Posted on 11/08/2020 6:56:54 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Sean Hannity may not be worried about the 2020 election — if he is, he hasn’t said it on his Fox News Channel show — but his ultimate boss has indicated media investors might have some cause for concern.
The executive who has final oversight of Fox News Channel suggested Tuesday that the surge in audiences enjoyed by news networks may fall noticeably after the 2020 election — a development that could have ramifications for some of the nation’s biggest media companies.
“I would expect that as we enter a more normal news cycle, which will happen eventually, that appetite for news will shift,” said Lachlan Murdoch, executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corporation, during a Tuesday call with investors.
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Five of the nation’s biggest cable-news operations — Fox News Channel, CNN. MSNBC, CNBC and Fox Business Network — are projected to take in more than $3.1 billion in advertising in 2020, according to Kagan, a market-research firm that is part of S&P Global Intelligence, and more than $2.7 billion in fees from cable and satellite distributors. And while the affiliate money is likely to stay stable, the advertising dollars would fall if ratings were to moderate. MSNBC would have the most cause for concern. According to Kagan, that network, controlled by NBCUniversal, relies more heavily on ad revenue than distribution money. The other four make more of their money from the fees they charge cable systems.
The potential for a downturn is cause for hand-wringing at the news operations. MSNBC in particular has in past cycles seen a noticeable shift in viewership when politics are not at the fore of the national conversation. Meanwhile, attention to politics in recent days has been gobsmacking: Fox News Channel has seen enormous surges for primetime hosts like Tucker Carlson
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Sean Hannity is all talk with his bud Lindsey
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I suspect that it was Paul Ryan who engineered Lindsey’s gig on the Hannity show. Sean was probably forced into having him on by the Board. Things like this happen.
None of the principles will ever talk about it because such deals look bad for all of them.
Let us all help fox reach its new potential, in the dumpster.
I pray the bottom drops out on Faux.
Hannity is a lightweight and has always been full of crap. Tick tock my eye.
Well the appetite for fake news anyway.
I haven’t had Fox on for 3 days been with newsmax just wanted to see Maria Barteromo OMG Linda is on there and he is SCREAMING to keep up the fight there is NO WAY they could win the senate and the house and Trump lose!! CA. is WINNING back those lost house seats also I THINK when the dust settles we may haveSan Fran Nans gavel!!!!
Fox Business and Maria I still watch
Dumped FOX Nation too.
Why does anyone pay for cable? It’s all on youtube free, and you can avoid ads too. I haven’t been near a tv at home since I was a baby!
Sean Hannity is partying with his “good friends” Karl Rove, Linda Graham, and the other republicucks who loathe and despise Trump as much as the Democrats do.
That doesn't just punish Fox, it punishes the entire MSM. Cut the cord!
Brigitte Gabriel
@ACTBrigitte
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BREAKING: Fox News now projects it has lost most of its viewers.
It’s screwy. Conservatives thought Fox News was at best on their side, and at worst fair and balanced. So millions of conservatives paid leftist shills like CNN and MSNBC so that these conservatives wouldn’t have to work to find content which didn’t lie to the world on their behalf.
Now Fox has shown its true colors. You guys might have to stop paying CNN and MSNBC to work against you. Wake up.
Brian Kilmeade, watch his eyes blinking: HELP...HELP
Look at how he is trying to set the stage. It is *not* that we are going to lose former faithful viewers that we have betrayed. It’s just that after the election people are no longer interested.
Yep, Laura Ingraham, Tucker and others are all praising trump and his legacy but life goes on ... they hand trump and his followers a chit sandwich but come on ... let’s unite under diversity and inclusion going forward ... no thanks ... i’m going more and more to alternative news ... folks like Ingraham and Tucker will be sitting there making their millions with a new conservative message telling us how great it is ...
The quality of an elected government will never exceed the quality of the press.
The Fox News ratings collapse has already started. Look at their ratings disaster from Thursday:
Viewing recomendation
Absolutely no cable, there local access service charge($30) go directly to major broadcasters.
Get fiber from someone that is not you local cable company
Get an over the air antenna no matter what it takes. OTA
If you must watch something, BOYCOTT advertisers and let
them know.
The only streaming like cable service to use if you must is philo.
No MSM, no locals, no sports, no fox, no Disney anything
Disney owns ABC, espn, fox (last year), Hulu
Bankrupt disney.
Use OANN and Newsmax
Demand ala cart service on internet, media won’t allow it, tell them to .....
Murdoch didn’t expect this ratings collapse. Look at this disaster for Fox News:
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