{"id":7789,"date":"2006-06-27T13:17:13","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T17:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7789"},"modified":"2006-06-27T13:17:13","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T17:17:13","slug":"fox-news-has-seen-better-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/fox-news-has-seen-better-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News has seen better days"},"content":{"rendered":"

I noted<\/a> last month that Fox News personality Bill O’Reilly’s ratings are on the decline. Apparently, it’s not just him; it’s his whole network. As Jonathan Singer noted<\/a> Broadcasting & Cable, a trade publication for the TV industry, reported<\/a> that [tag]Fox News[\/tag]’ ratings are “dropping precipitously.”<\/p>\n

Slackers at [tag]Fox News Channel[\/tag], you’re on notice! Your boss is not pleased. Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes is on the warpath following his network’s recent [tag]ratings[\/tag] slump, and he won’t hesitate to clean house to turn things around.<\/p>\n

So far during the second quarter, the No. 1 cable news channel’s primetime schedule has dropped 22% in its core 25-54 demo and 8% in total viewers. The first quarter was even worse. […]<\/p>\n

Insiders say that, even though Fox News remains No. 1, Ailes is fuming over the complacency he senses among staffers.<\/p>\n

Production values are slipping, and bookers aren’t competitive enough, relying too heavily on the same pool of faces and settling for authors or actors after they’ve already been on CNN or \u2026 gasp \u2026 MSNBC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For that matter, as Singer added<\/a>, MSNBC’s [tag]Keith Olbermann[\/tag] is “edging ever closer to Fox News’ big star, [tag]Bill O’Reilly[\/tag], among the much-coveted 25-54 demographic.”<\/p>\n

Consider this your morale boost for the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I noted last month that Fox News personality Bill O’Reilly’s ratings are on the decline. Apparently, it’s not just him; it’s his whole network. As Jonathan Singer noted Broadcasting & Cable, a trade publication for the TV industry, reported that [tag]Fox News[\/tag]’ ratings are “dropping precipitously.” Slackers at [tag]Fox News Channel[\/tag], you’re on notice! Your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}