jillian
Princess
If ratings meant anything other than entertainment value you might have a point. American Idol likely beats the pants off O'Reily, how significant is that?
Maybe you might want to find out. Overall, O'Reilly rules.
Among the white 50+ crowd.
as for american idol...
it opened with 26.5 million viewers, which is ginourmous but below last years numbers.
'American Idol' 2011 premiere ratings down 13 percent from last year; lowest draw since 2002
this is the top 10... o'reilly wasn't anywhere to be found.
Ten Most Profitable Television Shows
Fox averaged 628,000 viewers 25-54 in primetime, compared to CNNs 341,000 and MSNBCs 254,000.
Cable News Ratings | Mediaite
so, yes, o'reilly does well in the cable news department, but it isn't even a drop in the bucket compared to highly rated network television.
and just to put it in perspective,
For the week of January 24, 2011, ABC World News with Diane Sawyer averaged 8.86 million Total Viewers and a 2.0 rating/7 share/2.47 million among Adults 25-54, according to Nielsen Media Research. For the 3rd week in a row and the 4th time in the last five weeks, World News improved on the year-ago week (w/o 01/25/10)in Total Viewers (+4%). In fact, World News stood as the only evening network news program to increase year-to-year.
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...mprove-among-total-viewers-year-to-year/80987