Glenn Beck Audience Plunges 30%

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Glenn Beck Audience Plunges 30%
Bloom is off the mouth, but Fox still sitting pretty

(Newser) – Glenn Beck's TV audience has plunged nearly 30% since the beginning of the year—but his Fox News home is still sitting comfortably on top of the ratings heap. Beck's continued viewership slippage was revealed in the latest audience figures on cable news operations. Fox News averaged some 1.9 million viewers in April, which beat the combined audiences of MSNBC, CNN and HLN. Fox has now led its rivals for 100 months running. And while Beck has lost some 800,000 viewers since the start of the year, he still boasts 2.1 million watchers and leads cable programs in his 5 pm slot.

Poor Larry King battles not only marriage woes, but disappointing ratings, reports the Los Angeles Times. The CNN veteran's viewership was down 41% over last April, and he's losing out not only to Fox News but to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, and is barely beating out HLN's Joy Behar. Maddow is helping MSNBC pull away from CNN in viewership and among the sought-after 25-54 age group. She now draws a bigger portion of that demographic than her colleague Keith Olbermann.

http://www.newser.com/story/87315/glenn-beck-audience-plunges-30.html

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1. Recommended. I'll cheer an even further slide in Beck's ratings.

I don't think Larry King runs an especially scintillating hour of tv but I have no big grudge against him generally.

Maddow is the most refreshing addition to cable news programming to come along in ages. Long may she run.

[jefferson_dem]

3. Totally agree on Maddow.

She wasn't my fave initially but ... wow ... she has certainly grown into the job. I would single her out as the most important voice in the cable/broadcast media today. Maddow is (almost single-handedly) carrying the torch for intelligent, honest journalism.

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:thumbsup:

:hi:

[skip fox]

5. Maddow is a light!

n/t

[underpants]

2. He's on at 7PM...against what? The Wheel, Ed, and ET (which is more credible than Glen)

Yeah he's a real WINNER that one

[lunatica]

6. Rachel Maddow