Fox losing moderate-conservative viewers

[auditor0007]

Since election day last year, Fox has lost a large percentage of its moderate-conservative viewership.

Hannity dipped more than 50%; O'Reilly lost about a quarter.

According to Nielsen data, Fox News's prime-time monthly audience fell to its lowest level in twelve years in January among the 25-to-54 demographic. Daytime Fox News programming likewise saw its lowest monthly ratings in this age cohort since June 2008. Even the network's two biggest stars, O'Reilly and Hannity, have not been immune from viewer desertion: Hannity lost close to 50 percent of his pre-election audience in the final weeks of 2012, and O'Reilly more than a quarter. The slide hasn't stopped in 2013, either. Compared with a year ago, O'Reilly's February prime-time ratings dropped 
26 percent in the coveted 25-to-54 demographic, his worst performance since July 2008. Hannity's sank even further, to the lowest point in his show's history.

And that's not all! There's a big loss in the "trust" factor with Fox, for those claiming to be moderate-conservatives.

...among those who identified themselves as "somewhat conservative," the level of trust fell by an eye-opening 27 percentage points during the previous twelve months (from a net plus–47 percent "trust" rating in 2012 to plus–20 percent now).

You can only put out so much bullshit for so long before normal people start tuning out.

What I found that was quite a hoot, was that a recent survey found Fox viewers to be less informed than people who watch no news programs at all!

Dan Cassino, a political science professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University who specializes in studying partisan psychology...conducted a survey that found Fox News's viewers were less informed about current political issues than those who watched no news at all.

That's pretty bad!

The Republican Party is losing moderate conservatives, lol.

 

[Billo_Really]

The Republican Party is losing moderate conservatives, lol.

That's right. The GOP's prime demographic is old, white people and they're dying off. They have nothing to offer the young, educated, 25-54 crowd, who are sick of Fox propaganda.

Half the country doesn't trust Fox broadcasts to be a credible source of information.

a recent Public Policy Polling survey of news media...found a marked drop in Fox News's credibility. A record-high
 46 percent of Americans say they put no trust in the network, a nine-point increase over 2010. What's more, 39 percent name Fox News as their least-trusted news source, dwarfing all other news channels. (MSNBC came in second, at 14 percent.)

 

[blastoff]

Bs.

Not according to the Nielson Ratings.

Could be, but the industry pays attention to the Nielsen ratings which tell a different story.

Fox vs. MSNBC is a nightly battle of the 8 and 9 PM time slots. O'Reilly & Hannity vs. Revolving Door & Maddow. Whichever wins those two hours wins the night, always.

On 9/27/12, almost 6 weeks out from the November election, Fox creamed MSNBC in the two-hour period (as well as rest of evening) 5,352,000 viewers to 2,519,000.

Come 2/25/13 though here's the numbers for the combined two hours:

Fox 5,176,000...vs. 5,352,000 (9/27/12), -176,000...-3.2%
MSNBC 1,774,000...vs 2,519,000 (9/27/12), or -745,000...-29.5%

Source: Nielsen Cable ratings posted on Drudge, generally a day or two after the date. So look them up if you doubt as I'm far too lazy to link them up for you low information losers.

 

[Truthmatters]

lets not forget Olberman

 

[Lonestar_logic]

Bullshit. You just agree with the leftist bias MSNBC puts out there with their stories so you claim they're "real" news. You're no different than the dedicated Fox viewers you're criticizing. Talk about irony.

Name me anyone at MSNBC that openly promoted a candidate in the last election like Fox did for republican candidates. Glenn Beck promoted the Tea Party on his show for weeks before their big rally in Washington. In fact, whenever any republican candidate goes to Washington, he's got to make a required visit to kiss the ring of Roger Ailes. Fox practically writes the republican agenda. MSNBC doesn't do anything like that for the democrats.

Link!

 

[Billo_Really]

Link!

Here you go!

Fox News--Wing of the GOP?
More like a Republican slugging arm

...linking Fox News to the Republican Party should hardly be controversial; examples of Fox GOP partisanship are virtually endless.

Tony Snow, a Fox News Sunday anchor, Rush Limbaugh fill-in and former chief speechwriter for George Bush, Sr., often seemed confused about whether he was a journalist or politician. While a Foxnews anchor in 1996, Snow endorsed GOP candidate Bob Dole for president in the Republican National Committee’s magazine Rising Tide (New York, 11/17/97).

On election night 2000, George W. Bush’s cousin John Prescott Ellis was in charge of Fox’s “decision desk” tracking election night returns. The network was first to declare Bush the winner in Florida, and therefore of the presidency. According to the Washington Post (11/14/00), Ellis spent part of the night on the phone with his cousins George and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, “giving them updated assessments of the vote count.” (Ellis boasted of these conversations to the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer—11/20/00.)​

As for Beck...

A week before the first annual April 15th Tea Party rallies in 2009, Fox News promotions kicked into an even higher gear. Glenn Beck told his viewers, “We’re getting ready for next week’s Tax Day tea parties. All across the country, people coming together to let the politicians know, OK, enough spending.” Sean Hannity was even more explicit: “And, of course, April 15th, our big show coming out of Atlanta. It’s Tax Day, our Tax Day tea party show. Don’t forget, we’re going to have ‘Joe the Plumber’.” At times, Fox anchors adopted an almost cajoling tone. On Sean Hannity’s show, viewers were told, “Anybody can come, it’s free,” while Beck fans were warned, “You don’t want to miss it.” In an ironic moment, Arthur Laffer (inventor of the Laffer Curve that was used to justify Reagan’s supply-side economic the*ories) congratulated Beck on air for the success of the Tea Parties. “I’m just attending,” Beck quickly demurred, before continuing his promotion of the upcoming San Antonio Tea Party.

 

[Billo_Really]

Could be, but the industry pays attention to the Nielsen ratings which tell a different story.

Fox vs. MSNBC is a nightly battle of the 8 and 9 PM time slots. O'Reilly & Hannity vs. Revolving Door & Maddow. Whichever wins those two hours wins the night, always.

On 9/27/12, almost 6 weeks out from the November election, Fox creamed MSNBC in the two-hour period (as well as rest of evening) 5,352,000 viewers to 2,519,000.

Come 2/25/13 though here's the numbers for the combined two hours:

Fox 5,176,000...vs. 5,352,000 (9/27/12), -176,000...-3.2%
MSNBC 1,774,000...vs 2,519,000 (9/27/12), or -745,000...-29.5%

Source: Nielsen Cable ratings posted on Drudge, generally a day or two after the date. So look them up if you doubt as I'm far too lazy to link them up for you low information losers.

The focus of this thread has been on their "post-election" decline.

This past January, however, Fox could only muster 267,000 average nightly viewers—a 50 percent drop from that 2009 level, and not much more than MSNBC's 235,000 or CNN's 200,000.

You need to live in the now!

 

[longknife]

Just for you, loinboy!!!

Fox News Tops All Cable For 1st Time Since 2005
By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday April 23, 2013 From Fox News Tops Cable Rankings For First Time Since 2005
Eat your hearts out all you Fox News haters who can't handle the truth!

 

[Billo_Really]

Just for you, loinboy!!!

Fox News Tops All Cable For 1st Time Since 2005
By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday April 23, 2013 From Fox News Tops Cable Rankings For First Time Since 2005
Eat your hearts out all you Fox News haters who can't handle the truth!

WTF are you talking about? Fox has had the No.1 slot for the last 11 years in a row.

Though the network did retain its status as the top-rated cable news network in 2012—its eleventh consecutive year at number one—the steep drop in ratings that its shows have experienced since Election Day has raised eyebrows, precisely because corresponding shows on MSNBC and CNN have not experienced the same precipitous decline.

But have been in a post election decline ever since.

The Boston Bombing might of spiked them a few viewers, but aside from that, they're losing their audience.

Your entertainment blog doesn't look all that credible.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

fux is here to stay. As long as there are people who hate facts like the rw's do, they have a guaranteed audience. fux is the source of news for The Stupid Party.

I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[blastoff]

Could be, but the industry pays attention to the Nielsen ratings which tell a different story.

Fox vs. MSNBC is a nightly battle of the 8 and 9 PM time slots. O'Reilly & Hannity vs. Revolving Door & Maddow. Whichever wins those two hours wins the night, always.

On 9/27/12, almost 6 weeks out from the November election, Fox creamed MSNBC in the two-hour period (as well as rest of evening) 5,352,000 viewers to 2,519,000.

Come 2/25/13 though here's the numbers for the combined two hours:

Fox 5,176,000...vs. 5,352,000 (9/27/12), -176,000...-3.2%
MSNBC 1,774,000...vs 2,519,000 (9/27/12), or -745,000...-29.5%

Source: Nielsen Cable ratings posted on Drudge, generally a day or two after the date. So look them up if you doubt as I'm far too lazy to link them up for you low information losers.

The focus of this thread has been on their "post-election" decline.

This past January, however, Fox could only muster 267,000 average nightly viewers—a 50 percent drop from that 2009 level, and not much more than MSNBC's 235,000 or CNN's 200,000.

You need to live in the now!

No need to go back and reread slowly this time. I'll explain what you failed to comprehend. Six weeks before the November election is pre-election, and February '13 is post-election. It's simple once you grasp pre = before, and post = after.

Oh, and speaking of living in the now, assuming a few days ago is now enough for you...

With 350,000 viewers on average and 94,000 in the adults 25-54 demo, MSNBC had its least-watched and lowest-rated total-day results of the year last week. That was also the lowest total-day demo result the network has had since the week of June 26-July 2, 2006, when MSNBC pulled in just 83,000 viewers among adults 25-54, according to Nielsen data.

For MSNBC, last week’s total day results were down 17% in viewers and 22% among the demo from the comparable May 14 to May 18 week of last year. In primetime, the numbers were even worse as a steady decline from the beginning of the year continued.

Here, it's great reading...Obama Scandals Bring MSNBC 7-Year Low While Fox News Rises - Deadline.com

 

[AquaAthena]

fux is here to stay. As long as there are people who hate facts like the rw's do, they have a guaranteed audience. fux is the source of news for The Stupid Party.

I wouldn't have it any other way.

Fox is here to stay as long as people want to know breaking, relative, news as soon as it happens. If they want to bury their heads in the sand, they watch CNN or lol....MSNBC or "Comedy Central," where most get their news.

The Liberals I know, all watch Fox News and when I ask why, they say they want to know the news as it is happening.

 

[Lonestar_logic]

Link!

Here you go!

Fox News--Wing of the GOP?
More like a Republican slugging arm

...linking Fox News to the Republican Party should hardly be controversial; examples of Fox GOP partisanship are virtually endless.

Tony Snow, a Fox News Sunday anchor, Rush Limbaugh fill-in and former chief speechwriter for George Bush, Sr., often seemed confused about whether he was a journalist or politician. While a Foxnews anchor in 1996, Snow endorsed GOP candidate Bob Dole for president in the Republican National Committee’s magazine Rising Tide (New York, 11/17/97).

On election night 2000, George W. Bush’s cousin John Prescott Ellis was in charge of Fox’s “decision desk” tracking election night returns. The network was first to declare Bush the winner in Florida, and therefore of the presidency. According to the Washington Post (11/14/00), Ellis spent part of the night on the phone with his cousins George and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, “giving them updated assessments of the vote count.” (Ellis boasted of these conversations to the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer—11/20/00.)​

As for Beck...

A week before the first annual April 15th Tea Party rallies in 2009, Fox News promotions kicked into an even higher gear. Glenn Beck told his viewers, “We’re getting ready for next week’s Tax Day tea parties. All across the country, people coming together to let the politicians know, OK, enough spending.” Sean Hannity was even more explicit: “And, of course, April 15th, our big show coming out of Atlanta. It’s Tax Day, our Tax Day tea party show. Don’t forget, we’re going to have ‘Joe the Plumber’.” At times, Fox anchors adopted an almost cajoling tone. On Sean Hannity’s show, viewers were told, “Anybody can come, it’s free,” while Beck fans were warned, “You don’t want to miss it.” In an ironic moment, Arthur Laffer (inventor of the Laffer Curve that was used to justify Reagan’s supply-side economic the*ories) congratulated Beck on air for the success of the Tea Parties. “I’m just attending,” Beck quickly demurred, before continuing his promotion of the upcoming San Antonio Tea Party.

That's what I thought. Fox News has never openly endorsed a Republican candidate.

Thanks for clearing that up.