Fox News ratings take a steep tumble (-24% from 2005)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman/publish/article_8294.asp

October was the 10th anniversary of Fox News, and in that 10 years it has risen to the No. 1 cable news network, riding on the tagline "Fair and Balanced."

Yet Fox News is showing serious signs of aging, led by steep audience declines.

Fox News’s total audience fell 24 percent in the past year, to 1.3 million viewers from 1.7 million, and its key primetime audience, viewers ages 25-54, was down 7 percent in October on a year-to-year basis, to an average 363,000 viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research data.

In third quarter, Fox News suffered a 38 percent decline in 25-54s, to 409,000. In second quarter, that audience was down 22 percent and in first quarter it slid 28 percent. It is still No. 1 by a long shot.

Fox attributes the 2006 declines to a soft news year compared to 2005, which saw audiences shoot up during events like Hurricane Katrina, the Asian tsunami and the death of Pope John Paul II.

One of the Hurricanes Faux is facing is named Keith as in Keith Olbermann who's ratings are up 67%!

:kick: :bounce: :rofl: :nopity: :applause: :woohoo: :beer:

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. That is still 1.3 million viewers too many....lots of brainless, ignorant folks!

[MADem]

9. Duuuuuuh...dey like da pwetty colors, ya see...all dat RED!! An' BLUE!!!

An' da color blind ones get ta look at the slutty presenters in low cut outfits!!! Wheee!

[saigon68]

16. A lying bunch of NEOCON Enablers

[AlinPA]

19. 'n flags 'n lotsa them Bush luvin' 'murcan guys and blondes....

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Any media executive...

Who is not paying attention to KO's rise in these times needs to be drummed out of the corps.

I feel certain Murdoch is noticing. Watch and see who gets shows after the elections.

[MADem]

23. Murdoch will ride the winning train, no matter what. That corporate pig can turn on a dime.

He has no problem with local Faux news affiliates being uber-liberal, and showing all sorts of edgy, leftie situation comedy and reality show programming, while his flagship cable news outlet is to the right of Attilla the Hun. He can have his flacks on his cable news rail about the smut on TV while he peddles it on his entertainment channels.

If the "new cool" became All Democrats, All The Time, the Hannitys and other fatheaded smarmy pricks would be out on the breadline, and in would come some telegenic new blood that appeals to the lefties amongst us!

Murdoch ain't gonna be caught napping. Like I said, that fat bastard can turn on a dime like a ballerina in top form.

[mod mom]

3. Thank you Keith! for helping the public see the light!

[ShortnFiery]

4. Yes, couldn't happen to a creepier group of Republican Enablers! n/t

[BootinUp]

5. So the free market kicked in and kicked their ass

Basically the competition moved more into direct competition. What you see happening now, is different shows with strong opinions from both sides beginning to develop. Olberman will start this movement for the left.

[Ezlivin]

6. Good reason to keep NOT watching

Fuck Fox News. If I want propaganda I can watch old SS films.

[emulatorloo]

8. And if I want fantasy, I can watch the Disney channel

:toast:

[LilyLibber]

17. Amen to that!

Faux's falling ratings are sweet music to my ears.

[dchill]

7. Now THAT...

is NEWS!

[donkeyotay]

10. A total audience of 1.3 mil, out of a nation of 300 million?

I heard that 5 wingers at the radio misinformation encampment outside the WH have a combined audience of 30 million. I think talk radio has more propaganda power than Faux, who we give too much credit to for influence. (Well, other than being Voice of the WH.) They've convinced us that they're more representative of other regular folks than they really are.

[Tiggeroshii]

11. faux however, has influenced the entire media, turning it right ward

So now that their tactics seem to be dying, so is their influence.

[maseman]

28. A couple of notes on ratings

1.3 million national viewers to Fox news is pretty lame overall. Do you realize that the all news radio station in New York, 1010 WINS, reaches over 2 million people every week. Add WCBS-AM in New York (the other all news station) and they have another 1.7 million peopke tuning in.

1. That is just in one market and

2. They are both radio stations.

Sorry, but I am not much impressed with a petty number of 1.3 million. Influence? Not much.

[Darkseid69]

36. Combined audience of 30 million?

You wouldn't think that there might be some duplicates among them? (ie, listen to all 5?)

Sorry I'm incoherent. The company bought a case of Rock Star and I'm ODing

[tabasco]

46. Fox sucks. What's rock star?

Is that a type of beer?

I haven't gotten out much lately.

[Darkseid69]

47. Energy drink

I never developed a taste for alcohol. One Newcastle and the next thing you know I'm saying I do in Vegas

[requiem99]

12. My Dad used to watch Fox for it's news, now he watches it to know what ISN'T true.

[gully]

13. "HURRICANE KEITH!"

LOL

[Straight Shooter]

14. Oh no, Mr. Bill!

:nopity:

[hwmnbn]

15. They attribute the decline.....

to the fact that 2006 was a "SOFT NEWS YEAR"?!? WTF

[TexasLawyer]

18. who wants to watch Pravda?

The real news is elsewhere.

[progressoid]

20. HN & MSNBC were actually up in that demo last month, by18 percent & 19 percent!!

CNN has also been down steeply this year in total viewers and 25-54s but not as much as Fox, and in October its 25-54 primetime audience was essentially flat at down 1 percent.

And both Headline News and MSNBC were actually up in that demo last month, by 18 percent and 19 percent

[Judi Lynn]

21. Spontaneous human combustion, road rage mortalities, cirrhosis,

accidental bomb-making accidents, murders, and prison probably claimed a lot of the Fox viewers.

Maybe Pre-Rapture has also captured some of them.

[civildisoBDence]

22. FoxNews: We DISTORT, you DERIDE

Fox has been #1 so long because they had so little competition among their demographic--old fascistic farts with nothing better to do.

Newsprism

[llmart]

31. Now that's funny..........

and sums up their viewers nicely - old fascistic farts!

[hadrons]

24. I suspect part of the decline is due to things being so bad ....

that the Bushbots are too demoralized to watch

[joefree1]

25. must of been my artwerk

just kidding, Faux news sucks. Their audience is literally dying off.

[TheCowsCameHome]

26. I'll watch if Colmes jams Hannity's ball point pen into his eye.

Otherwise, fergetit.

[Mr_Spock]

27. RW morons actually trying to justify their decline in an election year?

They being the #1 propaganda outlet for the WH & Republicans?

lol - they are in DEEP trouble if they can't get righties to watch in an election year.

[justinrr1]

29. Keith Ratings

Anyone know what Keith's ratings are?

[Mr_Spock]

30. They are up more than Fox is down!!

He is doing great - welcome to DU BTW... :hi:

[RamboLiberal]

40. This site runs Cable News Ratings just about every day

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

Also breaks a lot of stories on cable news and has links to the stories

[depakid]

32. I guess people are realizing

that if one watches Fox "news," not only are they misinformed, but no one wants to hang out with them.

It's disgusting-

[geniph]

33. I know Schadenfreude is bad karma and all, but

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[LynnTheDem]

34. Even the idiot rightwingnuts are tired of being lied to, conned, duped?

Took em long enough.

'Course, that's why they're idiots.

[truthisfreedom]

35. "Fox attributes the 2006 declines to a soft news year" bwahahahahaha...

"the news just didn't cooperate with us!"

whining ninnies. Denial ain't just a river... bye-bye, Faux SNooze!

[goforit]

37. tisk tisk!

[Wednesdays]

38. They still show Faux News all day every day

on all the huge plasma TVs at my local Sam's Club in Oklahoma City. I'm wondering when they'll finally swich channels after people passing by laugh at it. :eyes:

[specimenfred1984]

39. Good, keep repukes stupid because they deserve it

They're just looking for any reason to hate people so let them have their fake reasons.

[autorank]

41. Attributed decline to a "soft news year" What planet are they on? K&R

Fox cable is the feeder to all those fox stations. They're the ones that "mold" the minds of so many.

If it were just cable, we'd have nothing to care about: "1.3 million viewers from 1.7 million, "

This IS great news.

[Frank Cannon]

42. Even the biggest dumbshit gets tired of being lied to after a while

And FOX's "news" is pretty much aimed at the biggest dumbshits.

[Felix Mala]

43. When you're swirling round and round in a flushing toilet, you get

tired of being told you're really in a Jacuzzi.

[YOY]

44. May they go the way of Newsmax:

Basically a joke in widely accepted journalism.

[sqarebis]

45. Yay, down with fake news for morons!

I wish they had no viewers, but a declining viewership will do for now.