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Offline Freeper

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Fox News set for best year yet
« on: June 25, 2009, 02:37:32 PM »
hmm I would think with quarantinefoxnews.com up and running Fox would be doomed!!!1111111

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a kennedy  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Jun-25-09 03:13 PM
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Fox News set for best year yet
   
By James Hibberd

Fox News is on track to have its most-watched year ever, showing significant ratings growth despite having just come off a highflying election year.

With the second quarter coming to a close, Fox News averaged about the same number of viewers as the top three other cable news networks combined. And while rivals including CNN (-22%) and MSNBC (-18%) took hits following last quarter's inauguration-fueled boost, Fox News (-3%) remained nearly steady.

Compared with last year, the Fox News (averaging 2.1 million viewers, 509,000 adults 25-54 quarter-to-date) is up 35% over last year in primetime viewers and 48% in the demo. CNN (805,000 viewers, 210,000 in demo) fell 16% in viewers and 29% in the demo. MSNBC (787,000 viewers, 259,000 in demo) climbed 15% in viewers and about on par, -3%, in the demo. And CNN Headline News (553,000, 201,000) showed very strong growth, up 39% and 37%, respectively, and is on track for its best second quarter.

The new standings are strong enough to rank Fox News third behind USA and TNT among all ad-supported cable networks for the quarter among primetime total viewers. In its core demo, Fox News had eight of the top 10 cable news shows. It had similarly sunny increases for total day, while CNN and MSNBC were roughly on par with last year.

Earning double-digit growth after an election year is quite a feat for a news network. With Fox News best known for such right-leaning personalities as Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, one might assume having a Democrat in the White House somehow helps boost viewership.

A dominant political party indeed can fuel the popularity of opposing voices -- Comedy Central's "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" and liberal online news hubs Huffington Post and Daily Kos came to prominence during George W. Bush's tenure, just as talk radio conservatives like Rush Limbaugh and news sites like Drudge Report rose during the Clinton years.

full article: <http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/new... >

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DainBramaged  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Jun-25-09 03:16 PM
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1. I guess when the 'moths' are lost, they turn back to the 'candle'.
   
With so much positive news about Obama and the Democrats on the major networks, where else can the desperate mouth breathers turn to? FAUX still doesn't compare to the Big 3 they just rule cable news.

Hmm, but I thought CNN and MSNBC were also propaganda machines of the vrwc.

The funny thing is this primitive actually posted something true all media outlets except faux snooze have been kissing Obama's behind since day one.

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edbermac  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Jun-25-09 03:21 PM
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2. The USA has a population of over 300 million people.
   
And Fox News has an average of 2 million viewers?

WOW! I'm impressed! :sarcasm:

And DU has a couple hundred active posters out of 300 million people I'm impressed too.  :-)

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get the red out  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Jun-25-09 03:26 PM
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3. The righties are trapped
   
They can't deal with anything that might shake their own, false, world view so they have to watch Fox while the rest of us can watch anything they want. And a lot of liberals watch Fox from time to time just to fume or laugh.

Yeah that's why us righties throw a conniption fit when CNN is on the TV at the doctors office and run websites like quarantine cnn ... oh wait its the primitives who do that in reaction to faux snooze.  :mental:

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Re: Fox News set for best year yet
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2009, 02:42:01 PM »
Hey DUmmies, ever heard the phrase "Flight to quality?"

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Re: Fox News set for best year yet
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2009, 02:51:24 PM »
But I thought Olber-dork and that dude on after him were getting "HUGH" ratings? :lmao:
« Last Edit: June 25, 2009, 02:52:57 PM by Ralph Wiggum »
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Re: Fox News set for best year yet
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2009, 02:58:44 PM »
It just eats the Little Goons up, dud'nit?  It's anti-validation.  It BURNS!!! 
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Re: Fox News set for best year yet
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2009, 04:19:55 PM »
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2. The USA has a population of over 300 million people.
   
And Fox News has an average of 2 million viewers?

WOW! I'm impressed!



Ummmmm.....excuse me?:



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Compared with last year, the Fox News (averaging 2.1 million viewers, 509,000 adults 25-54 quarter-to-date) is up 35% over last year in primetime viewers and 48% in the demo. CNN (805,000 viewers, 210,000 in demo) fell 16% in viewers and 29% in the demo. MSNBC (787,000 viewers, 259,000 in demo) climbed 15% in viewers and about on par, -3%, in the demo. And CNN Headline News (553,000, 201,000) showed very strong growth, up 39% and 37%, respectively, and is on track for its best second quarter.



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Re: Fox News set for best year yet
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2009, 04:39:34 PM »
But wait, there's more. If you include the millions of people watching Fox News in doctors' offices, dentists' offices, auto repair shops, oil change joints, gyms, restaurants, bars, hotel lobbies, airports, etc., the margin would be even greater. I've never seen MSDNC or CNN at any of those places, except some airport gate areas that have Headline News feeds. And not one of all those thousands of TVs ever has its channel changed due to a moonbat making a scene. Keef and his carpetmuncher sidekick are unknown to the nation at large.
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Re: Fox News set for best year yet
« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2009, 04:46:31 PM »
Damn, you're good, sir.
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Re: Fox News set for best year yet
« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2009, 06:07:44 PM »
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DainBramaged  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Jun-25-09 03:16 PM
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1. I guess when the 'moths' are lost, they turn back to the 'candle'.
   
With so much positive news about Obama and the Democrats on the major networks, where else can the desperate mouth breathers turn to? FAUX still doesn't compare to the Big 3 they just rule cable news.

I guess the brain damaged primitive doesn't read Drudge. The "big three" just reported the lowest news viewerships in all of TV news history.
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