Fox News Most-Watched Channel On Cable In Prime Time Weekly Ratings

Fox News Channel was the number one network in prime time on all of basic cable last week (10/6/08-10/12/08), marking only the second time this year that the network reached cable's top spot. Previously, Fox News Channel placed first during the Republican National Convention (9/1/08-9/7/08), which was the network's first time claiming the top spot since Hurricane Katrina (8/29/05-9/4/05).

According to Nielsen Media Research, Fox News averaged 3.4 million viewers in prime time last week, beating out TBS (3.3 million), USA (2.8 million), and ESPN (2.6 million) for the top spot. CNN placed fifth, averaging 2.4 million viewers in prime time, while MSNBC placed ninth, averaging 1.6 million viewers in prime time.

Fox News placed second only to Nickelodeon in total-day ratings, averaging 1.5 million viewers to Nickelodeon's 2.1 million viewers. CNN placed ninth in total day ratings, averaging 1.0 million viewers, while MSNBC came in 15th, averaging 685 million viewers.

Comments

[Inthematrix]

10:26 PM on 10/18/2008

I guess people love watching right-wing media propaganda­. Its like a car acciden that you can't keep your eyes off of.
http://int­hematrix.w­ordpress.c­om/

[tedmore123]

01:23 PM on 10/17/2008

I hope Obama - Biden bring back the fairness doctrine; I'd love to see the look on Murdoc's face
when all of a sudden it's Fair and Balanced for real or there goes your FCC license...­.

[Independenthinker08]

04:38 AM on 10/22/2008

Why because the left can't handle operating their own news program or radio show? theres more right wingers then you would be led to believe

[glfrnt79]

08:03 PM on 10/29/2008

Or the look on Olberjerk and Butch Mad-cow when THEY have to fair... get a freakin life.

[American04]

05:08 PM on 10/16/2008

I never seen a more sexist station the way the owner is using women to attract an audience. I’m sure many of the female journalist­s on this station are anger by the way they are used, but with jobs hard to find I don’t blame these women. Fox News owned by a foreigner, who is only interested in controllin­g Americans, we need to stop letting foreigners control our lives.

[kayatarms]

03:53 PM on 10/16/2008

Is this News?

[gala1]

12:11 PM on 10/16/2008

It may be time for ALL the media to consider the user flight effects of Campaign Overkill.

The folly of demonizing one candidate in order to glorify another-- when many of us can't help but notice that both are a reciprocal­ly Bad Idea --just makes a great many of us avoid what was formerly news time. There is an estimated 45% increase in the undecided vote this year.

As a result of being offered what amounts to a choice between strychnine and cyanide, I decided early on to acknowledg­e the obvious and not prefer either .
So I've switched from being the most compulsive of news junkies to a History and Travel Channel addict when I turn the TV on at all. I don't even bother with my customary Daily Show any more. Shooting fish in a barrel was never my idea of wit.

The one thing I do owe Obama and McCain is a debt of thanks for making it possible for my remote to gather dust.
I skip any print article that contains candidate names. So this makes my reading time far more open to catching up on nightstand reading

I consider it my civic duty to vote for the person I feel is most competent . So I could never morally, logically or pragmatica­lly choose either .

I am writing in the obvious choice. If that person isn't the winner-- well, I fulfilled my part of electoral responsibi­lity and will not know one moment of buyer's regret

[SD leaker]

07:45 AM on 10/16/2008

Fall
http://www­.flickr.co­m/photos/c­astielli/2­898622519

[Dachozen1]

11:54 PM on 10/15/2008

It's simple, America loves shock jocks. We love the wow factor. Everyone knows Fox News is insane but it is entertaini­ng. We are waiting for the next crazy thing theyll say or do. It's has the same impact as Jerry Springer.

[LeeCalif]

08:34 PM on 10/15/2008

Gotta be because so many of those wingnuts don't have computers, can't go online and see what's the latest intheir small, lonely. paranoid reality. Poor, dangerous slobs.

[Otterpops]

04:54 PM on 10/15/2008

It makes perfect sense.

The people who are going to get their news from only one TV source are going to watch Fox News and almost nothing else. Everyone else is going to spread their viewing around more.

It's kind of like the 2000 or 1992 elections.

[bliss0027]

03:38 PM on 10/15/2008

wow msnbc avg's about 685 million viewers during their daytime slots??...­...that's an awful lot of people

[slmetcalf]

12:50 PM on 10/15/2008

I'm scared. Really.

SLM

[darthdarcy]

12:20 PM on 10/15/2008

That is frightenin­g, isn't it..?

[cheferic]

12:58 PM on 10/15/2008

terribly frightenin­g,lately I have been thinking that half of the people who voted in the last 2 presidenti­al elections voted for George Bush-TWICE ( can you imagine saying 'I voted for George Bush in 2 elections'­???) -terrifyin­g !-Happy Halloween.

[billofgoods]

02:21 PM on 10/15/2008

seeing as Pres Bush received more votes than any two term president in history shows that there were quite a few Bush Democrats out there

[boogiewoman]

12:00 PM on 10/15/2008

58 million Americans voted for Bush in 2004. What else would they watch? Fix News still tells them they were right to vote that way. Still says victory in EYE-RACK is possible. Fix News is like watching that show Cops. Dumbing down America for all its worth.

[DocJerome]

11:51 AM on 10/15/2008

Depressing­. And probably why the US will ultimately destroy itself.

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

11:48 AM on 10/15/2008

This article give a deceptive impression that Faux has the most viewers. However if you combine the viewers of all the other news networks ( that are slightly less insane than Faux), it tells another story. As for the fact that Faux has more viewers than TBS or USA, those are not news networks, so it is a comparison of apples and oranges. This reminds me of something Groucho Marx said: "... Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberrie­s and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know."

[Pquilson]

08:57 PM on 10/15/2008

He also said: "This is so simple a child of 5 can do it. Fetch us a child of 5."
he also said: "i would not belong to a club that would have someone like me for a member." just after being turned down by the LA Country Club.

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

11:40 AM on 10/16/2008

Yep, still a treasure.