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Fox News earns top ratings spot with Afghanistan coverage
Associated Press ^ | August 24, 2021 | Lynn Elber

Posted on 08/24/2021 6:33:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Fox News Channel, bolstered by viewers’ rapt attention to the U.S.-led evacuation from Afghanistan, was last week’s most-watched TV outlet on broadcast or cable, according to Nielsen company figures out Tuesday.

The channel averaged just under 3 million viewers. Fox News Channel outpaced both its cable news competition and the broadcast networks that typically jockey for the top spot.

The channel, which is popular with conservative-leaning viewers, surged following the Taliban’s sudden conquest of Afghanistan this month and as the Biden administration directed the chaotic removal of U.S. citizens and Afghans at risk after the nearly 20-year war’s end. …

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


TOPICS: Local News; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; fauxnews; foxnews; waronterror

1 posted on 08/24/2021 6:33:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

It’s still cable tv news to me.


2 posted on 08/24/2021 6:34:37 PM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: Leep

When AP is basically shilling for Faux News, the ten-year-old “course correction” has achieved its intended level of damage.


3 posted on 08/24/2021 6:36:20 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Dang it people don’t go back over there. Don’t forget what they did election night.


4 posted on 08/24/2021 6:37:43 PM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: glimmerman70

Lots of liberals watch, but won’t admit it. Was the case 20 years ago too.


5 posted on 08/24/2021 6:38:29 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Look at AP plugging Fox news.


6 posted on 08/24/2021 6:44:44 PM PDT by McCarthysGhost (q)
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To: Olog-hai
The channel averaged just under 3 million viewers.

Then they weren't the "most watched." Bannon's Warroom averages more than 80 million world wide.

7 posted on 08/24/2021 6:45:51 PM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: eastexsteve

Probably Nielsen doesn’t bother to research such numbers.


8 posted on 08/24/2021 6:48:11 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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The CNN coverage early on was better than Fox...They had reporters there....Now only at the airport.....

If there COVID coverage comes up were all going to die...where do they find the doctors who say kids have to wear masks...

Schools are masking because the parents think there kids are going to die

In Florida ten kids under seventeen have died since March 2020


9 posted on 08/24/2021 6:58:59 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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… where do they find the doctors who say kids have to wear masks …
When the government is the employer, the employee says what the employer wants them to say.
10 posted on 08/24/2021 7:04:29 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: glimmerman70

Fox News has been the number 1 cable network since February - not just news, but all of cable. Fox News had a temporary drop in viewers, but quickly gained them back. Frankly, boycotts don’t work. Its 11 pm ET show, Greg Gutfeld, beats the 3 networks late night shows.


11 posted on 08/24/2021 9:12:49 PM PDT by Dave W
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To: eastexsteve

No, it doesn’t. That’s the number who have downloaded the podcast. I’ve downloaded it on three different devices, but don’t/can’t listen everyday. Listen more carefully - Bannon says downloaded, which is not the same as listeners. He probably gets a fraction of those who have downloaded the podcast.


12 posted on 08/24/2021 9:21:43 PM PDT by Dave W
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No, it doesn’t. That’s the number who have downloaded the podcast. I’ve downloaded it on three different devices, but don’t/can’t listen everyday. Listen more carefully - Bannon says downloaded, which is not the same as listeners. He probably gets a fraction of those who have downloaded the podcast.

That same logic can apply to Fox. Just because I have it in my cable package (I do) doesn't mean I watch it (I don't.)

And, even if you are talking "fractions" then 3 million is a very small fraction of 6 million.

13 posted on 08/25/2021 5:54:53 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: Dave W
And, even if you are talking "fractions" then 3 million is a very small fraction of 6 million.

I meant to say 86 million.

14 posted on 08/25/2021 11:35:22 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: eastexsteve

What a silly post. Bannon has never said how many actually listen. There is a 3rd party that actually monitors how many view TV shows and the number is made public by the 3rd party. Even if it annoys you, reality is Fox News is the number 1 table network, not just in news, but in all of cable and it’s not even close.


15 posted on 08/25/2021 1:10:23 PM PDT by Dave W
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To: Dave W
What a silly post. Bannon has never said how many actually listen.

No, I think yours is the silliest post. If someone is going to the trouble of DLing a podcast, then they are likely live streaming it as it downloads.

16 posted on 08/26/2021 1:51:32 PM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: eastexsteve

You have zero proof - zero. Boycotts don’t work. Fox is number 1 whether you like it or not.


17 posted on 08/26/2021 6:36:48 PM PDT by Dave W
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To: Dave W
You have zero proof - zero.

I have as much or more than you do. Fox News has turned into CNN. The only reason they have high ratings is because they are part of cable and satellite major packages. But, since CNN has lost the airports, they are plummeting. As soon as cable and satellite carriers start dumping Fox out of their big packages, the same will happen to them. Dish already took Fox out of their basic package.

18 posted on 08/27/2021 6:15:00 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: Olog-hai
Fox News earns top ratings spot with Afghanistan coverage as best urinal in the stadium

There, fixed it.

19 posted on 08/27/2021 6:21:57 AM PDT by New Perspective (#NotMyPresident -Proud father of a son with DS & fighting to keep him off biden's death panels.)
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