Cable News Ratings 6/21/06: Perfect stratum holds

(How is it that cable news ratings are so settled that they always arrange
themselves by network? Are people really THAT lockstep? Second thought: No
surprise, but I guess O'Reilly doesn't share any viewers with The Colbert
Report, because if he did O'Reilly's ratings would have dropped
precipitously. Colbert's show makes O'Reilly's look so ridiculous as to be
unwatchable.)

CABLE NEWS RACE WED., JUNE 21, 2006
VIEWERS

FNC O'REILLY 2,149,000
FNC HANNITY/COLMES 1,735,000
FNC GRETA 1,353,000
FNC HUME 1,240,000
FNC SHEP 1,185,000
CNN KING 1,007,000
CNN COOPER 912,000
CNN DOBBS 793,000
CNN ZAHN 625,000
CNNHN GRACE 497,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 251,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 246,000

Source: Drudge

akjack...

Maybe a few viewers watch both O'Reilly and Colbert. They are not on
at the same time. A number of people find Colbert's show to be
unwatchable. Comedy Central repeats weekday shows so
there is never a conflict with some other program.

Read this news story about the effect The Daily Show is having on
young voters.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/22/AR2006062201474.html