Posted on 05/22/2017 8:47:29 AM PDT by TBP
When the Fox News Channel fired cable news giant Bill O’Reilly in April, reports surfaced revealing Fox News’ owner, the Murdoch family, wanting to move the network in a different direction. Out with the old guard, in with the new. More hosts similar to Megyn Kelly, who is now at NBC News, fewer like the ones who built the network from the ground up, including O’Reilly.
About one month later, Fox News has a completely different news lineup, and the results thus far have been nothing short of disastrous.
On Thursday, TV Newser reported Fox News, which once dominated its competitors in virtually every timeslot, is now losing across the board in the key 25-54 demographic.
The results are most notable in primetime, which used to carry Fox News’ most reliable audience. Now, Fox News is running a distant third to hosts who previously drew audiences half the size of O’Reilly’s.
On Thursday, at the 7 p.m. hour, Fox News’ “The Story,” hosted by Martha MacCallum, lost by more than 100,000 viewers in the 25-54 demographic to CNN’s “OutFront” with Erin Burnett. Chris Matthews’ “Hardball” beat MacCallum by nearly 60,000 viewers.
At 8 p.m., Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” lost to both CNN’s Anderson Cooper and MSNBC’s “All In” with Chris Hayes.
At 9 p.m., Fox News Channel’s “The Five” was absolutely demolished by Cooper and MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” which won the key demographic by more than 200,000 viewers.
Of all the Fox News hosts in primetime, Sean Hannity performed the best, although he still finished third to “CNN Tonight” with Don Lemon and MSNBC’s “The Last Word” with Lawrence O’Donnell.
Across the board, cable news is benefiting significantly from having President Donald Trump in the White House, but it appears the liberal networks have been able to capitalize on Trump-related news better than Fox News has, and it seems clear at least some of Fox News’ previously very loyal audience has parted ways with the network after O’Reilly was fired.
O’Reilly, who joins Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program” every Friday, told Beck on Friday there’s “no doubt” that “Fox News has a problem.”
“They have a problem,” O’Reilly said. “Fox News has a problem. There’s no doubt about it. Whenever you lose a key person in any industry, competitive industry, sports, media, you better have a plan. And it doesn’t look like FNC has a plan.
“The Trump haters are going over to MSNBC, and there’s a lot of them, a lot of Trump haters,” O’Reilly said. “So, they’re being bolstered by the problems the president is having. But on the Fox News side, they made their decisions. They didn’t have to make those decisions, and they really didn’t have a plan. You know when you take a guy like me out of the lineup, and I’m doing 5, 6 million views a night, you better have a plan to replace that.”
I can’t stand Timpf! First, she looks like a 10 year old, talks incessantly and to me she’s pretty anti Trump. She and Eboni are the reasons I’ve turned off The Specialists”. They aren’t.
Both.
I cannot imagine why anyone would hire this person to comment on anything.
The man is a complete jackass.
What is happening to Fox fits the “Roll Hard Left and Die” phenomenon.
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2016/11/19/rolling-in-the-deep/
I wasn’t aware Eboni was such a leftie on the specialists, she hides it well!
Coke didn’t completely go back to the old recipe either, they substituted the cane sugar with corn syrup when they introduced Coke Classic.
Mexican bottlers still make Coke using cane sugar and stores in the US carry it charging a hefty premium and still selling it.
Big problem with that show is that she won't shut up and let other people talk, I tuned out after the first couple shows.
Most popular beer in the country...I’ve got an idea, lets change the formula!
Dug up an interesting background story on how Schlitz Beer ruined itself thru poor management decisions...
https://beerconnoisseur.com/articles/how-milwaukees-famous-beer-became-infamous
No they never did bring back the original formula. I knew someone who had the old cans for a year after the supposed change back to the old formula and they was clearly a difference.
The new “old” formula was better than new coke but it wasn’t the same.
Supply and demand.
It is the same reason Air America went under.
No shortage of Lefty media outlets.
Let’s hope Fox News tanks big time and gets picked up for a song by a group of conservative investors.
The Lefty media needs more competition from the Right.
I stopped watching Faux News long before the current fiasco unfolded. It’s time for a new network dedicated to the truth.
That big ol’ Schlitz brewery in Milwaukee now makes Bud Light.
Ouch.
Fox has a bunch of Trump-haters now on panels that look just like CNN. Fox even rebuilt their sets to look like CNN.
Did the viewers move or stop watching altogether ?
Williams is about as stupid as stupid gets, but I don’t hate him like I hate Beckel.
However, there is no point in my watching Williams either.
I have a finite amount of time in my life, and Juan Williams isn’t worth any of it.
for the life of me I don’t know why Kennedy is on fox business while fox news is going down the tubes, maybe tis because she isn’t blonde.
Trump just needs to get out of bed, and MSM/Democrats will have a hissy fit and make up a story, a lie. Then MSM breathlessly reports that lie over and over again and then follow the reporting with pundits commenting on the lie who then blame Trump for that lie. For instance, MSM and pundits reporting/commentating that the timing of firing Comey was bad. Really, when would it have been a good time? You call that fodder? I call it BS.
"Easy on the eyes," NOT...NOT...NOT, couple that skank face with her nasal drone, and her commie ideas ......she's unbearable. In addition, there's double skank Julie Kasinki(sp).....both of these human turds come from a similar background. Russian jews deep into socialism/communism and biting the capitalist hand that feeds them!
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