She has around 1,801,000 views at her peek which was during the election, she has lost shares since then. For comparison, Oprah gets between 23-26 million viewers a day, plus it's seen in 107 countries. Even to be charitable, Oprah gets 10X the viewers that Rach does. Oprah is mainstream, Rachel, like all of MSNCB, and its evil twin Fox, are fringe at best.
Post Merge: January 07, 2010, 02:56:12 PM
That seems pretty positive for Oprah, who has covered this topic and done so with great sensitivity by the way. But to call cable mainstream just is not exactly true. Get coverage on the View (though Barbra has covered it) and you have mainstream, get on cable, and you're on cable.
Oh and those figure are per week, not per day.
