Accuracy in Media

In the first quarter of 2015, Fox News Channel had the top 14 cable news shows in total viewers and nine of the top ten in the key A25-54 demo. Fox was led by The O’Reilly Factor, which notched its 60th consecutive quarter as the No. 1 show in both categories. The only non-Fox News […]

MSNBC’s ratings took another nosedive in the first quarter of 2015, with total daytime viewership down 39 percent and primetime down 45 percent in the key demo compared to the same period a year ago. This represented MSNBC’s lowest quarterly demo viewership in both categories since the second quarter of 2005, and the lowest quarterly […]

Fox News, which has been the top-rated cable news network for the last 12 years, blew away the competition and hit a historic high by finishing the third quarter as the overall top-rated cable network, beating even the normally top-rated sports network ESPN. Fox has finished in this rarefied air once before—when the Iraq War broke […]

Maybe CNN president Jeff Zucker is right when he says that more reality based programming is what the network needs to bust out of their ratings doldrums. That surely seems like the case based on last week’s ratings, when business channel CNBC ran a rerun of ABC’s reality show Shark Tank, and easily beat Piers Morgan. […]