Rachel continues to kick FOX butt!

[AnnieK401]

Friday night cable ratings for the key 25-54 Demo:

Rachel Maddow 587
Hannity 408

8PM
O'Reilly 561
The Ed Show at 455 is gaining on O'Reilly

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/09/24/cable-news-ratings-for-friday-september-21-2012/149868/

[Skidmore]

1. And she has some of us old people too.

[coldbeer]

28. Rachel, this is for you

I just do not have any words. Precious!

[1-Old-Man]

2. Pleasing that people prefer honest analysis to propaganda when given the choice.

[JohnnyRingo]

3. Wouldn't it be funny if Fox decides to sneak a liberal show in the line up?

It's certainly not an idea without merit. If MSNBC continues to pick up steam, Murdock will be forced to rethink his programming schedule. Perhaps he'll woo Alan Colmes back into the Fox family.

Programming has less to do with ideology than ratings, and when money talks Murdock will listen. I guarantee it.

[Swamp Lover]

6. Olbermann's free.

Well, not FREE.

[mwooldri]

11. Murdoch & Olbermann ? Yikes!

I don't think either will come to any acceptable terms for Olbermann to be a personality on *ANY* Fox network, owned and operated by News Corp ... let alone "Fox News".

[muntrv]

29. Actually, Olbermann did work for Fox

when he was on Fox Sports Net in the early 2000s. I doubt he wants to go back.

[lunatica]

12. So FOX will have one show that debunks all its other shows

LOL! The Cognitive Dissonance would be hilarious!

[obxhead]

14. No he won't.

Fox News is not there to generate a profit. They do not care. Fox and Murdock own plenty of other channels and businesses that do create a profit.

As long as Fox continues to influence elections, it will be on the air as is. They don't care how much it costs to keep it in operation. In fact, I'm betting they would go 100% commercial free if they had to. The 1% would keep it alive.

[Larkspur]

4. Is the Fox audience dying off or have they finally had it with the Repub Propaganada

outlet? Or are they just tuning out until after the election to renew their "hate Obama" pablum?

[existentialist]

9. There was a big shift during the Democratic convemtion which Fox did not directly cover.

Maybe people got a taste of something refreshing and different and didn't go back.

[lunatica]

13. Rachel was one of the pundits during the Convention

People may have really liked her and tuned in to her show after the Convention.

[tjdee]

33. I'm one of those people.

I had stayed away from politics from a long time and happened into MSNBC coverage of the conventions. I found out I really like their lineup. Or, at least Rachel, Lawrence O'Donnell and Chris Hayes. Ed and Bashir are ok too.

[Bluenorthwest]

18. FoxNews audiences were never all that large, the entire cable news world is a niche

market. FoxNews says they are 'number one in cable news' and that means just that, nothing more. They are not number one in cable, nor in news, nor are they ever number one in any time slot. They are 'number one' in that they beat the other two cable news outlets. Most FoxNews shows draw under a million viewers.
The website the OP links to is very useful for those who want to learn actual viewship on these shows. MSNBC is gaining viewers, not taking them from Fox so much as making new viewers and taking some from Networks and CNN.
The DU meme that 'America gets all it's news from Fox' has never been anything close to true.

[Aerows]

37. People are ashamed these days

to admit they watch Fox News, even when you know good and well that's where they get their news from by their talking points.

[ananda]

5. Whoo

Go Rachel!

[mzmolly]

7. MSNBC should flip Ed and Rachel,

winning both time slots.

[lobodons]

8. Friday nights wouldn't be the same

I would miss Rachel's send off to the prison on Friday nights.

[AnneD]

10. I missed the origins of that....

What is the prison send off?

[lunatica]

15. On Friday nights right after Rachel the show 'Behind Bars' comes on for hours and hours.

No one knows why MSNBC does it but Rachel sends all her viewers off to jail as her sign-off comment.

[pinboy3niner]

16. I can't wait for their new edition--"Lockup: Boat Jail"

[Bluenorthwest]

19. They do it because they spend so heavily on talent that they can not produce

news content.

[Raine]

25. Lock-Up according to TV Guide also gets high ratings, it has

a real fan following even among celebrities ... go figure.

[Shankapotomus]

32. Give me a show at msnbc

and I would produce news content for free just so msnbc could be a full time news network. Airing lockup makes them seem less committed.

[mzmolly]

35. I'd rather they run a "best of" the week from all of the weekday shows.

[AnneD]

22. Thanks...

I just catch snippets of her and wondered about that.

[Thegonagle]

30. She used to (always? often?) pour herself a cocktail at the end of Friday's shows.

I haven't seen that in awhile.

Now it's go directly to jail, do not stop for last drink.

[cr8tvlde]

17. Wahoo! Lord have mercy and please pass the biscuits.

[MissNostalgia]

20. I have a tune in my head now

I just hear the chorus of the tune from Aladdin,"A Whole New World" stuck in my head now, so fitting.

[Hulk]

21. She's pretty awesome...but

she sure brings out the "hate" in the repukkkes. I'm guessing it's primarily that she's a lesbian, and then also that she's not a nasty, snarky, vendictive bitch like you see on fox....so they LOVES to HATE them some Maddow.

[rurallib]

23. remember that MSNBC is probably on less than half the outlets

that FUX is.
Plus on many cable or dish systems MSNBC is not part of the basic package, whereas FUX is.
I pay extra just to get MSNBC.

Therefore the fact that Ed and Rachel are doing so well means that they are being watched by a much higher percentage of potential viewers than FUX.

If you could add in Current numbers (I often watch Spitzer) the numbers would probably be lefties all the way.

[liberal from boston]

24. Fox News 24-54 demo

Lawrence O'Donnell is also doing great. The Last Word beat Greta in the 24-54 demo 4 days last week, Mon-Thurs.
The Last Word is not on Fridays. Wow, that the Rachel, Ed & Lawrence prime time shows are beating Fox is unbelievable. Keep up the good work!!!

[Arugula Latte]

26. I just "liked" MSNBC on Facebook.

[Cha]

27. this is such soul warming news! Thanks AnnieK!

Hope cnn is still going down..with their Narrative "news" scenarios. You'd think they take a look at how well Rach is doing at msnbc?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

31. It is not because Rachel is good (she is), but

Because the average age of a fox viewer is 86.4 years. They simply are dying off.

[progressoid]

34. I'm surprised MSNBC has kept them this long

Usually, when someone does well there, they fire them.

[pinboy3niner]

36. Or send them to Boat Jail

[winstars]

38. Switching Rachel and Ed, mentioned upthread, is not a bad idea really if you think about it...

Let Ed battle InSannity, let them duke it out, it could be fun to watch. Putting Rachel against Billo, our best rated show versus their best rated show is an awesome idea, it would be be most excellent!!! Wasn't it KO versus Billo, oh so long ago... That worked just fine for me...

That said, I doubt that MSNBC and Phil Griffin will tinker with the schedule they currently have. Look at this thread, the headline is "MSNBC doing great!!!" I doubt they will make any change now and will wait till the post election-- first of the year time frame when things settle down. If they were cool they could/would fine tune things but...