Panic Time at Fox News as Glenn Beck loses 50% of his Viewers

[ericinne]

Glenn Beck has been in denial about his ratings slide for weeks now. First, he claimed that there is no ratings decline for his Fox News show, and then he claimed that the weather was to blame for his 33% drop in viewership. However by attracting only 1.7 million viewers on Friday, Beck hit a new all time low which is now 50% off of his peak audience of 3.4 million.

On Friday, Beck pulled an all time low of 1.776 million viewers, and while this is good enough to handily win his time slot, this marked a new low which has quickly turned into a free fall since January. At the close of 2009, Beck was still averaging 3 million total viewers a day. At his peak, Beck could draw 3.4 million plus viewers a day. There was talk of him eventually supplanting cable news king Bill O’Reilly.

The story for Glenn Beck last week was the same as it has been for all of the other weeks over the past few months. He starts strong on Monday, but he loses viewers on each of the following days of the week. Last Monday, Beck had 2.3 million viewers. By Tuesday, he had 2.1 million viewers. On Wednesday and Thursday, he had 2 million viewers, and by Friday he was down to 1.77 million viewers. What should be most troubling to Fox News is that Beck did not have one below average day. He had three. Beck’s average number of viewers had fallen to 2.2 million viewers, but on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, he was under that.

Read more: http://www.politicususa.com/en/glenn-beck-ratings-drop

[SpiralHawk]

1. Americans are sick of chickehawk republicons & their fear mongering

Glad to see Americans are shutting off Fox (R) fear-boy demagogues (R).

America is, after, the land of the free and the home of the brave. Republicons & their propaganda pimps really need to get a clue about that.

[LiberalLoner]

2. I don't think it will matter to FOX. The powers that be want Glenn Beck spewing his vile,

even if he only has one hundred viewers. They lost their advertisers for that time slot, and it didn't matter one bit. Glenn Beck serves the corporate masters and that is all that matters. If the corporate masters can not get enough gullible people to willingly swallow Glenn Beck's rancid semen, then they will just use force to have their way with Amerikkka.

[whathehell]

11. .Mental image..

..Please.:puke:

[marshall]

25. He's still nowhere near the lower depths of the other channels

But any chink in the armor is a beginning. The thing MSNBC needs to do is take this opportunity to get somebody to replace Chris Matthews' who will actually bring in some of the viewers who are fleeing from Beck. The good news for MSNBC is that they can do no wrong no matter who they choose, because there's nowhere to go but up.

[Swamp Rat]

3. boo hoo

[jobycom]

4. It's probably because of the KFC Double Down.

Everyone's out getting one, and they are missing his show.

Just trying to help you out, Glen. Your excuses were getting weak.

[undeterred]

5. 1776 thousand viewers

proves his patriotism

[mwb970]

6. It's hard to imagine watching that show every day.

It is such a monumental waste of time! The people who do watch the silly thing must have a LOT of free time on their hands. Most people have an upper limit on how much BS they are going to swallow. Not these folks.

[marybourg]

33. Or any day. nt.

[malaise]

7. Bubye Glen Beck

You were as toxic as that nasty stuff in the gulf.

[DeSwiss]

8. K&R

[mmonk]

9. When Fox has no more viewers, then we can celebrate.

[ima_sinnic]

10. approx. 170 million registered voters, so ~1% of voters, & not all viewers

of Glenn Beck are voters, and how many are just morbidly curious (i.e., Democrats monitoring the loon)?

[tomm2thumbs]

12. Chicken Little can only carry the same tune so long - and he's worn out this one

[SweepPicker]

13. Maybe His Viewers Finally Got Of Their Asses And Got a Job?

[izzybeans]

14. That's probably equal to the amount of liberals who watch Fox for giggles. Beck is a washed up

comedian with no new jokes. One can only hear the same purple-veined teabagging joke so many times.

[FLPanhandle]

15. The sad thing is "while this is good enough to handily win his time slot"

He needs to continue to drop until he is losing his time slot. Then he'll be gone.

[Silent3]

16. I know what has happened!

Too many of Beck's viewers have become incredibly wealthy investing in GOLD! Yeah, that's the ticket! And now they're missing his show because they're out on their yachts or buying champion racing horses or something!

[AndyA]

17. What's really surprising is that 1.7 million people still watch.

Really, I attribute it to watching a train wreck. People watch for the pure entertainment value of seeing a mentally unstable, sick man act up on television.

Keith Olbermann suggested that Rupert Murdoch's companies exist solely to help put Republicans in office, which would seem to indicate that ratings aren't all that important. I think they are, though, and doubt Beck will remain on the air if he keeps losing viewers and advertisers. Especially now that those questionable gold companies are getting looked at.

[Downtown Hound]

18. I would estimete that anywhere from 30%-40% of that man's viewers

are liberals that just tune in to keep tabs on the right, and as you say, for sheer entertainment value.

But it's what I've been saying for years now, the best way to hurt Faux News is to simply not watch. When liberals tune in, they give Faux more money and more power than they deserve.

[librechik]

26. P1 viewers: exposed to FoxNews at the workplace

where they are forbidden to change the channel. He'll never lose those.

[Initech]

19. It's obviously part of a Nazi plot.

[kenny blankenship]

20. Hey Glenn! I hear nothing gets ratings like threats of an on-air suicide.

Something to think about.

[suffragette]

21. A song to go with his claim that the weather's to blame

http://www.lyricstime.com/milli-vanilli-blame-it-on-the-rain-lyrics.html

Blame it on the rain that was falling, falling
Blame it on the stars that did shine at night
Whatever you do don't put the blame on you
Blame it on the rain yeah yeah

You can blame it on the rain
Cos the rain don't mind
And the rain don't care
You got to blame it on something
(Blame it on the rain)
(Blame it on the stars)
Whatever you do don't put the blame on you
Blame it on the rain yeah, yeah

[Ikonoklast]

22. They are dying off.

Let's see, his demographic is elderly white people, with no new younger audience replacing them as they take their last breaths.

Matter of time until he runs out of old, scared, racist listeners as The Grim Reaper winnows Beck's audience with his scythe.

[joeybee12]

23. 50%? Why? Did a s**tload of people just get arrested? n/t

[chemenger]

24. Just one dab'll do ya.

I remember that tag line from some commercial years ago. I guess watching GB on Monday will sicken you for the rest of the week.

[ieoeja]

32. Brylcreem

[tblue37]

34. Brylcreem, a little dab'll do ya!

Brylcreem, you'll look so debonair!

Brylcreem, a little dab'll do ya!

They'll love to run their fingers through your hair!

Yep. I am that old!

[dmr]

35. Shhh, not so loud!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6F4GtyRfto&feature=related

[backscatter712]

27. It's still going to take a while...

Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes are willing to spend significant amounts of money to keep Beck on the air, whether it's profitable or not. They've weathered the advertising boycott, and are still on the air, even though they have to stoop to airing survival seed advertisements.

But it is good to know that News Corp. is bleeding significant amounts of cash in order to keep that nutcase on the air. They can't do that forever...

[The Damned]

28. How am I supposed to go on living now?????

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Rex]

29. Fox News has that many idiot followers? Something tells me

they count all the TVEEs left on in public areas.

[hatrack]

30. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of assholes . . .

And I mean the assholes in front of the camera, behind the camera and in front of the tee-vee.

[B Calm]

31. Will he be like the rest of his family members and commit suicide?