{"id":4171,"date":"2005-05-11T09:13:17","date_gmt":"2005-05-11T13:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4171.html"},"modified":"2005-05-11T09:13:17","modified_gmt":"2005-05-11T13:13:17","slug":"oreillys-ratings-freefall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/oreillys-ratings-freefall\/","title":{"rendered":"O’Reilly’s ratings freefall"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the more common concerns I receive via email is that I don’t offer enough good news here at The Carpetbagger Report. Fair enough; here’s news, by way of Think Progress<\/a>, that should make a lot of people happy.<\/p>\n

The ratings for Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News show have fallen so fast since the election, one CNN insider said O’Reilly was “hemorrhaging viewers<\/a>.” Here are the monthly averages for “The Factor” since last fall:<\/p>\n

October: 3,166,000
\nNovember: 3,080,000
\nDecember: 2,610,000
\nJanuary: 2,478,000
\nFebruary: 2,391,000
\nMarch: 2,320,000
\nApril: 2,178,000
\nMay-to-date: 2,096,000<\/p>\n

Proving, however, that every silver lining had a cloud, the news is not all good. Even with the dramatic drop in viewers, O’Reilly is still easily winning<\/a> his time slot. His 2 million viewers far exceeds the numbers for his primary competition — CNN’s Paula Zahn and MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann — combined. Times three.<\/p>\n

I said it was good news; not great news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the more common concerns I receive via email is that I don’t offer enough good news here at The Carpetbagger Report. Fair enough; here’s news, by way of Think Progress, that should make a lot of people happy. The ratings for Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News show have fallen so fast since the election, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}