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Fox News Channel ratings are collapsing
American Thinker Blog ^ | May 13, 2017 | Hat tip: Peter Chowka by Thomas Lifson

Posted on 05/13/2017 8:44:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Edited on 05/13/2017 9:09:34 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The tectonic plates of cable news ratings are shifting, as Fox News struggles to recover from sexual harassment scandals and the departure of its most popular host, Bill O'Reilly.


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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: foxnews; foxnewsratings; ratings; second100days; trashtv
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To: Enchante; Impy; GOPsterinMA; AuH2ORepublican; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; BillyBoy
"The Murdoch boys are wrecking FoxNews."

Sounds like they need to get a raging clue.

81 posted on 05/14/2017 4:34:24 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: SeekAndFind

Fox News has been near unwatchable for a long long time..

There was a time it was the go to source... long ago... but honestly CNN has been a better source than Fox for a long time now, and that’s unfathomable for someone who remembers fox in their prime.

Fox Business is probably my go to source anymore,

However Cable News is largely swill across the board. If there isn’t some major breaking event going on, I don’t waste my time with cable news.. or any broadcast news..


82 posted on 05/14/2017 4:34:48 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: SeekAndFind

How unexpected!! [/s]

I thought it was a bad sign many years ago when Shep Smith started to give progressive commentary on the air—and was not immediately fired as a result.


83 posted on 05/14/2017 4:37:44 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: zeebee

Yea kennedy’s Schlick I find more irritating than clever, but she does bring some views that I don always agree with, but isn’t usually too preachy with them, and usually at least one of her guests isn’t just shilling talking points


84 posted on 05/14/2017 4:39:41 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: TTFlyer

Back in the day, Britt Hume on special report was the most insightful political daily broadcast on TV.... when he “retired” Fox News value for getting a clearer view of the political events of the day plummeted.

Once Hume left that show, the lineup became 100% spin, and worthless


85 posted on 05/14/2017 4:43:09 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

Chris Wallace on “Fox ‘n Friends” this morning just pounded another nail into FNC’s coffin. Wallace refused to accept that the Media hysteria over “The Russians” and the Comey firing was in fact hysteria.

Wallace is a Liberal hack and unwatchable. And so is FNC.


86 posted on 05/14/2017 4:52:11 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Awgie
Time is right for a new consevative channel.

Breitbart is getting there. We don't need a conservative cable channel, with the trend being people "cutting the cord" and going to pure Internet services like Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, etc.

Conservative media also needs to copy the successful operating basis of Rush, as far as getting advertisers. Major national advertisers don't like the noise and boycott efforts that the Left can generate, so they are less likely to want to be on conservative media. Rush's program uses local advertisers in each radio stations area.

In an Internet service, you can micro-tailor ads down to the neighborhood of the watcher.

87 posted on 05/14/2017 4:58:31 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Shortstop7

I haven’t watched Fox, CNN or MSNBC since the election.

I am too busy hunting for Russians under the bed. :-)


88 posted on 05/14/2017 5:02:43 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Fox is not collapsing because of “sexual harassment scandals,” it is collapsing because Roger Ailes is no longer guiding the agenda. The new power group of entitled pansy-boys who are reshaping Fox to please their gold-digging wives - they are the problem.


89 posted on 05/14/2017 5:06:48 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Need to put Shemp Smith on Fox at prime time to complete the destruction.

Followed by Juan.

90 posted on 05/14/2017 5:20:19 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: TTFlyer

I wonder if Wallace is into spirit cooking ...

http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/playbook/2016/10/scoop-obama-endorsing-30-house-candidates-the-narrative-down-ballot-bloodbath-halperin-goes-to-london-to-interview-assange-bdays-tony-podesta-and-jonathan-weisman-216999

10/24/16

SPOTTED at Tony Podesta’s house last night for his birthday party: British ambassador Sir Kim and Lady Darroch with private secretary to the queen Sir Christopher Geidt, former Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. Miguel Basáñez Ebergenyi, Italian Ambassador to the U.S. Armando Varricchio, Septime Webre, Chris and Lorraine Wallace, Justin Smith, Jay Newton-Small, Ward Sloane, Phillips collection director Dorothy Kosinski, Melissa Moss and Jonathan Silver, Margaret Carlson, Kevin Sullivan and Mary Morgan, Sachiko Kuno, Sandy Ain. Pic of Tony with fellow birthday boy James Alefantis of Comet Ping Pong and their massive cake http://bit.ly/2eAWnPc … Tony blowing out his candles http://bit.ly/2eCRDHS ... The sign outside the bathroom http://bit.ly/2emQQMR


91 posted on 05/14/2017 5:27:11 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Enchante
The Murdoch boys are unfit for their responsibilities. The appear to be wealthy metrosexual urbanites who got hysterically PMS’d that the NYT put the O’Reilly story on the front page.

You can't have those leading Fox be girly afraid of the NYT and expect to be successful. Basically the NYT owns them. It's pathetic.

92 posted on 05/14/2017 5:35:31 AM PDT by Vision (Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid - Reagan)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Shep Smith needs to go to CNN, Bravo, or the Style channel.


93 posted on 05/14/2017 5:36:50 AM PDT by Vision (Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid - Reagan)
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To: SeekAndFind
The liberals finally won in the media arena, taking down a conservative outlet.

There will be another conservative channel pop up with all these personalities. Just a matter of time.

O’Reilly claims this is a hit job, but I suspect in part he brought this on himself to a degree.

94 posted on 05/14/2017 5:44:39 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: SeekAndFind

They started turning left and now they are going in the tank.


95 posted on 05/14/2017 5:52:29 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: heights

I remember when Hannity was not the best show on FOX. Same show . . .


96 posted on 05/14/2017 5:53:39 AM PDT by Thickman (Libsteria is funnier than confounded GOP "leaders".)
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To: SeekAndFind
Don't forget FNC cancelled the best late night talk show on TV, Red Eye.
97 posted on 05/14/2017 5:57:08 AM PDT by ethel rascel (Lurk Mostly)
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To: zeebee

Fox Business is my go-to default cable news channel, starting with Stuart Varney and ending with Lou Dobbs.
As for Fox News Channel, after Fox and Friends, it’s all pretty much downhill for the rest of the day.
Hannity is okay yet entirely too critical.
One would think, after all he did to provide President Trump with frequent forums (interviews, town halls) during the campaign, he might actually focus more on President Trump’s achievements so far!!!

OANN is fine but not 24/7 and a little bland.
I wish they would hire Bill O’Reilly to anchor their prime time lineup. He could kick things off at 8 PM with Graham Ledger and Liz Wheeler following perhaps.

I hope and pray that Fox News doesn’t go completely in the tank because they are the only bona fide established outlet for our wonderful POTUS. Hate to think he will be at the mercy or lack thereof of all cable news, looking forward to the next eight years and reelection in 2020!!!


98 posted on 05/14/2017 6:02:54 AM PDT by edie1960
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To: SeekAndFind

The 5 is unwatchable. You have 3 NeverTrumpers and one Beckle just sits there and calls the President names for an hour. Gutfeld is a buffoon who sees himself as a genius.


99 posted on 05/14/2017 6:10:47 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: SeekAndFind

Faux “news”.


100 posted on 05/14/2017 6:16:05 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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