Posted on 11/30/2020 6:35:19 AM PST by dynachrome
In order to grasp the magnitude of Fox News’ betrayal of its conservative base, I decided to look back at their ratings in August of 2020 and compare the results with its current viewership as of November 23, 2020. The numbers are devastating and telling. Fox has lost about 50% of its audience. You Trump loyalists are making them pay where it hurts–the pocketbook.
Let me break it down by show:
Neil Cavuto drew 2.192 million viewers in August. By November he was attracting only 1.3 million. The Five also suffered a big loss, going from 3.772 million in August to 2.883 million in November–minus 889,000 viewers. Bret Baier suffered a significant decline of 1,139,000 –3.256 million in August to 2.117 million in November. Martha MacCallum fared worse—she shed 50% of her audience, collapsing from 3.201 million to 1.613 million. Tucker Carlson also has taken a big hit–dropping from 5.719 million in August to 3.444 million in November. That is a drop of 2.275 million. Sean Hannity’s shining star is flaming out. His viewership plummeted from 6.838 million to 2.839 million. That means almost 4 million people fled his show. And Laura Ingraham bled out–she dropped from 4.82 million to 2.114. She lost 2.706 viewers. These are consequential numbers. Fox has committed media suicide.
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I do Newsmax now.
been circling the drain for some time. this election has just enforced the view that they are rooting for the other team.
FNC died when News Corp was broken up.
There’s really no schadenfreude in this because they just don’t care. The Murdochs want to be like all the other cool kids, and owning a conservative network makes them outcasts. If Fox collapses, they’ll still be rich.
I didn't leave Fox, Fox left me. It wasn't any one big thing, just a lot of little things. The whole tone of their articles changed. Started sounding like the excrement you'd expect to find at CNN or MSNBC or any other liberal propaganda. Not quite as overt, but quite noticeable. Doubly insulting that Fox would pander to the left that way and think we wouldn't notice or care.
Hello Newsmax...
When Roger Ailes passed that was the end of Faux.
We are not sheeple. We think for ourselves. We have come to the conclusion that Fox has begun to feed us a full diet of leftist garbage, which is why we left the other TV news outlets for Fox in the first place. Fox no longer respects its viewers enough to report the truth. Why waste time watching a stream of BS lies?
Alan Stang used to call Hannity the stupidest person in talk radio. I can’t disagree with that.
ticktock, ticktock
Fox News is Bisexual
You won’t know how much money they’re losing until the next round of ad buys come out.
If they improve with the magic demographic groups, their advertising rates could go UP.
Tom Selleck could be ruined.
Cherry-picking dates is an old trick. August 2020 was the month of the Republican convention, so one would expect the viewership to be greater-than-average. Thus, the analysis presented here may be sensational, and possibly directionally-correct, but not terribly informative.
A real journalist would look at these programs' viewership in Nov 2019 or Nov 2016 for an accurate appraisal.
Levin had a great show last night. He needs to be prime time daily, perhaps replace Laura.
You have to be somewhat loopy to be a lib, but it’s at least marginally possible to articulate their views in a coherent manner. Instead we get Brazile, Williams, Chris Hahn, Marie harf, and that fat lawyer guy who Richard what’s his name all just spouting the party line. Too many rocks in the soup
Proof that, if you betray your base, your base will leave you?
BUT.....
Aren’t the ratings just going back to ‘normalcy’?
IOW, weren’t the August ratings for the height of the political campaign season, while the November ratings are post campaigns? Rightfully, drops in ratings or viewer numbers always go down once the major event(s) are over.
The elder Murdoch is too old to know or care what is happening. Ailes is dead. The Left permeated the once vibrant network, fatally flawed it and now its dying. There are very few platforms that will tell the American people the truth. America is entering a period of darkness. The MSM has moved far beyond bias and into open collusion with the American nation killing globalists. The nation is at grave risk.
“once the major event(s) are over.”
I would think the ratings would stay up while the election fraud plays out.
It’s not like I went to them for news. I liked Tucker, Hannity, Dobbs, Levin, Bartiromo, Judge Janine, and definitely Gutfeld.
Ingraham was always horse faced trash, Watters is a douchebag tool.
The rest was pure garbage. Like many others, I watch Newsmax now. Won’t ever watch Fox again. I held my nose and watched the shows above. Now the stench is too overbearing.
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