bolt on the decline.

From Crikey.com


Yesterday, Andrew Bolt got a dose of reality with his third program. He won't be blogging these figures as quickly as he did last week when The Bolt Report had more viewers than Insiders. Yesterday Insiders did him like a dinner, increasing its audience to 207,000 on ABC 1 and 47,000 on News 24 in a simulcast for a total of 254,000.

Bolt's audience fell by more than 20% to 136,000 (from 174,000). The audience in the afternoon rose to 131,000 from 129,000. Inside Business had more viewers at 10am on the ABC. Meet The Press's audience at 10.30am on Ten plunged to 88,000 from 118,000 because of the fall in Bolt's audience. Overall the Bolt program was disappointing. He's fighting a war for half an hour with the ABC, Fairfax papers and anyone who has an opinion contrary to his. That doesn't work on TV because it gets boring