--- In [email protected], "Joe" <geezerfr...@...> wrote: > > Is that really accurate Judy? 3 million?
I couldn't remember where I saw the stat, so I double- checked elsewhere, and apparently it is accurate. This is from the magazine/Web site Broadcasting and Cable: "...Fox News will finish 2009 as the top-rated cable news network, a perch it has enjoyed for eight years running. But 2009--the first year of the Obama administration-- also marks FNC's highest rated year in the channel's 13 -year-history. "FNC topped the competition in all dayparts: morning (1 million total viewers, 340,000 viewers in news' target demographic of 25-54-year-olds [referred to as "the demo"--JS]); total day (1.2 million viewers, 323,000 in the demo); primetime (2.2 million viewers, 551,000 in the demo). Those numbers mark year-to-year demo gains of 14% in the morning, 16% in total day and 10% in primetime (Mon-Sun), according to Nielsen. "FNC saw double-digit gains for all of its programs. Year-to-year, Glenn Beck is up 96% among total viewers (2.3 million) and 148% in the demo (612,000). Special Report with Bret Baier posted gains of 25% among total viewers (2 million) and 33% in the demo (454,000). The O'Reilly Factor is up 13% among total viewers (3.3 million) and 27% (801,000) in the demo, marking its tenth consecutive year as the No. 1 cable news program." http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/440766-Cable_News_Ratings_Fox_News_Has_Highest_Rated_Year_In_Network_History.php http://tinyurl.com/ye93h5y > I had no idea.....fascinating. (And kind of a relief!) I was surprised too. I knew it wasn't huge, but I didn't realize it was that low. It certainly seems to make noise way out of proportion to the size of its audience. It seems almost silly for Obama & Co. to have gone to the trouble to publicly denounce it a few months back.
