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Fox News Overtakes CNN in Ratings
By David Bauder
AP Television Writer
Tuesday, January 29, 2002; 5:59 PM
NEW YORK –– Fox News Channel marked a milestone in its five-year history on Tuesday, topping rival CNN in viewership during a one-month period for the first time.
Fox, which went on the air Oct. 7, 1996, beat a network that had a virtual monopoly in cable news for 15 years, despite the fact that Fox is available in fewer homes.
Fox News Channel Chairman Roger Ailes said the victory was a tribute to Rupert Murdoch of parent company News Corp., who started Fox at the same time that NBC and Microsoft launched MSNBC, and when ABC was also contemplating a cable news channel.
"He said that there's room and we can win, and nobody believed him," Ailes said....
..."The TV industry in New York believes that if a conservative gets to give his point of view on television, that's bias," he said. "We believe that if anybody's point of view is eliminated, that's biased, including conservatives."
CNN is available in just under 86 million of the nation's 105.5 million television homes, and Fox in 77 million.
But Fox has seen dramatic distribution growth over the past year, increasing the number of homes where it is available by one third. CNN's January audience was 51 percent higher than it was in January 2001, while Fox's audience more than doubled...
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