February Numbers: FNC…
FNC was up across the board in February 2007 vs. February 2006. Last month marked the 62nd month than FNC was the top cable news channel. FNC beat CNN & MSNBC combined in Total day and Primetime. FNC also had nine out of the top 10 programs in both Total Viewers and the Demo. FNC posted a strong month in primetime with 1,602,000 viewers and 408,000 in the Demo. In Total Day FNC attracted nearly 900,000 viewers in for the month and nearly 274,000 in the Demo.
Must be a sad day for newshounds and liberals all over the usa.
Comment by phil — February 27, 2007 @ 9:14 pm
Too bad fnc gets the NEWS label. they have not earned the news label or deserve to call themselves a news channel.
Comment by Me — February 27, 2007 @ 9:56 pm
Phil, Fox News is actually the Fox Talk Channel in all respects since the majority of the network’s ratings come from it’s talk/commentary programming (O’Reilly, H&C, Greta, Gibson, Cavuto) rather than it’s news programming (Shepard, Hume, FNL, AN)
Comment by Chris — February 27, 2007 @ 10:24 pm
The same is true for cnn and msnbc.FNC beats CNN and MSNBC in daytime ratings also.
Comment by phil — February 27, 2007 @ 10:27 pm
Um, Chris. Might want to check those numbers. Shepard, Hume, etc. all win their time slots too.
Comment by bigred — February 27, 2007 @ 10:32 pm
Well, I guess I needed to review the numbers again, but the network still depends somewhat on it’s largest ratings personality, O’Reilly, with over 2.x million viewers. Still, looking at it, Greta is actually the weakest of primetime with the general ratings lineup going O’Reilly, H&C, Shepard, Hume, then Greta by demo.
Comment by Chris — February 27, 2007 @ 10:57 pm
But you’re comparing Greta to othe FNC shows Chris. FNC beats every show in every hour in demo and total. And since the 8pm ET hour is the most watched hour on television, it’s a certainty that FNC could put any of it’s other shows in that hour and still win.
Comment by erljr — February 28, 2007 @ 4:17 pm
It looks like Americas Newsroom is off to a great start!
Comment by newsfan — February 28, 2007 @ 7:25 pm