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<p>Last night’s ratings for the big 3 cable networks for the Forum:</p>

<p>Presidential Forum- 3,144,000 viewers (752,000) (1,406,000)
**SR/Pres. Forum(8PM-10PM)- 2,314,000 viewers (859,000) (1,120,000)
MSNBC Special– 1,502,000 viewers (503,000) (715,000)</p>

<p>Wednesday night’s cable ratings at 8pm:</p>

<p>The O’Reilly Factor- 4,228,000 viewers (1,099,000) (1,908,000)
CNN Election Center- 973,000 viewers (334,000) (541,000)
Countdown w. Keith Olbermann– 1,670,000 viewers (519,000) (845,000)</p>

<p>As I said with respect to the Saddleback Forum, and as demonstrated above, this Service Forum was watched by the same old folks who watch cable news TV every other night. These forums don’t get noticed by anyone but the politically-interested demographic who regularly follow cable news. Do you not realize that there is absolutely no comparison between live coverage on all 3 cable news channels and live network coverage (which would occur during the State of the Union, major presidential addresses, election night speeches, conventions, etc.)? Get a clue, dude.</p>

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<p>so a few million people watching this thing counts as hardly being noticed. Clearly at first you meant that only people at columbia are going to care about this and when you realized that was wrong so you just tried to recast what you had said before by trying to suggest that being “noticed” means live network coverage…i see</p>

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<p>Yep. More people watched Big Brother, CSI, Gordon Ramsey’s reality-TV cooking show, etc. that night.</p>

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<p>Live network coverage as a potential benchmark of a “momentous event” in this election season is what I’ve been discussing ALL ALONG. My very first posts on this thread said this forum was unimportant because it is unlike a presidential debate that will be widely watched. Don’t mischaracterize my posts.</p>