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Fox News Ratings Plunge (Ailes Reaping What He Sowed)
Newser ^ | December 1, 2011 | Mark Russell

Posted on 12/02/2011 4:58:37 AM PST by Timber Rattler

Fox News is still leading the cable news ratings race—but for how long? Fox's overall ratings for November dropped 13% compared to the same month last year, reports Mediabistro.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ailes; fox; foxnews; foxnewsratings; news; ratings; topten
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To: Timber Rattler

Been waiting for this headline. Us common folk out here know that the “repositioning”’ of FOX will not profit them.


21 posted on 12/02/2011 5:14:49 AM PST by cblue55 (It's either America, or Obama. It cannot be both!)
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To: Timber Rattler
The SOB is reaping what he sewed.

This report compares Nov 2011 vs Nov 2010, there is no way that the ratings wouldn't go down after an election year.

Now if next year, the FOX ratings are down, then FOX has a problem.

This is a BS comparison.

22 posted on 12/02/2011 5:16:05 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke The Terrorist Savages)
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To: Timber Rattler; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; calcowgirl; Gilbo_3; ...
FNC is the establishment Republican channel.

For me firing Glenn Beck and replacing him with the Five (Beckle/Perino) turned me off to the channel. I still watch Cavuto.

FNC also capitalized and promoted the ‘Will Sarah Run?” stories this past spring and early summer while she was working there as a political analyst. That was a short term strategy that was bound to backfire when it became obvious she was not really running, which the Seniors at FNC must have known all along.

23 posted on 12/02/2011 5:19:06 AM PST by sickoflibs (Cain :"My parents didn't raise me to beg the government for other peoples money")
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To: Beagle8U

FOX has become a Romney supporter.


24 posted on 12/02/2011 5:19:44 AM PST by E.K. Crossbow
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To: carjic

FOX is 90% INFOTAINMENT; strange wierd stuff (SWS), theatrical micro-news . For significant factual information related Global, National and Local news, it’s the web.


25 posted on 12/02/2011 5:20:10 AM PST by Broker (Beware of Community Organizer in Chief!)
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To: Timber Rattler

This is silly. The big news: “Fox is still on top”. Wow.There’s big news. My guess is that Everyone’s ratings dropped but they neglected to mention that.


26 posted on 12/02/2011 5:20:20 AM PST by marstegreg
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To: sodpoodle
Bob Beckel

Is Beckel on 24/7 or does it just seem that way?

I watch very little when he is on. I think even he doesn't know what he is saying!

I mean, anybody so stupid that he writes a check to a prostitute and we're supposed to listen to his opinion?

27 posted on 12/02/2011 5:20:52 AM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: circlecity

I turn on FOX and friends in the morning mostly for background noise but I’m tuning even that out more and more.


28 posted on 12/02/2011 5:21:32 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: Timber Rattler

The way they keep bashing Herman Cain and propping up Newt Gingrich is truly disgusting. They need to get rid of Carl Cameron and Shep Smith ASAP.


29 posted on 12/02/2011 5:22:33 AM PST by BarnacleCenturion (Heartless & Inhumane)
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To: Timber Rattler

That’s OK - it gives the coffee-klatch opportunity for ripostes.

Button holing.
crewel
needling
passing camels thru eyes of needles
pinning the blame
putting a zipper on it
hemming and hawing

Take it away


30 posted on 12/02/2011 5:22:53 AM PST by sodpoodle ( Newter the Democrats - top to bottom.)
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To: Timber Rattler
I only watch F&F before I get ready for work in the morning. Then I'm pretty much done for the day with FNC.

I did happen to catch Shep the other day...he looked terrible! His face was all sunken in there were dark shadows in the hollows of his cheeks and under his eyes. He looked bad! I quickly changed the channel. ((shudder))

31 posted on 12/02/2011 5:25:07 AM PST by CAluvdubya (Cain is not the one that called me "heartless" and "inhumane"! MERRY CHRISTMAS!)
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To: cripplecreek
Glenn Beck was the only show that I did watch regularly. I came home from work just as his show was starting. It was practically a ritual to turn it on the moment I got home. Now I go straight to GBTV, and FOX or any news station rarely gets watched.
32 posted on 12/02/2011 5:25:11 AM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: Timber Rattler

I only watch fox and friends on weekdays.


33 posted on 12/02/2011 5:25:11 AM PST by ardara
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To: lonestar

Gawd - he’s awful. He is worse than Chris Matthews and Ed Schultz. Big, fat, sweaty - cannot speak coherently and is so full of hate - he’s scary crazy.


34 posted on 12/02/2011 5:26:06 AM PST by sodpoodle ( Newter the Democrats - top to bottom.)
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To: Sooth2222
I didn't watch it a year ago, and I don't watch it now. Red Eye is the only thing I ever tune into, and even that has deteriorated considerably. They used to have people like Breitbart and Thaddeus McCotter; now it's just the same old Fox news bimbos and second rate comedians. Boring.

TV is played. It had a good run, but it's over.

35 posted on 12/02/2011 5:26:06 AM PST by giotto
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To: Timber Rattler
I haven't watched FOX since OBozo was selected (by the media).

FOX is 'too balanced(?) for my values and their wannabe talking heads ('balancing acts' as I call them) just plain disgust me.

But I do miss Megyn Kelly!

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36 posted on 12/02/2011 5:29:32 AM PST by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: sodpoodle
I noticed less principled push back from FOX commentators and placed with silence.

When Beck's on-line TV show came out, I subscribed. Like everything about it, even the advertisers. Beck is adding other shows to the TV line up.

37 posted on 12/02/2011 5:29:38 AM PST by defal33
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To: SueRae

Wonder how that compares to the overall decline in cable viewership? I dropped Fox News only because I dropped Cable TV in general—too much $$ for too little value added. Now get streaming content from my Roku box exclusively. I’ve heard a lot of people are doing the same.


38 posted on 12/02/2011 5:30:47 AM PST by rbg81
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To: E.K. Crossbow

FOX has become a Romney supporter.

You must not really watch Fox then. Hannity and Greta, even Oreally are lapping all over Newt.


39 posted on 12/02/2011 5:30:57 AM PST by Hattie
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To: Timber Rattler

I would much rather listen to Chris Plante, Rush, and Mark Levin than watch Fox.


40 posted on 12/02/2011 5:31:54 AM PST by TBall
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