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Amazing: “Red Eye” has more demo viewers at 3 a.m. than CNN does at 8 p.m.
Red Eye averaged 432,000 total viewers and 202,000 in the demo. Let’s deal with the demo first – CNN’s 8pmET show, hosted by Campbell Brown, averaged 191,000 in the demo. Let’s just let that one sink in – Fox News had more people in the all important A25-54 demographic watching their channel at three in the morning (east coast time) than CNN had for the show that leads off their prime time. This says as much about Fox News as it does about CNN. Wow.
In total viewers (and demo), Red Eye beat the cable news competition three hours later. All three other morning shows, MSNBC’s Morning Joe, CNN’s American Morning and HLN’s Morning Express had less viewers in September.
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Red Eye is on each night around 9 PM in my house – courtesy of the DVR.
Clark1 on October 6, 2009 at 1:40 AM
I love this show and have since the beginning. It’s one of the best shows on TV. Easily the best one on the news networks. Add me to the DVR list. There are a dozen or so watching it because I told them repeatedly they had to.
Reminds me of another humor/politics/vaguely conservative show that was on Comedy Central a while back—Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn. If there were a DVD for that show I’d buy it instantly. It was a crime it was cancelled.
mattshu on October 6, 2009 at 1:43 AM
I catch it on HULU. I wonder how many more viewers that adds.
ronsfi on October 6, 2009 at 1:49 AM
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See above.
ronsfi on October 6, 2009 at 1:49 AM
Hulu doesn’t count. It was on a two week delay for episodes last I checked.
jhffmn on October 6, 2009 at 1:57 AM
It’s just wrong to think of her back at Quaker camp…
frolicking threw the woods. Wearing nothing but daises in her hair. The honeysuckle glistening about her tender ankles…
You sir disgust me for even bringing it up.
F15Mech on October 6, 2009 at 2:06 AM
Red Eye needs more notorious PAB intros. I know she hates doing them, but damn.
Best 30 sec on TV.
F15Mech on October 6, 2009 at 2:08 AM
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Works for me. Still just as entertaining.
ronsfi on October 6, 2009 at 2:12 AM
“I’ll take pwned for $1,000, Alex…”
turfmann on October 6, 2009 at 3:25 AM
If they put up a still-frame of Patti Ann Browne for an hour, it would still beat CNN.
YouTube: Rush Hudson Limbaugh – mmm mmm mmm!
mudskipper on October 6, 2009 at 6:33 AM
Real headline: World learns CNN Sucks!
As ad money dries up these channels will die like Air America. Only faster. And I say GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD TRASH!
dogsoldier on October 6, 2009 at 6:36 AM
Well I have the solution for that! It’s time for Kiran Chetry to do that program in a bikini.
radjah shelduck on October 6, 2009 at 7:12 AM
And probably a pretty good reason they have good ratings at that hour. RedEye or ShamWOW!!
Jim708 on October 6, 2009 at 7:36 AM
I watched Red Eye a few times when I woke up in the middle of the night to feed the baby. I was like WTF, what is this show, it’s awesome, why is it on at 3? I was sure that the show had to be a repeat from an earlier showing. But sure enough it was actually scheduled for 3. Weird.
angryed on October 6, 2009 at 8:39 AM
Agreed. Hysterically funny. I can’t believe Lauren Sivan actually agreed to do it.
The problem is that the show is too risque for Fox to air at 11pm. The sexually-oriented humor and such is pretty aggressive, and while I find it funny, a lot of Fox’s viewers wouldn’t. Probably the only nighttime talk show that’s got the same level of edge is Chelsea Lately, and that’s aired on E.
That said, I wonder how Red Eye would do at 12:00 or 1:00.
Outlander on October 6, 2009 at 9:14 AM
Dennis Miller is not a good talk show guy. Every one of his talk shows has failed due to low ratings. He’s funny, but his sense of humor is best parceled out in small doses.
Outlander on October 6, 2009 at 9:16 AM
I love Andy Levy and Mike Baker – and P.A.B. The half-time report is genius. I DVR this show every night.
CityFish on October 6, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Huge fan here. Some days in these dark times, the only way I can take the news is with a dose of absurdity.
BlueStateBilly on October 6, 2009 at 9:53 AM
Nice to see S.E. Cupp back in the leg chair last night…and wearing the stripey stockings too!
I love the way that when S.E. giggles, her chest giggles right along!
BlueStateBilly on October 6, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Isn’t it time to start calling FNC the “mainstream media” now?
Dollayo on October 6, 2009 at 11:17 AM
Yeah, it’s because of the way they send out their signal. They just started doing this a few years ago. It’s only been available where I live for the last year (maybe less), even though people who lived within walking distance had it a year or so longer.
Eh, it’s a cable station. Even though it beats the other cable stations, it doesn’t come close to network TV. I don’t think it’ll be called main stream until it is mainstreamed.
Fox can drive a story, but not with one segment or even a few dozen.
Esthier on October 6, 2009 at 11:41 AM
NewsBusters: ‘Red Eye’ Gets More ‘Demo’ Viewers at 3AM Than CNN Does at 8PM
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/10/06/red-eye-gets-more-demo-viewers-3am-cnn-does-8pm
StewartIII on October 6, 2009 at 8:30 PM
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