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Fox News Doubles Its Midterm Ratings From 2006
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NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel more than doubled the audience it had for the 2006 midterm election.
The Nielsen Co. said Wednesday that just under 7 million people watched Fox’s election coverage Tuesday night, a rough night for President Barack Obama. In 2006, which was a rough night for President George W. Bush, the network had 3.1 million viewers.
CNN had 2.4 million viewers on Tuesday night, while MSNBC had 1.9 million. Nielsen had no immediate estimate of the audience for the broadcast networks, promising it for Thursday.
Each of the cable networks had a smaller audience than in 2008, when Obama was elected. The difference was most stark at CNN, which had an election night audience of 12.3 million two years ago.
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Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 1:25amFox News is the best. That’s why Obama, Soros, Huffington, and all the Marxist radicals in America have it in for them.
Their ratings will just go up, and up, and up, as more Americans decide they are fed up with being lied to and disrespected.
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 1:06amGreat for Fox they deserve it. They work hard and I appreciate it. I would have watched them also but no TV. Could not get the live stream to work kept going to Century link search site.
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Report Post »TheProfessor
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 12:14amWow, I forgot all about CNN last night (I guess that says something). I kept flipping back and forth from Fox News (for the election results), CNBC (to see what the money guys were saying about the election results), and MSNBC (to see if anyone was committing suicide).
Report Post »KCMike
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 12:12amMSNBC — DFL. No surprise there …
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 11:34pmIf we just quit watching those liberal channels, (I know its hard to find humor in this world) but if we could just for a month or so. This would tell them that we are tired of the crap that they are dishing out. There ratings would fall below a million or so. Then the advertisers would quit putting their ads on their channels. This would kill them because then they wouldn’t have the revenue to pay all these idiots to voice their opinions.
Report Post »alwayssora
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 5:06amI have quit watching them, even for a few minutes. It‘s Fox all the way or it’s the “OFF” button!
Report Post »Greyhound424
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 11:33pmFox news…..fair and balanced! :)
Report Post »vonlafin
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 11:21pmI sometimes flip to msnbc-howignorantweare on commercials. I couldn’t even take that much, Believe it or not, I would rather watch the commercials!!
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 11:13pmFNC keeps covering these types of stories and reporting like they do. They will probably double their ratings next year also. Everyday people are getting the message that Fox tells it like it is. No liberal hype for them.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 11:12pmYou know why Bawney Fwanks talks funny don’t you? If you had one stuck in your mouth all night you would be taking funny twooo. But he is the ewected official of that state let them worry about him. But I wouldn’t twust him as far as his BF could thwow him.
Report Post »Miss Muffin
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:59pmWatching Fox you just simply delude yourself into some sort of a false reality. Wait until the real reality sets in!!
Report Post »Takeoutthegarbagenov2
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:50pmI wanted to watch MSNBC for about an hour just to compare their coverage with FOX, but I quit drinking and drugging 12 years ago and I was afraid doing so would cause me to relapse.
Report Post »Legal Immigrant
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:33pmWhat other channels? :)
Report Post »MiketheTrucker
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:31pmAnd yet the lamestream media believes they represent “America”. They only fool themselves.
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:07pmAnd, most of that is due to Glenn Beck, because if not for Glenn Beck I would have turned the TV off long ago!
Glenn Beck is the man who saved the Republic and last night I celebrated our win with Glenn on Insider Extreme!
We love you Glenn. Noone has sacrificed more than you for the Republic. You’ve put your life on the line, and, we who know you, recognize that and that’s why I celebrated last night with you on Insider!
This is your victory as well as ours, and none of the Fox News pundits can take it away! If anyone should have been there on Fox News last night you should have been!
God bless you, Glenn.
Report Post »uhadenoughyet.com
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:20pmr u serious ? u said “Glenn Beck is the man who saved the Republic ” and “ Noone has sacrificed more than you for the Republic”. I mean everyone is entitled to an opinion but would you care to put those comments into a context? Like, compared to those supposed journalists in the media “ Noone has sacrificed more than you for the Republic” or something like that? bec ause if you meant your words the way I may have mistakenly read them, well, besides offensive I think it would be pretty ignorant and scary and borderline on idol worship. I hope I am wrong
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:45pmI agree silenttreader. Glenn had an enormous impact on people simply by making them think logically about things. Even if Glenn sounded like he was from space, he still got people thinking about the issues, which produced people talking about the issues, which produced people DOING something about the issues, which produced good results in the election. One man can make a difference.
And as a disclaimer, I don‘t worship Glenn Beck and I’m sure you don’t either. I am grateful to Mr. Beck for getting me to wake up and think about what was going on in my country and having the guts to challenge me to do something about it. Thanks Glenn. We all appreciate what you do.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 11:27pmuhadenoughyet.com: Silentreader meant that Glenn has done more than anyone to open our eyes to George Soros and the crap that the Liberal Socialists Democratic Party had in store for us. He is the only one that has made us remember to study the Constitution and start watching our so called leaders and to hold them accountable. You really need to lighten up on him. Because he is right as far as I am concerned. Glenn has done a lot to teach us in his limited time on Fox and in the books that he has written to show us the in and outs of their madness. He showed us that we need to start studying the Democrats and learning from them on how they think that we are too stupid to know what is going on.
Report Post »jblazak
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 9:31amRight on Silentreader! The Blaze wouldn‘t even exist if it weren’t for Glenn! If it weren’t for Glenn and his courage to stand for the Republic no one would have had the guts to stand up to the Obama machine! I started watching Glenn when he was on CNN Prime and loved his style of telling like it is! There may have been a couple other guys out there Rush etc., but Glenn exposed all our weaknesses and lack of knowledge regarding current events and history! Glenn Beck saves the Republic through his belief in God!
Report Post »uhadenoughyet.com
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:48pmthe message is clear, the sleeping giant is once again awake, and you should all be very very afraid, if by you I mean the liars and deceivers who have enjoyed your games for no other reason than you got a pass in the media and the real working class in America have been very busy paying your bills.
Report Post »...............R..U..Kidding...Me
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:47pmThe only people who care about the left leaning bias networks are the left leaning uneducated stupid whinning socialist unions stick it to me viewers.
Report Post »IndianaUSA
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:45pmFox is # 1. I do have a confession to make. I did flip to Mess News strictly to watch the melt down and have a laugh. It was only for a minute, I swear. I was probably one of the 1.9 million. Admit it, you guys did the same thing.
Report Post »uhadenoughyet.com
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:55pmThe Country we once knew and her best and most equitable principles have been replaced by the far left entitlement society and the people who fund this society know it. The tolerated have become intolerant and the tolerant are not tolerated. How long can a society structured on such corruption, inequality, manufactured rights that trample natural rights and self serving demagoguery survive?
The boy lovers and dope smoking commies at MSNBC are so far gone they dont even know what is actually happening!
Report Post »diesel71dan
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:41pmThat would make 2 of us that need to be subtracted from that 1.9 million. I could not resist flipping channels briefly just to what their heads explode.
Report Post »SSBN_VET
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 11:56pmI think that 100,000 FOX viewers that switched over and back 19 times to watch the meltdown skewed their rating numbers. It‘s the BLAZE’S fault…. I never would have looked in on them if the BLAZE hadn’t been reporting on the meltdown. Stop telling us what they do over there and they won’t have ANY viewers and those bafoons will be in the unemployment line.
Report Post »BlueCollared
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 12:47amCount me in. Sorry, couldn’t help myself needed a good laugh.
Report Post »PleaseShootme
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 1:56pmok, i admit it. I did too, and didn’t know whether to laugh at them or cry for them. But seriously, have you ever seen such a display of small-mindedness, bitterness, jealousy, and plain juvenile behavior as that in your life? It was absolutely shameful. Humorous, but sad and enraging at the same time. Poor ol’ Ed was literally foaming at the mouth.
Report Post »SnapTie
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:35pmFox news beat the networks in the 10 pm time slot. Never was more than 200,000 down all night.
Report Post »secondgenamerican1984
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:32pmI think this was reported I doubt MSNBC had 1.9 million viewers, 1.9 viewers sounds way more correct
Report Post »13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:41pmI was reading…..
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Report Post »IndianaUSA
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:45pmSpeaking of 1.9
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:52pm13, Good luck with your learn-from-home-tech-school endeavors. Although I’m sure that claim is a lie too, just like your 13th generation American claim.
Report Post »13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:12pmGoogle it :)
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13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:57pmBroker101, I assume since your IQ resides at room temperature, you have no idea what a Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert is “CCIE”
Look it up sometime
Report Post »JesusFreak95
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 12:38pmHey, number 13. What does your lineage and Cisco training have to do with the subject at hand. What exactly is your point?
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:30pmdo you mean they are other network news channels?? i ve never heard of them , no wonder fox is the bomb
Report Post »teahugger
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:29pmSome of us want our news without the leaning.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:29pmTAKE THAT ALPHABET SOUP lol maybe we will be blessed with some closings or firings starting with msnbc
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:06pmMaybe MSNoBurpingCheese will just shut down for good.
Report Post »kiwi1
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:29pmThe Most Trusted News Source For a Reason.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:28pmnot a surprise I wonder if the over all viewership had doubled since then as well
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:27pmjust think if we had a puyblic trial of the Banker crooks that sold homes
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Psychosis
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:40pmyou can start with bwany fwank and his housing bwubble
Report Post »RAISINGCONSERVATIVES
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:44pmI was watching FoxNews and thought I would like to change to one of the other networks just to see what kind of idotic things that they were saying when I realized that I didn’t even know what channel (number) they were on…I had to look it up! They didn’t disappoint with the stupidity! And the ignorance and arrogance just keep on flowing! Needless to say I changed it back and that is where it stayed!
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:05pmFOX news numbers keep expanding for a simple reason they alone are ‘fair and balanced’ as anyone of the news can reasonably be. Keep up the work FOX and all her people.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:27pmEach of the cable networks had a smaller audience than in 2008, when Obama was elected. The difference was most stark at CNN, which had an election night audience of 12.3 million two years ago.
Interesting just what two little years of hell on earth can do to get the people woken up, rialed up, and set the political elites tails on fire!!! The reason most people were not watching the news stations is that most were out voting the bums out of office!!!
Also the part for CNN, should that not have read two viewers approximently 12.3 million years ago?
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Report Post »rebel
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:47pm1.9 million. that’s damn good for Msnbc. of course a lot of us were watching it for the humor.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 11:08pmAnd FOX won the election! Love you FOX!
fatpatriot
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 5:14amYesterday it was reported by Brett Baier on Fox that NewsCorp the parent company of Fox, WSJ et al.. had a 36% increase in profit on 7.75 billion revenue. How’s that boycott thingy working for ya MMFA. Oh stop my side hurts!!!!!
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 9:15amCenter-right country — center-right network. Thanks to FNC, we get BOTH sides now!
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 6:38pm“MSNBC had 1.9 million” – Hey Keith, what was that about “still here”? You won’t be for long being a distant third like that. You MIGHT want to lean forward a little more to try and gain some momentum.
Bwaaah!!!!!
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