Fox News Ratings Dominance Hits Nice Round Number: 100 Months At #1

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by Steve Krakauer | 4:07 pm, April 27th, 2010

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Fox News Channel has been the top-rated cable news network for a long time, but until this month it was only for double-digit months.

Well it’s now official – FNC is number one in April for the 100th consecutive month.

The streak began in January 2002, when FNC became the most watched cable news channel in prime time and total day in total viewers, surpassing industry leader CNN. It hasn’t looked back.

And while it hasn’t looked back, the look hasn’t changed very much at all. While CNN and MSNBC have undergone major changes, prime time looks just about how it did back in January 2002. Bill O’Reilly was there, Greta Van Susteren came one month later. Sean Hannity was there (although he shared a show for most of the time with Alan Colmes). Shepard Smith has been the lead news anchor since then as well. It goes without saying how incredibly rare to see the sustained success of this fairly untouched group.

Here are some highlights from FNC’s April:

• FNC was #3 in all of cable in prime time, compared to 23rd for MSNBC, 31st for CNN and 33rd for HLN.

• FNC had nine of the top 10 cable news shows in both total viewers and the A25-54 demo, with Bill O’Reilly #1, followed by Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Bret Baier and Greta Van Susteren.

• FNC beat CNN, MSNBC and HLN combined in total viewers and the demo during prime time.

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http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

ReGretable Van Whatshername, has to go. The minute I see her, I turn the channel. Notice how the left won’t attack ReGretable. She is really stupid, yet they attack Palin. I have no idea why anyone watches her show. She is really funny when she wears a trenchcoat and pretends she is Sherlock Holmes.
felixw

Face it, now that people have a choice, they will never go back to networks that cover up stories unflattering to the Left.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-William-LaValley/1825017390 Richard William LaValley

Thank you FNC……without you we would only have the lamestream media…….. If you tell the truth….they will come!!!! Congratulations!!!!!!
Moderate

Thank you Fox News, without you I would have thought the Tea Party movement was a group of violent old geezers and the Arizona protesters were good people with a few misguided individuals.
http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

I can vaguely remember the fanfare of FoxNEWS in 1996 going up against CNN 24/7/365. Ted Turner must have been in one of his drunken grandiosity episodes and actually went on air to be quoted that “CNN will crus Fox like a bug, like a cockroach.” And then lurch back into his corporate offices [this was before the AOL/TimeWarner merger and his subsequent demotion to a well-paid janitorial assistant.]

The “Mouth of the South” is now more or less permanently shut, or at least ignored when it dares to pretend it is still someone to be feared and loathed in the TV News business. Now it’s Roger Ailes and his sidekick Rupert with the big saddlebags who are determining who does what in Dodge City!
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People are STARVED for the (unbiased) TRUTH and FOX News proves it.