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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What happened to “We report. You decide”?
What’s happening now is their dictum in action!
They reported. People are deciding to give them up!
Ya beat me to it!
Everyone in my family stopped watching Fox. And it is not because the election is over.
Read later.
What I am driving at is that these individual commentators have reached more ears spreading the conservative message that anyone else other than POTUS. It is difficult getting our brand out to the public and leading up to the election they did a great job, according to their viewership numbers. POTUS on several occasions not only appeared on their shows but mentioned his support of them (not the network).
Their voices are now seriously diminished as their viewership has taken a serious hit. And, I think we, the conservative movement are being damaged because of it. The new conservative shows, Newsmax and OANN, are good, but they do not reach the number that FOX’s conservative corp does - Maria, Tucker, Hannity, Laura, Levin, Jessie Watters, Jeanine, Fox & Friends, and a couple more I can’t remember at the moment. They have done a good job for the past four years for POTUS and conservatism.
see Post #85
But overall Fox supported the fraud of the stolen election. We may never get another chance. It is time to take risks and turn to true activism. We’ll build up the new sites so that they do reach as many people as Fox did in its heyday. We’ll smash the opposition.
What’s this Fox News???
I don’t watch any of them, honestly. I cut out TV around 2000. I listened to Hannity, Ingraham, and Levin (among others) on the radio before they got their TV gigs. Hannity and Levin still do radio, I know. I see Tucker maybe three times year when I visit others, tops. I hear more of Mark Stein on Rush’s show. I’ve never seen a second of Newsmax or OANN. My knowledge of it is strictly from FR.
If those commentators want to stick with Fox because they’re happy there, that’s fine. If people want to quit watching Fox (and football and whatever else) for whatever reason, that’s up to them. They don’t owe Fox their time and attention. Similarly, Fox doesn’t have to cater to their tastes, either.
They went woke. So, “Bye Felicia!”
For conservatives, it seems like there is more interest in the news than ever with the stealing of the vote.
Time will tell if they persuade some of the libs that may tune in with the conservative message...
However, you are leaving out the fact that Fox News sabotaged President Trump’s re-election by deliberately calling AZ early...Had they not done that, the narrative might be completely deliberate...
As the wife of the Murdock son who is in control said, “We did it!” and they did perhaps alter the future of the USA with their early call...Thanks Fox! NOT!
Sorry but I cannot ignore that.
BTW, I keep reading that various un-named Fox producers are keeping lists of and blackballing commentators who go on other media such as (particularly) NewsMax, OAN, America’s Voice, etc...Do you think some of those producers might be Tucker’s, Hannity’s and Ingraham’s???
I quit watching/listening to Hannity about two years ago. His show was just becoming a rehash of what Bongino said two weeks earlier.
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