Fox News Crushes Cable News Competition With 71st Consecutive Quarterly Win
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Fox News Channel swept up its 71st consecutive quarterly win in the third quarter, finishing the period with an average prime time audience of 2.431 million viewers, far ahead of its competition, MSNBC (1.532 million) and CNN (1.037 million).
According to ratings data released Tuesday by Nielsen, Fox News had four of the top five shows in 3Q 2019, with Hannity leading all of cable news with a total audience of 3.276 million viewers. FNC’s Tucker Carlson Tonight was second with 3.082 million, followed by The Ingraham Angle with 2.629 million. MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show finished in fourth place overall with 2.518 million viewers, followed by Fox’s The Five (2.5 million viewers).
Among viewers 25-54, the demographic group most valued by advertisers, Fox News finished first in prime time with an average audience of 366,000 viewers, followed by CNN (268,000) and MSNBC (228,000). Hannity was the most-watched show in the demo with 510,000 viewers, followed by Tucker Carlson Tonight (494,000), The Ingraham Angle (417,000), The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC (393,000) and FNC’s The Five (387,000).
Overall, cable news viewership was down from the same period a year ago, which came during the final months of the 2016 presidential campaign. In prime time, the three main news networks were down, with Fox News showing the smallest drop-off, down 8%. MSNBC and CNN were both down 21%. In the key demo, ratings for all three networks were down double-digits, with Fox down 27%, while CNN and MSNBC were both down 37%.
Mark Joyella is a five-time Emmy Award winning journalist who's worked as a reporter and anchor at television stations in Miami, Orlando and New York City.
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While other news organizations led the resistance to a President, publishing every anti-Trump rumor and perpetuating the Russia hoax, Fox stood firm with facts and became the news source that people have come to depend on.
Well done!
Fox has never dealt with facts; just far rightwing propaganda, innuendo and lies.
Sad that there are so many brain dead fascists who believe the Fox/Trump lies.
Thankfully the elderly/ignorant/stupid Fox base are rapidly becoming irrelevant.
The impeachment of Trump and the dissolution of Fox can't happen soon enough.
The FCC has fallen asleep at the wheel by allowing this travesty of lies to continue.
Would like to back up anything you said or is it just going to be a rant?
I have no idea why you or the writer thinks this is something worth bragging about. First of all, there are appx 200 million adults in America, so then a little more than 1% of them are watching Fox News and a little less than 1% of them are watching MSNBC. Nothing to write home about, even for the leader.
Then, I know you consider CNN to be a liberal mouthpiece too. So if you add the audience for the liberal news sources , MSNBC and CNN. it is virtually dead even with Fox. (actually, a little more than Fox).
So, whats the big deal?
We are really going to have to give out an award for manipulating polls & ratings. I hereby create the Fielding Chase Award for those who take irrelevant facts like those who don't vote or don't watch cable news and integrate such trivia with pertinent facts.
Why would you even count those who don't watch Cable news? Oh, I see, to downplay the results.
All statistics are subject to relevant interpretation. You seem to think that a lot more Americans get their news from watching Fox News as compared to other sources.
Sorry, that is not the case.
But please, if it means so much to you, wave the FN flag.
Of those who watch cable news, it is overwhelmingly the case.
BTW, you won the very first Fielding Chase Award
Thanks. I'll deposit in the circular filing cabinet.