Eliot Spitzer Debuts as Olbermann’s Replacement — Network Ratings Drop 74%
- Posted on April 3, 2012 at 12:56pm by
Erica Ritz
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Eliot Spitzer’s premiere on Current TV, where he is replacing Keith Olbermann, debuted to shockingly low ratings Friday night.
The former CNN host drew a total of 47,000 people in his 8pm time slot, only 10,000 of which were in the key 25-54 demographic. To put that in perspective, it is down 74% from Olbermann’s nightly average in March, and roughly 1/10 of the viewership at MSNBC in the same time slot (and roughly 1/30 of Fox News).
Watch the show’s open featuring Spitzer, below:
Spitzer debuted amid a controversy between Current TV and Keith Olbermann that drew national coverage. While the network claims that Olbermann breached his contract, missing work far too often and refusing to promote his show, Olbermann claims that the standards of the network were not sufficiently professional.
The network’s decision to replace Olbermann with Spitzer, the former governor who resigned amid a prostitution scandal in 2008, has elicited a number of comments on Twitter:
‘@allaboutBMORE : An Inconvenient Truth’ – Eliot Spitzer stinks up the tube on debut’
‘@poniewozik: And with my post, the number of words written about Olbermann & Spitzer surpasses the viewership of either show’
‘@KateAurthur: When I think network savior, I think SPITZER. #golions #prideofHoraceMann’
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Comments (92)
Bete Noire
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:31pmI mean really – Elliot Spitzer, Cenk Uygur, Jennifer Granholm, Stephanie Miller and Bill Press???
If you want to see pure liberal lunacy try watching 15 mins of “The Young Turks”.
I expect the network to fold soon, unless Soros starts to pour money into it.
The demise of CurrenTV can’t come soon enough.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:44pmLiberal radio and TV always struggles unless it’s cleverly disguised like the big three networks are. I think the reason is that liberals don’t want news and facts (not that they get them from liberal media outlets) they operate strictly on emotion. The liberals are all watching realty TV shows, not news shows.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 2:37pm.
Report Post »Network Ratings Drop 74%, How in the world do you Drop 74% from “You Suck” in the first place?……
AZRACISTBIGOT
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 2:45pmWas this guy born without lips?
Report Post »TheObamanation
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 2:57pmSpitzer and Olbermann … La – who – za – hers … Losers !
Report Post »000degrees
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 3:29pmThe cream always rises to the t……aaaahh, never mind..
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 4:12pm3 people turned the channell
Report Post »Moshy1
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 4:31pmIs Al Gore now officially the worst person in the world? lol
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 4:58pmLook, I don’t mean to be provocative here, but I have to call BS on this story on a simple mathematics basis: 74% of 16 people leaves a fraction of a person, and I know people just aren;t counted that way.
Report Post »jaylew
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 6:09pmI actually don’t even know why this article is on this forum….is there a single person here of any stripe or leaning that thinks Eliot Spitzer is anything other than a lying cheating philanderer? And NO Mr. Clinton you may NOT respond….we still remember your antics too President Pantload.
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:02pmMaybe Elliott thought he was on a dating site, and was really hoping to get more CONTACTS.
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 7:44pmMaybe Spitzer can have his wife stand beside him, as he telecasts/ This man has NO HONOR, or shame. Makes a Great Progressive Dem though.
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 7:49pm74% drop in viewership. They only HAD about 75 viewers. Let’s see here. Thad’d leave them with 19.5 viewers. WHO is forcing their baby to watch this CRAP? Need family services to intervene here!
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:29pmSee what happen when you boycott
Report Post »Stop watching MSM – CNN, MSNBC
They will squeal into their pocket books
eagle
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:16amIt doesn’t matter; they don’t need ratings or sponsors, they are funded by pure evil.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:26pmThat means 74 of the people who lied about watching current
Report Post »are telling the truth. There is only 26 telling that lie.
CHULAIGUY
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:24pmDo you mean there are really 26 people in the contry still watching? Does that number include the crew that works on this ‘show’ ?
Report Post »huey6367
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:23pmHow do you lose 74% of nothing? Is that how many of the staff walked out?
Report Post »jcizarter
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 2:35pmThat is exactly what I thought, now they are in the negative ratings for sure.
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:22pmThis a demonstration of what happens when you go from a failure to a total failure.
Report Post »wewantchillywilly
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:20pmstill better than MSNBC
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:25pmWanna bet?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:18pmPoor Elliot, he’ll need to drown his sorrows in hookers.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:16pmYou mean they actually lost 74% of their viewers? Does this mean 74% of their crews quit the business of Current TV while the getting was good?
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:33pmLibs even boycott their own………
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:54pm74% of OWS now watch the weather channel, trying to figure out how many layers to wear in the tent.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 4:54pm@Darmok: you mean beneath the perpetual dust storm they have going up around them from lack of bathing?
Report Post »IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:15pmWhat they need are reporters that tell the facts with truth and who are honest in their public life as well as private. Better luck next time.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:26pmThat was pretty funny.
Report Post »nobama2012yeswecan
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:15pmHas anyone seen Kieth with a woman??? How bout a ******???? Children?????? Pets??? S.E. Cupp is right Kieth…YOUR A GIANT DICK
Report Post »huey6367
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:25pmAll you have to do is look at Olber-won-kanobee (no offense Star Wars fans) and tell he thinks he is all that AND a pack of crackers. He is a left wing elitist and no one can ever measure up to him.
Report Post »AR485
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:14pmThe ratings dropped so low you could see Spitzer’s black socks.
Report Post »Delicaterose65
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:09pmIf you think MSNBC OR NBC OR ABC, ESPN….ect is telling the TRUTH!! Let me tell you that THEIR HEADS WOULD EXPLODE IF THEY DID!!! Truth is NEVER in the “Jobs” of ANY one whom works for them!!
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:06pmPathetic ratings for a pathetic womanizer.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:06pmThis network is “Doing-The-Limbo”…..How Low Can You Go?
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:05pmLmao…
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:19pmROFL .. yes from BAD TO WORSE … Losers ….
OMG 2012!
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:04pmA loser taking the place of a loser. Who would have thought? Gore has proven over and over again that there is no intelligent life between his ears.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:15pmI would love to find out how Gore would do on the Wonderlic Test
Report Post »ColoradoMaverick
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:04pmyeah, they went from 10 viewers to 2.6 viewers. How is that possible?
Report Post »OldGuy66
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 3:51pmthe third guy was soused outa 40% of his mind.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:03pmEliot who? Current what?? :)
Report Post »HKS
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:03pmMight know they lost a viewer.
Report Post »Obama Snake Oil Co
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:03pmOlbermann lost his job due to global warming……it made me late for work one morning so I know.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:02pm+74%? Katie Couric, eat your shorts, baby!
Report Post »jackact
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:00pmHa ha ha…. The elite keep trying and failing.
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 12:59pmCurrent t/v it’s not.
Report Post »More like day old t/v
TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 12:59pmCLIENT # 9, CLIENT # 9, HAS ANYONE SEEN CLIENT # 9? Ohhh, there he is….
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