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Fox Top Cable News Network for 9th Straight Year, Beck Falters
January marked the 9th anniversary for Fox News as the number one rated cable news network; but it came along with some sobering news about overall audience declines. Fox, which overtook CNN in January 2002, saw its overall audience drop 21 percent from January 2010, and an even larger 31 percent loss in the key A25-54 demographic from a year ago. Keep in mind that last January cable news saw a large boost due to the earthquake in Haiti, but Fox still had trouble hanging on to those viewers nevertheless.
On the other hand, MSNBC was the only network to show growth with total audience figures up 23 percent. Even more important was the 25 percent uptick in the A25-54 demo that advertisers crave. The now departed Keith Olbermann saw a 6 percent boost since January 2010, but I guess that doesn’t really matter now.
For Fox, the biggest worry could be the 40 percent drop in total audience for Glenn Beck, with a whopping 50 percent decline in the A25-54 demo. It was also just reported that Beck’s January 2011 ratings were the lowest since 2009 in the younger demo, though he still handily beats MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews. MSNBC’s momentum may be hard to continue since shuffling their lineup. In the meantime, CNN is benefiting from the changes and is now nipping at their heels, especially in the 8 p.m. slot.
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6 Comments for Fox Top Cable News Network for 9th Straight Year, Beck Falters
Sherri: In my opinion, uneducated, former disc-jockey and alcoholic Beck’s mental meanderings should be an embarrassment to any knowledgeable, thinking person … and he’s really nothing more than one of the “cultists” and “opportunists” (who are in it ONLY for the $$$ $$$ $$$) you say you abhor.
If you are interested in educated, reasonable and serious-minded conservative commentators, try Geroge Will, David Brooks, Kathleen Parker, et. al.
FOX being #1 for news source shows just how dumbed down Americans have become.
Dear Sherri, I agree with you. Mr Beck is right when it comes to exposing all of the radicals in BHO’s circle of friends who HATE this country,,even after the USA let them get the education they wanted & the jobs to go with it.If his buds have criminal records,,that is THEIR fault,not ours. I do wish he would get off of the morality rant & stick to exposing the Marxists in the Gov’t. & who has the power to really hurt the average American with that power,,,& that includes ALL who post here,,far-left & far-right also. We are all Americans here & what BHO’s Czars do, effects ALL of us,,like it or not. I have never seen so many in one Admin. so anti-business in my 62 years. Even Jimmy Carter was a small business man.
As for one above saying that a Ex-drunk,disc-jockey,with out a HARVARD LAW SCHOOL DEGREE, is LESS of a man than this Manchurian Marxist POTUS,,& he rants like a madman,,,I say this,,,,on MOST of Glenn Beck’s predictions,,he was or is CORRECT most of the time. He is predicting things that ARE coming in the Mid-East,,possible wars,,muslim-brotherhod take over of more than just one country,,,thinks about this,,,WHAT IF HE IS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT AGAIN.???
1. Suez WILL be cut off.
2. Fuel oils will be 5 to 7 dollars a gallon,,hope you don’t commute??
3. ALL FOODS will go up in prices due to FUEL shortages ’cause the LEFT & BHO & the EPA will not let us drill HERE,,,GET IT???
4. Beck is trying to WARN us to be prepared for this,,,ARE YOU?? I AM growing crops & feeding livestock for me & my neighbors,,ARE YOU???
5. The PRO-Left all say Beck is insane,,,well if being prepared for when
the Crap hits the Fan is nuts,,then I too must be his kind of nuts,for
we will be prepared with food,fuel,generators,f/lights & batteries,radio
CB + S/W because in an emergency,,OBAMA said he will CUT OFF the I/net.
we will also have the means to defend ourselves from the Marxist POTUS.
NOT RACIST,,,NOT VIOLENT,,,just NOT SILENT.
Re: C. Mondello’s comment: “FOX being #1 for news source shows just how dumbed down Americans have become.”…
The ad hominem comment sounds like something straight out of that tattered liberal/leftist playbook: If you can’t argue/win a point logically and rationally, demean your opponent(s) character, intelligence, morality, etc…
Mondello’s comment is one only a lock-step liberal/leftist, on the losing end of the socio/politico/cultural shtick, would rant: Anyone who opposes a liberal/leftist, and/or, their counter-intuitive, irrational ideology, is obviously, categorically, uniformed and ignorant.
C. Mondello’s comment clearly demonstrates the phenomenal hypocrisy of the left’s wholly discredited “tolerance” mantra.
Inevitably, upon reading C. Mondello’s comment, one must consider if C. Mondello has ever even watched any FNC programming or, is simply parroting what other rabid Fox-haters have blustered so often, long before Mondello ever thought to revel such intractable bias herein…
why isnt geraldo on fox cable news on sat. and sun. nites anymore?
I appreciate AIM, Fox and Glenn Beck so much for helping to shed light on what I deem diabolical but “diverse” forces that champion the destruction of everything from the family to freedom to life itself. They have infected our government, our schools, our churches, our financial institutions and our military. I may not agree with Fox and/or Glenn always, but my trust of the Obama supporters is nonexistant.
I think sometimes my brain short circuits and it cannot stand anymore news of the abandoment of decency and just plain ole’ common sense. I seriously have thought about just getting earplugs and taking a break, but the despots, cultist, opportunists, murderers, thieves are not taking a break so we must do whatever we can to defeat them.