"Countdown" #1 rated cable show for 18-34 year old at 8:00pm for May!

[KansasVoter]

So basically "Billo the Clown" has the Old White Guys audience.

Congrats Keith. Maybe the bouncing Limbaugh icon is helping!!

[Booster]

1. My God, is that encouraging.

[TTUBatfan2008]

2. Generational gap...

Methinks something similar will happen now that Conan is the Tonight Show host. Geezers will watch Letterman and us youngsters will watch Conan like we always have. :P

[KansasVoter]

3. I am 50 and love letterman. Letterman is a liberal and no fan of the GOP.

[TTUBatfan2008]

4. I know he's a liberal...

but so is Conan, and Conan has about 50 million times as much energy and far edgier material. ;)

[KansasVoter]

6. I agree! Most of my love of Letterman is he was sort of groundbreaking when he started.

[TTUBatfan2008]

7. My favorite recent Letterman bit...

It's from earlier this year when A-Rod got busted for steroid use:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igvcx2mBDUE

#'s 7 and 8: brutal but so true!

[Jennicut]

13. I am 33, watched Conan since late high school and am so excited he is finally on in an earlier slot

I like Letterman too but Conan's humor appeals more to me. I guess he has the 18 to 34 year old crowd. He is just hilarious, wacky, off the wall. I hope he does not loose that now.

[laugle]

8. Hey, who you

calling GEEZERS? Me thinks Conan is on a little past your bedtime........

Save your insults!

Conan is a creep, and I'm not a GEEZER!

From the roll call at DU, I'd say the average age is around 40! I guess to you that's a geezer........

'

[TTUBatfan2008]

10. Yes it is as a matter of fact...

I'm 23. :P

[laugle]

12. I'll tell you one thing my dear,

30 comes fast, and before you know it your 40. The older you get, the faster the years go by.......

But no matter how old we get, in our minds we are still 20, except a lot wiser.

Enjoy your 20's, work hard and play hard, cuz, you never get them back!

And be nice.....you too will be a geezer one day, hopefully.........

[Jennicut]

14. We will all be old someday, its the ultimate revenge. I try not to insult my elders and

I also try to get along with the younger ones. :)

[laugle]

16. I don't quite get that about revenge? I do

like to think of it as the second half of life. When hopefully, the big struggles are less, and your healthy enough to enjoy yourself........

[Jennicut]

21. True. Its not meant to be a bad thing. The last 13 years since I turned 20 have been

the best of my life. Its just then some who are young don't get when they put down people older then them that they will be there someday too.

[Forkboy]

17. "We will all be old someday"

What are you talking about? :D

[Alcibiades]

15. Not for everyone

On the inside, I was always a fat bald guy. Being young, fit and attractive seemed somehow wrong for me. Now that my inside and outside match, I'm much happier.

[laugle]

18. Thanks for sharing...........LOL nt

[TTUBatfan2008]

20. Heh, yes...

I'm actually looking forward to geezerness. Hopefully it means I can retire and play a crapload of golf. :P

[laugle]

23. Your previous post last night

cracked me up........anyway.....take care of yourself........golf is great exercise and lots of fresh air........

[bigwillq]

25. This 31 year old will not be watching Conan

Letterman all the way for me!

[Cha]

5. And, guess who the activists are who

will be the driving force in our country?

[Tarheel_Dem]

9. I'm glad Keith reclaimed his #1 status at MSNBC. He deserves it.

He's #2, among all viewers of cable news at 8 p.m.:toast:

[Clio the Leo]

11. And, unlike with Fox, there's not a HOTTIE anywhere in site.......

.... except for the one seated behind the desk. ;)

[Triana]

19. HEY! I'm WAY over 34 and I loves me some KO

and some Rachel.

[cooolandrew]

22. Yeh keep promoting MSNBC and all liberal radio best chances of survival are chaning the >

message.

[BlooInBloo]

24. I'm surprised it wasn't The Daily Show. Cool either way, of course.

[totodeinhere]

26. According to Huffpost, Billo handily beat KO in the 25-54 demo in May.

"O'Reilly Factor" (2.989 million total viewers, 702,000 A25-54)
"Countdown with Keith Olbermann" (1.094 million total viewers and 323,000 A25-54.)

So Billo beat KO by better than 2-1 in the 24-54 demo that advertisers covet.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/02/may-ratings-mayhem-fox-ne_n_210500.html

I'm interested in the your data about the younger demo. Please post a link to it if you can. Thanks.

Also, KO "was the only non-Fox News show to crack the top 10." But he didn't beat O'Reilly overall.