MediaLife: Strong Turnout for Bush's TV Address(smart Thurs-night WH move)

[DeepModem Mom]

Strong turnout
for Bush's TV address

Big Four networks average 32.8 million viewers


President Bush planned his first televised news conference in more than a year inconveniently on the first night of May sweeps, crimping most of the broadcast networks’ plans.
There was even speculation over whether all the broadcast networks would air the conference, but all of the Big Four did after the White House moved the start time from 8:30 to 8.
The live telecast drew an average 32.75 million total viewers across the four networks, according to Nielsen overnights.
That’s 23.1 percent more than the 26.6 million who tuned into the Big Four for Bush’s State of the Union address in February.
The president likely got the bigger audience because viewers were tuning in for the usual highly rated Thursday night fare on the networks. The White House didn’t schedule the speech until Wednesday, so presumably some sizable share of viewers tuned in thinking they were about to watch their favorite Thursday shows, such as CBS's "Survivor."...


http://www.medialifemagazine.com/News2005/april05/apr25/5_fri/news2friday.html

[jojo54]

1. And I bet that half of them tuned in just to laugh at the creep.

Got this from an AP story on the press conference:

<snip>At times, he twisted the toe of his shoe on the carpeted riser.<snip>

O.K. little boy, your test is over, but you FAILED MISERABLY!

[Lochloosa]

2. More like 60%...with 40% approval...I'm just saying....n/t

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Let's hope they were disappointed to see Shrub -- and not impressed. nt

[Kikosexy2]

4. Probably...

thought a new sitcom was airing on TV.

[zbdent]

5. Is that counting the 70 percent who

tuned in to see their show, and said "SHIT! The Dumbf*ck is on early!" and turned the channel 2 seconds later?

[Nordmadr]

6. I watched at least part of it, and in no way shape or form should

that be construed as support for that shitface. My fiancee kept saying to me "Why are you doing that to yourself and watching that?" as I repeatedly yelled at my television.

Olaf

[Fovea]

7. And what an incoherent performance!

from shrub to shlub in one speech!

[DeepModem Mom]

8. "Shrub to shlub" -- good one! nt

[AValdoux]

9. Afraid of Jon Stewart?

Whenever he has a speech on thursday nite, The Daily Show won't cover it until Monday. They tape the show in the early evening so their news is a day late. I guess it's better for them when we have the weekend to forget how bad it was. TDS will remind us Monday hopefully.


AValdoux

[RamboLiberal]

10. Good - now the sheeple will realize he's going to cut their SS

One local talk conservative was railing against * this morning on that. The dummy didn't realize this was what * was really selling in addition to the stupid privatization plan.

[VegasWolf]

11. Fantastic! The more people that saw that rambling, incoherrent excuse

for a politician, the better. He appears to be on the verge of
a nervous breakdown.

[Rainscents]

12. Baster is sinking fast!!! I'm glad many people watched him tank!

[gratuitous]

13. Likely thought of average viewer

"Hey, I thought Comedy Central had cancelled 'That's My Bush.' Huh, the actor STILL looks fake; no way we'd ever elect somebody that looks that inept."