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TV audience increases as O’Reilly faces criticism of work

  NEW YORK (AP) — More viewers have tuned in to watch Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly as he faces criticism for some of his past reporting. His show, “The O’Reilly Factor,” drew just over 3 million viewers Wednesday night. That’s up 11 percent over the same day last year. The Nielsen ratings company…

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FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2013 file photo, political commentator Bill O'Reilly attends the National Geographic Channel's "Killing Kennedy" world premiere screening reception at The Newseum, in Washington. The Fox News Channel host O'Reilly is contesting allegations that he embellished his past as a war correspondent. "It's purely a political play to divert attention from the Williams situation," O’Reilly said Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, adding that Mother Jones "trumped up something from 33 years ago." O'Reilly was a CBS News correspondent in 1981-82. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Invision/AP, File)
FILE – In this Oct. 28, 2013 file photo, political commentator Bill O’Reilly attends the National Geographic Channel’s “Killing Kennedy” world premiere screening reception at The Newseum, in Washington. The Fox News Channel host O’Reilly is contesting allegations that he embellished his past as a war correspondent. “It’s purely a political play to divert attention from the Williams situation,” O’Reilly said Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, adding that Mother Jones “trumped up something from 33 years ago.” O’Reilly was a CBS News correspondent in 1981-82. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Invision/AP, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — More viewers have tuned in to watch Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly as he faces criticism for some of his past reporting.

His show, “The O’Reilly Factor,” drew just over 3 million viewers Wednesday night. That’s up 11 percent over the same day last year.

The Nielsen ratings company says O’Reilly had his largest audience since last summer among the 25-54 age demographic, the basis of most ad sales for news programming.

The audience among that younger demo was up 64 percent over last year for O’Reilly, who usually has a decidedly older audience.

Stories over the past week have accused O’Reilly of falsely saying he was reporting from a war zone in the Falklands War and was at the site of the suicide of a friend of John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

O’Reilly has defended his reporting.

 

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