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Fox News isn't #1 anymore

POSTED BY: CUDA77
UPDATED: Sunday, June 5, 2011 06:25
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Saturday, June 4, 2011 8:03 PM

CUDA77

Like woman, I am a mystery.


That distinction belongs to Jon Stewart and the folks at The Daily Show.

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According to the May Nielson ratings, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart beat the entire Fox News network in terms of total viewers. Stewart averaged 2.3 million viewers, while the Fox News prime time and day time line up averaged 1.85 million viewers.

According to Comedy Central, The Daily Show is dominant in its time slot,

For the month of May 2011, “The Daily Show” averaged 2.3 million total viewers and a 1.2 P18-49 rating. Versus May 2010, “The Daily Show” grew an astounding +19% in total viewers, with incredible double-digit ratings growth across all key demos including P18-49 (up +21%), P18-34 (+22%), P18-24 (+21%), M18-34 (+18%) and M18-24 (+21%).

“The Daily Show’s” 1.344 million P18-49 viewers led all late night talk shows in the demo for the month and, with a 2011 YTD average of 1.25 million P18-49 viewers, “The Daily Show” trails only “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” (1.27 million P18-49 viewers) in the benchmark demographic for the calendar year crown.


While Stewart is on the rise, Fox News had a really, really bad May. Total viewership was down 10%, and Fox News lost viewers in the 25-54 demo in every prime time show. Bill O’Reilly was down 9%, Sean Hannity was down 6%, and Greta Van Susteren dropped 12%.

Just how big is the disparity between Jon Stewart and Fox News?

Only The O’Reilly Factor (2.8 million) drew more total viewers than The Daily Show (2.3 million). Jon Stewart beat everything else on Fox News. Stewart beat Sean Hannity by 246,000 viewers. He topped Bret Baier by 399,000 viewers. Jon Stewart beat Glenn Beck by almost 500,000 viewers, 1.812 million to 2.3 million. He beat Shep Smith (1.712 million) and Greta Van Susteren (1.702 million) by almost 600,000 viewers each. When Stewart and O’Reilly go head to head at 11 PM, Jon Stewart tops Bill O’Reilly’s replay by almost a million viewers (2.3 million to 1.321 million).

This is why Fox News both hates and fears Jon Stewart. Not only is he more popular than they are, but he devotes much of his program to exposing the biased reporting of FNC. Even worse, Stewart is teaching his younger audience what Fox News is all about. Stewart doesn’t exclusively take on Fox News. His problem is with television news in general, but since Fox is the biggest offender, they get most of his attention.

Jon Stewart is the biggest threat to Fox News’ future out there. He is literally teaching his audience, which is bigger than FNC’s, how to see through the partisan propaganda that Rupert Murdoch has based his network on. Stewart is educating an entire generation of viewers on how to watch cable news, or more specifically how not to watch Fox News.

Unless Fox News can figure out a way to attract younger viewers, they are facing a future where their audience will eventually, literally die off. A 2010 survey found that the average age of the Fox News viewer is 65 years old. Fox has the oldest audience on all of cable. (FNC’s audience is older than The History Channel, The Hallmark Channel, and The Golf Channel).

Jon Stewart is on the non-prime time hour of 11 PM, yet he outdraws 2/3 of the Fox News prime time line up, and he has more viewers the entire FNC prime time and daytime lineups combined. Only Bill O’Reilly is preventing Stewart from being more popular than every single program on Fox News.

The proof is in the numbers, and the numbers don’t lie. Jon Stewart is more popular than Fox News.




http://www.politicususa.com/en/jon-stewart-fox-ratings

I hope this story gets passed along to Stewart before Monday's show because I get the feeling he'd take a moment to do some well-deserved gloating.

Socialist and unashamed about it.



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Sunday, June 5, 2011 1:34 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up


And Thursday's rerun of "The Big Bang Theory" pulled a 2.0 rating, 7 share, and 7.42 million viewers, making it a much higher rated comedy than "the Daily Show".

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Sunday, June 5, 2011 4:58 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


So FauxNews can officially claim to be Number Two now, eh?


Hey, at least there'd finally be some honesty from them if they went ahead and admitted they were shit.

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

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Sunday, June 5, 2011 5:00 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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Originally posted by Geezer:
And Thursday's rerun of "The Big Bang Theory" pulled a 2.0 rating, 7 share, and 7.42 million viewers, making it a much higher rated comedy than "the Daily Show".

"Keep the Shiny side up"




And almost three times as highly rated as O'Reilly's comedy show.

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Sunday, June 5, 2011 6:04 AM

DREAMTROVE


That's pretty pathetic. The Daily Show has really gone down hill. I guess it's still better than Fox, upskirts aside, though I have to seriously wonder who is still watching TV.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Sunday, June 5, 2011 6:25 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


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This is why Fox News both hates and fears Jon Stewart. Not only is he more popular than they are, but he devotes much of his program to exposing the biased reporting of FNC. Even worse, Stewart is teaching his younger audience what Fox News is all about. Stewart doesn’t exclusively take on Fox News. His problem is with television news in general, but since Fox is the biggest offender, they get most of his attention.

Jon Stewart is the biggest threat to Fox News’ future out there. He is literally teaching his audience, which is bigger than FNC’s, how to see through the partisan propaganda that Rupert Murdoch has based his network on. Stewart is educating an entire generation of viewers on how to watch cable news, or more specifically how not to watch Fox News.

THAT's what's important to me. I don't give a shit about numbers (and it's only a half-hour show anyway), but that he's GETTING THROUGH to thinking people and helping them see that Faux News really IS faux news, makes me happy. The more eyes he opens, the better. I love that he takes on other media too, and I've heard him in interviews and know that is a BIG goal of his; exposing idiocy wherever he runs into it. He just runs into it at Fox more than anywhere else.

FoxNoise bothers me on only one level; the blatancy (is that a word?) of their lies and frauds. Everybody slants, but Fox goes so far beyond slanting that it is deeply offensive to me. I would have no problem with them if they were just ultra-right--wouldn't watch and wouldn't like them, but no more. It's that they have no conscience whatsoever and KNOW they can get away with lies and faking things. I think they have contributed greatly to the right's current attitude of "say whatever you want, it doesn't matter", to a time when people take seriously things like "not intended to be a factual statement" and "Anyone who repeats exactly what I said is a liar". I'd like to see the end of that.

I also happen to think Stewart mixes news and commentary with satire excellently, which is what draws people to a certain extent I have no doubt. Luckily, we get the night before's show at 6 p.m., which I'm sure contributes to people being able to see him.

They haven't taken into account the fact that younger people STAY UP LATER than most people over 65, so in a way that skews the figures a bit. I hope not much, it would gladden my heart to know a good segment of the population is having their eyes opened.


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off



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