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Fox News Makes History, Fox Business Ratings Up 100 Percent
Townhall.com ^ | June 1, 2016 | Cortney O'Brien

Posted on 06/01/2016 3:06:24 PM PDT by Kaslin

Fox News blew away its competition for the third month this year, new Nielsen data shows.

For the 3rd month this year @FoxNews was the most-watched basic cable net. That hasn't happened since 2003. pic.twitter.com/r6oxJj3ieL— TVNewser (@tvnewser) June 1, 2016

Fox took full advantage of this entertaining election season, producing some fascinating interviews with the candidates – and the numbers speak for themselves.

MAY 2016 VS. MAY 2015 NIELSEN NUMBERS (7 day week, L+SD): TOTAL DAY FNC: 1,165,000 total viewers – up 19% (216,000 in 25-54 – up 11%) CNN: 584,000 total viewers – up 33%; (173,000 in 25-54 – up 20%) MSNBC: 481,000 total viewers – up 61%; (124,000 in 25-54 – up 49%)

Hannity ranked second in the demo in May, while Outnumbered -- a daytime news talk show that regularly features Townhall’s own Katie Pavlich and Guy Benson -- delivered the largest increases year-over-year in viewers, up 23 percent in total viewers (1,352,000) and up 3 percent in the 25-54 demo (214,000). 

The Fox Business Network has earned its own bragging rights. Not only are FBN ratings up 100 percent, but the network recently added 1.5 million subscribers.

One show in particular underscores FBN’s overall success. Mornings with Maria, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, is only a year young and has been absolutely killing it at the 6 a.m. time slot.

“I just had a meeting with my boss last week. We’re up 120 percent and the demo is up 140 percent,” Bartiromo told TVNewser. “So the show has been gaining great traction.”

Much of the network’s success, the host explained, is thanks to their decision to focus on the 2016 race - not just the stock market.

What FBN is doing–a lot–is covering the 2016 campaign. Bartiromo believes politics fits right into the network’s sweet spot, mixing coverage of news and business. “I don’t see another channel that’s able to walk this balance with markets and politics,” she told TVNewser. “I feel Fox has great credibility not just on business, but the political story.”

Meanwhile, CNN and MSNBC are fighting for second place


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To: Kaslin

Isn’t FBN just another shill for Wall Street, like CNBC? After all it took one of their talking heads as its own.


41 posted on 06/01/2016 4:08:52 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: VerySadAmerican

That’s about all she offers.


42 posted on 06/01/2016 4:09:18 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: RitaOK

Wasn’t Maria just a Wall Street shill from CNBC? I mean does she ever talk negatively about the market?


43 posted on 06/01/2016 4:10:19 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Kaslin

Can’t stand Bartaromo. Payne and Stuart Varney are outstanding. Cavuto is OK.

I get up and watch FBN getting ready for work. I have to outlast Bartaromo to get to Varney for 20 min before I go.


44 posted on 06/01/2016 4:14:57 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: VerySadAmerican

Sure, in ‘99 she looked great.


45 posted on 06/01/2016 4:15:18 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Sam Gamgee

LOL! You’re probably correct. I have never watched her daily program on market opinion, but as this article indicates, her address of politics and TRUMP, on her Sunday show, has encouraged me and pleased me. I don’t even recall that she has mentioned the markets on her Sunday show. LOL! What do I know? :)


46 posted on 06/01/2016 4:22:57 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming-- infinitum.)
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To: VerySadAmerican

Me too and mine too.


47 posted on 06/01/2016 4:27:44 PM PDT by Huck (Never give up.)
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To: Kaslin

Frankly I think the Fox Business covers things a lot better and certainly more fair than all the rest of the cable news networks.

I put this increase down to Charles Payne, Stuart Varney, and Lou Dobbs for the most part. They all do great jobs.


48 posted on 06/01/2016 4:37:08 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Captain Peter Blood

People feed up with Fox News moved over there.

Better news there

One America news is also good

Best for foreign news events


49 posted on 06/01/2016 4:47:26 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: ilovesarah2012

“I love Charles Payne.”

I do too. He looks like a big ol’ good-ol-boy galoofus, but speaks magnificently and is awesomely articulate. I just love the dichotomy. Not all the talking heads have to be blow-dried Brian Williams types.


50 posted on 06/01/2016 5:20:14 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: scottinoc

She’d be a great co-host of Blue’s Clues.


51 posted on 06/01/2016 5:30:35 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
All but one of the vid clips on the CNBC Roku stream the other day were anti-Trump.

52 posted on 06/01/2016 5:52:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: Kaslin

I’m a Stuart Varney fan, myself. He recently became an official U.S. Citizen and he is very proud of that.


53 posted on 06/01/2016 6:44:36 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: Kaslin

Except for Bret Brier, they have mostly conservatives with a brain on Fox Business.


54 posted on 06/02/2016 7:51:46 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: traderrob6

I like Deidre Bolton

55 posted on 06/02/2016 8:02:19 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: VerySadAmerican
I think Maria Bartiromo is very pretty.

She was "back in the day"

She is still attractive, she's aging well.

56 posted on 06/02/2016 8:04:57 AM PDT by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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To: RitaOK
I don't get FBN here in Canada. And curious if we will ever get it. So Maria, and my loathing for Neil Cavuto is all I have to go on.
57 posted on 06/02/2016 8:38:31 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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