{"id":3230,"date":"2010-11-23T12:25:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T19:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/23\/palins-show-in-trouble-on-tlc-not-at-all\/"},"modified":"2010-11-23T23:08:25","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T06:08:25","slug":"palins-show-in-trouble-on-tlc-not-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/23\/palins-show-in-trouble-on-tlc-not-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Palin’s show in trouble on TLC? Not at all"},"content":{"rendered":"

The reporting is either lazy or agenda-driven… hard to tell which, in the yahoo story that ‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’ ratings drop 40 percent in week two<\/a><\/p>\n

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A week after a record-breaking debut, Sarah Palin’s reality show saw its audience drop nearly 40 percent on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

According to preliminary ratings, just 3 million people watched the second episode of “Sarah <\/span>Palin’s <\/span>Alaska<\/span><\/span><\/a>.” That’s down from the nearly 5 million who watched the Nov. 14 debut episode, which was the highest-rated premiere episode in TLC’s history<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 <\/span>One problem: Palin’s show is losing ground with viewers aged 18-49. Per The Hollywood Reporter’s James Hibbard,<\/a> just 885,000 in that key viewing demographic watched the show—down 44 percent from last week. The median age of the show: 57 years old—15 years older than the average TLC viewer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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So what’s wrong with the story?  It suggests that Palin’s Alaska is in trouble in as a show, or is a disappointment in some way.  But the reality is quite different.  Even with a “mere” 3 million viewers, it easily tops the best ratings TLC ever gets for it’s most popular shows<\/a>.<\/a>  It wouldn’t have taken the reporter for the story above long to find this information, if the reporter had bothered to look.<\/p>\n

As the 2012 election heats up, look for worse and worse reporting on Palin.  Ignore most of it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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