Fox has lost 21% of it's Audience

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IT'S NOT JUST GLENN BECK: FOX News Has Lost 21% Of Its Audience This Year

www.businessinsider.com/glenn-beck-ratings-fox-q1-2011-3


Fox News has the top 12 most-watched shows so far this year.

Which is perhaps not totally surprising since this marks the network's ninth straight year as the number one channel in cable.

That is not to say it's all rainbows and unicorns. (Or cupcakes and caliphates.) All of Fox's top shows posted double digit losses year over year.

Glenn Beck suffered the biggest drop, losing 30% of his audience compared to the first quarter last year. But he wasn't alone. Top ranking O'Reilly lost 14% of his audience, Sean Hannity, up a spot from 2010, lost 19%, and Bret Baier, who pushed Beck out of the top three, lost 13%.

Greta Van Susteren, who has been bleeding viewers to Anderson Cooper this month, is down 22.86%.

All in all Fox News actually lost 21% of its primetime audience during the quarter.

Compare this to CNN which is up 28% in primetime and MSNBC which is up 9% (Rachel Maddow increased by 16.65% and Anderson Cooper by 18%) and then take into consideration all the breaking news there's been since Christmas, and one might begin to draw the conclusion that people are beginning to turn elsewhere for news news coverage.

Another explanation, of course, is that this time period last year was dominated by the health care debate and for much of that period Fox operated as an extension of the opposition. Now that the nation's focus is international it's harder to figure out an angle where Obama is bad and...nuclear meltdowns and Qadaffi are good.

[deziloooooo]

I wonder what period that is, how long.
The reason i ask, we have had a lot on our plate in world news, Egypt, Japan, Tunisia, Libya as well as the Bahrain, Saudis, Syria and to be honest, I haven't a clue how Fox is covering those events, CNN has excellent guests on, commentators and have had people in the areas covering what is going on.
I am sure fox also has coverage on the areas.
CNN has some new people too on , Pier Morgan, he's on now, very good has had some good people on on his interview show , he was the first with Charlie, when he started his public melt down.
This a thought of why they may be down now.
When times are dicey, most want the best , hardest news, and I think the PBS, the CNN's are the ones looked at.

[safeharbor37]

It appears to be regression to the mean. The article focuses only on relative loss on FOX's own numbers, not on comparison with other comparable shows ~so~ it really doesn't mean much. Although I suspect that FOX is aware and, based on past performance, taking measures.
The significant figure is that FOX has the top 12 shows. Perhaps it's time they took a break and gave the competitors a break.
It'd be interesting to see a chart of all shows with relative numbers. What's in the article is relatively worthless and essentially misleading.

[handyman2]

I know I watched CNN more of late because they had more programing of the eartquake in Japan and more on the libyan situation.
One mistake Fox has made is putting all those people who left other broadcast channels so it has gotten boring. But MSNBC is no better. I think suddenly CNN is stealing everybodies candy.