Huckabee’s new network talk show is a ratings flop

[babylonsister]

:cry:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201007280069


Huckabee’s new network talk show is a ratings flop

July 28, 2010 7:57 pm ET by Karl Frisch

As Media Matters noted earlier this month, Fox News host Mike Huckabee was given “a shot at broadcast television with a talk show on some Fox affiliates.”

Unfortunately for the former Arkansas Governor, the show doesn’t appear to be doing too well. According to a report from Broadcasting & Cable:

Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's new talk show, which Fox is testing for six weeks this summer on seven stations, averaged a 0.6 rating/2 share in its Monday premiere. That's down 45% from its lead-in average of 1.1/4 and down 33% from its year-ago time period average.

As Huffington Post noted based on the Broadcasting & Cable report:

In some markets, the show drew 88% fewer viewers than its lead-in. The only market where "The Huckabee Show" outperformed its lead-in was Atlanta, B&C reports.

[blondeatlast]

1. Why, I'm brokenhearted!

Really I am. Stop laughing!

I mean it, I'm devastated...

[underpants]

2. He is exciting as wet bread

[customerserviceguy]

3. Even Repukes don't like him

During the 2008 election, he was derided as being a nanny stater, and lately, he's gotten a lot of bad press over his pardon of a convict who went on to kill a bunch of cops in Lakewood, WA while they were sitting in a donut shop.

His potential bid for another shot at the nomination appears to be stalled. Besides, the only reason he won Iowa is that the fundies had no one else to vote for, next time, they have Caribou Barbie.

[Bozita]

4. Cancelled Martha Stewart, replaced her w/Huckabee.

Brilliant!

[Historic NY]

5. No pictures on his TEE-VEE show...like Becky boy.

[opihimoimoi]

6. AAWWwwwwwwwwwww da poor ting

[TlalocW]

7. He's cultivated a nice / reasonable guy image for too long

Not that I believe deep down that he is, but his, "Aw, shucks," persona isn't going to carry him far in TVLand with the likes of Beck and O'Reilly or in politics in the teabagger era we're in now.

TlalocW

[Born_A_Truman]

8. Shocking

:rofl:

[saltpoint]

9. He should start booking pole dancers and some serious

techno bands. I'd tune in just to see his regular audience freak out.

[lpbk2713]

10. Who the hell watches Faux?

It was doomed to failure. :rofl: