Favorable Ratings: Diane Sawyer #1

A new Gallup Panel poll measures the favorable and unfavorable ratings for America’s top television news and talk personalities.

Diane Sawyer “has the highest overall net favorable,” with 80 percent favorable and just 11 percent unfavorable. (Net favorable is the favorable rating minus the unfavorable rating.) Charles Gibson, Matt Lauer, Dan Rather, Bob Schieffer, and Brian Williams all have pretty high net favorables.

However, 27 percent of those polled had never heard of Gibson; 29 percent had never heard of Schieffer; and 38 percent had never heard of Williams. (Wow.) Here’s a table listing re-calculated favorable and unfavorable ratings, “looking only at the responses of those who have an opinion of each television personality:”