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Offline Mr Mannn

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Al Jazeera America Loses More Than Half of Current TV's Audience
« on: November 19, 2013, 07:13:37 PM »
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/11/18/Al-jazeera-america-loses-more-than-50-percent-current-tv-audience

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Al Jazeera America Loses More Than Half of Current TV's Audience

After two months on the air, Al Jazeera America's (AJA) ratings are so low, Nielsen lists them as "scratch" and doesn't even bother to report them. With an average of only 13,000 viewers, AJA is drawing far fewer viewers than the failed channel it replaced, Al Gore's Current TV, which average 31,000.

In the all-important 25-54 demo, AJA attracts only 5,000 viewers.

AJA is backed by the oil-rich Qatar government, which paid a half-billion dollars to acquire Current TV. On top of that, the daily operating costs have to be astronomical. It would make sense for the Qatar government to accept this loss, even with low ratings, if AJA was making any kind of impact in the American news media. But that is the channel's real failure. Not a single thing AJA has done has thus far penetrated into the mainstream media or the national political conversation: not a single scoop, interview, YouTube moment, or controversy.

Granted, AJA is still in the cradle and history proves that it takes time to pick up an audience and cement a brand. But I have been working in media for almost a decade, and have never seen a failure to launch as spectacular as this one (not counting ObamaCare).

There are plenty of examples (on the left and right) of financial backers willing to take a loss if they believe The Cause is being advanced. But AJA is advancing nothing. It is the proverbial tree falling in a forest with no one there to hear it.

In fact, if you merely compare AJA's ratings to the millions of Muslims living in America, viewership is a statistical zero.

How pathetic can you be if you can't even match Al Gore's viewership?
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Re: Al Jazeera America Loses More Than Half of Current TV's Audience
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2013, 07:19:58 PM »


You doont watch al jazeera? I KEEL YOU!
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Re: Al Jazeera America Loses More Than Half of Current TV's Audience
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2013, 07:23:47 PM »
First he's a snake oil salesman selling carbon credits and now he makes a fortune unloading a dud TV channel....maybe Obama will hire him to sell Obamacare?
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Re: Al Jazeera America Loses More Than Half of Current TV's Audience
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2013, 08:48:42 PM »
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That's impressive.  How do you achieve less than zero viewers?
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Re: Al Jazeera America Loses More Than Half of Current TV's Audience
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2013, 08:56:46 PM »
Quote from: freedumb2003b on November 19, 2013, 07:19:58 PM


You doont watch al jazeera? I KEEL YOU!

 :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: love it!!!!
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Re: Al Jazeera America Loses More Than Half of Current TV's Audience
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2013, 09:21:08 PM »
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With an average of only 13,000 viewers,

There can't be that many DUmmies with access to al Jazeera TV. Is Obama one of their viewers?
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Re: Al Jazeera America Loses More Than Half of Current TV's Audience
« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2013, 09:25:05 PM »
AlGore is good at scamming adulating masses of libs, but he is a piker compared to Terry McOffal.
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Re: Al Jazeera America Loses More Than Half of Current TV's Audience
« Reply #7 on: November 19, 2013, 09:29:19 PM »
Holy hell, what a way to fail spectacularly.

My university has more people enrolled than they have viewers.
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Re: Al Jazeera America Loses More Than Half of Current TV's Audience
« Reply #8 on: November 19, 2013, 09:51:49 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on November 19, 2013, 07:23:47 PM
First he's a snake oil salesman selling carbon credits and now he makes a fortune unloading a dud TV channel....maybe Obama will hire him to sell Obamacare?
to a country who got it's money from oil....
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Re: Al Jazeera America Loses More Than Half of Current TV's Audience
« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2013, 12:29:22 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on November 19, 2013, 09:21:08 PM
There can't be that many DUmmies with access to al Jazeera TV. Is Obama one of their viewers?

I'd bet the mortgage that at least half the TVs in the White House are permanently tuned to AJTV 24/7.


The other half are tuned to Fox News - with the remote left lying around, of course - for when Doug Bulna comes over to work on fixing the Obamacare website.  :fuelfire:
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Re: Al Jazeera America Loses More Than Half of Current TV's Audience
« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2013, 10:22:41 AM »
I never hear even the DUmmies talk about it, or use it as a source.  I can't imagine how they thought this was a good business proposition.  Al Jazeera is poison to many, from the days of 9/11.  I know I don't go there. 

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Re: Al Jazeera America Loses More Than Half of Current TV's Audience
« Reply #11 on: November 20, 2013, 11:59:08 AM »
Quote from: Chris_ on November 19, 2013, 08:48:42 PM
That's impressive.  How do you achieve less than zero viewers?

That was my first thought too.
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Re: Al Jazeera America Loses More Than Half of Current TV's Audience
« Reply #12 on: November 20, 2013, 12:24:02 PM »
Quote from: Chris_ on November 19, 2013, 08:48:42 PM
That's impressive.  How do you achieve less than zero viewers?
It's easy....you buy a TV channel from Al Gore.
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Re: Al Jazeera America Loses More Than Half of Current TV's Audience
« Reply #13 on: November 20, 2013, 12:27:16 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on November 19, 2013, 07:23:47 PM
First he's a snake oil salesman selling carbon credits and now he makes a fortune unloading a dud TV channel....maybe Obama will hire him to sell Obamacare?

Don't have a link but, I read they asked him and he turned them down.  Shows a reptilian survival instinct I didn't give him credit for.
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Re: Al Jazeera America Loses More Than Half of Current TV's Audience
« Reply #14 on: November 20, 2013, 09:50:41 PM »
Quote from: Bad Dog on November 20, 2013, 12:27:16 PM
Don't have a link but, I read they asked him and he turned them down.  Shows a reptilian survival instinct I didn't give him credit for.

I must be having deja vu, but the quote attributed to JohnneyReb sounds so familiar to me. Maybe he got to it first, and great minds think alike.
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