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Bloomberg Politics ups TV, online audience

Joe Pompeo of Capital New York writes about how Bloomberg Politics has done since it launched four months ago.

Pompeo writes, “Since its Oct. 6 debut, Bloomberg Politics, which is led by veteran political journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, has built up a web audience of some 2.5 million unique monthly visitors, ‘tripled’ its Twitter following and racked up 40,000 Facebook likes, according to an internal memo distributed to staff Friday morning.

“The memo also played up Halperin and Heilemann’s 5 p.m. show on Bloomberg TV, ‘With All Due Respect,’ which has ‘doubled the audience in its time slot.’

“Of course that’s a small audience in the context of evening cable news, where the most successful programs enjoy viewership in the six or seven figures—Capital reported in late December that “With All Due Respect” has around 55,000 viewers, a number that has not been disputed by Bloomberg brass. (Bloomberg TV is not measured by Nielsen, which is the standard by which advertisers track ratings.)

“‘In just over three months, we’ve interviewed six 2016 contenders, taken the show across the country from Iowa to New Hampshire to the Golden Globes, and have even inspired former White House press secretaries to prank Josh Earnest,’ the memo reads.”

Read more here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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