Newsmax TV Surpasses Fox Business, CNBC in Key Ratings

Newsmax ^ | 11/06/2020

[SeekAndFind]

It is official. Newsmax TV surpassed both Fox Business and CNBC in daytime ratings the day after Election Day.

Nielsen reported Wednesday that Newsmax drew 287,000 average viewers per minute in the key daypart 9am to 4pm, outpacing CNBC with 285,000 viewers and Fox Business with 281,000.

Newsmax also outpaced Fox Business in primetime, with 205,000 viewers compared to 138,000.

The Nielsen rating only tells part of the story. OTT viewership on platforms like YouTube added an additional 100,000 per minute live viewers tuned into Newsmax TV on Wednesday.

"We're in less cable homes, our channel position is usually not as good as competitors, and our brand is less known, yet we're beating these guys," Chris Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax TV said. "We have a better mousetrap and viewers are flocking to us."

Ruddy noted Newsmax's new programming lineup, including shows like "Greg Kelly Reports" and Sean Spicer's "Spicer & Co." only started this year.

"Our trajectory is like a rocket right now," Ruddy said.

On Election Night, Nielsen reported Newsmax TV's coverage was watched by 3 million viewers, with as many as 600,000 viewers per minute.

Nielsen also reported 1 million of Newsmax's election night viewers watched exclusively and never tuned into Fox News or another cable news channel.

When OTT viewers were factored in, Newsmax had over 1 million per minute viewers most of the same night. For example, YouTube's live stream showed over 70,000 viewers watching Newsmax at any minute during election night.

While Fox News led ratings election night, Newsmax appeared to benefit from angry, defecting viewers.

Newsmax was the first network to project Trump the winner of Florida, as Fox refused to call the state, despite more than 90% of ballots counted.

[Bob434]

Yeah but supposedly even CNN got higher ratings than fox during the election coverage- which is really sad- lots of folks got really disgusted with how fox covered the election- things could be changing at fox- a lot of folks got disgusted with wallace too when he moderated a debate-

Fox aint doing themselves any favors lately- They could dominate the news IF they stopped their idiotic ‘fair and balanced’ crap- (which has morphed in to “If you don’t agree with our liberal leanings, then go fly a kite’ mentality)

[hecticskeptic]

Sure but as the host of a show, they can hasten their departure. I’m oft reminded of Lou Reed’s ‘Metal Machine Music’ when I think of ‘contract obligations’... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIMSbKU2oZM

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[AnotherUnixGeek]

I’ll continue to watch Fox for Carlson and Hannity - when those guys leave, Fox is dead. Murdoch’s kid is throwing away the biggest audience in news to chase the same pool of liberal idiots that CNN and MSNBC cater to.

[GOPJ]

"We're in less cable homes, our channel position is usually not as good as competitors, and our brand is less known, yet we're beating these guys," Chris Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax TV said. "We have a better mousetrap and viewers are flocking to us."

When FOXNews was new AND conservative it was the same story. Their production values were waaaay below CNN's and they didn't have live reporters anywhere but they mopped the floor with CNN because they cared about their viewers and didn't cater to white liberal 'elites'... They cared about the people... (and NO, caring about elite's pet victim groups is NOT the same as caring about "the people" who keep the country running)

Now FOXNews wants to kiss white liberal elite butt and we're all outta here... What fools.

The only thing sillier was when newspapers around the country thought Drudge was popular because he was on 'the internet' rather than that he was appealing to citizens AND NOT ONLY to nose-in-the-air brain-dead elites. And their pet victim groups grievances...

[Signalman]

Newsmax has The War Room on weekday nights.

[fortheDeclaration]

Fox news is dead!

[fortheDeclaration]

Don’t like him either.

[rovenstinez]

Yeah, News Max for me, I have had enough of Juan Williams and Donna Brazil

[fortheDeclaration]

Those are because of the hosts of those shows, but the other shows are going to tank.

[dragnet2]

It's already dead.

[SmokingJoe]

Yes.

[WHATNEXT?]

War Room was scheduled for 10pm. But, went there and Eisenhower and WW11 was on. What happened?

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[Fishtalk]

I am so sick of seeing Chris Wallace on every Fox show.

I like Tucker, Hannity and Ingraham at night. Fox and Friends in morning is ok.

But putting that smug Wallace face in front of me on every show is getting on my last nerve.

I’ve cut down watching my Fox TV time in half.

And I think they handled the election horribly.

[Chickensoup]

No it won’t be in vain. The science of probability and computers is on our side

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[azkathy]

I called our cable provider the day after the election and updated so we have Newsmax. No more FIX news for our house.

[Pollard]

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and cnn beat fox news for election coverage. That tells you how many people turned off fox on election night. Many, including people here,swapped to cnn and said they did better.