Fox News is continuing to show weakness in its primetime schedule in the wake of President Obama’s reelection. In the eight days since election day MSNBC’s average audience for the key 25-54 year old demographic drew about 8% more viewers than Fox. MSNBC led Fox in primetime on five of the eight days between November 7 and November 16.
Particularly impressive were the results of the two powerhouse programs on the MSNBC lineup: Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell. Maddow won seven of the eight days against her Fox competition, Sean Hannity. For the 8-day run Maddow beat Hannity by 18% and her 544k average was second to only Bill O’Reilly in all of cable news. O’Donnell won all eight days against Fox’s Greta Van Susteren. His margin of victory over Van Susteren was 17% for the eight days.
This can no longer be considered a temporary blip on the ratings scales. With two weeks having elapsed, the MSNBC programs are showing steady strength against competition that was once thought insurmountable. Only Bill O’Reilly is holding his top position for Fox in primetime. This may indicate that Sean Hannity is wearing thin with viewers who are likely disappointed with his overly confident (and harebrained) assurances that all the polls were wrong and that Mitt Romney would emerge victorious.
Hannity is perhaps the most stridently partisan host on the Fox News network and frequently augments his analysis with that of the pundit world’s most notorious nutcase, Dick Morris. As for Van Susteren, she never had the cult-like following of her Fox comrades, but she has been closely associated with her good friend (and client of her husband), Sarah Palin. That association may also have become a drag on the ratings of her show. Hannity has been with Fox since its launch and is still a top-rated radio talker. Van Susteren, on the other hand, had better start to show some improvement or her time slot will go to daytimer Megyn Kelly, a Roger Ailes favorite whose contract is expiring next year and likely wants to move to primetime.
God I love this!
I certainly hope that this signals the beginning of the end of Fox News, which I really feel would be perhaps one of the greatest things to happen to this country since the discovery of electricity.
And let's hear it for Professor Maddow! Woo, hoo!
The Sarah Palin Curse is bringing down FOX like it has brought down the GOP.
ReplyDeleteYep. Loved seeing the numbers for Hannity and GVS, Palin's 2 major enablers.
DeleteMen love Sarah Palin, and she loves men.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.theblaze.com/blog/2012/11/20/sarah-palin-2016/
That's the problem... She loved Glen Rice, Curt Menard, Brad Hanson and is now stalking President Obama.
BWHAHAHAHA, So true.
DeleteAt least The Blaze got headline right that the Charlotte Allen piece in the LA Times was a "Back-handed" endorsement of Palin in 2016. Interesting that there were only 2 comments, whereas the article about Jon Huntsman had 250+. Maybe Beck and his followers are over Granny Grifter.
DeleteReadership over at the Blaze isn't the most pleasant, intellectually curious bunch. I can't stay long at the site b/c I get a headache from reading while shaking my head from side-to-side in wonderment at the community perspective.
Please, Santa, I've been a good girl! Let it be the beginning of the end.....
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving, all!
They are all vile.
ReplyDeleteWatching that antic of Megyn tottering on her stiletto's to prove Karl Rove wrong was embarrassing on so many levels.
Although, can you imagine Sarah doing any better with Megyn in primetime? Sarah likes the balance of looks with GVS, she is the hottie in that abysmal back and forth - with Megyn, not so much.
She probably has that written in her contract. Men only or unattractive or much older women to interview her only. Now that you mention it, you really don't see her appear with the fox blondes do you? What I would give to know what that contract says! Hopefully someone spills when it expires soon and she's let go. I highly doubt they'll renew her contract.
DeleteI had that WTF moment too, but it was Hilarious, when Megan was handed down the steps to walk down the long hallways to find the room where the math people were.
DeleteThere's no way Megan can make it in primetime TV, she'd actually have to you know, think. Well, maybe The View would have her, they have that other blond dumb bimbo, they would probably like another.
I have a prediction: when Fox News begins to seriously slide - once the chink in their armor widens a bit, so to speak - the mainstream news community will attack them mercilessly.
ReplyDeleteRight now only people like John Stewart, Bill Mahar, and Stephen Colbert are brave enough to point out the obvious partisan bias of Fox News.
But you wait and see: if Fox News should slip even just a little bit more - everybody and I mean EVERYbody is going to chime in on what a corrupt organization they really are.
Fox News will become the Sarah Palin of cable networks, that is, little more than the butt of mean jokes. And deservedly so - in both cases - because they earned it.
There is a BIG difference between reporting the news and what Fox News does. Perhaps as big a difference as, say, between a world-leader and Sarah Palin.
You are judged by those you hang with in this world! May it be so....
DeleteGryphen, I am going to break a personal rule about not making OT comments. Please everyone, don't criticize me, because I feel this is important.
ReplyDeleteI am talking about the Mayor of Newark New Jersey, who as a Democrat is seriously taking on these idiots who don't believe there are families in the US who can't afford breakfasts for their children.
He has openly challenged someone - who has actually made the above statement! - to live off food stamps for a week or a month, ON CAMERA!
Now THAT is the way to handle these fools: CALL THEIR CRACKPOT STUPID IDEAS AND CHALLENGE THEM. Get them to PROVE their arguments.
I would LOVE to see a piece by you on this subject!
I love O/T, and it usually gives IM a next topic.
DeleteLeland,
DeleteMario Batali (celebrity chef) highlighted the difficulty in subsisting on a "food stamp"-based budget earlier this year by actually shopping, preparing, etc all meals for his family for a week.
I'm not a big Food Network fan, but one of my die-hard Conservative friends loves to cook and he watches something on the channel almost every day. Anyway, it's ironic that he and I watched that show together, when Batali was discussing all of the strategies that he had to employ to "make it" on the budgeted amount for his entire family and have them eat enough healthy food.
Anyway, my friend was pretty blown away by learning just how difficult it would be to work with that limited budget. It made a huge impression on him--- I remember him saying at least 2 or 3 times that "I thought they got MORE than that. I can't believe most people can make it on that and even be half-way healthy." It was a real eye-opener.
It's the old "walking a mile in the other feller's shoes" analogy. When people have to seriously consider the plight of and understand the decisions having to be made by those less fortunate financially than themselves, some light bulbs usually come on in their heads and they instantly gain more empathy for others. Yes, even Republicans (many, not all, unfortunately) will understand and react positively.
I didn't see the thing you were referencing (is that Cory Booker?) but here's a link that might be of interest from BusinessWeek on Mario Batali.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-17/mario-batalis-food-stamp-budget-rice-and-beans
*** lots more on the google, but I also noticed an article where another celebrity chef Jamie McFadden did some a similar deal in September for a central Florida Food Bank.
http://blog.feedhopenow.org/2012/09/food-stamp-challenge-chef-jamie-mcfadden/
Leland, I love OT comments and links. This food stamp challenge should go viral, especially this week when people are obsessed with "the perfect Thanksgiving Meal" and feasting.
DeleteThank you for this BRIGHT sparkling report. Starts my morning off with a smile.
ReplyDeleteBTW where is Sarah? Now that she has been "endorsed" by a RWNJ in the LA Times, she should be taking a victory lap; starting her money begging/tease for 2016 to beef up her rapidly depleting Sarah-PAC.
ReplyDeletePerhaps she's undergoing some facial maintenance. Or on a bender. Perhaps she has finally run out her contract with FOX. I do so hope that her presence on the public scene soon comes to a complete end. I'm not wishing her death (that would make her a hero and the myth would continue.) I just want her gone from the public. Permanently. And she can take her dysfunctional family with her.
She no longer gets headlines...yesterday's news, all of that tribe, thank God! In the old days, I used to get on here just to whack her with my giant swatter anytime she opened that ignorant flytrap of hers. It was always just a matter of time until people realized she was a mental case.
DeleteMy guess?
DeleteSarah, and her blunderful family, are living on the food stamp budget. They're carving a quiznos and washing it down with red bull for Thanksgiving as a special treat.
Where is Sarah? My guess is that she will emerge like one of those women who is obsessed with too many cosmetic surgeries.
ReplyDeleteMaybe with Obama's re-election, it has actually become okay to identify oneself as a progressive or liberal without getting piled on by RWNJs. Maybe after FAUX was so wrong about the elections, some folks decided to listen to an actual news source.
ReplyDeleteHannity is insufferable. What an odious piece of garbage he is, and so full of sound and fury. It warms my heart to see him taking a beating in the ratings. He is the worst host on the most foul network. Hope he continues to slide and gets the boot.
ReplyDeleteHoping that history treats Fox channel for what it was: a giant shit stain on the face of America.
ReplyDeleteI'm so tickled to FINALLY see FOX falling like it is in ratings. I've been a proponent of Rachel Maddow for years now as well as Lawrence, Chris and Ed.
ReplyDeleteI've never watched FOX and hear that it is showing less and less of Sarah Palin which is hugely wonderful! It'll be interesting to see if they renew her contract. I thought they might only because President Obama was reelected and she could continue her rants against him on their channel. But, perhaps not as she has lost the 'following' power!
FOX, Sarah and Rush Limbaugh going down the tubes! Yea!!!!!!
Greta Van Crooked Face is over at Fox 'WHINING' about not having access to White House Press Conferences. Well, would you make it convenient for a station that reconstructs what is said by the President. Furthermore, Fox has no one assigned to get the real news. Henry is a Practical Joker, who is always laughing at Press Conferences. Try reporting the whole News Story, Greta and stop inviting that Drug Addict Sarah Palin to spew her incoherent Word Salad..
ReplyDeleteWhat I love most is the optic of Dr Maddow beating Hannity and Larry O'Donnel beating Greta Van Mushmouth, and the goofy photo of Seanny boi they chose).
ReplyDeleteIf only this meant that their viewership is tuning into a real news station who's best shows actually do things like research and report facts. Oh who am I kidding?