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Is FOX News’s remarkable success a positive sign for the future of MAGA?
American Thinker ^ | July 17, 2025 | Peter Barry Chowka

Posted on 07/17/2025 7:22:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The mainstream media, print and broadcast, has largely ignored the fact that FOX News recently achieved an unprecedented milestone in the 75 year history of U.S. commercial television.

FOX News not only has more viewers now than the other two mainstream cable news channels combined (Trump Derangement Syndrome channels CNN and MSNBC), but also for the first time is outranking the three major legacy commercial broadcast networks that also suffer from TDS (ABC, CBS, and NBC).

As FOX News Media announced in a news release on July 15:

During the week of July 7–13, FOX News Channel (FNC) averaged 2.4 million viewers in prime time leading all broadcast networks for the third consecutive week including NBC (2.2 million viewers), CBS (2 million viewers) and ABC (2 million viewers). Since Memorial Day, FNC has commanded 3 million viewers in weekday prime time, which also leads all of television including ABC (2.9 million viewers), NBC (2.4 million viewers) and CBS (2.1 million viewers). FNC is outpacing the broadcast competition in weekday prime time since the official start of the Summer on June 20.

This striking development comes within the context of the audience for traditional broadcast and cable television having declined to its smallest percentage of people watching video in the history of the U.S. television medium.

On July 15, 2025 The Hollywood Reporter reported:

For the first time since Nielsen began tracking TV use by platform four years ago — and probably the first time ever, considering broadcast’s dominant place for much of television history — over-the-air networks accounted for less than 20 percent of viewing in June. The ratings service’s monthly Gauge rankings show broadcast at 18.5 percent for the month, down from 20.1 percent in May.

A pie chart in the Hollywood Reporter article confirms that 18.5% of Americans watch...

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1 posted on 07/17/2025 7:22:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Doesn’t MAGA hate Fox News?


2 posted on 07/17/2025 7:36:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t like them anymore. I ditched Fox news a couple years ago. Now watching Newsmax for my main news and commentary. I don’t miss FNC one bit.


3 posted on 07/17/2025 7:38:47 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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To: nickcarraway

MAGA likes certain hosts but if you watch say the 5 and see how they allow Jessica Tarlov to just lie herself silly and never correct her they don’t like others


4 posted on 07/17/2025 7:39:04 PM PDT by Lod881019
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why is it that Newsmax isn’t taking the place of Fox? (I’ve been watching Newsmax since the 2020 debacle.)


5 posted on 07/17/2025 7:50:33 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“MAGA News”

I like it


6 posted on 07/17/2025 8:05:13 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

🤣🤣


7 posted on 07/17/2025 8:05:17 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO ODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Bullish

Ditto.

Newsmax, with some RAV.
NO Fox since Nov. 2020.


8 posted on 07/17/2025 8:08:16 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Lod881019

“see how they allow Jessica Tarlov to just lie herself silly and never correct her”
That happens on Newsmax at 10pm on Chris Plante’s show. Their token lib is Jason Nichols and they never call him on his blatant lies.


9 posted on 07/17/2025 8:10:39 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Faux news jumped the shark years ago and are about as annoying as that baby shark tune.


10 posted on 07/17/2025 8:13:24 PM PDT by LastDayz (A Blunt and Brazen Texan. I Will Not Be Assimilated.)
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To: chajin

Me too and I don’t miss Fox a bit.

If FNC is growing it’s because they’ve moved to the left and now are attracting some of those that CNN and MSDNC have lost because they put lunatics on the air.


11 posted on 07/17/2025 8:15:56 PM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Fox is the channel of GOPe. It’s hostile to MAGA.


12 posted on 07/17/2025 8:23:36 PM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: MayflowerMadam

She just goes off on easily disproved stuff snd never ever gets called on it. Maybe they think the audience thinks she’s stupid but it does them no favors


13 posted on 07/17/2025 8:25:31 PM PDT by Lod881019
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To: nickcarraway

I haven’t watched Fox News or any news programming on any platform since 2008 when Obama got selected. I actually stopped watching them back in 2000 after they called Florida for Gore before the polls in The Panhandle closed. I only went back after 9/11, and then watched them intermittently until Obama came on the scene. I couldn’t stand to see his face or hear his voice whenever I turned the channel on.


14 posted on 07/17/2025 8:37:36 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Outranking CNN, oooh what an accomplishment lol


15 posted on 07/17/2025 10:01:43 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: chajin

Too young and not quite as polished yet. If they remain mostly solidly conservative, they might soon thouhg.


16 posted on 07/17/2025 10:02:39 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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