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To: tejek who wrote (798444)	7/31/2014 12:16:58 PM
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>> And just for the record, Fox News ratings have fallen in the last two years. Just to set the record straight. "All three major U.S. cable-news networks -- Fox News, CNN and MSNBC -- saw a dip in total viewers for the month of July compared to the same period last year, according to Nielsen Media Research. For Fox News, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox (NASDAQ:FOXA) and the most-watched cable news network for more than a decade, the dip was negligible: Viewership was down 3 percent to just over 1 million total viewers for July. But for CNN and MSNBC, the falloff was particularly steep. CNN, a division of the Turner Broadcasting part of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX), saw its audience plunge 23 percent to 402,000 average daily viewers, while MSNBC, a unit of Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA), was down 16 percent to 318,000 average daily viewers. In the key 25-54 demographic, the declines are even more striking, with both CNN and MSNBC seeing their audiences drop by more than a third."

To: tejek who wrote (798444)	7/31/2014 12:26:07 PM
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And just for the record, Fox News ratings have fallen in the last two years. Who's delusional? huffingtonpost.com The ratings for 2013 are in, and it was a rough year for cable news networks. Like clockwork, Fox News led the pack with an average of 1.097 million total viewers in primetime, according to Nielsen numbers reported by TV Newser. It was the network's 12th straight year in first place.

To: tejek who wrote (798444)	7/31/2014 1:48:33 PM
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Half of Fox News' Viewers Are 68 and Older Here's what that means for cable TV. DEREK THOMPSON theatlantic.com ( All Fox "News" does is tell old, cranky wingnut geezers exactly what they want to hear. ) A key data point from Frank Rich's profile of Fox News: Fox News is losing younger viewers at an even faster rate than its competitors. With a median viewer age now at 68 according to Nielsen data through mid-January (compared with 60 for MSNBC and CNN, and 62 to 64 for the broadcast networks), Fox is in essence a retirement community ... If it is actuarially possible, its median viewer age will keep creeping upward. (It rose by two years over the course of 2013.) It's satisfying for liberals to call Fox News "a retirement community," and, surely, it is. But the entire cable news industry relies on building a product for ages 60 and up. MSNBC isn't exactly a nursery. Various media critics (both professionals of the trade and those who critique for free) like to mock CNN for its poop-ships and long decline, and we chastise MSNBC for trying to play Fox's game from the left with longer words and fewer viewers. But, fundamentally, Fox News is at an unassailable advantage on its turf because it's selling a conservative political product to an older audience, which tends to be more politically conservative, anyway. Over the last three general-election cycles, the 65+ group voted for the GOP presidential candidate by an average of 9 percentage points. Roger Ailes is some kind of genius, and Fox News gets many things right when it comes to building telegenic politico-entertainment. But maybe Fox's secret sauce isn't TV. It's demographics.