ASSASSINATION ON LIVE TV?
Due to the the 30-60 second lifespan of an assassination attempt, a sitting TV audience must already be in place prior to the assassination taking place.
The future assassination of U.S. President Barack Obama will be no different, and it is highly likely that his assassination will transpire at some live political or sports function that is being broadcast worldwide on television.
1. Live TV Obama Assassination Plot Foiled: As the L.A. Times headline from the 2008 Democratic National Convention foreshadowed, "Plot Unfolds To Assassinate Obama On National TV". With history as our guide, it is highly likely that Barack Obama will assassinated on Live TV.
2. Obama's TV Ratings: Due
to Obama's fame and celebrity status, it is highly likely that if Obama
is assassinated at a public political event, there will be a massive TV
audience ranging somewhere between 75 and 100 million in place to
witness the assassination.
1. LIVE TV OBAMA ASSASSINATION PLOT FOILED
OBAMACSI.COM: As the L.A. Times headline from the 2008 Democratic National Convention foreshadowed, "Plot Unfolds To Assassinate Obama On National TV". With history as our guide, it is highly likely that Barack Obama will assassinated on Live TV.
Title: Plot Unfolds To Assassinate Obama On National TV
Date: August 26, 2008
Source: L.A. Times
Abstract: More details emerging from Denver as we write this in the predawn hours on the now-suspected plot to assassinate Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama with a high-powered rifle on national television during his outdoor acceptance speech at Invesco Field on Thursday night.
We knew then that authorities in suburban Aurora had stopped a pickup
truck for swerving between lanes early Sunday morning in what they
thought was a routine drunk driving incident.
But in the rented vehicle of Tharin Gartrell, a
28-year-old convicted felon (see photo), they found two high-powered
scoped rifles, ammunition, sighting scopes, radios, a cellphone, a
bulletproof vest, wigs, drugs and fake IDs.
According
to Brian Maass of Denver's KCNC Channel 4, under questioning Gartrell
implicated two other men -- Nathan Johnson. who is 32, and Shawn
Adolph, who is 33 -- and Johnson's girlfriend, Natasha Gromack. Johnson
also reportedly confirmed the plot to FBI and Secret Service
interrogators. One of the men, Adolph, reportedly wore a ring with the
Nazi
swastika. He was injured when he jumped out of a hotel window fleeing
Secret Service agents. All are now in custody on drug and weapons
charges.
U.S. Atty. Troy Eid declined to elaborate on Monday but said there is no credible threat to the party's convention or to the freshman Illinois senator, who was campaigning in Kansas City on Monday and traveling to Montana today.
U.S. Atty. Troy Eid declined to elaborate on Monday but said there is no credible threat to the party's convention or to the freshman Illinois senator, who was campaigning in Kansas City on Monday and traveling to Montana today.
But the television station reports that under questioning the men
admitted there was indeed a plot to kill Obama during his speech before
some 70,000 supporters and a nationwide television audience.
More details are expected to emerge later today when Eid holds a news conference at 4 p.m. Denver time (L.A. Times, 2008).2. OBAMA'S TV RATINGS
Title: Obama Acceptance Speech Believed To Set TV Record
Date: August 29, 2008
Source: Reuters
Abstract: Over 38 million
Americans tuned in for television coverage of Barack Obama accepting the
Democratic nomination for U.S. president on Thursday in what is
believed to be the most watched convention speech ever.
Obama's TV audience, reaching
nearly a fourth of all U.S. households, was by far the largest of the
four-day Democratic National Convention, surpassing the addresses by his
running mate, U.S. Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, and his onetime rival
for the nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York.
It
also easily eclipsed the acceptance speeches of either of Obama's two
immediate Democratic predecessors or the 27.6 million viewers President
George W. Bush drew on the fourth night of the Republican National
Convention in 2004, when he was nominated for a second term.
Obama's
historic address, by the first African American chosen to lead a major
political party in the race for the White House, averaged 38.4 million
U.S. viewers across all major networks, Nielsen Media Research reported
on Friday.
That figure is the
highest for any single night of any major party convention going back to
1996, the last election cycle for which Nielsen keeps night-by-night
data.
The 1992 conventions as a
whole garnered higher household ratings in prime time than this week's
Democratic gathering in Denver, meaning a larger percentage of homes
were tuned in to those earlier events. The same is true for most
conventions held from 1960 to 1984.
But
because today's household ratings translate into a larger number of
individuals based on population growth, Nielsen analyst Anne Elliot said
Obama's audience tally is probably the biggest for any televised
convention speech in history.
By
comparison, 24.4 million viewers saw the 2004 Democratic nominee,
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, give his acceptance speech, and fewer
still, 21.8 million, tuned in for the final night of the 2000 convention
when then-Vice President Al Gore was nominated as the party's standard
bearer.
The robust total for Obama,
who delivered his speech in a football stadium packed with 84,000
cheering supporters, was yet another sign of the excitement generated by
the Illinois senator's charisma and message of change.
The
prime-time TV audience for all four days of the convention, averaging
30.2 million viewers, also easily topped the 24.4 million total for 2004
and 20.6 million from 2000.
Still, comparisons with previous election cycles are not precise matchups due to different Nielsen metrics.
In
2004, for example, Nielsen measured viewership across six networks --
the Big Three broadcasters ABC, CBS and NBC and cable news networks Fox
News Channel, CNN and MSNBC -- whereas this year Nielsen added four
smaller networks -- BET, TV One, Univision and Telemundo.
Moreover,
Nielsen is now including time-shifted viewing by people watching later
the same day through digital video recorders -- data not included in
previous cycles.
The Republican
National Convention kicks off in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Monday.
Presumptive Republican nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain, is hoping his
bold pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running
mate, will raise the excitement level for his campaign (Reuters, 2008).
Date: November 5, 2008
Source: L.A. Times
Abstract: With a precision that can only come from the knowledge that none of
us are doing our own count, The Nielsen Co. just announced that
71,478,000 of us in 47,508,000 households watched the election returns
on TV during normal prime-time hours last night.
This compares with audiences of 59.2 million in 2004 and 61.6 million
in 2000, both Bush victories. You remember those numbers, don't you?
As The Times' Matea Gold points out over on the Show Tracker blog,
this year's election night viewers far outnumbered previous quadrennial
elections. In fact, almost one in four U.S. TV sets were tuned to the
results.
Actually, the election reports were very hard to avoid, unless you can stomach Capt. Kirk or country music videos.
The high ratings confirm what any political website, like The Ticket,
has known for weeks -- American news consumers were very much into this
election cycle, more so with each passing day.
Even on days when online traffic is normally slow, hundreds of
thousands clicked their way through virtually anything of interest on
the campaign and prospects.
As The Ticket reported earlier today,
traffic on LATimes.com set a new one-day record above 3.36 million. And
many newspapers including The Times are printing thousands of extra
copies of today's editions to meet consumer demand.
As Jay Leno used to say about Doritos, "Eat all you want. We'll make more."
The Nielsen numbers showed that even when the viewing hours were
expanded past midnight in the East to include the concession speech by
Sen. John McCain and the acceptance speech by President-elect Barack Obama to a joyous Chicago throng, the audience didn't fall off as much as you might expect.
The number of people watching then faded only to 59.2 million in 40.5 million households.
ABC scored the best by claiming 9.1 million of the earlier audience
and about 8.8 million of the later audience. NBC, CBS and Fox Broadcast
came in next, followed by Univision and Telemundo. On cable, CNN was
followed by Fox News, then MSNBC, BET and CNBC and BBC-America,
according to the Nielsen Wire blog.
Likely some Fox News viewers called it an early nigh (L.A. Times, 2008).
Title: Barack Obama Inaugural May Set TV Ratings Records
Date: January 16, 2009
Source: L.A. Times
Date: January 16, 2009
Source: L.A. Times
Abstract: To the historic nature of Barack Obama's swearing-in as the 44th
president Tuesday, we may add this: The telecast will probably set TV
ratings records.
Live coverage will run throughout the day on the broadcast and cable
news networks, as well as on CSPAN, BET and even Comedy Central. And the
intense interest in the new president virtually guarantees high
numbers.
The most-watched presidential inauguration was the 1981 ceremony for
Ronald Reagan, which totaled nearly 42 million viewers, according to
Nielsen Media Research.
The lowest audience was the 15.5 million viewers for George W. Bush's
second inaugural in 2005. Nielsen says that first inaugurals tend to do
better than second ones — which proves that in politics, as in
entertainment, viewers gravitate toward the new.
One wild card for the Obama viewership, however, will be online viewing, which is not included in Nielsen's TV measurements (L.A. Times, 2009).
Title: Nearly 37.8 Million Watch President Obama’s Oath And Speech On TV
Date: January 29, 2009
Source: Nielsen
Abstract: Nearly 37.8 million Americans watching at home viewed President Barack
Obama’s oath of office and inaugural speech between the hours of 10:00
a.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET on January 20, 2009. This is the most viewed
inauguration since the record of 41.8 million viewers who watched Ronald
Reagan’s 1981 inauguration (Nielsen, 2009).
Date: January 29, 2009
Source: Nielsen
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