CNN beats Fox News in key demographic.
By on Apr 1st, 2008 at 2:49 pm
CNN beats Fox News in key demographic.
The New York Times reports today:
The political season continues to be very good to CNN, which will officially announce on Tuesday that for the first time since 2001, it managed to beat the Fox News Channel in prime time for one quarter of the year in the category of news viewers most desirable to advertisers, according to Nielsen. Thanks to its debate coverage and heavy focus on the presidential primaries, CNN’s ratings in prime time for viewers 25 to 54 were up 90 percent, to an average of 453,000 for the first quarter of 2008. That was enough to edge past the perennial leader, Fox, which had 438,000 viewers, up 12 percent from last year.
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Fox still leads in the category of "viewers which most strongly believe Tinky Winky is a homosexual al-queeda member who wants use our tax money to have gay moslem wedd1ngs"
April 1st, 2008 at 2:51 pmThat's great! Now if only CNN actually covered the news instead of superficial horserace fluffery, there'd be something to celebrate.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:52 pmThis tells me two things:
1) the Democratic candidates' refusal to debate on Faux had an impact
and
2) the CNN slump to the right will be seen as "the way forward" for the corporate management, and they will become more like Faux.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:53 pmTweedledee and Tweedledum still fighting over who gets to have Humpty Dumpty for supper.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:55 pmCan't wait for BillO's evening rant about this. Damn CNN! Damn Countdown! Olbermann that evil bastahd (or as otherwise known as He Whose Name Must Not Be Spoken).
Put that in your hat and smoke it, Fox.
May you never RIP either. Die a slow death, fine, just die. One less propaganda network. How many more to go?
April 1st, 2008 at 2:55 pmSet an egg-timer for a reich-wing troll to C&P ratings.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:57 pmFirst Tucker Carlson, John Gibson and now this.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:57 pmGlenn is knocking 'em dead....dead last for that matter.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:57 pmTo me, this just proves that millions of people can be wrong.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:59 pmI tried watching Glenn Beck once..it was uninformative, unbalanced and dull.
April 1st, 2008 at 3:00 pmprogressisgood Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Knock em dead Glenn!!
Lowest rated show on CNN, matter of fact. Can you say, "In spite of, rather than because"?
April 1st, 2008 at 3:03 pmExcept for the "dull" part, it sounds like winning Right-Wing TV!
April 1st, 2008 at 3:04 pmprogressisgood Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Knock em dead Glenn!!
Yup. Brain dead. Like you.
April 1st, 2008 at 3:05 pmI suspect it's because CNN is trying very hard to mimic FNN.
Campell Brown will read anything on a teleprompter. (Anchorman)
Wolf Blitzer doesn't even know what he just said.
Dobbs is Xenophobic, racist & boring to everyone but Lou Dobbs.
Corporate News Network / 'Telling You What We've Been Told To'
April 1st, 2008 at 3:05 pmAll MSM news organizations feed us are different kinds of shit sandwiches. Some have a little more bread than others, but the filling is still shit.
April 1st, 2008 at 3:10 pm>Knock em dead Glenn!!
Sorry, hes busy explaining how big oil profits help us.*
* I have stock in exxon, so if "us" means "me", then he's right :)
April 1st, 2008 at 3:17 pmBobwurst Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 3:10 pm
All MSM news organizations feed us are different kinds of shit sandwiches. Some have a little more bread than others, but the filling is still shit.
But the ones Lou Dobbs feeds us have that extra spicy salsa sauce in them, just so you remember who to blame. ;)
April 1st, 2008 at 3:18 pmOuch, that's got to hurt. And I believe it is only going to get worse for Fox. The station was born of neoCON conservative rule and could just die under progressive rule.
That's also the key demographic that Keith Olberman carries during Countdown.
April 1st, 2008 at 3:19 pmboth comedy channels suck and i dont watch either... i cant stomach stupid.
April 1st, 2008 at 3:20 pm438,000 24-54 year olds watch FOX? Seriously?
Just how big is the Bush and Cheney extended family?
April 1st, 2008 at 3:23 pmFixed noise won't make it if there a a Dem majority.
April 1st, 2008 at 3:48 pmManBearPig Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 3:23 pm
and Think Progress moved up from 4th to a 3rd rate blog.
And your mom moved up from free lance crack whore to ann coulter impersonator, what's your point?
April 1st, 2008 at 3:54 pmWait - am I supposed to cheerlead for CNN over FOX?
We have a pure propaganda organization, similar to the Goebbels Nazi propaganda machine in WW2 Germany or Soviet Union's Pravda (FOX duh), vs Krokodil (a satirical Soviet Union era popular magazine, heavily censored put forth as an "alternative" to FOX errr Pravda).
April 1st, 2008 at 4:01 pmManBearPig
shouldn't that be ManOnBearOnPigSex?
April 1st, 2008 at 4:01 pmThe_Right_Stuff Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 4:03 pm
CNN is still too liberal.
We know you prefer Pravda. Why do you hate the Blll of Rights? Is that your definition of "patriot'?
April 1st, 2008 at 4:09 pmThe_Right_Stuff Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 4:03 pm
CNN is still too liberal.
Gooestep when you say that, boy!
April 1st, 2008 at 4:10 pmJust goes to show, most audiences wouldn’t know polemic from rhetoric in these “debates”. Wolf Blitzer would be right a home at Faux News.
April 1st, 2008 at 4:27 pmFox New's constant sewage-flow of GOP propogada becomes really tiresome after a while.
It's like a non-stop GOP informercial.
Makes sense people would lose interest.
The only thing Fox can really do to get back to #1 is to open it's tabloid brittiny spears journalism floodgates .
April 1st, 2008 at 4:45 pmpeople really don't watch these do they? with the sound on?
April 1st, 2008 at 4:59 pmDon't worry - by tonight, O'Reilly will put his own spin on the numbers.
April 1st, 2008 at 5:34 pm"CNN beats Fox News in key demographic."
The "key demographic" being mammals with opposable thumbs.
April 1st, 2008 at 5:47 pmlet's not be unfair or unbalanced..... fox viewers don't know how to use the remote control.
April 1st, 2008 at 5:52 pmThe set is always tuned to fox, just ask cheney.
Southern Man Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 4:41 pm
15,000 is the difference between the two and this is news. CNN is hiring more pretty women to keep with all the pretty women on Fox. It’s obviously working. Our TV media is becoming more like the British TV media. Nothing wrong with hearing your news from a smart, educated, and beautiful woman while drinking your coffee in the morning, as opposed to a fat, boring, know it all, fifty something man. Turning off the teleprompter and more mini skirts would have the ratings going through the roof.
So, you've got a thing for Sean Insanity and Bill O'Loofa, huh? Thought so.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:25 pmCNN may be getting more viewers, but at least democrats are starting to recognize that Fox is the most objective:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/31/clinton-surrogate-ed-rend_n_94280.html
April 1st, 2008 at 8:45 pmbackup Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 8:45 pm
CNN may be getting more viewers, but at least democrats are starting to recognize that Fox is the most objective:
Cap'n, I think you meant to type " democrats are starting to recognize that Fox is the most objectionable".
And, no, Democrats have known that since the mid-90s.
April 1st, 2008 at 9:49 pmNice one, ralph.
It's kind of a joke. I don't think there is such a thing as 'objective' media.
April 1st, 2008 at 10:23 pm