But …but , they’re EVIL and ultimately destructive ! Why are most U.S. Americans watching them ?

Fox News: fair, balanced, and unafraid.

The smackdown continues!

Poor Pres Obama – out of touch with the people again. Oh well.

Where’s Real Royal King? He is supposed to remind us that the Fox audience size is tiny when compared to the number of grains of sand in the Sahara desert.

Cable news is losing viewers across the board? Is this the dreaded trend?

Poor Joy Bewhore. It’s pretty much over when you are losing to “Rick’s List.”

People have tired of her nightly 60 minute “hate -fest.”

Progressives will never learn, they don’t value ratings, they don’t believe in competition. Their mentality is “this is good for you so you’re going to watch it or else.” I know liberals who watch Fox because they enjoy the lively debate and the marketplace of ideas available only at Fox. MSNBC is predictable, everyone there has the same opinions, even so-called “conservative” Pat Buchanan spends more time bitching about republicans than he does about democrats.

The people seem to be voting with their remotes.

AngelPeters said:
Cable news is losing viewers across the board? Is this the dreaded trend?

You left this part out:

…FNC remains far ahead of the pack going into the final, and crucial, quarter of 2010.

Fox is impressive. They are the only news organization that can compete with entertainment numbers. Not that that should tell you anything about their content, or anything. It’s just that Fox manages to make the boring old news so much more exciting than everyone else. Yeah, that’s it! It’s the raw excitement of those same old stories that separates Fox from the pack. It has nothing to do with the fact that Fox is tuned in on every TV screen in nearly every American corporation, nearly every waiting room in the country, and that it’s “news-actors” eschew stodgy “facts” in favor of sensational bursts of raw emotion. No, that couldn’t be it all!

Paul Westlake said:
It has nothing to do with the fact that Fox is tuned in on every TV screen in nearly every American corporation, nearly every waiting room in the country,

For a benighted lib, you come across quite ignorantly.

This ratings are Nielsen ; they include zero waiting rooms, zero corporations. They are all ratings based on “hard wired” neighborhood homes. That’s why they call them “Nielsen families.

If I didn’t know better, I would say you are purposely lying.

NEW YORK — The company that measures TV viewership announced a significant expansion Wednesday, saying it would triple the number of “Nielsen families” over the next four years to keep better track of new ways of watching television.

Nielsen Media Research said it wants 37,000 homes, with 100,000 people, reporting on its viewing habits by 2011. That’s about triple the current sample size of 12,000 households with 35,000 people.

“The larger you make it, the more stable the data, the more precise the data,” said Sara Erichson, executive vice president for client services at Nielsen North America, “and that’s a very important thing for the industry, which uses this information for currency.”

Know what you are talking about before you post, OK?

“Fox is tuned in on every TV screen in nearly every American corporation, nearly every waiting room in the country”

Those TV’s do not count in the ratings but they do cause people to go home and continue to watch Fox.

notsofast said:

Know what you are talking about before you post, OK?

How about this

While Fox is bringing in less that 1% of tv viewers in the entertainment business, they lag behind in the new media world where the world is heading.

1 | Yahoo! News 70,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
2 | CNN 48,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
3 | MSNBC 47,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
4 | Google News 46,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
5 | New York Times 38,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
6 | HuffingtonPost 28,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
7 | digg 27,500,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
8 | Fox News 24,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
9 | Washington Post 22,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
10 | LATimes 21,900,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
11 | Reuters 21,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
12 | ABCNews 20,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
13 | USA Today 19,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
14 | BBC News 18,500,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
15 | Drudge Report 14,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors

“2 | CNN 48,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors”

That does count people that walk by a TV tuned to CNN. Everyone that goes to BMV in Kentucky is counted as a CNN uniquely monthly viewer.

Paul Westlake said:
It has nothing to do with the fact that Fox is tuned in on every TV screen in nearly every American corporation, nearly every waiting room in the country,

LOL. Paul, I think you meant CNN.

right-is-wrong said:
How about this

Totally irrelevant to cable news programs and their viewership ratings!

Know what you are talking about before you post, OK?

“While Fox is bringing in less that 1% of tv viewers in the entertainment business, they lag behind in the new media world where the world is heading.”

—Yet in that very list Fox is #7. Besides, do you think everyone in the world wants to be in front of a computer all day? Do you think everyone likes waiting for a youtube video to load? Or those annoying ads that appear before the video even plays? Or the frustration when you open several links at the same time and suddenly your computer crashes?

The pleasure of watching TV and fast forwarding commercials cannot be replaced by computers.

“The pleasure of watching TV and fast forwarding commercials cannot be replaced by computers.”

Don’t tell the advertisers but thank God for DVR’s and fast forward.

Paul Westlake said:
It has nothing to do with the fact that Fox is tuned in on every TV screen in nearly every American corporation, nearly every waiting room in the country

Really now? mind telling us which one? Every Airport I walk into, every Dunkin Doughnuts & Starbucks I walk into, every Medical Center I walk into has CNN on.

right-is-wrong said:
How about this

While Fox is bringing in less that 1% of tv viewers in the entertainment business, they lag behind in the new media world where the world is heading.

1 | Yahoo! News 70,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
2 | CNN 48,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
3 | MSNBC 47,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
4 | Google News 46,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
5 | New York Times 38,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
6 | HuffingtonPost 28,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
7 | digg 27,500,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
8 | Fox News 24,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
9 | Washington Post 22,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
10 | LATimes 21,900,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
11 | Reuters 21,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
12 | ABCNews 20,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
13 | USA Today 19,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
14 | BBC News 18,500,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
15 | Drudge Report 14,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors

It’s simply because fox news viewers don’t know how to operate a computer.

Estimated weight of the earth: 5.972 sextillion (1,000 trillion) metric tons.

Take that, Fox News!

notsofast said:
For a benighted lib, you come across quite ignorantly.

This ratings are Nielsen ; they include zero waiting rooms, zero corporations. They are all ratings based on “hard wired” neighborhood homes. That’s why they call them “Nielsen families.

If I didn’t know better, I would say you are purposely lying.

NEW YORK — The company that measures TV viewership announced a significant expansion Wednesday, saying it would triple the number of “Nielsen families” over the next four years to keep better track of new ways of watching television.

Nielsen Media Research said it wants 37,000 homes, with 100,000 people, reporting on its viewing habits by 2011. That’s about triple the current sample size of 12,000 households with 35,000 people.

“The larger you make it, the more stable the data, the more precise the data,” said Sara Erichson, executive vice president for client services at Nielsen North America, “and that’s a very important thing for the industry, which uses this information for currency.”

Know what you are talking about before you post, OK?

First, Nielsen aggregates ratings from both meter technology AND viewer diaries. Their metering technology cannot be perfect because it still comprises an incredibly small sample size for the class (all American TV viewers), and is therefore combined with data from other sources. And Fox is a favorite for telecommuters and executives who spend large amounts of time working from home. Nielsen also uses other sampling techniques to get a snapshot of where and how video is being consumed in a variety of settings, outdoor, POS, kiosk, etc. There isn’t one perfect technology for these things, short of metering every screen in the country.

Second, these kind of long-winded screeds aren’t really well-suited to NSF’s style. Can’t you keep your own bullshit straight?

LOL

Moderate said:
Those TV’s do not count in the ratings but they do cause people to go home and continue to watch Fox.

Precisely, it’s the ubiquity of Fox in all these settings that compels people with common interests (politics aside, it’s mostly business people) to stay tuned to Fox when they’re home, especially when they’re able to work from home, which is happening more and more. But I probably should have been more clear on that particular point. ;-)

puck30 said:
Really now? mind telling us which one? Every Airport I walk into, every Dunkin Doughnuts & Starbucks I walk into, every Medical Center I walk into has CNN on.

I remember those days, but CNN has been switched to Fox in most places, from my experience, and those of people I know who do a lot of travel.

Azarkhan said:
LOL. Paul, I think you meant CNN.

See above. ;-)

right-is-wrong said:
How about this

While Fox is bringing in less that 1% of tv viewers in the entertainment business, they lag behind in the new media world where the world is heading.

1 | Yahoo! News 70,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
2 | CNN 48,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
3 | MSNBC 47,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
4 | Google News 46,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
5 | New York Times 38,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
6 | HuffingtonPost 28,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
7 | digg 27,500,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
8 | Fox News 24,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
9 | Washington Post 22,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
10 | LATimes 21,900,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
11 | Reuters 21,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
12 | ABCNews 20,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
13 | USA Today 19,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
14 | BBC News 18,500,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
15 | Drudge Report 14,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors

How desperate they get — comparing individual ratings for a TV show with monthly visitors to a web site. Of course, by this measure, their great heroes — the buffoons Stewart, Colbert and Olbermann — look even smaller. But, funny, they never apply this bizarre math to the kool-aid-drinking shows.

Seems Fox viewers are stay-at-home people, whether they’re telecommuting, lucky to have a job that allows at-home days, or are just waiting for the next government check. Liberals don’t get to stay at home as much, we have to go to jobs we can’t do from home, including [gulp] night shifts! No, Fox viewers definitely fit a different profile altogether. ;-)

Bernie Goldberg – Fox News popularity is “bad news for the democrats”.

lol@fairandbalanced

Azarkhan said:
Fox News: fair, balanced, and unafraid.

People are easily distracted by splash graphics and blond women over their screen.

“Don’t tell the advertisers but thank God for DVR’s and fast forward.”

—Well, when a commercial is good I might rewind. Besides, with all the product placements do we really need commercials? I was watching tonight’s Glee episodes, looks like a 60 minutes commercial for Britney Spears.

Big Eddie said:
But …but , they’re EVIL and ultimately destructive ! Why are most U.S. Americans watching them ?

Thanks, Big Eddie, you have illustrated why my Truth Crusade must continue. “Most” Americans would be more than 165,000,000 – not 1,700,000. You Phoxophiles get very confused about this. The truth is most Americans do NOT watch FOX.

TfT said:
Poor Pres Obama – out of touch with the people again. Oh well.

Hell, it’s tiny compared to the number of meatballs in a can of Chef Boyardee.

Fox Business channel has ratings in the toilet and it gets killed by CNBC and Fox News Sunday (not cable) is always 4th with 1/2 as many viewers as 3rd place CBS Face the Nation.And those two Fox broadcasts have the same people as the GOP whore network of O’Reilly,Beck and Hannity.Please explain this.

I’ve seen another graph/set showing unique visitors with DrudgeReport a couple of notches ahead of the New York
Times site, so who knows where this particular set of numbers came from? Given that Demonrat polls are so dishonest and imbalanced, like the LAT poll showing Fiorina way behind Bobo Botox Boxer, with the respondents selected from 55% Dems, 30% GOP & 9% Indies—giving a good idea of the new age math the Los Angeles Times folks employ!

Let’s face it, the Demonrats will lie, cheat, and steal to get their boys/girls/trannies in office because their nepotistic Big Government agenda means more public sector and more union-thug jobs, the kind which are unproductive and in the union world, you don’t show up to work in, the no-show jobs! So Obama himself, with his stimulus package mandating union jobs in the shovel-ready category, is the biggest threat to America, a real national security menace on the economic and the security fronts at the same time!

Fox isn’t even in the running, and is actually an antidote to the poison the Demonrat Big Government agenda is ladling out.

YOU KNOW YOU’RE A TEA BAGGER WHEN…

You didn’t get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and
appointed a President.

You didn’t get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to
dictate energy policy.

You didn’t get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.

You didn’t get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.

You didn’t get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no
threat to us.

You didn’t get mad when we spent over 1 trillion(and counting) on on
illegal war.

You didn’t get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in
Iraq.

You didn’t get mad when you saw the Abu Grahib photos.

You didn’t get mad when you found out we were torturing people.

You didn’t get mad when the national debt doubled under the previous
President from $5.674 trillion to $10.024 trillion.

You didn’t get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping
Americans and the President lied about it.

You didn’t get mad when we didn’t catch Bin Laden in Tora Bora.

You didn’t get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter
Reed.

You didn’t get mad when we let a major US city drown!

You didn’t get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.

You finally got mad when the government decided that people in America
deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick (not to mention the black man winning).

Paul Westlake said:
Their metering technology cannot be perfect because it still comprises an incredibly small sample size for the class (all American TV viewers), and is therefore combined with data from other sources.

And ALL NETWORKS GO BY THEIR RATINGS and CHARGE advertisers based on their ratings.

You had enough excuses, now do everyone a favor and go Fuck yourself, ahole!

LOL

LOL

BlackWidow said:
YOU KNOW YOU’RE A TEA BAGGER WHEN…

You didn’t get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and
appointed a President.

You didn’t get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to
dictate energy policy.

You didn’t get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.

You didn’t get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.

You didn’t get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no
threat to us.

You didn’t get mad when we spent over 1 trillion(and counting) on on
illegal war.

You didn’t get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in
Iraq.

You didn’t get mad when you saw the Abu Grahib photos.

You didn’t get mad when you found out we were torturing people.

You didn’t get mad when the national debt doubled under the previous
President from $5.674 trillion to $10.024 trillion.

You didn’t get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping
Americans and the President lied about it.

You didn’t get mad when we didn’t catch Bin Laden in Tora Bora.

You didn’t get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter
Reed.

You didn’t get mad when we let a major US city drown!

You didn’t get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.

You finally got mad when the government decided that people in America
deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick (not to mention the black man winning).

This is the Tea Party manifesto right here – a searing indictment on the true ideology behind the mob.

Well done, BW.

notsofast said:
And ALL NETWORKS GO BY THEIR RATINGS and CHARGE advertisers based on their ratings.

Which has exactly nothing to do with the discussion. You really have to stop blowing your nose so hard, your brains keep exploding out the back of your head.

<fb:name class=" FB_name" linked="false" useyou="false" uid="100000213524770">David Mangan</fb:name> said:
Let’s face it, the Demonrats will lie, cheat, and steal to get their boys/girls/trannies in office because their nepotistic Big Government agenda means more public sector and more union-thug jobs, the kind which are unproductive and in the union world, you don’t show up to work in, the no-show jobs! So Obama himself, with his stimulus package mandating union jobs in the shovel-ready category, is the biggest threat to America, a real national security menace on the economic and the security fronts at the same time!

You seem to be in a bad mood. Did you strain yourself walking out to the mailbox to collect your government check this morning? It would be a shame if things went your way, cause then those disability payments would dry up and your medicaid card won’t be worth the plastic anymore. OK, Barney Fife, nice talkin witcha.

Paul Westlake said:
Their metering technology cannot be perfect because it still comprises an incredibly small sample size for the class (all American TV viewers), and is therefore combined with data from other sources.

notsofast said:
And ALL NETWORKS GO BY THEIR RATINGS and CHARGE advertisers based on their ratings.

You brought up , asshole by lying again about the Nielsen ratings. You are so STUPID you thought they were measuring viewers in waiting rooms and companies.

You are a total fuck-wad!

Your ignorance is staggering!

I guess as a lib, you never get tired of lying.

Next time, know what you are talking about before you make an ass out of yourself!

If you were my dog, I’d shave your butt and teach you to walk backwards.

According to Jautz as soon as the CNN prime time lineup “changes” so will the ratings. Be afraid MSNBC, be very afraid!

Paul says:

This is the Tea Party manifesto right here – a searing indictment on the true ideology behind the mob.

Well done, BW.

You know your IQ is in the single digits when you are praising a Black Widow post.

AngelPeters said:
Cable news is losing viewers across the board? Is this the dreaded trend?

So, how’s life for you under your rock?

notsofast said:
notsofast said:
And ALL NETWORKS GO BY THEIR RATINGS and CHARGE advertisers based on their ratings.

You brought up , asshole by lying again about the Nielsen ratings. You are so STUPID you thought they were measuring viewers in waiting rooms and companies.

You are a total fuck-wad!

Your ignorance is staggering!

I guess as a lib, you never get tired of lying.

Next time, know what you are talking about before you make an ass out of yourself!

If you were my dog, I’d shave your butt and teach you to walk backwards.

soccermom said:
Paul says:

This is the Tea Party manifesto right here – a searing indictment on the true ideology behind the mob.

Well done, BW.

You know your IQ is in the single digits when you are praising a Black Widow post.

whatever

Conservatives make up 40% of the U.S. population, Independents, who are now leaving Obama, make up 40%, and only 20% of the U.S. population consider themselves Liberals.

Most Americans, even minorities, are social Conservatives.

“Overall, FNC held at 23% from two years ago, while CNN declined 6% to 18% and MSNBC was down 4% to 11%. It wasn’t just Republicans that increased over the last survey for FNC. 20% of Independents say they watch Fox News regularly, but Democrats were down 6% to 15%. CNN and MSNBC declined among all political persuasions – CNN dropped eight points among Democrats.”

Paul Westlake said:
Seems Fox viewers are stay-at-home people, whether they’re telecommuting, lucky to have a job that allows at-home days, or are just waiting for the next government check.

Wait, didn’t you just say that Fox is on the TV in every business in America?

It has nothing to do with the fact that Fox is tuned in on every TV screen in nearly every American corporation, nearly every waiting room in the country

Yep, that was you. Are those stay-at-home corporations, Paul? How do those TV’s get turned to Fox? Is there some badass remote control that the public hasn’t seen yet?

You tell me, I thought all reactionaries knew all about mind-control microchips implanted by the government.

I was surprised by the low ratings for CNBC. It has the best on-air reporters of any network.

Tis but the intellectuasl level of the rancid Mucuhn masses.