- named "Dennis Miller" -- comes to CNBC in two weeks. Today is the first test installment. Personally, I'm excited for its premiere... 8:21:40 AM CNBC: New Stock Restrictions on Employees
"CNBC...laid down new restrictions yesterday on the trading of stocks and bonds by its employees and their immediate relatives." The NYTimes describes it as "one of the hardest lines to head off financial conflicts of interest in the media industry." Details 8:21:14 AM |
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