Check out a Michele Greppi piece of note in TV Week, "Fox Reigns as News Heats Up":

The 20 most-watched cable news programs last week, when the escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah produced the biggest headlines, were on the Fox News Channel.

Leading the list were four installments of "The O'Reilly Factor," averaging from 2.68 million viewers to 2.45 million (Friday's "Factor" averaged 1.32 million viewers), according to data from Nielsen Media Research.....

Worth noting, perhaps, was the head-to-head breakdown at 8 p.m. last week. "The O'Reilly Factor" averaged 2.38 million for the week (631,000 of them in the demo), MSNBC's O'Reilly taunter, "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann, averaged 494,000 viewers (196,000 of them in the demo). CNN's "Paula Zahn Now" was second in the time period with 871,000 total viewers (313,000 in the demo).

Can someone please tell me why Olbermann's still on the air? Is there a giant sociopath demographic just waiting to explode that only Dan Abrams knows about?

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