Surprise! Tucker Carlson Draws the Most Democratic Viewers in Key Demo, Even Topping Rachel Maddow
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There is an entire cottage industry within media dedicated to disseminating Tucker Carlson's nightly Fox News musings to presumably liberal audiences who may not be tuning in to hear what the leading conservative voice is telling his large following. But recent data from Nielsen MRI Fusion suggests those nightly dispatches may not be necessary: In October, the most recent month for which data is available, Carlson's 9 p.m. ET program was the top cable news show among Democrats in the advertiser-coveted age range of 25-54.
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The Nielsen MRI Fusion numbers reveal that in October, Fox News unsurprisingly got the majority of the audience of self-proclaimed Republicans, with 69% of them overall tuning into total-day programming and 73% of them in the demo tuning into primetime programming. CNN and MSNBC split the remaining conservatives with totals in the low double-digit percentages. Fox News also commanded the largest number of independents in the key news demo during primetime and total-day hours: 55% of those 25-54 watched the network in primetime, compared to CNN's 23% and MSNBC's 22%. During total-day hours, 58% of independents in the demo watch Fox News, 18% chose MSNBC and 25% selected CNN.
More surprising are the stats about Carlson and Fox News' pull with self-proclaimed Democrats. Of those demo-aged viewers surveyed who identified as Democrats, 39% chose Fox News, 31% chose MSNBC and 30% chose CNN for programming from 8 p.m. ET to 11 p.m. ET. In total-day viewership, Fox News grabbed 42% of Democrats aged 25-54, CNN nabbed 33% and MSNBC got 25%.
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Democrats love Tucker?
Nowadays, with the pandemic still ranging, even democrats like watching comedy.
Gee that must be it, how else would he be the democrat's favorite Cable host?
I often watch Tucker. Yes-- on the Fox News.
Does that mean you are assuming I totally agree with him..and love his rascist hate-mongering?
(I also watch reporting on the KKK and the American Nazi Party. because I do this-- does that mean you assume I'm a Klan supporter?
or a supporter of Nazis?)
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The concept of “know your enemy” eludes them.
He who forget the past must re-live it...
What, are those democrats flies?
Know thy enemy.
in the top 5 of political comedies on TV.
Hilarious. I’ve tried to watch a few times but it’s just unwatchable. It is intellectually offensive from the first comment to the moment I change the channel back to actual news. Not to mention visually offensive. Tucker has a face for radio.
According to Nielsen some of your friends are huge Tucker fans and they are lying to you. They might even be sitting in their living rooms unmasked while watching.
WTF?
Its not only Tucker.
I've spent considerable time watching videos of the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany. I've read articles. Even a book about it.
That's a lot of time and effort spent on learning about Naziism and Fascism.
What does strike me as a bit odd (to say the least) is that by your "reasoning"-- that all that must "prove" that I'm a "Huge Hitler fan".
Well, I'm not...au contraire mon petit chou!
(P.S: I am probably the only person on this site who has a Nazi as a relative...he was German, catholic, and an officer in Hitler's army in WWII).
So...I have in interest in learning about that era,,,(does that make me a "fan" of Adolf Hitler in your mind...???
I heard wearing garlic around the neck keeps those pesky Nazis away. Have you tried that?
Comical to me when people jump on cable news as some kind of demographic of the country.
Hell, ABC nightly news only averages about 8 mil and that beats tucker by double.
To compare you have to use the same criteria, age 24-54 ABC nightly news gets 1.4 Million viewers.
And tucker gets about 500k.
And that is me being generous.
They always have to have a domestic enemy to get all worked up into a lather against.
I have gazed at that fool Tucker only to see what the hell is going on and true to form he is following the Fox model raw capitalist model of spin a story until it tunes in to the base. That is, if you have a discerning spirit, you can actually 'see' Tucker 'manhandling' is word-craft before inserting it into the teleprompter to push into itching ears in Fox land. That SOB is dirty from top to bottom. Total manipulation of "appointment tv" time.
You must be thinking of Joy Reid.
Yes, friend Greg, sometimes I see guile in Joy Reid too at times. It serves as a reminder that we all may like to have a little play, or 'craft-work' in us from time to time. But Tucker! This guy is immersed in tv ratings. . .for ratings sake. I can't prove it, but it could be so that he trying to outdo O'Reilly in the hour from the past and Hannity in the present. It is a big task, but he is well on his way with all the intrigue he drums up for "itching ears" to ingest.
A little random 'game' I could forgive anybody for (it's human after-all). But, when guile and working deceit by word-smithing manipulation every day on the air is cause for head-lines then one is becoming a bit of a shock-jock. A la "El Rushbo" (May he rest in peace.)