Olbermann is smarter (and more popular) than a 5th grader
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- August
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Even if the ratings for Keith Olbermann’s debut on NBC this weekend—his first “Countdown With Keith Olbermann” in the pre-game Sunday Night Football slot— might not be high enough to justify transitioning the show from MSNBC permanently, let’s look on the bright side. The former Hastings resident got over 4 million viewers, beating out FOX’s “Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?” Alas, according to TVNewser, that wasn’t high enough for “Countdown” to top “60 Minutes” or “America’s Funniest Videos.”
Still, given that Olbermann averaged 721,000 viewers most nights for his cable show this July, that amounts to an exponentially larger audience. And, of course, all the more reason for our disgruntled New Rochelle blogger friends at Olbermann Watch to keep on keepin on.
(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Unbelievable!! The spin on the Hour Of Spin continues with someone else repeating the totally erroneous 721,000 average viewers in July! Hey, don't believe me. Go to Inside CAble News and do the math yourself!!
The truth is that Olby generally finishes in FOURTH place every night; is beaten at least THREE times a week by Nancy Grace and even Bill O's 4AM RERUN trounces him as well as Nancy G's 10PM RERUN!!
Sunday night's debut was no exception for comedian Olby!! Again, his "show" failed miserably!!
For the month of August, Olbermann came in third (behind Bill O'Reilly & CNN) in both the overalls and in the demos. Olbermann came in fourth out of five networks on his inagural Sunday night debut on NBC. Although he had a slight bump in the ratings on Monday, but Tuesday he was back down to his less than lackluster ratings so there was no benefit whatsoever to his appearance on NBC's mothership. Also, if you take a look at the NBC Sports message boards there are literally hundreds of posts there by people who cannot abide Olberamnn. He may be smarter than a 5th grader but he is as unpopular as the class nerd he no doubt once was.
But I still love him. He's my man. Because I'm his number one fan. Just ask him. One day we're going to be married.
He didn't even beat ARE YOU SMARTER- that's the funniest part. That game show more thant TRIPLED his ratings on sunday night (that's not even their real night, they are normally on thursdays…they RERAN an old episode and it still blew him away. he did WIN in one catagory…MEN OVER 65! which is fine, but they should say that instead of making it like they rated so well…Keith also lost to America's funniest home videos…that's awesome! And i like keith but hate the lies.)