Thread: The Glenn Beck Boycott Gaining Traction - FOX News Losing Money

Originally Posted by Conservative

Ockham, we are dealing with someone out of touch with reality and I have dealt with book smart street stupid individuals for decades now.

Interesting coming from someone who cannot determine the difference between a corporate holding company and sub-departments. By your reasoning, nothing is wrong if the holding corporation is making money but a sub department is losing billions and being forced to subsidize the money loser.

Here's a basic outline of a corporation

Parent Company
Division
Department
Sub-Department

You are discussing just the parent company when I and Redress and most others here are talking about the sub-department. Harping on top line corporate financial when the discussion is on the sub-department shows 1) you are extremely ignorant and 2) you aren't actually reading anything people post .

The financials of Fox are on the company website and show profits and increasing ad revenue.

Which entirely proves my point.

Beck ratings are about 2.5 million a night, the highest on the cable networks for that time slot. Where individuals get the information that Beck's show is losing money is beyond me and not one can site a credible source to prove those claims.

Still don't get it do you? Lots of watchers, and no one buying ads = lose money.

Tell me, does the price of ads go up or down when a majority of your advertisers leave?

It is a pompous, arrogant attitude and talking down to people that liberals seem to believe sells in this country today

lol. You got lots of talk, but no facts.

Originally Posted by obvious Child

lol. You got lots of talk, but no facts.

Funny, I was going to say the same thing. Have to give you props though, the constant beatings just don't slow you down.

Originally Posted by Ockham

Funny, I was going to say the same thing. Have to give you props though, the constant beatings just don't slow you down.

Let me know when OC provides verifiable proof that Beck lost money for Fox News? Speculation isn't proof nor is the stopbeck website. I won't hold my breath because there is no such proof.

2010 viewers 5 P.M. Time slot

Beck 2656

Blitzer 658

Matthews 497

Prime 226

Originally Posted by Ockham

Funny, I was going to say the same thing. Have to give you props though, the constant beatings just don't slow you down.

Interesting how the 2010 viewers for Beck beat all the other cable news shows combined for the 5 P.M. slot

Now I understand that ratings don't mean anything to some here but my bet is that Fox News welcomes the viewers as do the advertisers that advertise on Beck.

Originally Posted by Dav

The market is supposed to be based on supply and demand. Since demand has not decreased, advertisers being urged to act on their political passions is actually a distortion of the market.

I guess the market doesn't always work out the way you thought it does.

Most advertisers aren't acting on their political passions anyway - they wouldn't be running ads on Beck in the first place if they were doing that. Most of the ones pulling out realize that associating with Beck hurts them more than it helps them.

Originally Posted by Conservative

Let me know when OC provides verifiable proof that Beck lost money for Fox News? Speculation isn't proof nor is the stopbeck website. I won't hold my breath because there is no such proof.

2010 viewers 5 P.M. Time slot

Beck 2656

Blitzer 658

Matthews 497

Prime 226

How many of those 2.656 mil viewers payed to watch Glenn Beck??

Nope, as I pointed out a few days ago, there are still just 17 hits in Google News on the topic of "'Glenn Beck' boycott". None of them appear to refer to a current, planned or past actual boycott.

This is a thread about an imaginary occurrence.

Originally Posted by marduc

How many of those 2.656 mil viewers payed to watch Glenn Beck??

Since Fox is a cable news network all of them, just like with CNN, MSNBC, and CNBC

Originally Posted by Oftencold

Nope, as I pointed out a few days ago, there are still just 17 hits in Google News on the topic of "'Glenn Beck' boycott". None of them appear to refer to a current, planned or past actual boycott.

This is a thread about an imaginary occurrence.

there are a lot of people with passion against Fox News that so badly wantto be right about their biases. Fact remains Fox News remains the cable leader and is making money contrary to what some want to believe. They willingly take leftwing websites like dropglennbeck.com or something like that as gospel and then never come back to admit they were wrong.

The only financials that matter are the News Corp and their guidance. I can't find a single credible source claiming that Beck is losing money for Fox News.

Originally Posted by Conservative

Since Fox is a cable news network all of them, just like with CNN, MSNBC, and CNBC

I knew you would deflect my question once I noticed that there was weasel room with the way it was worded, congrats on meeting expectations.

We all know they are not paying their cable company specifically to watch Glenn Beck, but rather they are paying for a broad range and a package of shows.

Now how many of those 2.5 mil viewers paid money to Fox News for the privilege of watching Glenn Beck?