Bill O'Reilly beats Katie Couric. Cable beats broadcast! The Cable Game gets gamier!
Monday's "O'Reilly Factor," combining both the 8 pm and the 11 pm airings, beat out the weekly average of "CBS Evening News" last week--even though Couric was interviewing Sarah Palin.
This is the first time, TCG is pretty sure, that this has ever happened.
In addition, Fox News beat CBS and NBC News on debate night last Friday.
This trend, of course, is a long time coming. In a world of clickers with "favorites" built into their remotes, there's simply no difference anymore between cable and broadcast.
In addition, FNC beat CNN and MSNBC. Indeed, the Olbermann Netwrk came in, as usual, dead last. TCG keeps thinking that one of these days, MSNBC's buzz will settle down to the same level as its ratings. But of course, that will never happen, so long as the tottering remains of the MSM still get to call the shots.
UPDATE: And it'll be interesting to see how O'Reilly does tonight, as he interviews Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Barney Frank, whom O'Reilly labeled a "big fat toad" last week, because of his role in the Fannie/Freddie scandal. That should be good fireworks!
