Libs Say Fox News Beats CNN Because of Pres Bush

[Annie]

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I'll get back into the "debate", you still haven't even offered a rebuttle to my point. Fox appeals to Cons with little or no MSM competition. CNN appeals to Libs while competing against other MSM competition. If you're done with your rant, then tell me how CNN expects to appeal to viewers in one of the more politically divided time in our nations history.

What competition had CNN picked up, since FOX started its rising ratings? CNN was way ahead in cable news. Why the fall off? It's not just CNN that lost ratings, so I think one could assume that the 'competition' for the 'non-cons' has strengthened. Most newspapers are tanking, as are the network news ratings-along with advertising dollars, creating a spiraling problem.

 

[red states rule]

Why do you assume to "know" me, when I've never even responded to any post you've ever made? I don't think I've ever supported socialism. I've never supported Islamo-facists or anyone that hates America.

I'll get back into the "debate", you still haven't even offered a rebuttle to my point. Fox appeals to Cons with little or no MSM competition. CNN appeals to Libs while competing against other MSM competition. If you're done with your rant, then tell me how CNN expects to appeal to viewers in one of the more politically divided time in our nations history.

Try offering both sides as Fox News does.

Try listing the conservatives on CNN. Trust me, it will not take you long since the list will be very short.

Meanwhile on Fox News, the list of Dems will be long with impressive and well known names

 

[Stephanie]

CNN is doing this......

And it cracks me up, that the libby's are in a twitter over ONE news channel, when they have, ABC, NBC, msnbc, CNN, CBS, even the damn public broadcasting channel I pay for, PBS.....

Yet their all bent over one new channel......FOX.... (you know why, because MORE PEOPLE WATCH AND LISTEN TO THEM.......
And let's not forget their hate for Rush Limbaugh, and Michael Savage.....And Ann Coulter....

They can't stand the fact, they no longer have control over the airwaves.....
They still have most papers and main stream media under their control, but not as much anymore....
Hell, look when Sen Clinton and others in the higher up in state governments, came out after Coulter...........
They were advocating for bookstores to ban Ann Coulters books.....
That sounded like a communist in my book, but what the hell do I know.....

I don't just watch fox news for my information, I've had yrs of experience to make up my mind.....
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But if you go over to some of the liberal sites, they think we are all too stupid to make up our own mind, that we can't form an opinion without watching or listening Fox, Rush, Savage or Coulter.....

I do believe that's where their downfall is....
They believe all us to be total idiots, yet ..........
That makes me.....:rotflmao:
Because we idiots keep winning those IMPROTANT elections.......

 

[red states rule]

http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2006/narrative_cabletv_audience.asp?cat=3&media=6

This will really frost the libs

Audience
By the Project for Excellence in Journalism

When it comes to the audience for cable news, four questions stand out:

Is the cable audience still growing?

How dominant is Fox News?

Can CNN still claim, ratings aside, that more people look at it over the course of a month?

Is MSNBC making any headway?

The answers heading into 2006 looked like this:

The audience for cable news was still growing, but not by much and not across the board.
One channel, Fox News, continued to drive the growth, while its principal rivals, MSNBC and CNN, continued to suffer ratings declines.
CNN still leads in the number of different people who watch it over the course of the month, allowing it to maintain its claim to be a rival to Fox News.
CNN’s Headline News emerged as a new contender in the cable news landscape. It managed to surpass MSNBC to become the third most watched channel in 2005.
Underlying all these developments is the realization that cable news’s natural growth may be reaching a point of saturation. Most people now have access to all three cable news channels (Fox News, MSNBC and CNN). That makes significant growth of new subscribers unlikely. And as easier broadband access makes the Internet a more attractive medium for audio-visual news, each channel will have to work harder to hold on to current audiences, let alone attract new ones.

Cable Audiences Grew, Gradually

Overall viewership of cable news grew 2.8% in 2005 over 2004. That figure, new in this report, refers to the total number of people watching cable news, i.e., the sum of all viewers watching either daytime news or prime time news — or both — through the year.1

When viewership is divided into the two important segments of the day, prime time and daytime, the numbers reveal more significant growth in the evening, when the channels are oriented to producing “programs” rather than tracking the news of the day.

In prime time ( 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. ), there was a 4% growth in median audience of the three main cable news channels. The number of viewers watching cable news during prime time was 2.7 million, up from 2.6 million in 2004. This builds on the 3% improvement in 2003, but falls short of the 6% growth seen in 2004. And it is a long way off from the dramatic surge in prime time median audiences in 2001 and 2002.


The overall growth of daytime viewership ( 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. ) was similarly modest. In 2005, daytime median audience grew by three percent, from 1.56 million to 1.60 million viewers. That was down from the 5% growth rate in 2004 (from 1.48 million to 1.56 million).

Only Fox News Is Growing

The overall prime time and daytime numbers, however, are deceiving, since all of the growth in viewership at the three main cable news operations was due to Fox News channel. The other channels actually saw declines in their median audience.

In prime time, Fox News’s median viewership rose by 9%. CNN and MSNBC had losses of 11% and 2% respectively.

In daytime, too, Fox News was responsible for most of the growth in cable; its viewership rose by 5%, while CNN recorded a loss of 7%. MSNBC also had good daytime performance, ending the year with a gain of 3%.

Introduced as a rival to CNN in 1996, Fox News barely competed with the cable news giant in its initial years. Between late 2000 and 2003, however, Fox News made dramatic gains to overtake not just MSNBC, but CNN as well. It emerged as the leader in the ratings race in April 2003. Since then, Fox News’s ratings success shows little sign of wearing off (see Previous Reports).

Measuring the Audience

This report calculates cable ratings as median averages. Our research team believes that the median is the fairest way to try to understand the core audience for cable, given the volatility of ratings spikes during unusual news events. The cable channels themselves usually calculate their year-to-year ratings as simple averages, which are disproportionately inflated by ratings driven by major news events and exaggerate the declines in cable audiences when those spikes don’t happen (See 2005 Report for fuller explanation).

If one calculates the cable ratings in 2005 by a simple average, or mean, as the cable channels do, the picture is much flatter, except for CNN. The average prime time audience over all rose less than a percent (0.2%). While CNN saw a gain of one percent, Fox News grew less than that (0.2%) and MSNBC’s viewership fell by 1%.

 

[-Cp]

They're both horribly slanted. Fox caters to Republicans with little competition, while CNN caters to Democrats, while competiting with other Liberal networks.

Care to tell me how "Fox caters to Republicans"? How many hours per day or week do you even watch Fox News to make that assessment?

 

[red states rule]

Care to tell me how "Fox caters to Republicans"? How many hours per day or week do you even watch Fox News to make that assessment?

I am willing to be he does not watch Fox News.

He is like the libs who say Rush and Sean spread hate on the radio, but have never listened to their shows

 

[Emmett]

Sometimes when the grass is green and the sky is blue you just have to accept that and realize you cannot convince folks that it is opposite!

Fox has the best the best ratings because...............

It is the best station. Their reporting is fair! They offer a COMPLETE alternative (Colmes for example), and they have class. Class is something that eludes CNN completely and the others are working with less than a glass full.

Frankly I like a balanced report, I don't give a shit who is giving it. Fox provides me that more times than any other.

Green grass, Blue sky, it really is, cut and dry!

 

[Avatar4321]

Try offering both sides as Fox News does.

Try listing the conservatives on CNN. Trust me, it will not take you long since the list will be very short.

Meanwhile on Fox News, the list of Dems will be long with impressive and well known names

Can't do that because offering both sides will make it a "conservative" station because when both sides debate conservatives win.

 

[red states rule]

Can't do that because offering both sides will make it a "conservative" station because when both sides debate conservatives win.

Fox News has alot of libs on. Today they have had libs on nearly every hour debating the war on terror, the 06 elections, the terror plot in London.

The libs have been former Presidental candidates, former US Congressmen and Senators, and liberal opinion writers.

 

[CharlestonChad]

I am willing to be he does not watch Fox News.

He is like the libs who say Rush and Sean spread hate on the radio, but have never listened to their shows

Just another ignorant post from RSR. Nothing new.


-I watch more Faux news than anyother single news network

-I mostly listen to music on the radio, but when I need a good laugh, I turn to Rush.

 

[red states rule]

Just another ignorant post from RSR. Nothing new.


-I watch more Faux news than anyother single news network

-I mostly listen to music on the radio, but when I need a good laugh, I turn to Rush.

Another example of liberal ranting from CC without any facts to abck it up

Typical of the kook left

IIF you do watch Fox news, then you know they have alot of Dems on, and they an equal chance to voice thier opinion

Unlike on CNN and MSNBC

 

[CharlestonChad]

Another example of liberal ranting from CC without any facts to abck it up

Typical of the kook left

IIF you do watch Fox news, then you know they have alot of Dems on, and they an equal chance to voice thier opinion

Unlike on CNN and MSNBC

Do you honestly believe that Fox is unbiased?

 

[red states rule]

Do you honestly believe that Fox is unbiased?

Yes they are. Once again, they have more Dems on the the number of conservatives on CNN and MSNBC combined.

You claim you watch Fox news, so you know they have big name libs on daily

The numbers do not lie. Fox News is gaining viewers while CNN and MSNBC are losing viewers