Can CNN Compete With Headline News?
I launched both CNN and Headline News, and I never believed the days would come when more people watched our tabloid version rather than what was supposed to be the quality product.
I launched both CNN and Headline News, and I never believed the days would come when more people watched our tabloid version rather than what was supposed to be the quality product.
Posted 05.02.2012
April was the worst month for CNN in over a decade, and Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes made his dissatisfaction clear on Wednesday. The cable news ra...
Posted 04.24.2012
It's official: Bill O'Reilly signed a new contract with Fox News. Deadline reported that Fox News CEO Roger Ailes made the official announcement on...
Posted 04.19.2012
Fox News hosts Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity are close to signing new deals with the network that employs them. According to Deadline, O'Reilly a...
Posted 03.01.2012
Fox News is changing its morning lineup. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Fox News is expanding its morning program "Fox & Friends" to four ho...
Posted 04.30.2012
The cable news ratings for February 2012 are in, and things were not business as usual. Like clockwork, Fox News cleared the top of the list. The ...
Posted 02.01.2012
The cable news ratings for January 2012 are in, and as usual, Fox News cleared the top programs. The network claimed the thirteen highest rating shows...
Posted 12.27.2011
The New York Times' Brian Stelter wrote about the rise of Fox News' 5:00 p.m. show, "The Five" on Sunday. Stelter recounted how the program, which...
Posted 12.21.2011
Fox News sent out quite the Christmas card this year, complete with a poem gloating the network's ratings success. On the front of the card, a car...
The Huffington Post | Rebecca Shapiro | Posted 12.05.2011
Fox News has put on a different hat this primary season. New York Magazine's Gabriel Sherman reported on the network's noticeably tougher approach...
Posted 11.30.2011
November's cable news ratings are out and here we go again! Like clockwork, Fox News dominated the ratings. Still, every network had an interesting st...
Posted 01.03.2012
October's cable news ratings are out, and Fox News reigned again. The perennial first place network claimed the top eight primetime shows last month. ...
Posted 11.28.2011
The third quarter cable news ratings are out, and Fox News reigned again. Behind Fox News though, things were not business as usual: CNN is gaining on...
Posted 10.04.2011
Another month, another boring old list of cable news ratings. In July, Fox News cleared the field as usual, racking up the top--wait. It didn't? No...
Posted 08.29.2011
All four top cable news networks had something to celebrate during the second quarter of the 2011 ratings season. Fox News could toast its usual domi...
Russell Simmons | Posted 08.23.2011
Fox News has always been a network that we assume to be evil. What is hard to often swallow is they are sometimes right.
Posted 08.01.2011
Most months, the cable news ratings show little fluctuation. Fox News is always dominant, and the rest of the pack shuffles around a bit. In May, thou...
Posted 07.04.2011
Fox News regained its lead in the ratings on Monday, a day after CNN posted astonishingly high viewer figures for the coverage of Barack Obama's speec...
Posted 06.26.2011
Another month, another chance to survey the cable news landscape. April was not the cruelest month for Fox News; the network took its usual 11 slots a...
Posted 05.29.2011
CNN's ratings soared in the first quarter of 2011, making it one of the biggest winners of the last three months of cable news ratings. While Fox News...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011
Last week's news numbers are the most substantial proof I can present that when major news breaks, occasional (non-regular) news viewers still turn to CNN to get the facts.
Posted 05.25.2011
Fox News' Bret Baier and Shepard Smith have firmly settled into the top 5 of the cable news ratings. February's number show that Baier has had the sec...
Posted 05.25.2011
In a way, January's cable news ratings are no surprise: Fox News overwhelmed the competition, and MSNBC beat CNN. But there were some interesting tidb...
Posted 05.25.2011
2010 is almost done, and the cable news ratings for the entire year are in. As always, Fox News came out on top, thoroughly dominating the competition...
Posted 05.25.2011
It's not a surprise that Fox News swamped all of the other cable news channels in the November ratings -- it tends to do that every month. However, th...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.22.2012