{"id":8333,"date":"2006-08-30T10:42:10","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T14:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8333.html"},"modified":"2006-08-30T10:42:10","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T14:42:10","slug":"fox-news-ratings-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/fox-news-ratings-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News’ ratings tank"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Koppelman offered an encouraging report<\/a> late yesterday on the state of [tag]Fox News[\/tag]’ [tag]ratings[\/tag]. I’ll give you a hint: they’re going in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n

Somewhere, Keith Olbermann is sticking pins in a Bill O’Reilly voodoo doll: Fox News’ ratings, TVNewser reports, are down since August of last year. Like, way down. Like down 28 percent in primetime among all viewers, down 20 percent in primetime in the “money demo” (viewers aged 25-54) and down 7 percent in daytime viewership overall. In fact, the only place Fox is up is during the day, when they managed a ratings increase of just 2 percent, and even then only in the money demo.<\/p>\n

And lest you think this is an industry-wide trend, consider this: over the same time period, CNN and [tag]MSNBC[\/tag] are up. [tag]CNN[\/tag]’s up 35 percent during the day — 46 percent in the money demo — and up 21 percent in primetime overall, 25 percent in the money demo. MSNBC’s ratings increases aren’t quite as impressive — up 6 percent in primetime overall, 8 percent in the money demo, and up 36 percent in the money demo during the day, 26 percent overall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is very much in line with what we learned<\/a> in June, when Broadcasting & Cable, a trade publication for the TV industry, reported that Fox News’ ratings are “dropping precipitously.”<\/p>\n

About two years ago, Matt Yglesias described FNC pretty well. “Fox is not ‘[tag]biased[\/tag]’ or even ‘[tag]opinionated[\/tag]’ — it certainly isn’t [tag]ideological[\/tag],” Yglesias said<\/a>. “It’s an arm of the [tag]Republican[\/tag] Party, a group of vicious hatchet-men leavened by occasional doses of Alan Colmes, David Corn, and Jim Pinkerton.”<\/p>\n

With this in mind, perhaps Fox News’ deteriorating ratings are a reflection of the GOP’s weakening position?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alex Koppelman offered an encouraging report late yesterday on the state of [tag]Fox News[\/tag]’ [tag]ratings[\/tag]. I’ll give you a hint: they’re going in the wrong direction. Somewhere, Keith Olbermann is sticking pins in a Bill O’Reilly voodoo doll: Fox News’ ratings, TVNewser reports, are down since August of last year. Like, way down. Like down […]<\/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-8333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333","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=8333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}