ABC Has Most Broadcast News Viewers Election Night (While Fox News Had More)

by Steve Krakauer | 5:53 pm, November 4th, 2010

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The broadcast ratings are in, and ABC News had the most watched coverage overall among networks.

NBC finished 2nd in total viewers, followed by CBS. But in the A25-54 demographic, NBC finished 1st. Oh, and Fox News averaged more viewers than all the broadcast networks.

FNC hasn’t beaten all the broadcast news networks ever on an election night – and hasn’t done it on a single night since the 2004 conventions.

But when it came to broadcast, ABC’s won overall. Interestingly there was only one hour all of the big three networks were live at the same time – 10pmET. In that hour, NBC was #1, followed by CBS and ABC was 3rd. FOX broadcast network was a distant 4th.

ABC had the strongest lead-in last night, Dancing With The Stars.

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Election Night 2010, Ratings

timzank

And TRRK’S head explodes in 5.4.3.2.1……..
Cancon2

Boom! And sorry to see that jackass go, really.
http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

timzank said:
And TRRK’S head explodes in 5.4.3.2.1……..

And, coincidentally, Ted’s and Iris’ heads explode at EXACTLY THE SAME TIME. Go figure.
tatboy

timzank said:
And TRRK’S head explodes in 5.4.3.2.1……..

I can hear the screaming all the way from Texas… Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Seeing 2012 From My Window

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Just plain awesome!!!!!!!!!!

Way to go FOX!
timzank

tatboy said:
I can hear the screaming all the way from Texas… Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

I still say he’s a college kid, probably at a school like Uof M at Ann Arbor or some other bastion of liberalism. His stories are just too varied.
TeaPartyPatriot

Yep, ANOTHER result from the election:

The TRUTH of FOX NEWS WINS.

The lies, half-truths, distortions, misrepresentations, propaganda and baseless slime attacks of the “Corrupt B-tards” of the lamestream media LOSE.
the mad doctor

Welcome to the future.
Republitarian

“But when it came to broadcast, ABC’s won overall. Interestingly there was only one hour all of the big three networks were live at the same time – 10pmET. In that hour, NBC was #1, followed by CBS and ABC was 3rd. FOX broadcast network was a distant 4th.”

This is a misleading paragraph. Fox broadcast didn’t broadcast in the 10:00 hour. At 10:00, Fox Broadcast cut away to local affiliates, like they do every night. There might have been a couple markets where they stayed on, but that would have been the rare exception.

I would be curious to know how Fox broadcast did in the 9:00 hour, when they were competing directly with ABC and NBC (CBS was broadcasting a repeat of NCIS:LA).
Arkansas Steve

This is really incredible. By incredible I mean “incredibly good”.
The important thing here is that the best cable channel, FNC, beat the best broadcast channel, NBC, during the critical time periods!!
Forget FOX “broadcast” for news. They should not make NBC’s mistake of having two separate organizations. In other words, we don’t want a Fox News and MSFOX.

This is a huge hurdle as CABLE reaches and passes BROADCAST for news reporting, and FOX is by far the leader of the CABLE news organizations.
lris

I’ve been passed out the last couple a days. What happened? Is the election over? Who won?

OH, SHIIIIIIIIIT!
Cecelia

Congrats, FNC!!
mcf1757

I wondered how many people watched Dancing With the Stars? Or Spongebob!
felixw

Interesting results. ABC is the least biased of the broadcast news operations, and it took first place among its peer group. But Fox News, which has the most frank and honest reporting of them all, beat everyone, broadcast and cable. CNN, which is not as reliable as Fox, actually had offered fairly balanced election night coverage, and they easily beat out MSNBC.

In other words, chalk this up as a victory for freedom of speech over propaganda. The lesson couldn’t be clearer. If news networks want viewers, they need to offer balanced coverage in which all viewpoints are given air time. Otherwise they end up, like MSNBC, in last place.
Cecelia

mcf1757 said:
wondered how many people watched Dancing With the Stars? Or Spongebob!

Probably the same number of citizens who don’t vote.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Blair-Maury/1027829552 Blair Maury

Any numbers on the ratings of the Gordon Bloyer show on election night?

I hear he added a musical number.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQU-6TiCHJM
sarainitaly

where are the FOX haters who are always railing about how FOX’s numbers are far below those of the networks?
cjd ohio 1

wait for it sarainitaly, the excuses will come soon
Seeing 2012 From My Window

I think the libs are just plain ignoring this thread, because they can’t find any way to spin this horrific news.
http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

sara & seeing 2012

I went over to NBC from time to time, but Upchuck Todd drove me back to Megyn. I wonder what that moron-shill at WaPO thinks now about News Corp. after his lying about Fox & Megyn day before yesterday.

FAIR & BALANCED CARRIES THE DAY!!!!

I think I heard a skull-thump in Austin, and it was RRK coming out of his mom’s basement to knock his head against the bathroom wall. Be sure to ralph it all up, RRK, there might still be some of that Kool-Aid left in your system…!
Bad Wolf

mcf1757 said:
I wondered how many people watched Dancing With the Stars? Or Spongebob!

The remaining 300 million Americans.

Essentially only 7 million conservatives tuned into Fox while 20 million Americans watched the networks.
The other 300 million folks were probably working their second jobs.