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CNN breezes past Fox News
donsurber.blogspot.com ^ | Thursday, November 12, 2020 | Don Surber

Posted on 11/12/2020 12:37:30 PM PST by Red Badger

Tuesday night saw Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham finish in the top 5 of all cable TV shows as conservatives stand by them. But the rest of the Fox News schedule trailed. CNN held 12 of the top 17 shows on cable all day, according to Show Buzz Daily.

That meant from noon to midnight, no CNN show was out of the top 17 -- out of all shows on cable.

A week after spiking the ball for Biden, Fox is losing to the worst network in TV history.

Well, everyone on cable is.

And to be fair, the best MSNBC could do was see Rachel Maddow finish No. 24. The ratings are based on adults under 50.

It all turned around on Election Night when Chris Stirewalt called Arizona for Biden, but refused to call Ohio or Texas alleging that they were too close to call. A week later other outlets still had not called Arizona while President Donald John Trump romped in Ohio and Texas, carrying those states by 8 and 6 points respectively.

The Los Angeles Times reported, "CNN averaged 5.941 million viewers and Fox News Channel 5.726 million for its prime-time programming between Nov. 2 and Sunday, according to live-plus-same-day figures released Tuesday by Nielsen.

Fox News Channel had been the most-watched cable network 40 of the previous 41 weeks."

Only NBC bested CNN and that came because of Sunday Night Football which raised its 7-day average to 6.33 million viewers.

Fox dropped like a rock as it fell from a record 14.158 million viewers on Election Night to under 3 million on Saturday night as it showed the Biden victory super spreader just like CNN and MSNBC -- who drew 9 million and 6 million viewers, respectively.

Conservative rivals are circling.

The Blaze reported, "Fox News has had to weather numerous incidents that have caused many of their previous fans to seek alternative news outlets, including the YouTube channel of BlazeTV host Steven Crowder.

"Fox News was excoriated by allies and supporters of the president after they called the state of Arizona early on Election Day before any other news outlets. When pressured by online outrage to change their call, Chris Wallace said that the Fox News decision desk would not waiver in its decision to call the state. Biden currently holds a lead of just over 11,000 votes in the state.

"On Monday, an off-air video of a Fox News host condescendingly dismissing comments about the election call from a guest surfaced on social media and fueled more outrage.

"President Donald Trump has also criticized Fox News many times over his term, often when they don't give him what he perceives to be the best coverage."

Newsmax is getting some attention. Emily VanDerWerff of Vox reported, "My two days watching Newsmax, the network waging war on Fox News from the right."

Her story said, "The network is gambling that it can win a larger audience of Trump fans by parroting the Trump campaign argument that the election isn’t settled until the Electoral College meets in December, and anything can happen until then, and anyway, there was a ton of fraud, didn’t you know? (I contacted Newsmax on Monday to ask for their reasoning for not calling the election and have yet to hear back. But all of the reasons I just cited are ones it has presented on air.)

"And at a time when the president has lost affection for Fox News, it just might work."

The president is not the only one who bailed on Fox.

In the short term, Fox News is still doing well, buoyed by its casual viewers. We will see in a month or two just what the actual damage among the network's hard core viewers.

But for now, CNN has breezed past Fox in non-prime time audiences. If it is apathy taking its toll, that's not a problem. If it is OANN and other rivals, Fox needs damage control.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: democrats; fnc; fox; stopthesteal
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1 posted on 11/12/2020 12:37:30 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Hey Murdoch boys and your bitchy wives Get bent suckers.


2 posted on 11/12/2020 12:38:42 PM PST by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' Baby, Molon Labe)
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To: Red Badger

FUFN


3 posted on 11/12/2020 12:38:55 PM PST by TrumpRedJoe (We are the Resistance,...we have ALWAYS been the Resistance! Onward Christian Soldiers!)
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To: Red Badger

cavuto needs to be living in a refrigerator box under an overpass and standing in a soup line.......of course I don’t mean that in a bad way.


4 posted on 11/12/2020 12:40:20 PM PST by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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To: Red Badger

I’m sure CNN didn’t gain any of Fox’s viewers, but the losses at FOX, last I heard 40% put them under even CNN.


5 posted on 11/12/2020 12:41:12 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees)
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To: All
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Fox Pajama Boy speaking on Biden Crime Family


6 posted on 11/12/2020 12:41:14 PM PST by AnthonySoprano
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7 posted on 11/12/2020 12:41:51 PM PST by Red Badger (Democrats cheat. ... It's what they do. ... GUARANTEED! ... Even if it's not necessary!....)
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To: Joe Boucher

Time for the old man to tell his boys they are gone unless they CAN CONTROL THEIR WIVES


8 posted on 11/12/2020 12:42:34 PM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Red Badger

Nice job! And well-timed! It showed up on my screen while I was eating some delicious tortilla soup.


9 posted on 11/12/2020 12:45:35 PM PST by EliRoom8
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To: rockinqsranch

I actually turned to CNN during election coverage, because I was so annoyed at seeing Fox’s map showing Arizona called for Biden and them completely 100% ignoring it in all coverage.


10 posted on 11/12/2020 12:48:47 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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11 posted on 11/12/2020 12:50:36 PM PST by timestax
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To: EliRoom8
newsmeme
12 posted on 11/12/2020 12:51:46 PM PST by timestax
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To: Red Badger

Should be no surprise since many conservatives went to Fox. Now a bunch of them have left Fox.

Fox can’t be surprised because they knew who made up their audience and they knew the consequence of changing their message.

I figure they’ve decided that Biden is likely to win and they’d best cozy up to him ... but will that solve their viewership problem? After all, they make their money off of viewership.


13 posted on 11/12/2020 12:59:15 PM PST by cymbeline
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To: Red Badger

"So the last shall be first, and the first last."   Matthew 20:16

14 posted on 11/12/2020 1:06:40 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: Red Badger

Just wait until someone with significant resources forms a competing network (or takes over an existing one), and entices Tucker, Sean and Laura to leave Faux News...ratings will simply die altogether and the value of Faux will become equivalent to what I just picked up in my back yard this morning. Couldn’t happen to a scummier bunch of Leftist jerks than Murdock’s kids and their spoiled, Leftist wives. Fuck’em, I hope that they end up worth maybe 10% of what they were a month ago, it will serve as an object lesson to everyone else.


15 posted on 11/12/2020 1:15:20 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Red Badger

Utopians see bright light not knowing it’s lie bomb.


16 posted on 11/12/2020 1:16:16 PM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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Need an alternative to Gofundme.

Gofundme = Fox News

They won’t allow contributions for the Postal Whistleblower that was setup by Biden-boy Investigator.

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17 posted on 11/12/2020 1:23:55 PM PST by AnthonySoprano
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To: Red Badger

CNN has higher ratings than Fox? I must be living in an alternate reality. Talk about Mandela effect.


18 posted on 11/12/2020 1:24:24 PM PST by Disambiguator
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The decline in Prime is a disaster.

Hannity lost 18% of his viewers last night compared to Tuesday.

Laura lost 15% of her viewers last night compared to Tuesday.

Tucker was down only 1% last night, but that was because Trump asked people to watch the show last night.

FOX IS SO SCREWED.


19 posted on 11/12/2020 1:24:42 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: AnthonySoprano
They won’t allow contributions for the Postal Whistleblower that was setup by Biden-boy Investigator

Amazing

20 posted on 11/12/2020 1:25:51 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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