NBC's TODAY is high ratings day

The Today show continues to dominate its competition. Today led with 5.7 million followed by ABC's Good Morning America 4.3 million and CBS's the early show had 2.9 million viewers. Now what about Cable news. Well no mater how you look at it, Cable news combined would still be behind NBC's Today Show. Fox news "Fox and Friends 1 million viewers. CNN's American Morning had 393,000 viewers. MSNBC's "Morning Joe had 360,000 viewers. Headline News' Morning Express with Robin Meade had 247,000 viewers. CNBC's Squawk Box had 162,000 viewers. Fox Business Channel's Money for breakfast had no numbers but my guess is that is had less than 15,000 viewers because its widely unavailable and the recent numbers came out long ago. FBN has a long way to go if it wants to catch CNBC.

MEET THE PRESS, meet huge ratings

MEET THE PRESS continues its domination of the sunday morning public affairs forum. MEET THE PRESS had 3.2 million viewers tune in. I like those numbers because David Gregory is doing a great job. He has had tough shoes to fill that of Tim Russert and interm host Tom Brokaw. Gregory continues to use his tough questioning approach which makes it more fasinating to watch each week. Gregory's first show on MSNBC "Race for the White House" greatly improved the 6pm timeslot of the former MSNBC host/contributor Tucker Carlson's "Tucker, Live". On MSNBC he followed the dame ratings trend of increasing each week. His first show averaged over 500,000 viewers. As the elections approached the ratings went higher however the network at 6pm still remained in 3rd place behind CNN's the situation room and way behind Fox news' special report. Despite the moderate ratings gain I believe Gregory's debut as a host really prepared him for the full time job of MEET THE PRESS. I will continue to watch the show because Gregory always has interesting guest and a variety of people to fill in his roundtable. I don't quiet like ABC's "This Week" because the roundtable portion of the show features the same people with the same point of view. CBS' "Face the Nation" is ABC's competition because on occasion Face the nation sometimes beats This Week. As for Fox's "Fox News Sunday", WTF happened to that show?! The ratings are horrible, it used to beat ABC before now its the least watched sunday morning public affairs forum. Perhaps people find a distained distrust among the Fox news family. Besides only conservatives watch Fox, liberals watch ABC and moderates like me watch MEET THE PRESS. AGAIN thats my opinion. Heres the full ratings break down from last week:

show audience size
NBC's MEET THE PRESS 3.3 million
ABC's THIS WEEK 2.8 million
CBS's FACE THE NATION 2.1 million
Fox's Fox News Sunday 1.3 million

Glenn Beck, the view of a liar

A couple of days ago, Glenn Beck appeared on "The View". He was immediately called out regarding an incident on a train where we saw Barbara Walters and Whoppy Goldberg. *I'll check the spelling later*. Check out the incident:


Shows what Glenn Beck is all about. Obviously he would be willing to manipulate anything if it means ratings. No matter how insulting he can be he won't care. Why do people watch/listen to this guy? Probably because they're hoping for a good laugh after his crying incident. More on Beck's lies later on....

UPDATE: BLOGS to COME....Summer Blog '09

The next two weeks I won't be able to post anything new. onPOINT will return 05.22.2009. until then here are the following things I will be blogging about, I call it "SUMMER BLOG '09"

The following are what I expect to blog about soon. However it might not be on time. There will be at least one blog per week starting the week of May 24th

MAY ---> 1) White House Correspondence Dinner, reactions and opinions
2) Premier League roundup of 2008-2009 season.
3) Opinion of the teams promoted and relegated from and to the champions league
4) Heritage Christian suspends student for going to prom
5) Glenn Beck wrong on the view

JUNE --> 1) Hoping to watch the new HBO Series "Into the Storm" which profiles Winston Churchill. AIRS MAY 31 on HBO
2) Update of the teams in the Premier League
3) more to come

JULY --> 1) LA Galaxy V.S. AC Milan review
2) Inter Milan V.S. Chelsea F.C. review
3) School

AUGUST -> ANY SUGGESTIONS????

UPDATE: Lawrence O'Donnell should have an MSNBC show

Lawrence O'Donnell is an MSNBC contributor and should have his own show on MSNBC.
He asks a lot of tough questions check it out as he (O'Donnell) filled in for MSNBC's Ed Schultz:

Another great example is when O'Donnell debated Pat Buchanan:

the new MSNBC daytime....will people watch?

Dylan Ratigan, former CNBC host is now moving to a new part of the NBC News Franchise. Ratigan who was suspected with a move to ABC will remain at NBC after his CNBC contract expired. Ratigan will host a two hour show after MSNBC's Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough. I think this move by MSNBC is a brilliant one. Sure Ratigan will steal away some of CNBC's audience but he will be a big improvement to the networks daytime newscast which currently falls behind against CNN and way WAY behind Fox. Now will the move overtake either networks? Time will tell, MSNBC is indeed providing its audience a different kind of daytime news. I think MSNBC can narrow down the lead of CNN and distance itself further away from Headline News. Some say he (Ratigan) will be the Keith Olbermann of daytime. So far the Ratigan move is brilliant. However thats not the only change to MSNBC....


Ratigan on his former show "Fast Money" on CNBC.

Nancy Snyderman, MSNBC and NBC's health correspondent will host her own health hour on MSNBC from noon-1pm ET. This is indeed a different approach one thats so different most networks would consider airing such a show on the weekend. Now will this new hour change ratings???? Perhaps if their are parnoid health freaks out there. This show does present a change but how long until viewers get sick about hearing about health? Then again this could turn out to be a huge success because it is so different. After all it worked for Fox. They have a one hour business show, newscast, law show, and about three hours of news commentary. MSNBC is on the right track in terms of variety. However they need more exciting personalities in their broadcast. These people need to be exciting, intelligent but not corny.



MSNBC should consider taking out Andrea Mitchell's show at 1pmET. WHY???? She seems uneasy when conducting her interviews, shes better at reporting and uncovering newsworthy items. MSNBC should consider giving Carlos Watson his own show or perhaps Peter Alexander. They should bring back Amy Robach, however she's already doing a great job on NBC's Weekend Today so I doubt they'll move her. Overall MSNBC daytime is moving in the right direction in my opinion by offering a little variety. BUT the big important thing....will people be watching???? The move will occur around the end of June of this year.

SPORTS: Champions League ---- Chelsea VS. Barcelona

Did any of you watch the Chelsea-Barcelona match yesterday? More to come on this tomorrow, right now I need to study :)