This should help, take a look at Feb 2019 - no impeachment, no election. Here are Fox's ratings from adweek
Total Day (Mon-Sun): 1,458,000 total viewers
Now look at all of Q3 2019, the Fox News average total viewers was 1.4 million.
Now look at Fox's own press release for whole year of 2019
Total Day: FNC: 1,394,000
So do you believe that ~1.4m has been the norm for total viewers? And you are here telling me 1.5m is a disaster? Stop smoking the blog spam crack pipe.
I agree that Fox hasn’t lost over half of its long-term average audience. But its post-11/3 losses can’t just be dismissed as “post-election”. We aren’t really post election yet. Just like we weren’t at this time in 2000.
It can’t be denied that Fox has suffered a major loss of credibility with a core viewership. It is hard to quantify at this point but I don’t expect Fox to ever again be a runaway cable leader as it is currently configured.
They may survive as just another spot on the dial just like the other 200 channels I pay for and never watch. But it is no longer a “go to” media outlet. Kind of like Drudge. Or My Space.
Lol, you said the ratings last year at the time are the same as this year.. I’ts late November early December. Now you are moving/cherry picking dates.
Also Forbes isn’t a blog and again, you have not explained why other news shows are beating FOX in time slots they have not done in years.