{"id":7331,"date":"2006-05-05T13:36:33","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T17:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7331"},"modified":"2006-05-05T13:36:33","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T17:36:33","slug":"oreillys-audience-shrinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/oreillys-audience-shrinks\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s audience shrinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[tag]Media Bistro[\/tag] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/fnc\/in_the_demo_oreilly_hits_a_new_low_36407.asp\">reports<\/a> that the new cable TV [tag]ratings[\/tag] are out and [tag]Fox News[\/tag]&#8217; [tag]Bill O&#8217;Reilly[\/tag], in the key 25-54 demographic that advertisers care most about, just saw his lowest-rated month since August 2001.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His 415,000 demo viewers in March was a new low, but O&#8217;Reilly managed to lose a few more in April, averaging 412,000 in the demo. Here&#8217;s his post-Katrina track:<\/p>\n<p>Sept: 1,115 \/ Oct: 518 \/ Nov: 468 \/ Dec: 460 \/ Jan: 472 \/ Feb: 458 \/ Mar: 415<\/p>\n<p>But this trend started long before the hurricane. For O&#8217;Reilly, April&#8217;s numbers reflected his lowest demo rating in almost five years.<\/p>\n<p>Among total viewers, O&#8217;Reilly delivered a respectable 2,102,000 viewers for the month. But that, too, was low &#8212; the lowest, in fact, since July of 2004 (when he had 2,042,000).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The less encouraging news is that O&#8217;Reilly still has 2 million viewers, and still has a sizable lead over his CNN and MSNBC rivals. That said, O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s audience is shrinking, while [tag]Olbermann[\/tag]&#8217;s is growing, so there&#8217;s hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[tag]Media Bistro[\/tag] reports that the new cable TV [tag]ratings[\/tag] are out and [tag]Fox News[\/tag]&#8217; [tag]Bill O&#8217;Reilly[\/tag], in the key 25-54 demographic that advertisers care most about, just saw his lowest-rated month since August 2001. His 415,000 demo viewers in March was a new low, but O&#8217;Reilly managed to lose a few more in April, averaging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331","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=7331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}