Posted on 05/22/2016 3:54:46 PM PDT by drewh
New York’s Gabriel Sherman is reporting that in addition to being a ratings and financial failure, Megyn Kelly’s interview with Donald Trump has resulted in her losing most of the leverage she had in her upcoming contract negotiations.
Fox executives were willing to consider 9 million viewers a success, but Kelly’s supposedly mainstream appeal didn’t translate to the parent network, and she only netted 4.8 million viewers. It was, as one Fox insider told Sherman, “not good for her at all.”
In fact, her boss Roger Ailes was apparently so tickled by the fact that he would not have to pay her a reported $25 million to remain at Fox News that he was heard “snickering” in a Thursday meeting when the special was mentioned.
In the days since, Kelly has been working to contain the fallout. She took aim at critics on her cable show Wednesday night by deploying an age-old Fox News tactic: claiming the backlash was a result of liberal media bias. But behind the scenes, she is said to be worried about the response. “She’s very upset with the show reaction, and in hindsight with how it was produced,” one Fox veteran told me…
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“Your a true FRiend and you would never offend me....8>)”
I see what you did there ;-)
Thank you.
I stopped watching after Obama’s first victory. Had no interest in watching O’Reilly and his nasty cohorts gloat. Get all my news here, have never turned back.
**In fact, her boss Roger Ailes was apparently so tickled by the fact that he would not have to pay her a reported $25 million to remain at Fox News that he was heard “snickering” in a Thursday meeting when the special was mentioned.**
LOL!
When did the word sniggering become snickering?
Was Michael Moore interviewed too?
Deborah Norville, I believe.
It was recorded several days before it aired. Seems strange.
Me too..GREAT station
I am a Trump supporter, I did not watch the show due to Kelly, I feel happy that I helped stick it to her.
I have to agree. There was far too much Megyn Kelly.
There were more who had cable and “would not have”. I didn’t watch it.. can’t stand to see her... she’s too cocky and too sure she’s the supreme.
The other half of the show she was interviewing a “transgender”...I turned the dial.
That's not true at all. Even the ratings for Kelly's own program on the channel are at their strongest since the show was launched. http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/03/30/fox-news-channel-ratings-top-all-cable-networks-for-first-time.html
Boycotting was all over Twitter. I wanted to see my man Trump but did not want to see Fox or Kelly get good ratings.
Why would I tune in to see Trump when the bottle blonde was going to do all the talking?
This is true....Ailes is ALL business.
Kelly might still get what she wants but it’ll be via ABC, CBS or NBC, and it’ll be a short-range contract (probably no more than four years). Fox doesn’t care if she leaves....they’ve got at least five or six young Kelly-wannabes in the waiting and ready to step out.
Joan Walsh?
Oh my goodness, I don’t know. But I shut her off before he came on, if she did.
March 30, 2016
In outranking all other cable networks for the full quarter, FNC spent the past 10 consecutive weeks as the No. 1 cable channel in total day viewers.
The news channel, which has spent the past 14 years outstripping its cable news competition, this time bested all cable comers. In primetime, the network logged 2.37M viewers (up 26%), and 483K of them falling into the key news demo of viewers 25-54 years (up 50%). FNC’s total viewer take routed CNN’s 1.4M and MSNBC’s 888K. CNN jumped a whopping 165% compared to same quarter last year, while MSNBC grew 66%. Among 25-54 year olds, FNC edged out CNN’s 455K and bested MSNBC’s 226K. Here too, CNN soared, by 143%, to MSNBC”s 71% spike.
In total day, the network averaged 1.35M viewers (up 14%) and 271K news demo viewers (up 23%). In overall audience, FNC’s total day tally bests CNN’s 732K and MSNBC’s 502K combined. CNN is up 57% compared to first quarter of ’15 and MSNBC is up 59%. In the news demo, FNC’s 271K edged out CNN’s 217K and MSNBC’s 131K. MSNBC is up 54%, compared to CNN’s 48% gain and FNC’s 30%.
What amazes me is there are still millions of Americans watching Cable and Network News. Why? by the time they air it it has been on the internet for hours sometimes even days.
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