Cable News Ratings: Fox News Stays On Top
CNN falls to third in prime demo, HLN keeps it close
By Alex Weprin -- Broadcasting & Cable, 4/28/2009 2:49:31 PM
HLN and Fox News were the big winners in April, with CNN’s little sibling growing 47% in the primetime demo from a year ago, and the current cable news winner growing a staggering 63% over the same period.
From 8-11 p.m., Fox News averaged 551,000 viewers in the target 25-54demo, with MSNBC finishing a distant second with 271,000, CNN third with 248,000 and HLN fourth with 231,000. In addition to Fox and HLN’s growth over April 2008, MSNBC was up 16%, while CNN was down 12%.
The news improved for CNN when looking at total day however. Fox News still finished first with 339,000 demo viewers, with CNN second with 190,000, HLN third with 153,000 and MSNBC fourth with 135,000.All the networks grew in total day, with Fox up 62%, CNN up 17%, HLN up 47% and MSNBC up 6%.
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I've watched them all and Fox is my favorite. They obviously are slanted right, but I will say they are fair and balanced and show all sides of a story, even when it might put the right wing in a bad light. To me, MSNBC is much like Libya state t.v., only reporting and showing videos that make the left look good. You never see anything about Solyndra or "Fast and Furious", and they make the protesters at OWS seem like heros, and only bash on the Tea Party
ray - 10/21/2011 1:12:56 PM EDT -
It's critical to distinguish regular news reporting from commentary. It is in commentary that ideological/socio-economic bents may appear, but news reporting is generally about the same among the dable networks.
Francis J. Clifford - 6/17/2011 9:55:01 AM EDT -
HLN, CNN and MSNBC split the non-conservative audience. Fox's niche is the economic and social conservatives in which there are still a lot of because of structural economic realities and a predominently religously fundamentalist and caucasian based history in the U.S.
Thomas Nasell - 2/16/2011 8:26:35 AM EST -
I use to watch MSNBC.But I can't stomach the bias reporting of the Ed show and Hardball.FOX is the most fair that's why they are No.1
Whatpartof - 7/9/2010 6:31:09 PM EDT -
MSNBC is so annoyingly baised that I am amazed by it. I will switch to their station just to hear what they have to say. I can't listen to more than one sentence to hear realize just how amazingly liberal biased they are. I also hate how they will run with ANYTHING that they think will make the conservatives look bad. I was watching coverage of the Tea Party, they just looked like old white people with protest signs, just standing there, but MSNBC makes them reports on them like they are an out of control mob! I can't believe how poorly they report the news.
Bobby - 3/26/2010 2:59:14 AM EDT
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