
Glenn Beck’s new show is the third highest rated cable news show. Glenn Beck’s ratings are so good that Fox News is thinking about giving him Bill O’Reillys time slot, haha. His ratings being so high should not be a surprise to anyone who has watched his show, because they know how entertaining and informative his show is. This guy tells it the way it is.
Congratulations Glenn Beck, and keep up the good work.
jbranstetter04
Radio host Glenn Beck, who enjoyed great success on CNN’s Headline News, will start a 5 p.m. weekend show next spring. And Beck (pictured) will have a weekend show on Fox News as well. Fox News czar Roger Ailes said, in a statement, “As we embark on a new political landscape, Glenn’s though-provoking commentary will complement an already stellar lineup of stars at Fox News.”
I leave you to interpret what he means by new political landscape.
Beck said he was “really looking forward to joining Mr. Ailes and his world-class team.”
Fox News will announce later today that Judith Miller, formerly of The New York Times, is coming aboard as an analyst. Miller is a Pulitzer Prize winner who stirred great controversy with her Times coverage of pre-Iraq war intelligence. The Times knocked her work as flawed, and she left the paper.
Then there’s former Gov. Mike Huckabee, whose new show, “Huckabee,” has drawn such guests as Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Joe the Plumber. Readers tell me they like it. What do you think?
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2008/10/fox-news-channe.html
Looks like the CNN news team threw the wrong anchor overboard last week.
Instead of unceremoniously dumping Paula Zahn for her soft prime-time ratings, the CNN brain trust should have axed Glenn Beck, whose viewership is far smaller than Zahn’s. In fact, on the night that Zahn announced she was leaving CNN, Paula Zahn Now easily bested Glenn Beck in the ratings, as it had often done for months.
Truth is, Beck’s show has been in a ratings slump for most of this year. (The show’s audience peaked 10 months ago.) Yet the right-wing talker who bashes progressives, Muslims, immigrants, and environmentalists when he’s not pimping for the John Birch Society remains a CNN favorite among his television bosses. If CNN were a meritocracy, it would be Beck out looking for a job, not Zahn. Instead, CNN appears to be sponsoring some sort of affirmative action program for an audience-challenged conservative who is allowed to drive his ratings into the ground without fear of being ousted.
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200707310005
Author: jbranstetter04
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Added: February 24, 2009