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“Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade said on Wednesday that “it’s in the country’s best interest” if President Donald Trump starts working with the Biden transition team and gives them access to briefings. “Here’s the thing: For the president of the United States, while he continues to fight on, and this is probably going to be the end of the week for Pennsylvania if they don’t produce something, I think it’s in the country’s best interest if he starts coordinating on the virus, starts coordinating with security with the Biden team and just brief them,” Kilmeade — one of Trump’s...

Last week, MSNBC’s morning show “Morning Joe” topped Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” in total viewers for the first time since 2001. The same claim holds true for MSNBC’s “dayside” (weekdays 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) programming vs. Fox News Channel’s, if one wants another snapshot at the first-time-in-19-years claim. “Morning Joe” averaged 1.62 million total viewers from Nov. 9 to Nov. 13. “Fox & Friends” had an average of 1.38 million total viewers over the same Monday-Friday period. All told, the “dayside” advantage was 120,000 total viewers in MSNBC’s advantage, according to Nielsen. MSNBC averaged 1.64 million total...

Nielsen Cable Ratings are in for yesterday. Here are Fox ratings losses on Monday over 2 weeks: Cavuto -52% Baier -46% McCallum -45% Ingraham -45% Fox and Friends -45% Hannity -39% Carlson -33% Nielsen ratings at the link.

Fox News ratings continued to plunge last Friday with Nielsen ratings just released. Compared to prior Friday's ratings: McCallum ratings down 38%, Ingraham -33% Fox and Friends -33% Hannity -25% Carlson -19% Baier -21% Nielsen ratings at the link.

Capitalizing on growing right-wing discontent with Fox News, Newsmax, a conservative-leaning news network, has recently broken a 1 million-person viewership mark for one of its programs while attracting well-known Republican to speak on its airwaves. In a tweet published Friday evening, the Newsmax Twitter account announced, that its Thursday installment of Greg Kelly Reports averaged 1.06 million viewers at 7 p.m. that night while Fox News averaged 2.06 million views at the same hour. The talk news program, hosted by a former Marine Corps veteran and daytime news anchor, has attracted high-profile Republican political figures of late including Trump-supporting, anti-lockdown...

"Heartwarming to see all of the tremendous support out there, especially the organic Rallies that are springing up all over the Country, including a big one on Saturday in D.C," Trump tweeted Friday. "I may even try to stop by and say hello." Trump went on to say the "Election was Rigged" but Twitter labeled the tweet with a warning that Trump's fraud claims are disputed. His campaign has yet to provide evidence of the systemic fraud he has alleged. The latest vote tallies from the Nov. 3 election show massive turnout and influx of mail-in voting due to the...

Years and years ago, when I first began to explain how cable TV is screwing everyone, how even if you didn’t watch channels like CNNLOL, MSNBC, MTV, etc. — you know, channels dedicated to your destruction — you were still making them rich, people had two reasons for hanging on to their overpriced cable TV package… Okay. Fine. So now what’s your excuse? Sports is insufferable, woke, an insult to decency and Americanism. Watching sports only aggravates and annoys you… ESPN, the NFL, and the rest of them all freakin’ hate you… Why are you making these Marxists rich? The...

Fox News ratings continued to plummet last night with Nielsen ratings just released. Compared to last Thursday's ratings: -Cavuto has lost 58% of his viewers -Ingraham viewers were down 42% -Hannity viewers were down 30% -Carlson viewers were down 29% There's no recovery in sight for Fox. Nielsen ratings at the links.

President Trump has told friends he wants to start a digital media company to clobber Fox News and undermine the conservative-friendly network, sources tell Axios. The state of play: Some Trump advisers think Fox News made a mistake with an early call (seconded by AP) of President-elect Biden's win in Arizona. That enraged Trump, and gave him something tangible to use in his attacks on the network. "He plans to wreck Fox. No doubt about it," said a source with detailed knowledge of Trump's intentions. With loyal viewers and longtime dominance, Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch said on a Nov....

Fox News interrupted White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Monday to fact-check her untrue voter fraud allegations, the latest instance of Fox and other members of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire — once key allies of President Donald Trump — pushing back on Trump’s baseless refusal to accept defeat and priming viewers for a post-Trump future. After McEnany baselessly suggested in a press conference Monday afternoon that President-elect Joe Biden’s supporters are willfully engaging in voter fraud, anchor Neil Cavuto cut her off and said she has no evidence, saying, “I can’t in good countenance continue showing you this.” In...

What were they thinking? Now that millions of Fox News viewers have awakened to the network’s betrayal of their loyal viewers, what are we to think about those hosts we have let into our homes all these years? We’ve long thought that these anchors we relied upon for actual news were on the same political page as their viewers – reverence for the Constitution, law enforcement, our military, freedom, belief in American greatness, etc. While it was clear some were not all-in Trump fans, Fox viewers assumed they shared their values. So have they been faking all these years? Have...

Tucker just let his guest say Biden will take office in 10 weeks, without push back. Not even Fox prime time is worth watching.— President Elect Raheem Kassam (@RaheemKassam) November 11, 2020 He also said, they should explain calmly, when they force us to take the vaccine. When?— Leigh (@lbanducciva) November 11, 2020 Did Tucker just say he hopes they calm everyone down before forcing us to take the vaccine? A slip?— ladybug (@pmbutterfly) November 11, 2020 I just saw this and am now done with him too! Very sad!— Missy (@nebiosearch) November 11, 2020

As I’ve written the last few days, Fox News’ has fully well and decided to burn their audience to the ground (see Fox News Decides to Fully Set Themselves On Fire as Ratings Collapse). What the motivation behind that is may not be completely clear, but things were taken far enough that even Tucker Carlson threw shade at the formerly top rated cable station’s management last night (see Civil War: Tucker Carlson Hits His Own Network In Epic Post-Election Monologue). TUCKER: "You can't just cut away from coverage you don't like" pic.twitter.com/7wsDLc0evK — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) November 10, 2020 Now,...

Yesterday's ratings are in for Neil Cavuto on Fox News and they are a disaster. Cavuto lost 40% of his viewers yesterday compared to last Monday. This is a loss of 1.1 million viewers for Cavuto and Fox. Ratings details at the links.

Last night's ratings are in for Fox News and they are a disaster. Tucker, Sean and Laura lost around 1/3 of their viewers last night compared to last Monday. Tucker lost 29% of his audience which is a loss of 1.8 million viewers. Sean lost 33% of his audience which is a loss of 2.0 million viewers. Laura lost 36% of her audience which a loss of 1.8 million viewers. The best news is that Fox will need to lay off 1/3 of their staff to pay for the advertising revenue shortfall. Tick Tock. Ratings details at the links.

At approximately 3:30PM today on Fox News, Matt Schlapp and Juan Williams were having a Pow Wow over the election. And Juan just couldn't wait to tell the world that according to him, there was no voter fraud, no evidence of any voter fraud in the 2020 election. What the hell! Voter fraud in at least 5 or 6 states has been the top story in the media since last Wednesday! Well at least Matt told Juan off! Pretty much called him a blatant liar!

The conservative backlash against Fox News is about to change up a level after it was revealed the wife of the owner of the right-leaning station celebrated Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden's projected "win. "Fox News called Arizona for Biden with only 73% of votes reported.

I was watching Fox News White House Correspondent John Roberts talking about current events, but when he started to talk about the voter fraud findings, the screen went totally black with no sound for about 5 seconds and when it came back on...someone else was talking!!

A significant round of layoffs forecast last month at WarnerMedia is getting under way today. CEO Jason Kilar emailed staffers this morning, acknowledging the process is “painful” but also calling it a “critical” step in the AT&T division’s evolution. (See his full memo below.) The entertainment outfit has seen multiple staff reductions since the acquisition of Time Warner closed in 2018. Historically, its three main units — HBO, Warner Bros and Turner — operated as mostly autonomous groups. Now, synergy is the mission, with teams being blended for the first time in decades and a lot of positions eliminated in...

CNN and MSNBC cleaned Fox's clock on Saturday. It's ugly and embarrassing for Fox. Ratings details at the link.