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In prime time, Fox News averaged 2.2 million viewers, a 7% rise over 2008, the network's best showing in its 13-year history, according to Nielsen. Remarkably, every program on the network's schedule expanded its audience in 2009. Beck, the channel's newest hire, averaged 2.4 million in his 2 p.m. PST show, a 95% boost for the time period. The Bret Baier-anchored newscast "Special Report," which follows Beck, grew 25% to 2 million viewers. And Bill O'Reilly continued his reign as the most-watched cable-news host, logging 3.3 million, a spike of 13%. Meanwhile, CNN and MSNBC, which enjoyed the biggest gains during the 2008 election, lost viewers in prime time this year. CNN dropped 30% to an average of 903,000 viewers, while MSNBC fell 12% to an average of 811,000."
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Good for FOX, but I think CNN started changing as soon as Lou Dobbs left. At the moment they don't have any political commentary shows like Dobbs, while FOX has a whole slew : O'Reilly, Beck, Hannity etc all of whom have heavy bias towards the Republican party. So, I think CNN is trying to fill the vacant spot as the neutral news channel. They are not there yet, but that seems to be their desire. So, we would have MSNBC with bias towards the Dems, CNN - neutral and FOX with bias towards Republicans.
Lou Dobbs was independent, and I watched him a lot, but like his FOX colleagues his show was not "news", it was political commentary. That is what CNN is trying to get away from. Time will tell if they succeeded.
In prime time, Fox News averaged 2.2 million viewers, a 7% rise over 2008, the network's best showing in its 13-year history, according to Nielsen. Remarkably, every program on the network's schedule expanded its audience in 2009. Beck, the channel's newest hire, averaged 2.4 million in his 2 p.m. PST show, a 95% boost for the time period. The Bret Baier-anchored newscast "Special Report," which follows Beck, grew 25% to 2 million viewers. And Bill O'Reilly continued his reign as the most-watched cable-news host, logging 3.3 million, a spike of 13%. Meanwhile, CNN and MSNBC, which enjoyed the biggest gains during the 2008 election, lost viewers in prime time this year. CNN dropped 30% to an average of 903,000 viewers, while MSNBC fell 12% to an average of 811,000."
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After reading that article that started off with a picture of my favorite TV personality I think I found out why people don't watch MSNBC. At the end of the article I learned how they reported the Christmas day event that allegedly happened and learned that they went ahead with their planned animal extinction shows with some sex misdoings instead of talking about the attempted murder of nearly 300 people along with the bomber's suicide.
I surely am glad that I spend most of my 24/7 time on the favorite channel and not the bottom one.
In prime time, Fox News averaged 2.2 million viewers, a 7% rise over 2008, the network's best showing in its 13-year history, according to Nielsen. Remarkably, every program on the network's schedule expanded its audience in 2009. Beck, the channel's newest hire, averaged 2.4 million in his 2 p.m. PST show, a 95% boost for the time period. The Bret Baier-anchored newscast "Special Report," which follows Beck, grew 25% to 2 million viewers. And Bill O'Reilly continued his reign as the most-watched cable-news host, logging 3.3 million, a spike of 13%. Meanwhile, CNN and MSNBC, which enjoyed the biggest gains during the 2008 election, lost viewers in prime time this year. CNN dropped 30% to an average of 903,000 viewers, while MSNBC fell 12% to an average of 811,000."
If you are interested in cable news changes that will happen in 2010 on MSNBC and CNN and who did okay on MSNBC:
After reading that article that started off with a picture of my favorite TV personality I think I found out why people don't watch MSNBC. At the end of the article I learned how they reported the Christmas day event that allegedly happened and learned that they went ahead with their planned animal extinction shows with some sex misdoings instead of talking about the attempted murder of nearly 300 people along with the bomber's suicide.
At this point in time, people don't watch MSNBC for news, we watch for commentary. Those of us who are regular viewers know that they have that schedule of reruns most of the weekend. It has to be really big news for them to do live broadcasting beyond their morning weekend shows. Considering this started out as a non-story about some nut setting off firecrackers on a plane, it's not surprising that they didn't call in their on-air people over a holiday weekend. By the time the story unfolded, I guess they figured the news channels had it covered -- and they did.
Fox news is the most neutral and objective as far as I can tell. Both CNN and MSNBC are left wing propaganda machines. For instance, both of the later normally will not report crimes commit by blacks against whites (such as the Christian and Newsom case), and heavily bias other stories to the point that what's being reported isn't even close to what the person quoted was actually trying to say or what actually happened. The only way I can find a good sample of all stories is to turn on fox. I used to watch cnn, but they censored so many stories due to left wing bias, that I finally was forced to go to fox and never looked back.
Fox news is the most neutral and objective as far as I can tell. Both CNN and MSNBC are left wing propaganda machines. For instance, both of the later normally will not report crimes commit by blacks against whites (such as the Christian and Newsom case), and heavily bias other stories to the point that what's being reported isn't even close to what the person quoted was actually trying to say or what actually happened. The only way I can find a good sample of all stories is to turn on fox. I used to watch cnn, but they censored so many stories due to left wing bias, that I finally was forced to go to fox and never looked back.
I can tell you from experience, that Fox is not neutral. All stories are tilted to appeal to their core audience. Many stories that should have been just 'local news' have been made national by Fox, purely for the core audiences need for fresh ammo.
Fox News gives their audience what it wants. If that floats your boat, fine and dandy, but don't mistake it for being news.
Glad to see MSNBC is going to do more news coverage. Sorry to see Ratigan move to a time I'm less likely to catch any of his show.
I also enjoy watching Ratigan.... if I read the article correctly, he'll be on 1:00 PM PST which still works for me.
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