Our lovely commentor, bulbul, finds a nice little pearl:
I suspect a lot of them were watching the season premier of “So You Think You Can Dance.”It must be nice to be able to rely on your gut so much. Too bad Megan hasn't learned that, like George Costanza (sp?), her gut is reliably wrong.
Don't you like the wording she chose? What a weasel - no disrespect to actual weasels.
But let's look at the ratings:
"NBC News Special" (7.31 million viewers, #T2; adults 18-49: 1.6, #T6)
"ABC News Special" (6.86 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 1.6, #T6)
"CBS News Special" (5.12 million viewers, #9; adults 18-49: 1.1, #13)
That's 19.29 million people watching the speech, versus
"So You Think You Can Dance" (6.46 million viewers, #6; adults 18-49: 2.6, #2).
Such fun. We gotta do something about the fact that you guys are stuck in the cheap seats.
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Also, here is what she wrote in the Preview:
... he's competing with several hundred cable channels, and So You Think You Can Dance
Seriously, does she know ANYTHING about the TV business? 3 of the big 4 were carrying the speech, the season hadn't started yet, HBO had some stupid movie on, Lifetime had repeats, so he only had to compete with Fox. And as we've seen, NBC alone tied Fox, and that's only in adults 18-49. In absolute numbers, more than 800k people preferred listening to Obama speak rather than watching some has-been celebrities dance.
We gotta do something about the fact that you guys are stuck in the cheap seats.
Just keep the beer and hot-dogs coming.
Correction:
... more than 800k people preferred listening to Obama speak on NBC to watching some has-been celebrities dance on Fox.
Also, the speech was on MSNBC, CNN and CSPAN. I don't know what the numbers would be, but I'd expect that would add a few hundred thousand more to the total.
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