Fox News Continues to Dominate Cable News Ratings, Hannity on Top

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Fox News Continues to Dominate Cable News Ratings, Hannity on Top


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By Jim E | April 25, 2018 9:59AM

Sean Hannity won’t be beaten that easily.

After weeks of scandal, it looks like the Fox News anchor most closely connected with President Trump isn’t having his ratings affected by the negative media coverage.

Just two weeks ago, we learned that Hannity was the third client of Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen. This led to a lot of gossipy speculation that, because Cohen has been hired as a fixer in scandalous cases involving marital infidelity, perhaps Hannity was paying hush money to a mistress. These rumors were found to be untrue, and Fox News issued a statement of support for Hannity. However, that didn’t stop some of Hannity’s colleagues from chastising the host, saying he was trying to have it both ways by asking Cohen for legal advice and maintaining he was never an official client.....................

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[bearsfootball516]

1. A lot of posters here thought Hannity was dead in the water when the Cohen thing happened.

He's got far too much support from both Fox and his viewers. He's basically another version of Trump. Fox makes too much money off him to let him go, and his supporters love him so much that they'll never leave.

[Kirk Lover]

3. Well I think we're gonna be hearing more about old Seanny boy now. nt

[Demsrule86]

13. Give it time...chercher La Femme.

He had a fixer problem...only a matter of time.

[Orsino]

54. It hasn't really happened yet.

There wasn't much chance of Fox' dismissing Hannity over even an obvious conflict of interest. If there's dirt in the relationship, it hasn't come to light yet.

[Iliyah]

2. But there are more

collectively that watch the other cable combine, and therefore in my opinion, population wise out number that one truly fake one.

Commericals I would think would target more viewers than the one fake one news channel.

Ya think, companies would be explosed to more variety of persons, than one fake channel.

Therefore, at this point in time, the USA's exposure is limited to bullshit crapola fake news.

And, fake news (Murdoch) plus sin sin clair are a dying breed.

[still_one]

5. That is also an excellent point. That is the same misleading game played with Apple verses Samsung,

rather than comparing Android numbers total verses IOS

Android is about 67%

IOS is 31%

[Cha]

14. Mahalo, Iliyah, for

posting that excellent point!

[sharedvalues]

31. Not dying. 50.0 million listen to right wing propaganda radio

And Breitbart was shaped by Bannon to propagandize a new audience - young loner techies.

[sharedvalues]

33. Also don't forget Prager pU- uses YouTube for propaganda

The right wing propaganda machine is evolving and improving. We can’t just wait passively for it to expire. It will not. American oligarchs put too much money into propaganda.

[oasis]

46. +1

[still_one]

4. What percentage of the American population watch Fox news? What percentage of the American

population watch cable news?

What percent of the population have cut the cord and don't watch cable?

2.48 million watch fox news.

There are 250 million adults

That means .1% of the population watch fox news, and 99.9% of the adult population don't waste their time

[Iliyah]

6. Correct. 2.50 million round figure.

The other cable channels combine has a whole lot more.

Even social media has a whole lot more NON RWers, but somehow RWers are trying to control the message. This needs to stop.

[still_one]

9. You are right Illyah, thanks for the context.

[sharedvalues]

28. 50.0 million listen to Limbaugh and hate radio nm

[Bengus81]

48. And yet Pillboy had to take a paycut on his last contract.....

And it was only extended for two years instead of four or eight. It runs out in about two years.

[sharedvalues]

50. Limbaugh is on the air this week

Prepping his propagandized listeners for the coming pee tape- telling them it will be fake.

I agree we’re going to fix the propaganda problem over the next decade. But it matters right now too. So we should all be telling everyone we know to stop watching Fox and listening to right wing radio.

[marybourg]

11. I make that 1%

[RhodeIslandOne]

16. Cable news is regularly beaten by reruns....

Winning the cable news ratings is like bragging you finished seventh at the company picnic three legged race.

[JDC]

42. I think this is accurate.

I'll be honest, I don't watch any of these shows. At all. Ever. I dont think I am that unique. Your math proves that out.

[Kilgore]

44. So whats the point?

Then why do we pay any attention to what fox says?

I suspect its that their viewers vote and a majotity of the 99.9% dont.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

51. And..

A lot of cable companies in rural areas offer a basic package w just fox "news" as the only news channel.

[oberliner]

7. Kinda sad that the MSNBC lineup is all white people (predominantly white males)

One expects that sort of thing from Fox, but you'd think MSNBC would be more diverse.

CNN not much better. Do Wolf and Anderson each need two time slots?

[pstokely]

12. aren't TV news viewers in general older?

and whiter? the demos of CNN, MSNBC, and the OTA network news really aren't that much younger than faux fake news?

[RhodeIslandOne]

17. Don't worry, you'll have one less POC soon enough.

Re: The Joy Reid ratfucking.

[oberliner]

20. There are zero right now

The lineup is listed at the OP - there are no POC.

Joy Reid is a weekend morning host.

[RhodeIslandOne]

24. I know that

It doesn’t change that she’s there doing a great job and soon she won’t be because she’s apparently scaring someone even on weekends.

[oberliner]

32. Can you name any black women besides Joy Reid who host shows on MSNBC at any time?

[leftynyc]

18. Their most popular

prime time host is a gay woman. Women as prime time hosts at all is relatively new. Change doesn't happen overnight and frankly I'm far more concerned about the stories they cover and the dots they connect for us than how dark their skin is.

[oberliner]

19. But when an opening became available, they chose a straight white man (Melber)

There was an opportunity there that was missed.

[RhodeIslandOne]

25. Do you have an issue with Melber's reporting and interviews?

He may actually be the best person on the nightly lineup for my money.

[oberliner]

29. I have an issue with the entire MSNBC primetime lineup being white (and predominantly male)

We are talking about the entire lineup from 4PM until midnight being comprised of 6 white males and 2 white females.

Was there not a qualified person who could have gotten than 6PM opening who wasn't a white male?

[RhodeIslandOne]

34. Sorry you're not a fan of Melber

He’s really good, but I’m guessing if you don’t watch you don’t know.

[sharedvalues]

30. Oberliner, why not compare to Fox's white blond woman lineup?

Fox hires inexperienced white women because they are hot.

MSNBC isn’t great - the corporate Comcast influence is clear, and Lack came from Fox. But they have a lot of strong smart women, and they have Joy Reid (a weekend host: still a host).

MSNBC hosts are MUCH more diverse than Fox. That’s what happens when you have a network like Fox that is a propaganda arm for a party of white people that needs to inflame racism for votes.

[oberliner]

36. Because that is exactly what I expect from Fox News

They are awful in every way - that goes without saying.

[sharedvalues]

39. Don't be numbed to Republican problems.

We have a big problem in American society: the Republican Party and it’s propaganda machine. We shouldn’t become numbed to them and spend all our time on much smaller sins elsewhere.

Let’s focus on the big sins: the actions of conservative billionaires.

[oberliner]

41. The Republican Party and it's propaganda machine is definitely a big problem in American society

No argument there.

However, that has really nothing to do with the fact that MSNBC ought to have a more racially diverse group of prime time hosts, in my opinion.

We can make positive change happen on our side, at the very least.

[Turbineguy]

8. I watched Fox Business for a few minutes in passing today.....

They were pimping trump for a Nobel Prize. And gushing about how wonderful he is. I was expecting the guy to say, "I love you Donald, and I want to have your baby!"

It seems to me that the Nobel Prize Committee has some standards that Trump could not possibly meet, so I don't know what the Fox people are hoping for.

[Mike Rows His Boat]

10. Ingraham beats O'Donnell?

WTF?

[oberliner]

22. Everyone on Fox News beats everyone on MSNBC

[JI7]

15. Because democrats as a whole don't watch cable news in the same numbers as Republicans do

and when democrats do watch a significant number will tune into CNN even with more watch MSNBC. so the numbers will split.

while right wingers as a whole will watch Fox News.

and right wingers are also more likely to tune into all the other crap including limbaugh and other talk radio.

most democrats will maybe watch one or 2 shows and not as regularly as the right wing watches their crap.

also i'm sure people wanted to tune into sean hannity to see what he would say after the cohen thing.

[oberliner]

21. 33 percent of Fox News Channel viewers identify as Democrats

That's only 6 percentage points lower than the number who identify as Republicans.

http://www.pewresearch.org/2009/10/30/partisanship-and-cable-news-audiences/

[JI7]

26. that's from almost 10 years ago

and the percentage of republican fox viewers is still greater than the percentage of republicans that identified as republican in the general public.

[oberliner]

27. Here's a more recent survey

It shows that 1 out of 5 Fox News Channel viewers voted for Hillary Clinton.

And that a similar percentage of FNC viewers also watch MSNBC regularly (and an even higher percentage of FNC viewers also watch CNN).

https://www.surveymonkey.com/curiosity/cable-news-partisanship-drives-trust/

I just think it's important to remember that while Fox News viewership does heavily skew Republican, there is still a pretty significant percentage of Democrats who watch regularly.

There is some overlap in both directions.

[JI7]

35. The fact they also watch other networks didn't doesn't mean much

They are still heavily right wing. Trump watches all networks alsoi.

[oberliner]

37. That's fair

I guess I just think there is some value in the fact that it's not completely two isolated groups - that there is a little crossover, maybe something can make an impact.

[Bengus81]

49. Go work inside on of those crazed RW FOX lovers--the TV is on that shit the second they get up

and probably till they crash. I've worked in homes where the channel is NEVER changed.

[Skidmore]

23. How much of that

is accounted for by tvs set to Fake News in waiting rooms, etc.

[GoCubsGo]

38. Yet more people don't watch them than do watch them

Sure,viewership is even before 6 PM. That's because only the retirees are watching. Once working people get home from their jobs, you'll note that almost twice as many people are watching the non-Propaganda Channel networks during some hours.

[bronxiteforever]

43. Agree. 56.6 million US consumers to go without pay TV this year

as cord cutting accelerates. Bad news for traditional pay TV: cord cutting is accelerating at a pace faster than previously estimated. According to a new industry report from eMarketer, there will be 22.2 million cord cutters ages 18 and older this year – a figure that’s up 33.2 percent over 2016. The firm said it’s had to revise its forecast as the pace of cord cutting has increased. Previously, it believed there would only be 15.4 million cord cutters in the U.S.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/13/56-6-million-u-s-consumers-to-go-without-pay-tv-this-year-as-cord-cutting-accelerates/

Fox only has 2.5 million viewers at most.

[Kilgore]

45. They still get fox news

Know a few cordcutters and they still get fox via streaming. Was a surprise to me. Here is what I found.

https://cordcutting.com/how-to-watch-fox-news-without-cable/

[bronxiteforever]

47. I am glad you agree with me that Fox News sucks.

[GoCubsGo]

52. One can also get MSNBC and CNN that way, as well.

Smart TVs often have the replays, as does any device that carries Pluto TV streams.

[Sophia4]

53. CNN plus MSNBC which attract the same kind of viewer always top Fox.

Fox is the conservative network, the only one.

CNN which is rather neutral and MSNBC which in the evening is maybe more "liberal" in its viewpoint are acceptable to anyone who is not conservative.

Consistently, CNN plus MSNBC have more viewers when added together than Fox can even dream of.