Posted on 11/02/2016 4:46:12 AM PDT by drewh
Megyn Kelly of the Fox News Channel has emerged as that network’s weak link as Fox has fallen behind CNN in the ratings for a full month for the first time since 2001. The October ratings are out and CNN beat Fox News for the first time in 15 years.
“CNN enjoyed its strongest ratings month in years in October, beating rival Fox News in the key 25-54 demographic for a full month for the first time since 2001,” The Hill’s Joe Concha wrote. “CNN averaged 704,000 prime time viewers overall in October from the ages 25-54 demographic — the most coveted group by advertisers. Fox came in second with an average of 663,000 viewers, while MSNBC averaged 432,000 viewers — an all-time high for the Comcast-owned network.”
While Kelly’s own program still finished atop cable news in the key 25-54 demographic for the month, CNN beating Fox News overall in primetime in the demo for the first time in over a decade comes as Kelly has emerged as the face as of the network thanks to the honchos in the Murdoch family.
Rupert Murdoch’s sons James and Lachlan, who have taken over 21st Century Fox, have decided—according to a Vanity Fair profile earlier in October—make Kelly the future of the network. And as they’ve rallied entirely behind Kelly, after Kelly made a move to oust Roger Ailes as the chairman of the company
Kelly has also emerged as the network’s leading anti-Donald Trump voice, using her platform to try to disparage the Republican presidential nominee and his supporters. The highest profile spat, which came last week, was a battle she had with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich over former President Bill Clinton’s alleged sexual assaults and alleged rapes.
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I have never watched her. She is a pox on Fox.
I watch more Fox Business Channel now than I do Fox News due to Megyn, Bret, Brit, Gutfeld, Perino, Stirewalt, and Shep. Unfortunately, they have Kennedy on at the same time as Megyn Kelly and Kennedy is another snarky anti-Trumper so no Fox channel gets my viewership for that hour.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that CNN hasn’t GAINED viewership; instead, Fox lost it due to them pissing us off - that is, constitutional conservatives.
Get on the new media express; it ain’t stopping and Trump is the cow catcher out front.
I thought I saw here that the figure being discussed now was $12 million
Who didn’t see that coming?
FOX has turned into more of a liberal network, and has way too many liberals on.
As for Kelly, we never watched her since her attacks on Trump at the debate, and this ratings fact cannot be good for her while she tries to get her 20 million a year.
20 million a year for doing her crap, unbelievable.
Hold on, this doesn't pass the smell test. How can Kelly (spit) win her time slot yet still be blamed for the overall decline at Faux News?
Then there is this pearl from the original Hill article:
Fox, however, still won the race in total viewers. Overall, Fox averaged 1.547 million viewers to CNN's 1.02 million and MSNBC's 886,000.
So Fox has 50% more viewers than CNN, yet CNN "beat" Fox?
exactly the same for us in our house. though we now watch One American news.
networks charge more for younger viewers because they are more likely to buy different brands, while older viewers are said to be set in their ways...
One has to admit, Kelly is a pretty face but having heard all I need from her, I look elsewhere for anything news related.
I’ve turned off Fox Spews because of too many liberals. I stopped watching Kelly after the first debate when she showed eveyone she’s a liberal whore
I finally got OANN through KlowdTV last night. I was jonesing for TV news and was curious.
What a difference. This is what Fox used to be. They are completely neutral, but they did spin a new channel off devoted to coverage of Trump and the election.
They are covering all the stuff the MSM isn’t.
Megyn has driven conservatives away from FOX and there is no one to replace us.
MSNBC and CNN already have the libtards locked up.
And why would a libtard watch The New Megyn who has morphed herself into a Rachael Maddow clone when they already have the real thing?
[we need Trump TV as soon as possible.]
RSBN
Watch Fox Business (Dish 206)...Lou Dobbs and all the other host. They are much better then Fox News (Dish 205)
She comes across as so bratty and arrogant. She really thinks shes something special.
I can only imagine she is loathed by her colleagues and crew.
They will take a hit on election night. I can’t stand to watch her.
Better legs?
“Hi, my name is Megyn and I’ll be your server tonight.”
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