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Fox News firebrand Glenn Beck facing axe

I'm still waiting for your link(credible source) to a list of sponsors Beck lost for FOX NEWS... you made the claim, now back it up.

sorry.......the sponsors beck lost for his show. coke, honda, starkist...........many, MANY sponsors.
 
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This was based on a NY Times hit piece that was filled with their classic "unnamed sources", so take it with a grain of salt.

As for Beck losing his audience, he is still the #4 most watched show on cable news. Here's the ratings from February:

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Look at that... The only show on MSNBC to crack the top 10 was a non-political, non-news show.

lol

That's because sane people get their news from a variaty of different sources. That's why CNN, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, ABC, etc will never match up to Fox. Not because they are worse, but because conservatives get their news from two places:

1) Fox News
2) Conservative Talk Radio

That's it. End of story. I think you'll find that there is a giant group of people who don't watch Fox at all because they find it to be full of partisan hackery. However, this giant group of people does not all go to one source to get their info. Some go here, some go there, and some go to a mixture of all of them.

We don't fall for the liberal machine quite the same way that conservatives fall for their respective conservative one.
 
Too funny, then you know everything he said about the 12th Imam and the Iranian connection is true....

You know that Soro's indeed did help send Jews to the Camps...

you really, really, should reconsider that disgusting remark. beck apologized for it, and yet here you are perpetuating this LIE. i saw a post someone made with the soros interview, and it in no way proves he helped send jews to the death camps. put up or shut up.
 
you inferred that........my post did not imply that.
 
anything more recent than 2009? The post I was responding to implied this loss of sponsorship was happening now.

From what I understand a few sponsers removed themselves. Thing is...... Im wide open here..... I dont know who. And I dont know when. It could be totall BS man. This whole thread is based on sand.
 
How do you counter one claim by making a claim about something else entirely. Hint, if Beck had had for example 4 million viewers, Matthews 1 million, then both could be true. In fact, Mathews ratings have jack **** to do with whether Beck's ratings are up or down. What you did is the equivalent of countering some one saying "the grass is green" by countering "no it isn't, the sky is blue".

I posted the Neilson ratings showing Beck with almost 2 million viewers a day, that isn't a million viewer loss
 
I already did Lib, I am sorry if you choose not to read what I posted....but you see....this is the real world...one cannot simply wiggle ones nose and make the bad news go away.

I already Posted it for you.

Now..Van Jones....Cass Sunstein..the list goes on and on...and he was right about them all.




you really, really, should reconsider that disgusting remark. beck apologized for it, and yet here you are perpetuating this LIE. i saw a post someone made with the soros interview, and it in no way proves he helped send jews to the death camps. put up or shut up.
 
I posted the Neilson ratings showing Beck with almost 2 million viewers a day, that isn't a million viewer loss


Actually the article in the OP clearly states that Beck has lost 1 million viewers (approximately).
 
Thanks for cleaning that information up, now tell me how you did it? I cannot get information in that format and always looks jumbled up.
Easy actually. Since html code is not activated here you cannot add the spacing code. I simply hold down the shift key with another finger on the underscore key shared with the dash key. Adjusting the strokes to orient spacing. Since upper and lowercase keys are used the lining up is not precise as one may observe.
 
sorry.......the sponsors beck lost for his show. coke, honda, starkist...........many, MANY sponsors.

he lost these recently, as you implied, or back in 2009? And many MANY is an opinion of yours, not a fact... unless you can link to the list I requested.

ANd if you did not 'mean' to 'imply' he lost them now, then why does it matter waht happened 3 years ago?
 
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Actually the article in the OP clearly states that Beck has lost 1 million viewers (approximately).

If he has 2 million viewers today that would mean he had 3 million prior and that is Hannity numbers. I don't believe I ever saw Beck viewership that high.
 
anything more recent than 2009? The post I was responding to implied this loss of sponsorship was happening now.

Nothing I found real quickly, and am busy in and out and don't care enough to look hard.
 
If he has 2 million viewers today that would mean he had 3 million prior and that is Hannity numbers. I don't believe I ever saw Beck viewership that high.


actually, i believe he had 2.8 million and is down to 1.9?
 
I posted the Neilson ratings showing Beck with almost 2 million viewers a day, that isn't a million viewer loss

It depends. Did he used to have 3 million?
 
he lost these recently, as you implied, or back in 2009? And many MANY is an opinion of yours, not a fact... unless you can link to the list I requested.

ANd if you did not 'mean' to 'imply' he lost them now, then why does it matter waht happened 3 years ago?

yes, he's lost some recently. i've already posted a link.
 
actually, i believe he had 2.8 million and is down to 1.9?

I have seen no evidence that was a sustained number. My point remains his ratings are triple his competitors so the claim that he will be cancelled because of viewer loss is premature and wishful thinking on the part of some. In addition Fox News is making record profits for News Corp so I don't see them changing at all.
 
It depends. Did he used to have 3 million?

There have been a lot of Beck threads over my time here and I did research on the Nielson ratings, never did I see 3 million viewers.
 
sorry.......the sponsors beck lost for his show. coke, honda, starkist...........many, MANY sponsors.
Do you actually think that because liberals despise Beck that Fox will dump their hottest asset? Roger Ailes is one of the wiliest cats in the TV industry today. All they've tried to do is tone him done a notch or two when he strays off their reservation. Have you heard of or been here yet:
The Blaze
The same broad that built up Ariana's Huff 'n Puff Post is working now for Beck. The guy did over $30Mill for himself last year. And you think he's ready for a sailing trip into the sunset. Wishful liberal thinking. That's why we say liberalism is a mental disease. It's irrational at best and psychotic at worst, but you keep on keepin' on...God love ya!
(Sorry! Forgot you libs are not much for God. Didn't mean to offend you.)
Liberals are always in intellectual denial of reality, blinded by hate-filled emotion. Beck, whom I've stopped watching and had only watched intermittently, is a person who hit bottom, came back and had a religious epiphany in his life. With people like that what you see is what you get. He wears his emotion on his sleeve and has slowly let it get the best of his discretion at times. He wants to believe he's a friend in an informal living room get-together scenario helping to put the pieces of the political puzzle together. He doesnt know when it's time to stop, count to ten and take a little break. Doesn't make him a bad person, because he hits home for a majority of the viewing public. I think that unless some good friends corral him and take him back a few notches he's headin' for the distinct possibility of a nervous breakdown. He can't handle his own emotions anymore. He's too intense. He's gotten too close to the fire, meaning too "personally involved" in the dire circumstance this country is in. No one man is the solution, the people are. He cannot grasp that. Just thinking out loud!

Now come on again and tell us how much you hate him and his influence. If you had to choose who do you hate more...Beck or Palin?
 
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How do you counter one claim by making a claim about something else entirely. Hint, if Beck had had for example 4 million viewers, Matthews 1 million, then both could be true. In fact, Mathews ratings have jack **** to do with whether Beck's ratings are up or down. What you did is the equivalent of countering some one saying "the grass is green" by countering "no it isn't, the sky is blue".

Matthews having 750 thousand viewers wouldn't counter a statement that Beck went from 3 million to 2 million.

However, pointing out Matthews having 750 thousand views WOULD be a relevant counter to someone suggesting that because Beck went from 3 million to 2 million Fox should axe him, or suggesting that he's significantly "hurting" when it comes to the ratings, or that people by and large are tired of him.

Its factually accurate to suggest he's lost viewers in a micro-view of the situation. However, in a macro view, he is still a successful show with a large viewing base and significantly more eyes and ears on him than his nearest competitors.

Doing worse than you were doing is not necessarily the same as doing bad.
 
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

so far he's doing a bit better than that; and way better than most of our commentariat

So what. Even I predicted all that. And Ross Perot predicted everything twenty years ago.

well then, apparently you are also insane and over the top.
 
well then, apparently you are also insane and over the top.
I never said he was insane. He is smart like a fox, another Jimmy Baker.
 
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