Fox News Ratings Take a Nosedive

The Huffington Post 8/29

Somewhere, Keith Obermann is sticking pins in a Bill O'Reilly voodoo doll: Fox News' ratings are down
since August of last year. Like, way down. Like down 28 percent in primetime among all viewers, down
20 percent in primetime in the "money demo" (viewers aged 25-54) and down 7 percent in daytime
viewership overall. In fact, the only place Fox is up is during the day, when they managed a ratings
increase of just 2 percent, and even then only in the money demo.

And lest you think this is an industry-wide trend, consider this: over the same time period, CNN and
MSNBC are up. CNN's up 35 percent during the day -- 46 percent in the money demo -- and up 21
percent in primetime overall, 25 percent in the money demo. MSNBC's ratings increases aren't quite as
impressive -- up 6 percent in primetime overall, 8 percent in the money demo, and up 36 percent in the
money demo during the day, 26 percent overall.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2006/08/29/fox-news-ratings-take-a-_e_28292.html

with a dash of Cheney butt licking thrown in.

for most people, the bullshit detector has gone off the scale.

Our circumstances today remind me of what we were accusing the USSR communist of being like in the 50s and 60s. Many folks seemed to believe what fox puts out. I guess after years people have figured out what fox is and it gets old and boring and they would like some accuracy. They should have gotten over it long ago. This is a new world. If fox is left in a cloud of dust - good riddance.

They can't survive without viewers and a big shot of dirty money.

can become a new sitcom like "Arrested Development"...a program that no one really ever watched....

"can become a new sitcom like "Arrested Development"...a program that no one really ever watched...."

But everyone should....that was one of the most underrated shows on TV.

...Fox News? Not so much.

Taste the happy, Sean Hannity. Taste the happy.

maybe the sheep are starting to wise up a little...

Yeah I think I know where he's sticking them too...:)

Cheers
Rec!

That's gotta hurt.

I saw a bit of his show the other day and he's a major-league a-hole.

So unless the a**hat does something even more asinine than normal, I think CNN is keeping him.

On edit: He's their 2nd highest rated program, Nancy Grace who was riding the Ramsey case in Aug is 1st for HLN.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/original/aug06ranker.pdf

Seriously, Headline News was one of the last beacons of cable news I tolerated since my expectations was I would get the news all within the hour, no fluff.

Beck is an asshole and the fact he cause braille a nuisance shows that he's another nut job appealling to the nut jobs that listen to Limbaugh and read Coulter.

...and a box of Ricolas.

...We'll gain some control over the FCC and the amount of hate talk that goes over the airwaves.

Not that I doubt the ratings numbers, just that something's odd about the stock trend.

http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=NWS&fq=D&ezd=1Y&index=5

I am hoping

watch FAUX News.

deep down they know it's crap but they like what they read/hear

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

except morans!

:hippie:

n/t

Maybe they'll hire me to replace shill o;lielly or colmes -- I bet I can get insannity to shuffle those papers vigorously.

Teenagers will ask us did we know someone who watched Faux news and still believed it.

I'm tired of the "lite" host banter on CNN. Gimme BBC World anyday. Now available in the US, you know. Ask your cable company.

To suggest they are anything other than a right wing propaganda wing of the GOP is ridiculous.

Their employees are certainly neither journalists nor reporters.

I dont have cable anymore (and for good reason).

And it made it hard to find a link to the background story ......



Link: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117947928?categoryid=14&cs=1

Couldn't have happened to a nicer person!
She'll go to Fux News soon.

I had to turn her mug off, all I see is Rush when I look at her ugly face.

billo goes topless. (ewwww!)

n/t

:evilgrin:

That's pretty much mostly what I watch any more if I watch any news shows. That and some CSPAN broadcasts like the ones on impeachment and the 2004 election just shown the other day.

and everyone in the good ol' US of A is sick to death of bush.

That's my opinion, at least. Might even be accurate! Stephen is VERY good at what he does, after all.

I'm not a night owl so it's difficult for me to stay up late and watch the Daily Show and Colbert Report. However, at 8pm there isn't a whole lot of prime picking out there on TV except perhaps Keith Olberman (and although I like the guy - still haven't caught on to the show). So usually at 8pm I'll tune into to Comedy Central and watch those 2 shows with a flip back to MSNBC during commericial breaks.

And I would suspect that other folks, like myself, who can't stay up til 11pm to catch Comedy Central programming are also tuning in at 8pm the next day

I work nights, so I tape them at 10pm (central time) and watch them when I get home, at about 3am or so. If I forget to tape them I can watch them again at 1pm the next day, but I can't fast-forward through the commercials :-)

Low ratings or high ratings, no difference.

Fox News is in partnership with Rove and the White House, and both would welcome a media event like another 9-11 for different reasons. I don't trust events to happen by circumstance or randomly.

'nuff said.

investigated by the FBI, and now this. Gooood Morning!

but can't fool all the people all the time. People are wising up finally...

the 1/3 who are still drinking the kool-aid (in some cases, having it pumped directly in an VI,) but who can't stand being reminded how much of a failure Bush and his RW policies are, but still want to believe are not watching ... even FauxNews can't polish President Turd enough for these fools

:-)

I'm in rainy cold Portland this morning, snug in my office! I think I'll celebrate with a bowl! Legally, I'm on the program...

Seriously, I am so happy to hear that Americans are getting smarter. Of course, the fact that they're going to CNN is not really cause to celebrate. But it's nice to see Fox News get their comeuppance.

How many famililies come home and plug in now?

I know OURS does.

4 interactive screens.

The big thing in the living room plays movies when the kids' friends
come over or when we are tired and want to watch the Daily Show from
the couch.

CNN and MSGOP aren't much better. In fact, they may be worse because they not quite as easy to spot as shills. However, since Roger is a dick, I'll applaud the "news."

Just like Hearst did to print news, Faux did to cable and TV news. That is the yellow journalism cat is fully out of the bag and running around with out any pretense of hiding under the noble intent of ethics or even basic reason. I won't watch cable news anymore. All of them have great trouble sourcing anything they say. Its all editorializing all the time.

Which makes me want to :puke:

:shrug:

And that guy from USAToday thought I was crazy

from time to time I will check in on it but mostly just to laugh at myself for having every watched it-I mean the loud funnywords wrestling shows not headline news now THAT is the funniest thing on TV.

don't watch them??? Their effectiveness is over... Trust is broken Credibility lost

the Machine is breaking

Woohoo!!!

These people have enough disposible wealth that they can toss it all over the place in order to get their propaganda across.

Consider the Washingting Times and the Pittsburgh Tribune - two papers in a market already dominated by one main paper (The Post and the Post-Gazette respectively). The Times & Tribune barely have enough readership to keep their papers afloat. But when you have neo-con nut jobs like Moon (the Times) and Melon-Scaife (the Tribune), you can float these papers for decades and barely put a dent into your own income.

You have someone like Rupert Murdoch making a killing with the schlock he shows over on the regular Fox TV Channels that he can take a tank on the News channel and not be affected.

What do I watch?

SEINFELD

That's the only show on FOX that's watchable.

Even with their new newscast times (5 & 10, used to be only the hour at 9), there is NO actual content in the entire broadcast. It is all fluff, plugging shows (usually American Idol year-round), creating fear about day-to-day things. In a nutshell it does not go beyond a what a busy surbanite wants. There is no actual news or policy discussed. It is tabloid journalism of the highest order.

KMSP is one of the local stations NewsCorp owns.

and maybe, just maybe, Joe 6 pack is finally coming to his senses.

over to the light (KO).

Too bad it'll still be another 4 years of those kind of rate drops before they finally dump Dildo O'Reilly

it's O-L-B-E-R-M-A-N-N

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Olbermann

Keith Olbermann is one of the most important news men we have on the TV, if not the most important, because Jon doesn't talk much about the news for good reason, he's on a comedy channel, yet the RW nuts throw a fit because he lampoons Bush & his gang to start his show almost every night. Keith, is on MSNBC and talks for over a half an hour about US & World news every night. I love COUNTDOWN!

CNN can't get it right and the "situation room" is a prime example.

is "UBERMAN" for his command of the facts and presentation of same.

superbly presents stories, almost as good as anyone out there, and has a "I like him" factor which makes you want to listen because the content is fresh and not heard often on MSM news.

www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable <<-- must see

Since I work in the media, I know what a panic that must be causing behind the scenes.

and are turing off the lies and trying to find some sense of all of the things that are happening. To do that, you have to have some inkling of what the hell is happening.

wonder if other networks will see the light and stop immitating fox.

wish that msnbc was doing better.

cnn is too much like fox.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

The beginning of the end for these fuckin' liars...

At least there is some good news.

In other news, and please spread this as quickly as possible:

"Bush 'Slush Fund,' Courtesy of Canada"

http://thetyee.ca/Views/2006/08/29/SlushFund/

Can't wait for the next Question Period up here in Canada.

I loved Conan O'Brien's comment at the Emmy awards when he introduced Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert, he said something like, "...these two have done as much for Fake News as Fox "news" has done for Fake News...":evilgrin:

Maroons!

Fox News hasn't declined 20% since the past year, it's declined this August versus last August's results!!!! There's a huge difference. One month's results does NOT make for a trend.

Remember what the big story/audience grabber was last August? Katrina.

Remember what the big story/audience grabber has been this month? Jon Benet and Karr.

Fox hasn't put nearly as much emphasis on the latter as the other two networks. Didja see that photo of Rita Cosby with her nose to the glass of the vehicle whisking Karr away? Who does she work for, again?

And please notice the absolute size of Fox's audience vs CNN and MSNBC.

What an innumerate bunch of a**-clowns. And wishful thinkers, to boot.

Katrina would've had more effect on September ratings. In case you haven't noticed August '06 hasn't ended yet so the Katrina probably wasn't factored in to Aug '05 numbers. Faux has been in a decline nearly every month for several months.

telling them I won't be back as long as they air F**N***.

I haven't stepped foot in Macy's for three years.

Even "On the Record" has gone done hill...

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/

For the first time in recent memory, Hannity & Colmes has bested The O'Reilly Factor in the 25-54 demographic for an entire month. In August, FNC's 9pm show averaged 508,000 demo viewers, 14,000 more than Bill O'Reilly's 494,000 at 8pm. (Greta Van Susteren followed close behind with 492,000 in the demo.)

Among total viewers (some would say "older," but we're not going there), O'Reilly still came in first place, with 2,073,000 viewers, compared to 1,696,000 for H&C and 1,499,000 for Greta.

But I hear O'Reilly was none too happy about losing to Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes in the demo. And just look at the recent scoreboards: the trend is holding...

KO was up +55% in Total Viewers and +61% in Key Demo, while O' Reilly dropped -15% Total and -5% Key Demo. H&C was also losing viewers.

fake Faux News really is, myself included. I used to watch. Then I saw that they were nothing but a rightwing PR machine, churning out the same lies you can find in rags like the Weakly Standard and National Review.

Blech!

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Although this is good news, unfortunately they are still pretty far out in front. Also, it is only the month of August vs. August 2005. I am curious to see September numbers when everyone has returned from vacation and is tuning in for primary election and 9/11 stories. Then I want to see the numbers for the entire year vs. 2005!