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...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Fux fox.
How do you know uc you don’t watch?
It’s not moved left.
Wrong. She gets slapped down a lot.
You don’t watch. So you don’t know.
Not the times I’ve seen it
No, I don’t watch anymore, but I do know what’s going on because my husband watches, and I have no choice but to hear a lot from the next room.
Paul Ryan, is that you?
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