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Big Three Networks Evening News Viewership Falls to Under 20 Million
2007-07-11
That's less than 20 million (19,940,000) for all three combined, and a 5.4% drop from the low-water mark of a year ago. The 25-54 demo for all three nets was under 6 million (5,920,000), and their combined 25-54 demo ratings of 4.9/21 are down 14% and 19% from last year's 5.7/26. Ouch.

You don't suppose that almost 20 years of Media Research Center truth-telling about the relentless bias in the nets' evening news shows might have something to do with the ongoing decline? Nah, can't be (/sarcasm).
Posted by:Anonymoose

#23  ALIEN!!!!
Posted by: Zenster   2007-07-11 23:09  

#22  Jeebus, 'moose!

Give us a warning, 'mk?

:-(}
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-07-11 22:35  

#21  Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-07-11 22:18  

#20  

She's doing her best, and that's the truth!
Posted by: BigEd   2007-07-11 17:35  

#19  I have not watched the Broadcast networks for so long.... What were their names again?
Posted by: 3dc   2007-07-11 15:15  

#18  We came to the table for meat and potatoes and they served up Twinkies.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2007-07-11 14:58  

#17  Add the NYTs and WaPo and LAT to the mix and you have a real decline that the ad people have been paying attention to - the real reason values are down and income is plummeting is lack of growth in ad dollars. Always follow the money.
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2007-07-11 11:31  

#16  The network news lost me long ago because of the low information density. I could get more news from 3 minutes with a newspaper than 30 minutes with the hairdos ("right after this!"). I missed watching highlights from the OJ trial, but I think I'll live.
Posted by: James   2007-07-11 11:26  

#15  Now if we can win some of the donk voters to become patriotic once again and vote for trunks, and capitolism, and responsibility, and put the lid on the PC bullshit finally, we have won the battle of our lives.
Self fulfillment over stupidity, dependency, and victimization.
Posted by: wxjames   2007-07-11 11:01  

#14  This pisses me off! Where's that Nancy Boy I always slap around!
Posted by: Katie Couric    2007-07-11 10:28  

#13  I haven't watched the evening news since '93. Get all my information from the internet (mostly the 'burg too).
Posted by: DarthVader   2007-07-11 10:03  

#12  Viewership is dropping because its audience is also dropping, literally. It's the WWII with some latency in the baby boomer generation. They're dying off. TV is no longer 'magic' for younger people for whom it is just another form of cultural static. A lot of people stick with stuff that is in their comfort zone, that gives them routine to frame their daily lives around. Even if it is, from the perspective of newer generations, crappy. It's why old people raise a fuss over tearing down dilapidated buildings and neighborhoods. It's their anchor to their existence even though its an albatross to everyone else's future.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-07-11 09:17  

#11  Because of all that has been said above is why the dhimmicrats want to invoke the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" to regain control of the "message" being sent out.
Posted by: JohnQC   2007-07-11 09:11  

#10  I suspect news viewership declines are largely because the bulk of the population just doesn't give a s**t about news. The networks have tried to hold them with 24/7 (un)coverage of Paris Hilton and her kind, but all that did was drive the true news market away to Rantburg etc. (but we aren't anything close to a big enough market for Big Media to miss). The bias while dealing with the little real news they carry has also helped purge this market segment. Fox prospered, relatively, for a while, by collecting the left-bias-averse, but even when they had it all, it wasn't enough, so they brought us 24/7 Natalie Holloway. I fear for us more than for the networks.
Posted by: Glenmore   2007-07-11 08:53  

#9  By a margin of 14 to 1, Americans find something better to do than watch Big News.
Posted by: eLarson   2007-07-11 08:49  

#8  I'd watch SeeBS news if the staff would line up and slap Katie Curic on air.
Posted by: ed   2007-07-11 07:18  

#7  It's all Katie's fault for not saying "sputum."
Posted by: Mike   2007-07-11 06:10  

#6  I blame Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and the vast right wing conspiracy with Dan Rather deserving honorable mention :)
Posted by: Cluper Lumumba3694   2007-07-11 05:54  

#5  Die, die, die...it can't happen fast enough.
Posted by: gromky   2007-07-11 04:56  

#4  Big Three Networks Evening News Viewership Falls to Under 20 Million

My Cockles are Feeling Purrfectally Toasty!

/and Ima'na send em all sum Depends.. ;-)
Posted by: RD   2007-07-11 03:13  

#3  Seems Fred Thompson is the only one who's prepared to make good use of this info. Run Fred, Run!
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2007-07-11 02:55  

#2  Let's not leave out the steadfast and determined effort of Dan Rather.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-07-11 02:01  

#1  Don't blame Couric, she's done her part.
Posted by: Woozle Elmeter2970   2007-07-11 01:17  

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