Posted on 01/29/2016 7:29:18 AM PST by justlittleoleme
Donald Trump counter-programmed Thursday's GOP primary debate on Fox with his own prime time event. So whose show scored a bigger audience?
Answer: Fox's debate. But it was the second lowest rated debate of the season. So Trump is certain to take credit for hurting the channel's total viewership.
Fox News Channel's Trump-less debate had an 8.4 household rating, according to early Nielsen data from so-called metered markets.
This means 8.4% of American metered market homes with TV sets were watching the face-off.
By comparison, two of the cable channels that showed parts of Trump's event, CNN and MSNBC, had about a quarter of Fox's audience combined.
So Trump's rivals clearly came out ahead in the raw ratings.
The most recent GOP debate, televised two weeks ago on the harder-to-find Fox Business Network, had a household rating of 7.4.
So Thursday's debate was bigger -- but not by much. The other five GOP debates of the cycle have had household ratings ranging from 8.9 to 15.9.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
The article even mentions that debate to compare it to was the one on CNN,,and FOX came up 1 million short when that was done.
The seething Trump hate is still pouring out of LibbyLu. So sad. Pitiful really.
WOW Fox came in 6th and 7th on the lowest Debate ratings this Cycle
The last debate was on Fox Business Channel which has a much smaller cable footprint than FOX News. But I'm sure you knew that already. Sorry to spoil your fake comparison.
Just added OAN to my new ROKU. What a joy to watch. It is carrying Trump at this moment at Nashua, N.H.
Any Freeper that does not stop watching ANY major news network and switch to OAN is sleeping with the enemy.
A ROKU cost about $100.00 bucks, OAN is about $5.00 bucks a month.
Yes and the remaining candidates all behaved like good little pussies while getting schooled by Fox.
Please list for me all the conservative positions Trump has held for the last 20 years; or even five years. After that, I will post video of all the wonderful things Trump has said about liberal democrats.
Good luck with that.
Oh AuntB,
That is pitiful. When Cruz can’t win the Glen Beck poll, you know
he had a very bad debate night.
Thanks for this additional info.
You’re twisting the words and you know it. Your statement was that the “intelligent” people were realizing Trump was blowhard and not tuning in.
Now you are twisting. No surprise. You basically called those who were at the event unintelligent. Those people are called vets. You want to call them unintelligent.
Now you attempt to muddy the discussion. Pathetic.
“Yes and the remaining candidates all behaved like good little pussies while getting schooled by Fox.”
Good little pussies who were happy to EARN revenue FOR FOX!
11 million is probably a good estimate of the number of committed GOPe voters in this country.
“Not exactly the result Trump was hoping for. Intelligent people are figuring out that Trump is just a blowhard.”
The results well exceed Trumps expectations. The Drake Hall event raised $6 million for Vets and was filled with patriotic military. We watched on CSPAN and the entire event was fabulous. One of Trumps buddies donated a million bucks.
I watched it on c-span so to as avoid cnn talking heads .
She can’t even get facts accurate.
LOL *bump*
She’s not interested in accuracy.
He absolutely cannot allow Trump to run his network, period. Ailes was right to support his employees. A newspaper, tv network, magazine, radio station or any media company cannot allow that to happen.
In addition, any company for that matter.
I just bought the Amazon Firestick with the voice activated remote so I can watch OANN. Cost was $49 and I think OANN is $4.99 a month. Think I might cut the ccable cord altogether.
My family (several households) watched the full rally on CSPAN.
Your intelligence is as much in question as those you denigrate.
But hey, keep listening to Muslim activists and helping FOX earn more revenue! That’s the SMART thing to do!
Blech.
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