{"id":653,"date":"2007-10-22T18:36:30","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T01:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=653"},"modified":"2007-10-22T18:38:50","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T01:38:50","slug":"olbermann-tops-oreilly-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"Olbermann Tops O&#8217;Reilly Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/ratings\/the_scoreboard_friday_oct_19_69559.asp\" target=\"_blank\">happened again<\/a> last Friday. Keith Olbermann&#8217;s <em>Countdown<\/em> beat Bill O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s <em>Factor<\/em> in the key 25-54 demo. And this time it was without the benefit of an NBC appearance to boost Olbermann&#8217;s numbers.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">10\/19\/07<\/span><\/td>\n<td><b>5p:<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>6p:<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>7p:<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>8p:<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>9p:<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>10p:<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>11p:<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"8\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" height=\"1\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>FNC<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">BigStory:<\/span>\n<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Hume:<\/span>\n<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Shep:<\/span>\n<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10px;color:#710000;\">O&#8217;Reilly:<\/span>\n<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">H&amp;C:<\/span>\n<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Greta:<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">O&#8217;Reilly:<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>143<\/td>\n<td>201<\/td>\n<td>257<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color:#710000;\">238<\/span><\/td>\n<td>248<\/td>\n<td>253<\/td>\n<td>218<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"8\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\" height=\"1\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>CNN<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Blitzer:<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Dobbs:<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Blitzer:<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Honest:<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">King:<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Cooper:<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Cooper:<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>197<\/td>\n<td>229<\/td>\n<td>190<\/td>\n<td>172<\/td>\n<td>283<\/td>\n<td>136<\/td>\n<td>150<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"8\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\" height=\"1\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>MSNBC<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Hardball:<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Tucker:<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Hardball:<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10px;color:#0d00d0;\"><strong>Countdo.:<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Investig.:<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Investig.:<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Investig.:<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>110<\/td>\n<td>58<\/td>\n<td>113<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\"><strong>263<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td>186<\/td>\n<td>251<\/td>\n<td>325<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>O&#8217;Reilly has been chalking up some high numbers recently, but he is still vulnerable and Olbermann is still growing at a much faster rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It happened again last Friday. Keith Olbermann&#8217;s Countdown beat Bill O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s Factor in the key 25-54 demo. And this time it was without the benefit of an NBC appearance to boost Olbermann&#8217;s numbers. 10\/19\/07 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p: FNC BigStory: Hume: Shep: O&#8217;Reilly: H&amp;C: Greta: O&#8217;Reilly: &nbsp; 143 201 257 238 248 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-ratings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-ax","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":107,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=107","url_meta":{"origin":653,"position":0},"title":"FOX Ratings In Free Fall","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/28\/2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The just released February ratings (pdf) for cable news networks tell a tale that is decidedly downbeat for Fox News. 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