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Following President Joe Biden's first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, Fox News'sChris Wallace had nothing but good things to say, as he stated, "You know, I think this is going to be a popular speech with the American public. He offered a lot of stuff. Four trillion dollars will buy a lot of stuff from millions of jobs to child care to community health centers, all kinds of stuff, community colleges. The other thing that's pretty popular, he said, you're not going to have to pay for it. Big corporations are going to pay for it....

Update on the Fox News Post-Steal/Post-Arizona ratings collapse. Here are the current Fox News ratings losses since The Steal according to Nielsen as of Wednesday 3/24: Breem -61% Cavuto -58% Ingraham -58% Hannity -56% MacCallum -55% Fox News Primetime 7pm -55% Baier -54% Carlson -51% Outnumbered -50% Smith/Roberts -48% Perino/Hemmer -48% Fox and Friends -47% Faulkner -44% The Five -41%

Democrats aren’t the only ones glad Joe Biden is in the Oval Office. Lachlan Murdoch, CEO of the company that owns Fox News Channel, is as well. Murdoch predicted Thursday that Fox News, the economic engine of his company, Fox Corporation, would lead cable news in the ratings once again after ceding ground in recent weeks to rivals CNN and MSNBC. “The main beneficiary of the Trump administration from a ratings points of view was MSNBC,” which served as a kind of “loyal opposition.,” Murdoch said while speaking to investors at a conference organized by Morgan Stanley. “That’s what our...

Lachlan Murdoch, the CEO of Fox Corp., said Fox News would serve as "loyal opposition" to President Joe Biden, which he said will boost the network's ratings, NBC News reported. -snip- "Seventy-five million people voted for a Republican president," Murdoch said, according to NBC. "That's what we represent. We're going to stick to the center-right. That's where our audience is." -snip- The president began encouraging supporters to stop watching Fox and instead watch lesser-known right-wing outlets that showed even more loyalty to Trump, like Newsmax and One America News Network. Fox, which has long dominated cable news ratings, saw a...

Fox CEO says MSNBC gained in viewership for last four years by calling out Trump “when he needed to be called out”. Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch believes the ratings hit that Fox News took after the November election is turning around and will continue to over the next four years while they play the role of the “loyal opposition” during Joe Biden’s presidency. “Going forward, if history is any lesson, the main beneficiary of the Trump administration, from a ratings points of view, was MSNBC,” Murdoch said Thursday at the (virtual) 2021 Morgan Stanley’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications Conference....

During an investor conference Thursday, Lachlan Murdoch predicted that his Fox News Network would be the big ratings winner with President Joe Biden in the White House. Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch says his Fox News Network will be the big ratings winner while President Joe Biden is in the White House. "The main beneficiary of the Trump administration from a ratings point of view was MSNBC. That's because they were the loyal opposition," Murdoch told the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference during a virtual session that was webcast on Thursday. "That's what our job is now with...

Fox News will serve as the 'loyal opposition' to Joe Biden, CEO Lachlan Murdoch has announced - adding that the move was designed to boost their ratings. In what was seen as the most frank assessment of the network to date, Murdoch, the eldest son of Rupert Murdoch, said that the network would hold the new president to account. Speaking on Thursday at a Morgan Stanley conference, the 49-year-old said that Fox News was aiming to echo MSNBC's success in acting as the main White House critic. 'The main beneficiary of the Trump administration from a ratings point of view...

One of the most chilling examples in modern times of the accelerating full-spectrum assault on free speech and the First Amendment took place yesterday. One of the most chilling examples in modern times of the accelerating full-spectrum assault on free speech and the First Amendment took place yesterday on Capitol Hill, courtesy of a subcommittee of the Democrat-controlled House Committee on Energy and Commerce. For over three hours on Wednesday afternoon, the subcommittee held a virtual hearing titled Fanning the Flames: Disinformation and Extremism in the Media. The target was conservative media in general and Fox News in particular. Conservatives...

In recent months, the hatred of Fox News from the left has been almost matched by trending memes – from the right! Examples include (to paraphrase) “Fox News has turned left.” “Fox News is being run by Disney.” “The woke wives of the Murdoch sons are running Fox.” “RINO Paul Ryan is running Fox News from his seat on the company’s board of directors.” And so on. All of that is false. Total BS. How do I know? Unlike most of the new anti-Fox critics, I actually watch the Fox News Channel (FNC). I take notes. I have monitored the...

DALLAS – Attorneys for the state of New York asked a bankruptcy judge Friday to throw out the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy case, saying the case was filed in bad faith. In a 41-page brief filed in the bankruptcy court in Dallas, New York’s attorneys asked U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Harlin DeWayne Hale to appoint a Chapter 11 trustee if outright dismissal was denied.The state asserts that the NRA filed the bankruptcy petition while claiming to be solvent and "in its strongest financial condition in years," according to the petition.The NRA filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after the New York...

Former President Donald Trump was apparently not pleased with how his Senate impeachment trial defense team performed on Tuesday. A new explosive report from Fox News reveals that Trump was “furious” and “beyond angry” with his defense team’s strategy on the first day of the trial. “Two sources in fact, who spent time with the former president today described him as being quote, ‘furious and beyond angry’ with his impeachment defense team,” Fox News correspondent Kevin Corke reported. “He was especially upset with attorney Bruce Castro, as you pointed out for his quotes, rambling opening argument. The former president spending...

Update on the Fox News Post-Steal ratings collapse. Going from all-time record ratings before their duplicitous Arizona call, to their catastrophic ratings collapse by Monday 1/25. Here are the current Fox News ratings losses since The Steal according to Nielsen as of Monday 1/25: 7am Fox/Friendless -51% 8am Fox/Friendless -51% 9am Perino/Hemmer -48% 10am Perino/Hemmer -41% 11am Faulkner -40% 12pm Outnumbered -41% 1pm Smith/Roberts -32% 2pm Smith/Roberts -38% (used to be Perino's show) 3pm MacCallum -39% (used to be Hemmer's show) 4pm Cavuto -44% 5pm The Five -36% 6pm Baier -51% 7pm Fox Primetime -49% (used to be MacCallum's show)...

Nothing illustrates the political passions of a television network’s audience quite like ratings for a presidential inaugural. The 6.53 million people who watched President Joe Biden take the oath of office and deliver his inaugural address on MSNBC Wednesday was a whopping 338% bigger than its audience for Donald Trump’s swearing in four years ago, the Nielsen company said. On the flip side, Fox News Channel’s audience of 2.74 million for Biden on Wednesday represented a nearly 77% drop from its viewership for Trump in 2017, Nielsen said.

CNN topped the other major cable news networks in inauguration coverage of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ swearing in ceremony at the Capitol. CNN drew 9.07 million viewers, compared to 6.14 million for MSNBC and 2.57 million for Fox News. The figures, from Nielsen and released by Fox News, are from the 11 AM ET to 1 PM ET time frame. More complete numbers across broadcast and cable networks are expected to be released over the next couple of days. -snip- Fox News in 2017 drew 10.5 million total viewers, which set a record for inauguration ratings.

Politics editor Chris Stirewalt, along with nearly two dozen digital journalists, have been fired from Fox News. Stirewalt is listed by the New York Times as one of two “senior leaders” exiting the network as Fox “tries to lure back viewers who balked at its coverage of the 2020 election and its aftermath.” The other is Bill Sammon, Fox News’s longtime Washington bureau chief, who told staff that he would be retiring at the end of the month. Stirewalt, however, was “fired” according to the Times, along with “roughly 20 Fox News digital journalists” who were laid off on Tuesday....

Two executives involved in the early call of Arizona for Joe Biden on Election Night, angering many conservatives, are no longer employed at the cable network whose ratings took a subsequent nosedive. Two executives involved in the early call of Arizona for Joe Biden on Election Night, angering many conservatives, are no longer employed at the cable network whose ratings took a subsequent nosedive. Both have been lightning rods for conservatives since the election. The Associated Press reports: Bill Sammon, senior vice president and managing editor at Fox’s Washington bureau, announced his retirement to staff members on Monday. On Tuesday,...

Rupert Murdoch's Daytime Shakeup isn't going as planned for Fox News. Ratings are in for Monday 1/18 (the first day of the new daytime schedule) and compared to the previous Monday 1/11, the shakeup has only made things worse on Daytime Fox. Here are the daytime hour by hour (1/18 versus 1/11) ratings changes according to Nielsen: 9am Perino/Hemmer -2% 10am Perino/Hemmer -2% 11am Faulkner -1% 12pm Outnumbered +1% 1pm Smith/Roberts +2% 2pm Smith/Roberts -12% (used to be Perino's show) 3pm MacCallum -11% (used to be Hemmer's show) 4pm Cavuto -18% 5pm The Five -10% 6pm Baier -9% 7pm Kilmeade...

Update on the Fox News Post-Steal weekend ratings collapse. Going from record ratings before their duplicitous Arizona call, to a catastrophic ratings collapse by Sat-Sun 1/16-1/17. Here are the current Fox News ratings losses since The Steal according to Nielsen as of Sat-Sun 1/16-1/17: Kurtz -59% Neville/Shawn -57% Guttfield -57% Fox and Friendless Saturday -52% Scott -51% Fox and Friendless Sunday -50% Cavuto -48% Jeanine -48% Watters -47% Chris Wallace -41% Bartiromo -41% Levin -33%

President Trump delivered a powerful farewell speech on Tuesday. This speech was not removed or censored by the leftist tech elites. In his final remarks President Donald Trump promised his movement will live on. But most Americans missed his historic speech. FOX News did not air the speech live and in full. -snip- Only Newsmax, OANN and Right Side Broadcasting Network carried the president’s speech.

Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt was laid off Tuesday as the company restructures itself heading into the Biden administration, according to a report.