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NY Times -- Maddow Doubles MSNBC Audience "In a Matter of Days"
IAmATVJunkie.com got a new series of Torchwood as an early X-mas gift! — ... “I’m pinching myself,” said Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC, who used to caution that it “takes two or three years for a show to find its audience.” That was certainly true for Keith Olbermann, whose five-year-old “Countdown” program at 8 p.m. (which leads into Ms. Maddow’s program) now beats CNN in the 25-to-54-year-old demographic segment every evening. ...

A Surge on One Channel, a Tight Race on Another
NYT > Television — WASHINGTON — It was a lousy day to be Senator John McCain , Keith Olbermann informed his viewers on MSNBC on Thursday. Senator Barack Obama ’s surge in the polls was so strong he was competitive in Mr. McCain’s home state, Arizona. The everyman hero of Mr. McCain’s campaign, “Joe the Plumber,” failed to make an expected appearance at a morning rally in Defiance, Ohio, and the senator’s efforts to highlight Mr. Obama’s association with a professor tied to the P.L.O. were amounting to nothing. Wait a minute ... not so fast. Click. Things were looking up for Mr. ...

The TV Watch: New Cable Hosts and Political Opposites
NYT > Television — ... , the community-organizing group; and Nate Silver, the chief executive of FiveThirtyEight.com, a polling Web site. (Spoiler alert: Mr. Silver predicts an Obama victory.) Fox and CNN developed these shows to cash in on the new, younger viewers drawn to cable news — and political satire — this election year. (MSNBC, home to Keith Olbermann and ...

Election’s Over, So What’s Next for the Cable News Channels?
NYT > Television — ... . “The liberal and conservative commentators who dominate each news network will have to invert their roles.” Keith Olbermann , the host of “Countdown” on MSNBC, said: “There’s no question that it’s going to change. Of course we don’t know exactly what’s going to happen. I think you could say I’m going to take a different position on the diamond, but it’s the same approach. It’s an interesting switch of poles but by no means a switch of roles.”Mr. Olbermann noted that “Fox News and ...

Keith Olbermann Calls for Oppo Research on Glenn Beck, Others at Fox
Media Decoder — ... . Do not link before burning to disc,” he wrote on September 3. Keith Olbermann , a host on MSNBC, saw the post and in The Daily Kos, called for the same kind of networked reporting ...

CNN Drops to Last Place Among Cable News Networks
Media Decoder — ... for opinion-oriented shows from the news networks in prime time. CNN has steered opinion hosts like Nancy Grace to HLN, while maintaining more news-oriented shows on CNN itself. When news events are not being intensely followed, CNN executives acknowledge, viewers seem to be looking for partisan views more than objective coverage. Individually, the CNN shows were beaten resoundingly by all the Fox News programs, but also lost to all of the MSNBC programs, including a repeat of Keith Olbermann ’s 8 p.m. edition of “Countdown,” which beat the 10 p.m. hour of CNN’s signature ...