Salon.com > Repuiblicans http://www.salon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 03:16:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Sean Hannity lost half his TV audience after the election http://www.salon.com/2012/12/31/sean_hannity_lost_half_his_tv_audience_after_the_election/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/31/sean_hannity_lost_half_his_tv_audience_after_the_election/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:12:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13159027 Conservative mouthpiece Sean Hannity lost about half of his TV audience in the weeks after the election while his colleague Bill O'Reilly's viewership only dropped by about a third, the Daily News reported:

The Daily News:

So what happened to Hannity?

The going wisdom is that viewers who basked in his preelection anti-Obama rhetoric tuned him out when they were stunned to wake up on Nov. 7 and discover that the President had won a second term — a scenario that Hannity had all but promised could never happen.

Before the election, Hannity was riding high in the ratings and topped thought leaders on the right, like Dick Morris, Ann Coulter, Peggy Noonan and talk radio bulldog Mark Levin, who predicted Obama would lose in a landslide.

Hannity performed even worse in the "money-demo" of viewers aged 25-54. More than half of them deserted his show.

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