The ratings are in for LiveEarth...and to answer the age ol question of 'How we lookin'?' Not good.The ratings were abysmal. Of course, if we were talking hypocrisy ratings, it would be off the chart. But we are talking about viewer ratings. In other words, Celebrity Fit Club did better than LiveEarth. Celebrity Cops did better than Live Earth. Drive did better than LiveEarth. Here is the skinny from ABCnews:
But are Americans experiencing "green fatigue"? The ratings for Live Earth, which was billed as a must-see event, were dismal. The American broadcast drew just 2.7 million viewers, making it the least-watched U.S. program on Saturday night. Despite its undeniable entrenchment in pop culture and media, some experts say that the current incarnation of the green movement is just another "We Are the World" moment that consumers and businesses won't be able to sustain over the long term.
Even UberLib LA Times has kiboshed LiveEarth (headline "LiveEarth Dead"):
The good news for Al Gore is that his Live Earth concert highlights show on NBC, designed to raise public awareness about global warming, attracted some 19 million viewers at one point or another Saturday night, according to Nielsen ratings released late yesterday.
The bad news is that more than 16 million of those folks switched away from the three-hour concert that consumed the network's prime time Saturday evening.
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This left NBC with about 2.7 million viewers to earn fourth place for the night behind ABC with 3.4 million, Fox with 4.6 million and CBS with 5.2 million.
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In Britain, the BBC reported 3.1 million watched the show, which was less than a third of the 11.4 million audience for the Princess Diana concert two weeks ago.
Ouch....a divorced princess who died in Paris years ago gets more viewers than "the most pressing issue around?" How sad. Not. Maybe people are waking up to the kookitude and the hypocrisy....
