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Fox News’ Ultimate Boss Suggests News Ratings May Fall Post-Election (Punish Fox, Cancel Your Cable)
Variety ^ | 11/3/2020 | Brian Steinberg

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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To: Hojczyk

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.


21 posted on 11/08/2020 7:18:39 AM PST by Starboard
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To: stanne

Let us all help fox reach its new potential, in the dumpster.


22 posted on 11/08/2020 7:21:26 AM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: marcusmaximus

I pray the bottom drops out on Faux.


23 posted on 11/08/2020 7:23:40 AM PST by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: Starboard

Hannity is a lightweight and has always been full of crap. Tick tock my eye.


24 posted on 11/08/2020 7:27:02 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Well the appetite for fake news anyway.


25 posted on 11/08/2020 7:31:10 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: KeyLargo

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!!!!


26 posted on 11/08/2020 7:34:47 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Fox Business and Maria I still watch


27 posted on 11/08/2020 7:36:04 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: marcusmaximus

Dumped FOX Nation too.


28 posted on 11/08/2020 7:36:18 AM PST by headstamp 2 (Socialism- Institutionalized Deprivation)
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To: marcusmaximus

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!


29 posted on 11/08/2020 7:36:36 AM PST by Buttons12
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To: marcusmaximus

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.


30 posted on 11/08/2020 7:36:47 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (What if the Lord sent COVID-19 to immunize the world from something more deadly?)
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To: marcusmaximus
Cut you cable and defund Fox News.

That doesn't just punish Fox, it punishes the entire MSM. Cut the cord!

31 posted on 11/08/2020 7:37:41 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Is it time Claire?)
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To: stanne

Brigitte Gabriel
@ACTBrigitte
· 10h
BREAKING: Fox News now projects it has lost most of its viewers.


32 posted on 11/08/2020 7:41:03 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: marcusmaximus

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.


33 posted on 11/08/2020 7:43:26 AM PST by nagant
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To: 4Liberty
I clicked over to F&F for the last time, this morning - the three hosts looked like prisoners of war being forced to read statements.

Brian Kilmeade, watch his eyes blinking: HELP...HELP

34 posted on 11/08/2020 7:47:15 AM PST by Buttons12
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To: marcusmaximus

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.


35 posted on 11/08/2020 7:47:51 AM PST by EliRoom8
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To: marcusmaximus

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 ...


36 posted on 11/08/2020 7:48:21 AM PST by Lonely Are The Brave (A man's got to know his limitations. Dirty Harry Callahan)
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To: marcusmaximus

The quality of an elected government will never exceed the quality of the press.


37 posted on 11/08/2020 7:51:25 AM PST by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: KeyLargo; All

The Fox News ratings collapse has already started. Look at their ratings disaster from Thursday:

http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-thursday-cable-originals-network-finals-11-5-2020.html


38 posted on 11/08/2020 7:52:55 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: stanne

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 .....


39 posted on 11/08/2020 7:54:34 AM PST by Devils_Tower (media spin)
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To: EliRoom8

Murdoch didn’t expect this ratings collapse. Look at this disaster for Fox News:

http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-thursday-cable-originals-network-finals-11-5-2020.html


40 posted on 11/08/2020 7:55:18 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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