Fox News Ratings Remain Strong, #2 Cable Channel In Primetime

Fox News is continuing its ratings dominance as America settles into the Obama era.

After a strong month of February, in which the network ranked #3 in primetime among all cable channels, Fox News posted even stronger ratings for the week ending March 1. It placed #2 in primetime among all cable channels — behind only USA — and averaged 2.6 million viewers for the week, which included President Obama's first address to a joint session of Congress.

This marks the seventh consecutive week that Fox News has placed in the top three cable channels in primetime — meaning that is has sustained interest for the duration of the Obama administration, emphatically ending any debate whether the network would succeed under a Democratic administration.

As a comparison, CNN ranked 14th in primetime (averaging 1.2 million total viewers) and MSNBC ranked 19th in primetime (averaging 1.1 million total viewers).

In total day ratings, where Nickelodeon is a perennial first-place winner, Fox News placed 4th (averaging 1.3 million total viewers), CNN ranked 17th (averaging 685,000 total viewers), and MSNBC placed 26th (averaging 483,000 total viewers).

Comments

[Daffy4Ducks]

The problem with all the Liberals and progressives on this site is they have been conditioned their whole life to believe that the regular network news isn't biased and is in the middle of the road politically which is far from the truth.

I realize that Fox is biased but they seem more towards America doing well and if you people can't see it then I will tell you that the people in the Democratic party don't want our country to succeed and they cheer when anything goes wrong for our country and would love nothing more than making our wonderful country Socialist so all the sheep can be more Dependant upon the government to do everything for you.

Obamas multi-trillion dollar budget is ridiculous and just gives us more big government that we don't need.

[StuartGalley]

I'm shocked this story made the HP. Way to go Fox. What number was Keith? Last was it? Is MSNBC really getting their money's worth?

[Brimhall]

Man, you libs crack me up. Smile a little.

[Minnehaha]

I don't believe these ratings. Where and who are they surveying?

[-0013]

Well just because you don't believe them must mean that the ratings are flawed. It's so obvious.

The truth hurts.

[JeanMerilynSimmons]

You are spot on, BetterAmerica.

[chayefsky]

Ross Perot did it first, Rove, and his charts told the truth.

[GhostofBillHicks]

I wonder how many of these "viewers" are like me?I watch FNC for "sport",for fun.Just to see what kind of crazy $h1t their going to pass-off for facts.To me Fox News is like Pro-Wrestling,you know it's fake but you watch anyway.

[hartburn]

You're bang on

[brault sauce]

i do the same with MSNBC..

[-0013]

To me MSNBC is like watching a bunch of college professors preaching to an audience who is too naive to know any better - aka college students.

[americanalien]

Demoralized conservatives are increasingly flocking to fox news and other Republican outlets like Rush Limbaugh for direction as the rest of America gets solidly on board the Obama train. The fact is, the right wing has no one else to turn to so it's not surprising that fox would see an increase in their ratings. They are like refugees in their own country.

[ShephDJ]

Does this count all those ubiquitous TVs in public places that are automatically turned on to FOX news, whether anyone present wants to watch that station or not?

[Nepe]

Same thing for CNN and MSNBC. You act like every public place automatically turns to FOX news.

[4akinderworld]

I didn't see anything in Shep's post that mentions every public place. Calm down. He was just asking a question.

[zippywpinhead]

other than airports, most public TVs do get tuned to Fox...

[mymatrix]

Dishnetwork offers FOX news as part of their very cheap family programming, but not CNN or MSNBC. CNN is in the next step up and to get MSNBC you need to get a more expensive package.
Call and complain. FOX is in the Family lineup program package even though they are obscene.

[JeremyCrimson]

MSNBC only airs live programming half the time. The other half is devoted to catching old white men with their pants down looking for teenagers (to catch a predator), random interviews with serial killers and inmates shanking each other in their jail cells. Real quality family stuff there!

[BetterAmerica]

People want to hear from someone who's not in the tank for O. It's hard to find these days.

[Subterfuge]

Of course. All the media is liberal except Fox. Who made that claim? Fox.

Coke says on it's label-- all other soft drinks are poison so you had better drink Coke.

What kind of person would believe that?

On inauguration day Fox followed Bush's caravan leaving instead of covering Obama's coming in. How Pro-American is that? In 2001 all of those 'lefty' channels covered Bush... you know... like all 'normal' news channels would.

One last point: Speaking about facts without a tone of underlying hatred or cynicism does not make you 'in the tank' for anyone. It makes you a journalist.

[dolphy]

Latest WSJ/NBC Poll:

"What is amazing here is how much political capital Obama has spent in the first six weeks," said Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, who conducted this survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff. "And against that, he stands at the end of this six weeks with as much or more capital in the bank."

By comparison, the Republican Party — which resisted Obama's recently passed stimulus plan and has criticized the spending in his budget — finds its favorability at an all-time low. It also receives most of the blame for the current partisanship in Washington and trails the Democrats by nearly 30 percentage points on the question of which party could best lead the nation out of recession.

The 15 percenters will always be there because that's just what they are. Fringe and dumb.

[stanjz]

Progressives are spread out across the other networks. If FOX is so strong, why did we clean McCain's clock in Nov? Their ratings were just as high then.

[JeremyCrimson]

Obama took 53 percent of the popular vote, while McCain took 46 percent. Factoring in the usual bias lib media drooling over all things Obama, complete with the usual softball questions at every event and the fact that Mccain wasn't a strong conservative candidate (his social policies are more middle-of-the-road-to-liberal). Lastly, everyone was sick of Bush and the republican party so Mcain had a real uphill climb. It was hardly a clock cleaning.

[hartburn]

Sure their ratings may be high, but what does that mean? I watch Fox News on and off during the day, not to get my news but because it's funny to watch. Bill O'Rielly, Hannity ,Beck and Greta are a good laugh in small doses. What I find really sad is that Rupert Murdoch and his empire really play the American people like a fiddle. Think about it, it really is a very small group of people that show up on Fox News all the time, the same talking heads who eventually have a book to sell and they do their share to stroke each others back and line each others pockets. Remember, lots of people watch pornography too, dosen't mean its good for our society

[-0013]

"Think about it, it really is a very small group of people that show up on Fox News all the time, the same talking heads who eventually have a book to sell and they do their share to stroke each others back and line each others pockets."

Why do you think MSNBC parades the same group of a-holes out everynight on their shows?

You think those talking heads aren't there selling something?

[kreardon]

Perhaps Republicans get there news from TV as opposed to other types of media (print, web, radio) more than Democrats.

Really is this actually shocking?

[JeremyCrimson]

Oh are we going to go there? Libs get THEIR news from the daily show, MSNBC, CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, the View, Larry King, David Letterman, and too many others to mention. That's why its called a liberal media bias.