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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Who ever thought they would miss Larry King

A friend of mine just sent me the ratings for cable news shows for Tuesday April 19th. The really amazing thing is not that Fox News is so far ahead ; everyone has come to expect that. The real news is the near total collapse of piers Morgan on CNN. In what is always described as the "key demographic" which is viewers between ages 25 and 54, Morgan's show drew an audience of 77 thousand at 9 PM Eastern. Amazingly, Morgan's ratings went up slightly to 80 thousand when the show was repeated at midnight eastern time. Morgan's ratings were so pathetic that he fell behind every other show in prime time other than Joy Behar on Headline News. That means that Morgan now has the lowest rated news show in prime time show hosted by a human being.

CNN just continues to sink lower and lower. The network seems devoid of ideas. I wonder what is next. Will they start a show hosted by former New York mayor Rudolf Giuliani so that the network will have a Rudolf to go with Blitzer and Spitzer? The reality is that were it not for tvs tuned to CNN at places like airports, CNN's audience would be so low that it would even be outdrawn by Behar's show. Imagine, shows that actually lose to Joy Behar in the ratings; CNN is accomplishing the unthinkable.

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