RALSTON’S ROTTEN RATINGS
I
reported on liberal blogger Jon Ralston’s
putrid TV ratings a few weeks back in Silver
State Confidential, but the “sweeps weeks” ratings from November are now in
and – oh, boy - Li’l Jon is really scraping the bottom of the proverbial
barrel!
Back
in September, KSNV – Las Vegas’ NBC affiliate – dumped the game show “Jeopardy”
and replaced it with Ralston’s Ralston
Reports – a regurgitated version of his old Face to Face with Jon Ralston cable TV show.
Since
that time, the Las Vegas Review-Journal
reported on Saturday, the ratings for Ralston’s 6:30 pm time slot have plunged,
get this, a staggering 60 PERCENT!
“That
60 percent drop has made ‘Ralston Reports’
look particularly vulnerable in its new time,” reports the RJ, noting that
KSNV “went from dominant to dominated at 6:30 p.m.”
Let’s
face it, Jon’s dim wit and unfunny sarcasm, combined with his over-the-top,
grill-and-drill, foam-at-the-mouth interview style…not to mention that annoying
tap-tap tic with his hands…makes for an often dull, usually abrasive and generally
uninformative show.
Heck,
if I recall when I last checked the ratings myself in October, even reruns of Two and Half Men on the independent
station were beating out Ralston Reports! I mean, how bad is that?
Despite
stinking up the screen, Lisa Howfield,
KSNV vice president and general manager, said the station was “committed to
looking at the issues and getting people on the air to talk about them
one-on-one.”
Except…
More
and more opinion leaders, elected officials and candidates - especially
conservatives, but including U.S. Sen. Harry
Reid – are unofficially and informally boycotting the show. Indeed, you’ll find Reid and U.S. Sen. Dean Heller doing every interview show under
the sun these days…EXCEPT for Ralston
Reports.
Just
a few weeks ago, KSNV canned another local political chat-fest, The Agenda, which aired at
lunchtime. Does the same fate await
Nevada’s #2 liberal blogger?
The
RJ reports that “Howfield said there are no plans to replace (Ralston Reports) with something more
competitive.”
You
mean like reruns of Cop Rock or Manimal?
Bottom
line: I’m told Ralston Reports is a
comparatively expensive show to produce.
Now add in the fact that Karma is real, what goes around comes around
and ye reap what ye sow.
As
such, and despite Howfield’s brave face on Ralston’s cellar-dwelling ratings, business
is business and I predict the insufferable conservative-hating boor’s days on
the tube are numbered.
Over/under,
anyone? Does he make it to Election Day
2014?
OLDIE BUT GOODIE
All
the typical answers came up - fireman, mechanic, businessman, salesman... and
so forth. However, Little Johnny was
being uncharacteristically quiet, so when the teacher prodded him about his
father, he replied…
"My
father's a dancer in a gay club. He takes off all his clothes to music in front
of other men and they put money in his underwear. Sometimes, if the offer is
really good, he will go home with some guy and stay with him all night for
money."
The
teacher, obviously shaken by this statement, hurriedly set the other children
to work on some exercises and took Little Johnny aside to ask him, "Is
that really true about your father?"
"No,"
the boy said, "He works for the Democratic National Committee and helped
to get Obama elected twice, but it's too embarrassing to say that in front of
the other kids."
(Hat tip: Tom Chadie)
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“You’ve
heard the news from North Korea, how the young head of that country just
executed his guardian uncle. Well, back
here in America, the right wing is acting if not as brutally, certainly as
crazily.” – Liberal MSNBC blather-mouth Chris Matthews (Jon Ralston’s idol)
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