Posted on 08/31/2005 7:08:02 AM PDT by MindBender26
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Fox News scored its largest audience so far this year in August, a month when most of the other cable news channels suffered ratings declines in comparison with convention-heavy 2004.
According to data released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research, Fox News tallied slightly more than 2 million total viewers in primetime during the month, a 32% improvement over its year-ago figures.
By contrast, CNN lost 19% of its primetime viewership (to 748,000), and MSNBC dropped 22% to 349,000 in August compared with a year ago. CNN's Headline News, on the strength of "Nancy Grace" and other primetime programming, jumped 117% to 449,000 viewers, making it the third-ranked news channel in primetime, overtaking MSNBC.
In the news demographic of adults 25-54, Fox News ruled again, with 541,000 viewers, up 12%, while CNN lost 9% to 236,000 and MSNBC was mostly flat at 145,000. Headline News averaged 160,000, up 111%.
Fox News owned 11 of the top 12 shows in cable news, with 2.5 million viewers for No. 1 "The O'Reilly Factor" (up 13%) and 2.2 million viewers for "On the Record With Greta Van Susteren." Greta Van Susteren's show, which has seen a major boost in the ratings with its coverage of the Natalee Holloway story in Aruba, saw a 36% boost in viewership.
CNN's sole entry in the top 10, "Larry King Live," saw viewership fall 27% to 1 million. "The Situation Room," which debuted this month, averaged 466,000 viewers, down 14% compared to the political-heavy coverage on CNN last year. On the other hand, "Nancy Grace" gave Headline News its highest month ever, with 738,000 viewers in August. That was just behind "NewsNight With Aaron Brown" and "Paula Zahn Now"; "Paula Zahn Now" saw its total viewership rise 6% to 596,000, though its demo coverage was flat.
Fox News also won the ratings war in hurricane coverage Monday, according to Nielsen data released Tuesday afternoon. Fox News averaged 2.8 million viewers in total day -- a 247% increase over the same day in 2004 -- ahead of CNN's 1.8 million viewers and MSNBC's 679,000
I don't think it is either, in fact it seems a little left of center.
I wish someone would buy CNN and change it to the Conservative News Network.
I'm of the sime mind, Aimhigh. CNN has been far superior to Fox on Katrina coverage. Even MSNBC has been better than Fox in this particular area.
what is also great is that the New York Times and the LA times are dying also
I've watched CNN Wolf Blitzer The Situation, and it's embarrassing to watch. Blitzer is ill at ease with all the gimmicks and gadgets. Every other sentence is a self-promoting, self-promoting boast. An empty boast, if you ask me. CNN has devolved into a cheap imitation of FOXNEWS. It ain't working!
It's getting to the point where CNN and MSNBC aren't even in the same league as Fox News. It's like the majors vs. Single-A at this point. Great to see another big ratings win for Fox. CNN's programming is an embarassment right now, so I see no reason why this trend won't continue.
"Aruba authorites re-arrest brothers in desperate attempt to make Greta Van Susteren leave island."
Fox's average primetime viewer total of slightly over 2,000,000 is more than all the other cable networks (CNN, MSNBC, Headline News) added together--a total of 1,546,000.
On top of all that, I haven't watched a minute of Fox News since they hired that @sshole Geraldo Rivera Jerry Rivers.
Gretta's show has essentially morphed into a video version of "True Detective" magazine. Surprisingly, this has turned out to be very popular.
I disagree. I have found their coverage to be good.
FOX is good, but could use improvement. The 24/7 Natalie night after night was a total turnoff. O'Reilly needs a better "backup QB" - current guy is not watchable. Also they should ignore the fluff stories on women's fashion, pop hollywood stuff that are starting to creep in. Leave that junk to MSNBC who loves to cover it.
I love it when they highlight things that CNN does when they say "the other day, this network spent an entire day blasting so-in-so for this and nobody really watched"
The cream rises to the top. Soon we'll be hearing about more cuts at CNN, MSNBC not renewing Chrissy Matthews contract, and ABC,CBS,NBC entertaining buyout offers from Rupert Murdoch.
Shep Smith: "The water level in New Orleans keeps rising, and nobody knows why."
Alberta's Child: "What is he, a freakin' moron? The water level keeps rising because the elevation of New Orleans is lower than the elevation of the adjacent waterways. Maybe Shep ought to go home and try to fill the north half of his bathtub to get an understanding of some very rudimentary principles of fluid mechanics."
"It seems to me that Fox is not all that conservative."
Everything in life is all relative my friend.
This is why when I was single I used to go out with my butt ugle friends. This made my ugly mug appear not so bad.
In the far left media arena, FOX does appear conservative in comparison.
But then maybe it's just me, willing to tolerate stupid statements to avoid having to listen to the drivel of CNN.
I am still quite concerned that Arron Brown may fall asleep on air in his recliner and injure himself! It almost happend to me when I watched him one night by mistake.
It is truly unfortunate that Fox is NOT a conservative network except by comparision with the Radical Leftist Traitor Media. It stinks most of the time.
That won't happen anytime soon. Why would anyone buy a property while its value is still in decline? The smart buyer will wait until the value decline starts to bottom out, and I do not expect that to happen in the near future.
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