Fox News Channel Leads in 2007 Cable News Ratings
MSNBC, CNBC, CNN Headline News Experience Growth
By Marisa Guthrie -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/4/2008 12:11:00 PM
Fox News Channel once again ended the year as cable’s top news network, followed by CNN, with few radical ratings dips or surges for either network. But among the channels with smaller audience totals -- MSNBC, CNBC and CNN Headline News -- 2007 was a year of growth.
For the year in primetime, Fox News was the No. 6-ranked cable channel behind USA Network, TNT, ESPN, TBS and Lifetime Television. That’s two notches higher than its ranking last year. CNN, its closest news competitor, was No. 26, down one.
Fox News was down 1% in total viewers in total day and 3% in the 25-54 demographic, but it still boasted most of the top-rated shows on cable news led by The O’Reilly Factor, which has been No. 1 in its 8 p.m. time slot for 85 consecutive months.
CNN posted a slight uptick in total day in viewers and the demo (1% and 3%, respectively) and posted a 7% gain in primetime (8 p.m.-11 p.m.) in the 25-54 demo.
MSNBC continued to grow in total day in viewers (17%) and the demo (15%) and was up in primetime 28% in total viewers and 22% in the demo. But its morning ratings eroded after Don Imus was deposed in April. Year-to-year in the morning, MSNBC was down 9% in total viewers and 21% in the demo with Joe Scarborough’s Morning Joe.
In total day, CNBC was up 27% in viewers and 25% in the demo and in primetime gained 34% in total viewers and 17% in the demo.
The fledgling Fox Business Network is averaging a mere 6,000 viewers in total day and 15,000 in primetime for its first three months on the air. But the channel is not widely available.
CNN Headline News was up in total day 12% in viewers and 11% in the demo and 14% in primetime viewers and 16% in the demo.
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All cable news is so slanted one way or another, some of them are informative at times. The higher they are in the ratings the more bull they sling.
How bout a show where they report the news and lots of it without the editorial or idiot guests.
The original CNN had it right with they just had 24 hours of news from around the world, they should have stuck with and expanded that with more content, more news, varitey instead of repeating the same thing every hour.
Fox and MSNBC and CNN all suck. Altough each of them has atleast 1 good show... maybe, but most of their stuff is just idiocy.
ctl - 4/15/2009 11:34:05 PM EDT -
you know it is hard to beleive the oppurtinties we have in this country we have so many left wing idiots in it.because cnn.msnbc,abc,cbs do not have the guts to report the truth about husien obama he got elected.they did not have the balls to tell about his association with tony resco reverned wright that is a laugh to call that crap rev.the two men of middle east decent that he went on two year middle east jaunt with.and when he got back he had the money to go to a ivy league school.he is the manchurian canidate.
wesley jay mccurdy - 3/31/2009 12:25:04 AM EDT -
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FOX NEWS IS NOTHING BUT LIES AND FASCISM FOR THE GREEDY STUPID AMERICAN NAZI VIEWERS. BILL ORIELLY IS A FASCIST AND THAT'S WHY YOUR PRESIDENT IS A BLACK LIBERAL!!!
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FUCK ALL OF YOU BITCH MADE CONSERVATIVE WIMPS
Reps Suck - 3/20/2009 3:55:32 AM EDT -
During ads on Fox News O'reilly I tune in to MSNBC to see if Keith O has gone completely over the edge. He is totally phsychotic over Bill O and George Bush. After the election Keith hounded Sarah Palin relentlessly every night as if she were still a candidate but he never once gave a constructive critisism. Someone forgot to tell him that the election was over? Perhaps Keith doesn't care for women.
Andrew P Foster - 1/27/2009 7:12:52 PM EST -
I use to watch Chris Mathews and Keith Olberman religiously; I stopped because somewhere they lost their sense of humanity and compassion for what people think and want to hear or what makes news. As an American I value the truth and I just got the sense these two men are nothing more than a propaganda outlet for the Democratic Party. News should be fair and truthful. I’m not a fan of George Bush but during the last 2 years every time I tuned in to Hardball or countdown, it was all about Bush bashing; they talked about our former president with such contempt. I find that very un-American. I am thankful for the freedom of speech and for the freedom of the press but sometimes some reporters go a little too far. Not all people are into propaganda.
Joan - 1/22/2009 6:40:31 AM EST
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