Ms Robinson appears to be projecting her personal bias in hopes that it becomes reality. Sorry, Em, but here are weekly averages for the top ten cable news shows for April 2022:
Fox News | 5 p.m. /The Five: 3,494,000 / 18 telecasts
Fox News | 8 p.m. / Tucker Carlson Tonight: 3,389,000 / 19 telecasts
Fox News | 7 p.m. / Jesse Watters Primetime: 2,924,000 / 12 telecasts
Fox News | 9 p.m. /Hannity: 2,886,000 / 18 telecasts
Fox News | 6 p.m. / Special Report with Bret Baier: 2,598,000 / 18 telecasts
Fox News | 10 p.m. / The Ingraham Angle: 2,251,000 / 18 telecasts
Fox News | 11 p.m. / Gutfeld!: 2,251,000 / 18 telecasts
Fox News | 12 p.m. / Outnumbered: 1,985,000 / 19 telecasts
Fox News | 9-10 a.m., 10-11 a.m. / America’s Newsroom: 1,874,000 / 39 telecasts
Fox News | 11 a.m. / The Faulkner Focus: 1,812,000 / 19 telecasts
See anything significant here?
Did not take time to compare with previous years, but Fox News is still the 800-lb gorilla.
IMHO, given the false dichotomy established for cable news, and the blatant bias at CNN and MSNBC, Fox seems tame. But the passivity is going away, and will more so as people can't afford to buy groceries while watching Fox cheer Democrats and Republicans sending money to Ukraine for example. That isn't something that can get papered over.
See Anything significant?
Approx 298,000,000 people didn’t watch any of it.
I always have on The Five and Tucker. The rest not so much.
It looks like those Fox shows get around 3 million viewers at best tuning in, so if you figure the combined competition is another 7 million - that’s a total of 10 million.
So, only 3% of the population watches the evening news? Is that far off?