Posted on 06/27/2006 1:42:28 PM PDT by MNJohnnie
That is why Dennis Miller needs to bring back his daily show, but on FOX News instead of not-C-ing-NBC.
WOnder where "War Stories with Oliver North" sits. That is one of the best shows on FNC.
Triple pumping O'Reilly is a benefit too.
Nice to see two total asskissers, Imus and Matthews, pulling up the rear. Why don't they just yell out the window.
NO one watches FOX News for 24 hours a day 7 days a week, yet they have a significant audience 24 hours aday.
The people watching Fox at 5:00Am are not the same people watching Fox News at 11:00PM. In fact a huge portion of the audience watching at 5:00Am are not watching at 6:00Am and the 6:00Am people were not watching at 5:00Am.
The idea behind cable news is the viewer gets to watch the news when he or she wants to watch it.. Not when the networks decide to air it.
The average time a viewer watches Fox is about an hour. Some watch for 2 to 3 three hours and some watch for only 20 minutes. The average length of time a viewer watches Fox in one setting is about an hour. The Fox audience varies from a high of 2.25 million to a low about 250 thousand.
Fox averages about 650 thousand different viewers per hour. That means that the number of individual people Fox News reaches in any week day 24 hour period is about 15.6 million.
The people watching the evening news on the major networks tend to watch the whole show. They may tune in when the news comes on and tune out when it ends. There is not much news surfing during the major network newscasts.
Fox news over a 24 hour period reaches far more people than Brian Williams reaches with his show. There for the Fox influence is greater than William's influence.
As you point out NBC Evening news reaches 9 million people. Fox reaches 15.6 million. Fox news reaches more people in a day than the CBS evening news and ABC evening news combined.
The three major network's eveing news shows used to have a combined audience of about 90 million people. It is now reduced to about 24 million. Where did those 66 million viewers who no longer watch go? What are the odds they went to cable TV and the Internet?
It is also interesting to note that the average viewer of CNN only watches for about 20 minutes. If CNN could figure out how to get their viewers to watch as long as Fox News Viewers watch, their ratings would equal or beat the Fox ratings.
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