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November 09, 2014
Election Night Ratings: Fox News Annihilates Everyone, Including Broadcast Nets
Election Night Ratings: Fox News Annihilates Everyone, Including Broadcast Nets
Fox News obliterated its cable news competition during Tuesday night's election coverage, and did so by humiliating margins. However, co-hosts Megyn Kelly and Bret Baier not only vanquished CNN and MSNBC into oblivion, the dynamic duo also beat their broadcast network competition
According to Nielsen Media Research, Fox News Channel beat CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC and ABC's coverage in both total viewers and in the 25-to-54-year-old demographic.
Co-anchored by Bret Baier and Megyn Kelly, the channel's election coverage averaged 6.3 million viewers during prime time.
CNN was the second most watched news network, with 2.1 million viewers during prime time. MSNBC came in third with about 1.7 million viewers.
Basically, Fox News not only beat CNN and MSNBC combined, Fox almost doubled the combined viewership of its left-wing cable competition.
This is no surprise. Bret Baier hosts "Special Report," which has been the finest newscast found anywhere and in any format since Brit Hume launched it in 1998, and Megyn Kelly is the biggest star in news, cable or otherwise.
Meanwhile, over at CNN you had Wolf Blitzer co-anchoring -- a man America was already tired of in 1995 -- while Jake Tapper (who should've been front and center) was relegated to sometimes anchor/contributor status. If I knew anything about sports, I would end this paragraph with an awesome metaphor.
Co-anchoring MSNBC was Chris Matthews, who's so played out even his meltdowns have lost their kick.
Wild Thing's comment......
We switched over to CNN just to peek at what they were dong and they had horrible pounding music in the background making it almost impossible to hear them speak.l LOL
Then we went back to FOX.
Posted by Wild Thing at November 9, 2014 12:50 AM
Comments
If the other network executives had the brains God gave a brass door knob, they would look at what Fox is doing and get on board.
Posted by: BobF at November 9, 2014 10:21 AM
