Olbermann Loses Almost 500,000 Viewers Since Triumphant Return
Keith Olbermann's ratings have plummeted since his post-suspension return to MSNBC.
As NewsBusters previously reported, MSNBC's "Countdown" saw a 35 percent rise in viewers last Tuesday when the host came back after his brief suspension over his campaign contributions.
By Monday, he had given up all of this bounce and then some:
- Tuesday November 9's total viewers were 1,499,000
- Monday November 15's total viewers were 1,039,000
- Thursday November 4's total viewers were 1,114,000
Nice little 460,000 drop in just four days.
With so many media analysts from both sides of the aisle not only coming down on Olbermann for his campaign contributions but also MSNBC for its horrendously biased election night coverage, one has to wonder just how far this ratings plummet will go.
Stay tuned.
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This is a great example of a
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 10:10am.
This is a great example of a "dead cat bounce".
One bounce...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 2:27pm.
...and then it starts to stink...
Time for another ratings boosting suspension Keith.
Someone needs to get a video
Submitted by Van Halen on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 10:12am.
Someone needs to get a video camera and sneak up on Keith. While telling him how many viewers he just lost, mention that Palin has hit a record high for TLC on the opening night of her new show. This would make PRICELESS VIDEO!!
Hear hear!
Submitted by DemsRFascists on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:40am.
Nice, VH...that would be a fun video project.
That is surprising!!!!!!!!!!!
Submitted by NC Cop on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 10:26am.
I didn't realize Olbermann had more than 8 viewers!!!!
My thoughts exactly NC Cop!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:26am.
Have you arrested our Breck girl, Johnny Boy Edwards, yet?
I'm surprised he had that many to lose.
Submitted by no tingly legs on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 10:27am.
I would have thought minus 500,000 would put him into negative numbers. There's that many morons in the country who actually earn enough to afford cable or satellite? Can welfare payments or food stamps be used to pay those bills?
These numbers must come from
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 10:36am.
These numbers must come from the same people who counted the votes in Minnesota and put Al Franken in the Senate.
That surprised me
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 1:35pm.
That surprised me too.............I was thinking it was from the same people who were counting the 'jobs saved'..........or the 'jobs created'.............
Not necessarily
Submitted by HockeyKid on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 10:43am.
We have to take into account some other demos:- Political junkies like us (with stronger stomachs than mine)
- Bathtub Marketers Association of America
- College kids playing the "Countdown Drinking Game" ("He said, 'sir'! Drink!!")
- Ben Affleck honing his impersonation
But you're right; the whackadoodles at the Daily KOs (coincidence?) make up the rest."Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Comedy Gold
Submitted by Cactus Kurt on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:40am.
HockeyKid, I'd like to add the following viewers...
Well I'm sure he got a lot
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:14am.
Well I'm sure he got a lot of "new" viewers that one night, curious about what he would say about the whole thing.
As we used to mangle the phrase in my family: They came, they saw, they said "What the hell...."
And never came back again.
Just asking
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 10:36am.
How many airport waiting rooms does that include?
Olbermann has somehow gotten
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 10:51am.
Olbermann has somehow gotten himself caught up in the unshakable funk I refer to as " The Obama effect ".
Ever since the Virginia/New Jersey, then Massachusettes dayz, every single thing/project/agenda initiative Barack touches, immediately turns to shit.
It now appears MSNBC or at least Keith is suffering from a similar affliction, if not the coattails of the Obama effect itself.
Either way real Americans win and the Obama Socialist Regime loses, and that's a good thing.
Barack_Must_Go.....
Olby
Submitted by RightRealDeal on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:00am.
Seems Bath Tub Boy will be back in the tub soon!
...with his rubber ducky,
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 4:06pm.
...with his rubber ducky, Milo.
Keith Olbermann's ratings
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:17am.
Big shock there!
The decline will continue until Comcast takes over?
[Sort of reminds me of the sign I saw reading "Floggings will continue until morale improves."]
Noel, what were his numbers
Submitted by bassndude on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:19am.
Noel, what were his numbers before? An average? I would like to see something that will tell us how many regular viewers he lost as opposed to new viewers he may have picked up that first night.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal/troll!!
Just what I expected...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:32am.
The so-called bounce that Olby got was nothing more than curiosity seekers, tuning in to see the train wreck...Once they realized that there was nothing new to see, just the same old bitter, nasty, unhinged libnut hater that Olbertwit's always been, they tuned right back out.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Or media people
Submitted by theprofessor on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 2:13pm.
assigned to catch that special moment when his head explodes or they haul him out in a straightjacket.
He lost half his viewers?
Submitted by Flig Narson on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:36am.
You mean both of them stopped watching?
Predictable
Submitted by locomotivebreath1901 on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:44am.
In all fairness to Herr Ubermann (krykee doodle. did I really say that?), these types of plummets occur with any media after a big event that sucks all the air out of the room. No, I'm not talking about Herr Ubermann's recent juvenile, attention whore stunt with his employer. I'm speaking of the mid-term elections.
Just ask any blogger or webmaster how much his/her traffic has fallen off these past two weeks. I bet similar plummets can be seen at Fox News, CNN, or the sycophant network dinosaurs.
But over-priced, partisan mouthpieces aren't like you n me. Look for G.E. - MSNBZzzz's parent company - to go hat in hand to puppet master Obama for another 126 billion dollar bailout from the tax payers.
How's that hopenchange working out for you, Herr Ubermann?
You mean he has other viewers
Submitted by johnsonl on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:51am.
You mean he has other viewers than his Mom and sisters?
Mom? Sisters?
Submitted by virginia republican on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 1:18pm.
I thought he was a test tube baby. Or some kind of reanimation of a corpse experiment gone terribly wrong.
Seriously--this guy has
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 1:26pm.
Seriously--this guy has problems,,,
Olby
Submitted by RightRealDeal on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 1:46pm.
by the way, where will Olby go once Comcast gets rid of him? Hans't he been given the boot everywhere else so far, including sports?
Whatever network Dan Rather
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 2:11pm.
Whatever network Dan Rather is on.
In Keith Olbermann's Defense
Submitted by HoosierEm on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 1:48pm.
When Keef is challenged about his ratings on Twitter, KO likes to brag that he has the highest rated cable show during his time slot that is NOT on Fox. Seriously, he uses that line often. It's laughable.
Happy to be a distant second.
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 2:12pm.
Happy to be a distant second. Pathetic.
well.....
Submitted by theprofessor on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 2:15pm.
everybody's gotta have a goal.
Keith Was In Hog Heaven
Submitted by DoktorFranken on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 4:52pm.
Until they counted the hogs.
Olbermann who? You mean the
Submitted by Cowboy on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 1:51am.
Olbermann who?
You mean the dweeb on msnbc?
I didn't narrow that much, did I?