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Fox News Celebrates Ratings as ‘Most-Watched Cable News Channel in History’ – But Do The Numbers Tell the Whole Story?
MenRec ^ | 12/20/20 | Rusty

Posted on 12/20/2020 2:19:29 PM PST by rustyweiss74

Fox News is celebrating ratings success from this past year which made them the highest-rated cable news channel in history.

The numbers come from Nielsen Media Research and indicate that Fox is the cable news king for a fifth consecutive year.

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But it would sure be interesting to see how November into December compares to the rest of the year.

You know, when Fox went off the deep end by prematurely calling state election results, hosts started censoring legal challenges to the election, and others simply mocked people who value the integrity of the voting process.

For instance, The Hill analyzes that CNN and MSNBC both had impressive numbers of their own.

MSNBC described a “record-breaking year in total viewers” and the sixth consecutive year of growth, while CNN celebrated its “best year ever” in ratings.

Media analyst Joe Concha, a Fox News contributor, shared a Hill report from earlier this month which showed the network earning the highest November ratings in the network’s history.

Day-to-day reports by Adweek in December, however, show the two left-wing media networks on top several times, as well as other days in which Fox News split ratings supremacy with others.

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We know Marth MacCallum had some trouble, becoming the first show on Fox to lose to another on the competing channel, Newsmax.

Newsmax TV scored their historic, first-ever ratings victory over Fox News Channel earlier this month, according to a CNN Business report.

The notable win came in the key 25- to 54-year-old demographic prized by advertisers, when the “Greg Kelly Reports” show topped Fox’s “The Story with Martha MacCallum.”

(Excerpt) Read more at menrec.com ...


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To: rustyweiss74

This is like calling Pompeii the most beautiful city in Italy....

;-)


21 posted on 12/20/2020 5:41:53 PM PST by cgbg ( Remember 1876--we _can_ do this!--Biden--Office of the Prisoner-Elect)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

“I want to know who hired Arnon Mishkin for the election desk.”

Yes, that would be great to know.

Also, who made the hiring decisions on Water Buffalo Donna Brazile, Juana Williams, and Marie Barf?


22 posted on 12/20/2020 5:47:03 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Yes, it is not business as usual at Fox. But the numbers that they are running are at about the business as usual levels. I’m predicting that those numbers will to continue to fall and we really don’t know by how much yet.

My concern is that comparing November and December ratings is less than meaningful. November ratings were sky high because of the “election”. So a decline for Fox and and all the rest would be expected to be down at least somewhat and they are.

But Fox is obviously down in this still news heavy environment. They should be doing better than their “business as usual” ratings.

How far will they fall? I don’t think we know yet. But it will be below current levels..


23 posted on 12/20/2020 6:27:32 PM PST by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed.)
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To: rustyweiss74

They better celebrate this year....next year they’re f#@ked!!!


24 posted on 12/20/2020 7:04:32 PM PST by ontap
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To: InterceptPoint

Fox ratings are NOT business as usual. They have lost 4 years of ratings gains in 6 weeks.


25 posted on 12/21/2020 1:33:38 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: InterceptPoint

And Laura Ingraham’s ratings now are 37% LOWER than back in October 2017 when Fox gave her the 10pm hour.

Not business as usual.


26 posted on 12/21/2020 2:21:09 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: rustyweiss74

I have even stopped watching Gutfeld. We don’t turn Fox on for any reason.


27 posted on 12/21/2020 2:46:33 AM PST by muggs
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To: Phillyred

I agree


28 posted on 12/21/2020 4:14:19 AM PST by Sir Beowolf (Beware! it's a different world,The Republic is crying for Help.)
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