songsmith wrote:Now how do Clusterfox's ratings compare to, say... NBC, CBS, or ABC?
I thought this thread is about MSNBC? References to Fox and CNN are for quantitative comparison purposes only. Reminds me of Carly Simon & Shakespeare.
"you probably think this song is about you"
"Methinks he doth protest too much."
Aside from that, there are statistical reasons why cable news is in a different category than broadcast news. One is that broadcast news has a significantly larger pool of households to draw from. This extra audience is divided between the 4 major broadcast networks rather than the hundreds of cable channels.
Then there is the lead-in effect. Most people who watch evening news start off with their local news channel and continue onto the national news from that network. FNC, CNN, MSNBC, etc. do not have that local lead-in and also start their evening report at 6pm--just when most people switch to the local news.
To answer your question:
"June 16, 2009 – According to Nielsen Media Research data, “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams” was the most-watched network evening newscast, winning the week of June 8-14, 2009. During the week, the Williams-led newscast was 8.271 million total viewers, a giant 2.028 million more than ABC “World News’” 6.243 million – ABC’s lowest total viewer delivery ever, and +2.869 million more than CBS “Evening News’” 5.402 million."
"6PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Special Report with Bret Baier– 1,922,000 viewers (462,000) (957,000)
Situation Room—640,000 viewers (183,000) (267,000)
Ed Show—622,000 viewers (156,000) (294,000)
Mad Money—179,000 viewers (48,000) (116,000)
Prime News–250,000 viewers (103,000) (120,000)"
...Oh, the freedom of the day that yielded to no rule or time...