Cable News Bullies: O'Reilly and Fox Rule Ratings

by Jarrett Martineau | February 1, 2008 at 07:03 pm | 2237 views | 1 comment

One of the funniest slip-ups I've seen on television happened last night on The Colbert Report at the end of his interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano. After jabbing Colbert for pretending to be Bill O'Reilly, Napolitano finished the interview by accidentally calling Colbert, "Bill". It was priceless.

Now if only master satirist Colbert could pull in the kind of ratings that the unbearable bully O'Reilly does. The O'Reilly Factor show scored two slots on the top ten cable news shows in the US!

TVNewser reports that Fox News Channel had 8 of the top 10 highest rated programs on cable news during the month of January. Leading that charge was The O'Reilly Factor, which took both the #1 (the 8PM original broadcast) and the #7 (the 11PM repeat) spots.

Below, the 20 top ranked shows for January, according to Nielsen Media Research:

1. The O'Reilly Factor (Fox)

2. Hannity & Colmes (Fox)

3. The Fox Report with Shep Smith (Fox)

4. Special Report with Brit Hume (Fox)

5. On The Record with Greta Van Susteren (Fox)

6. Americas Newsroom (Fox)

7. The O'Reilly Factor (Repeat) (Fox)

8. Larry King Live (CNN)

9. The Big Story with John Gibson (Fox)

10. Lou Dobbs Tonight (CNN)

11. Studio B with Shep Smith (Fox)

12. Your World with Neil Cavuto (Fox)

13. Happening Now (Fox)

14. Fox And Friends (Fox)

15. Live Desk with Martha MacCallum (Fox)

16. Americas Pulse (Fox)

17. Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)

18, Out In The Open (CNN)

19. Countdown with Keith Olbermann (MSNBC)

20. CNN Election Center (CNN)

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at 01:14 on February 2nd, 2008

good stuff:

Jarrett Martineau, I am a Fox News Viewer, I do find myself going to CNN to watch Wolf Blitzer and during elections. Experience just seems to be in play there. I also know from the inside that CNN knows how to handle debates and the media much better. Fox makes the candidates come in thw spin room for interviews, allowing smaller media access to the Top candidates. I am surprised that Glenn Beck from CNN is not on the list.