It may only be one month, but it was a big month with cable news viewership soaring thanks to a hotly contested presidential election. And even though Fox News recorded the highest-ever primetime viewership in history with an average of 3.939 million viewers they were second to CNN in the advertiser-important 25-54 demo, trailing the cable news pioneer who averaged 948,000 viewers compared to Fox’s 827,000. MSNBC was a distant third.
In the daytime, CNN again ruled the roost in the demo with 558,000 viewers to Fox’s 413,000 and came within a hairsbreadth in total viewers of the longtime cable news king (1.94 million to 1.781 million).
Earlier in the month, MSNBC’s Morning Joe beat Fox & Friends in the weekly ratings for the first time since 2001, signaling potential discontent by conservatives with Fox News after the election.
There have been numerous reports that conservatives are switching their allegiance to Newsmax and One America News to show their displeasure with the way Fox covered the election results, but it is likely to be short-lived, as Fox News stars aren’t about to depart to its low-rated competition any time soon.
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The fools that watch Morning Joe and the Clinton News Network!!!!!!!! Keep supporting communist propaganda, you fools.
They are already commie lovers, THAT’s probably the only reason they even HAVE CNN/MSNBC on…
Dump Chris Wallace who belongs on another channel and Fire the 2016 debate corrupting Donna Brazile and watch your ratings rise again. Predictable innocuous Juan Williams will put you to sleep which is good if its late at night and your are in need of some Zzzzzz. As for Chinks in their news, they don’t, ever mention COVID as the Chinese virus anymore for fear of being labeled racist by their competitors.
Ratings tell the story, 16 years as top dog, 1 month to slip to second place, that is what happens when you piddle in the pockets of those who supported you for 16 years. Unlike the left who will swallow the **** for years, conservatives will not. #GoWokeGoBroke can happen fast, daddy’s little children are going to drive it into the ground.
GOOD… Now let’s start the online petition, to get tucker, ingraham, judge pirro, gutfeld and co, to ALL JUMP SHIP to Newsmax/OAN/Blaze tv, BEFORE THE BOAT SINKS>
Fox’s Murdock boys have screwed up their channel. Used to be #1. Now in third and falling fast. I left except for Tucker, Hannity and sometimes Ingraham. Fox Business still has Dobbs. I now watch OAN and web to this site and Newsmax.
THEY DESERVE every bit of this loss of viewers. Let’s hope the Advertisers are getting the hint too, and flee this sinking ship, before it’s too late.