MSNBC ratings up big-time with David Gregory in Tucker's time slot

[DeepModem Mom]

TV Newser: Tuesday Mar 25, 2008
Ratings "Race"

Week one of David Gregory's "Race for the White House" has helped MSNBC improve in the time slot. "Race" averaged 581,000 Total Viewers up 45% vs. Tucker's year to date average. The show drew 187,000 in the A25-54 demo, up 35%.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/msnbc/ratings_race_80715.asp

[Mountainman]

1. Is that 581,000 viewers out of 3 million citizens?

[DeepModem Mom]

3. And "the demo" is all that really counts. For all the attention these shows get from us here...

they are watched, in TV terms, by a very small number of viewers.

[Old and In the Way]

2. Tucker was such a partisan political hack, I couldn't watch hisshow.

Too bad, if he wasn't such a cheerleader for Republicans, he could have been interesting.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

4. tucker really was an "anchor"

[DeepModem Mom]

6. Good one! nt

[Bucky]

5. Remember how he got the gig? He promised the execs he could deliver the 20-35 audience.

The network tools bought him based on his say-so that he could deliver--knowing that he had no track record as anything other than some rich dude's son and a 3rd stringer on a very different CNN show where all he had to talk about was his own opinions.

For this, they gave him more air time, and more months of profit-ignoring indulgence, than they gave Phil Donohue.

[DeepModem Mom]

7. I didn't know that. Thanks! nt

[DemocratInSoCal]

8. I've Stopped Watching MSNBC Completely

So far as I'm concerned, the Corporate WHORE Media, has turned into a complete and utter joke.

I can't watch anymore, without Laughing Hysterically, and wanting to throw stuff at my TV set.

It all makes sense now, why David G. has been kissing up to the important people, and becoming more right-wing conservativish, lately. He knew that's what he had to do, in order to get his own gig.

Sadly, with Countdown now getting regular interviews with IDIOTS like Buchanan, it's obvious that they're all beginning to sell out. Even Keith, unfortunately.

[Supersedeas]

9. Keith's coverage of the Dem infighting is tiresome -- so I watch him less and less

MSNBC has weened me off television completely and that's a good thing.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. I agree with you .... he's become just plain ordinary .... and the constant coverage of ..........

...... Dem infighting is monumentally unhelpful.

My Hope-O-Meter is way down again.

[Westegg]

10. But what's it mean? What's it MEAN????