Looks to me like Law & Order, Royal Pains, Burn Notice are the big winners. The drop off after USA is remarkable.

You would think that by now, with FNC sheer domination over CNN and MSNBC, that those two cablers would be watching and learning, but it just ain’t happening. As long as FNC is the ONLY network to provide both sides of the issue, it will remain the dominate cable news network. MSNBC is left only, CNN is in denial, and FNC is fair and balanced. Good job FNC.

TfT says:
June 16, 2010 at 7:56 am
You would think that by now, with FNC sheer domination over CNN and MSNBC, that those two cablers would be watching and learning, but it just ain’t happening. As long as FNC is the ONLY network to provide both sides of the issue, it will remain the dominate cable news network. MSNBC is left only, CNN is in denial, and FNC is fair and balanced. Good job FNC.

Were you able to type that with a straight face? Because there’s no way anyone living on planet Earth can.

>As long as FNC is the ONLY network to provide both sides of the issue

Complete bullshit. They don’t have a single liberal host.

HAHAHA..read ‘em and weep..again. What excuse do you libs have for the FNC dominance then? Not ‘another’ single liberal host seems to be what the people want.

While I would argue that “fair and balanced” is not accurate, FNC saw a niche, exploited it, and is now a huge success. There’s no denying that. There was obviously room in the marketplace for it, and everyone benefits from the competition of ideas.

Winning in a competition where you’re alone against an army is even more rewarding, I think. I enjoy watching and reading them all.

It should be rewarding. They were laughed at as the new kid on the block and now look.

Many cable providers refused to add them to their systems for years..nothing like that liberal love for open and fair debate huh Paul?

I’m not a cable company exec and I don’t recall the details of what you referenced, but could it have been a money issue rather than a political one, like they didn’t think this new cables news channel had a chance? Also, I think both sides tend to champion free speech only when it’s speech they agree with.

Paul..I have some experience with the blocking of FOX..it was real and political and shameful. I love to argue so that would require me to be in contact with those who don’t agree with me, free speech is the law, I love the law.

So for political reasons cable company executives worked to block the creation of FNC? I thought some of those executives were Republicans? And money played no role, there was no fear of it being a failure?

Not the creation..they wouldn’t add them to their cable channel line up. Fox had/has plenty of money, that had nothing to do with it. And the cable providers and their affiliates that drug their feet in adding FNC to their systems were chaired by known dem supporters. I report..you decide what their motives were.

Well whatever the reasons we now know who got the last laugh.

Once again the King must step in and compare Fox News ratings to other networks instead of other cable news outlets. Like the sun rising in the east.

I can remember the days when FNC was part of Cable’s “Premium” channel package; whereas CNN / MSNBC was part of the standard package. I don’t know the reason behind that setup; but I just want to state this tidbit for those who wish to continue this debate…

me1ranger says:
June 16, 2010 at 9:35 am
HAHAHA..read ‘em and weep..again. What excuse do you libs have for the FNC dominance then? Not ‘another’ single liberal host seems to be what the people want.

Because it’s all the hillbillys watch because of your “liberal media” conspiracies, whereas liberals don’t even watch CNN or MSNBC. Why you guys always pull the comparisons is beyond me.

Isn’t ‘hillbillies’ a stereotype? I thought the left was against those.

Indeed implying that FNC viewers are a bunch of hillbillies is a mean and broad generalization and simply not true.

Jackie_Treehorn said “You would think that by now, with FNC sheer domination over CNN and MSNBC, that those two cablers would be watching and learning, but it just ain’t happening.”

That is correct. It shows how deep the liberal mental disorder really is. CNN can’t believe that people buy into Conservative news. CNN probably thinks that they aren’t liberal enough!

It’s a good example to demonstrate that Modern Liberals/Progressives have a fundamentally different belief system than normal people. Normal people work to make things better, but Libs work to make things “equal”.

It all comes out in odd ways. The reality is CNN will never really get it until they bring in Conservatives to run it. At that point, CNN will work to seek the truth rather than trying to fit the news to preconcived liberal notions of how things should be.

Right cause conservatives only seek truth and not preconceived conservative notions. And no liberals or progressives share a belief system with normal people. I’m so glad you don’t make sweeping generalizations with no basis in reality.