The nasty carriage dispute that has left about 14 million satellite-TV subscribers without Fox News Channel is rearing its ugly head in the worst of places. The cable news network, typically a ratings powerhouse, saw a significant dip in viewership last week as its parent company, 21st Century Fox Inc., squabbled with Dish Network Corp. over programming fees.
For the week ended Dec. 28, the first full week since the blackout began, Fox News averaged 939,000 prime-time viewers. That’s down from 1.65 million viewers the previous week and 1.68 million the week before that, according to data from Nielsen Media.
Viewership for news programming is often unpredictable from week to week, and Christmas week tends to be a slow news period. But Fox’s prime-time ratings are down almost 12 percent when compared to the same week last year, when it averaged 1.06 million viewers. That makes sense: Dish Network has a market share of about 13.4 percent of the pay-TV industry.
Fox News viewership is also down in the key 25-54 demo, though not as drastically. The network averaged 160,000 weekly viewers in the demo, compared to 175,000 for the same week last year.
Gee it looks like somebody better come to the negotiation table with hat in hand, and possibly on bended knee.
Though I have to admit I would REALLY like it if Dish just kept them off indefinitely.
Perhaps if that happened other cable outlets would follow suit.
Music to my ears!
ReplyDeleteMr. B and I recently stayed several days at a Hampton Inn & Suites that offered (if that's the right word) Fox, but not MSNBC. They heard from us about that, all right, and we got a groveling whining response within several hours.
Good for you, I would have done the same!
DeleteIf I have to wait in a specific room for a personal service I need and FOX is the channel showing on their TV, I change the channel myself.
DeleteIf there are others in the room, I've actually asked out loud if they mind me changing the channel and no one has ever objected!
Most businesses seem to play FOX which I also find interesting, but I live in a state where politics lean to the right!
Morning Joe Loses 26% Of Its Young Viewers As MSNBC Audience Rejects Scarborough
ReplyDeleteMSNBC’s Morning Joe has seen 26% of its younger audience leave as MSNBC viewers have turned off the Republican talking points of Joe Scarborough in favor of other options.
According to TVNewser, over a quarter of their former audience has abandoned MSNBC’s Morning Joe, “Several shows saw significant individual declines, including “Morning Joe,” which was down -26% in the demo, while CNN’s “New Day” grew among total viewers and posted a second-place finish over MSNBC in the demo.”
What the above paragraph means in plain English is that younger viewers (age 18-49), who are the same people that MSNBC thought they could capture, are soundly rejecting Morning Joe and Joe Scarborough. Morning Joe’s audience is profiling similar to Fox News’s audience in terms of age.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/01/02/morning-joe-loses-26-young-viewers-msnbc-audience-rejects-scarborough.html
Smug @sshat Joe can thank himself.
DeleteWell deserved by the ego driven Scarborough! Never have liked him! He's demeaning to his guest host, the female, too!
DeleteEveryone needs to watch Dr. Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. No one better! Well educated, teaches, is factual and has a wonderful sense of humor!
I personally cannot stand Chris Matthews and stopped watching him a long time ago on MSNBC. Talks too fast, hard to understand, interrupts his guests often due to wanting to get his take on things out, etc.
The 2015 GOP Clown Car: Bigger, Meaner, and More Dangerous Than Ever
ReplyDelete...It's a new year though and the clown car about to be sworn in next week is bigger than ever with a majority in both the Senate and the House. A car full of gun loving, poor hating, veteran screwing, climate change denying, Wall Street deregulating, health care repealing, and wealthy old white man loving clowns. Their plans so far include repealing Dodd-Frank, cutting and privatizing social security, cutting pensions, defunding Obamacare, eliminating food stamps and welfare, raising taxes on the middle class and working poor, cutting taxes for the super-rich and corporations, and who knows how many other Benghazi, IRS, and impeachment hearings we'll have to endure. They have the numbers to do what they want and by this time next year we could be having a completely different conversation in a completely different country.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-zombeck/the-2015-gop-clown-car-bi_b_6402678.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
The Republicans can do all they want, but we have an outstanding POTUS who will veto their Bills. He's already promised to do it - has his pens ready!
DeleteI suspect they are going to have a difficult time being reelected - if Republican members of the U.S. Congress - in 2016. And, I can hardly wait to see Hillary Clinton run for POTUS and beat their party's ass!
I have Dish and I have to tell you that they got CBS back on the air in less than 24 hrs because of customer complaints so there cannot be many people complaining about the loss of Faux...teheehee
ReplyDeleteI asked them to put MSNBC on and take FOX off my basic package years ago. Got the nice letter saying, sorry, but this is the package. A year later, MSNBC appeared on my basic package (Yeah Rachel Maddow!). I wrote to them recently saying, no worries that Fox News is gone, but stay away from the Blaze. I got a nice form letter in return that basically says sorry about not having Fox on the programming, working out details soon. I don't know if anyone actually read my letter or not.
DeleteIs Wasilla cable or dish?
ReplyDeleteboth
DeleteMostly whores and Meth heads.
DeleteGood. The less propaganda, the better.
ReplyDeleteO/T Even the right wing outlets are reporting on "Barkghazi"
ReplyDeleteNewsmax, Daily Caller, Fox New Radio, The Blaze
Sarah has really stepped in it this time.
I knew America's love of their pets would cross the aisle.
DeleteJill needs a "Don't Tread on Me" t-shirt.
DeleteGood One! Add one of those collar cameras ;)
Deleteguess they couldn't afford to renew the whore of babble-on's contract.
ReplyDeleteAnybody have thoughts on the reports that in some markets, the Fox News is being replaced by Glenn Beck's 'network', The Blaze?
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