"Young Viewers Avoid Fox News Like the Plague as Ratings Drop 30%"

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Young Viewers Avoid Fox News Like the Plague as Ratings Drop 30%

By: Jason Easley at Politicus USA

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/01/02/young-viewers-avoid-fox-news-plague-ratings-drop-30.html

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Fox knows that this is a serious problem. It’s the reason why they shook up their primetime schedule. The reality is that Fox News has the oldest audience in all television. The average age of a Fox News viewer is 65 years old. FNC can remain the ratings leader in the short term future as long as the senior set keeps tuning in, but what happens when there aren’t enough young people tuning in to replace the elderly audience?

If Fox News fails to build a future audience, they will go extinct. It would have been unfathomable in early 1990s to suggest that one day CNN would be the least watched cable news network, but that is exactly what has happened. Beneath all of the arrogant swagger and bragging, Fox News has a huge problem.

It isn’t just that younger people aren’t watching. They are flat out rejecting Fox News. Just like the Republican Party, Fox News is aging and fading. Attempts to rebrand are going nowhere, as young news consumers have been turned off by Fox.





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[Mnemosyne]

1. Very good news indeed. nt

[Tx4obama]

2. Every time I'm flipping around on the TV FoxNews is still talking about Benghazi and Obamacare...

I think even the older folks are probably sick of hearing about the same two issues everyday all day long.

[Kurska]

3. I'm 22

I don't know a single person my age who watches fox news, hell I don't know a single person who watches cable news period.

I'll occasionally watch MSNBC, but mostly only at the gym or something.

[brewens]

4. As people grow older and near the range they have now, they won't be in the same boat

as those older viewers were when they got hooked.

I understand where a lot of FOX "News" viewers are coming from, though they don't. So they grew up and graduated (just barely in some cases) from high school and got good solid American middle class jobs. The best jobs at the best time of any generation in history at the time. So all they had to do was be a reliable average working person and make it through to retirement. Of course they were told they were working class heroes and built this country. They did nothing of the sort. They rode on the coatails of the people that did that.

Now they are being convinced that anything we try and do to fix our problems means taking what they have away. We want nothing of the sort. We just want the same shot they had. That means taking back what the 1% have looted from all of us for the last 30 years.

[ScottyEss]

5. Despite the political right's best efforts nationwide over the past thirty years

our youth continue to learn!

[William769]

6. Welcome to DU.

[ScottyEss]

10. Good to be here

[rocktivity]

7. Well, who's picking up the slack?

The "new" CNN?


rocktivity

[jeff47]

12. Online.

Generally, "the kids today" receive their news from Internet sources. The quality of those sources "varies", shall we say.

[TeamPooka]

8. K&R!

[DeSwiss]

9. K&R

[center]''Oh! A moment of self-awareness.''

''Whew, it's gone.''[/center]

[bearssoapbox]

11. Gee, I wouldn't know why?

Except, the attempts of the rethugs and Faux News to dumb down schools and present lies as facts and truth hasn't succeeded with the young people.

They've seen through the smokescreen.





They've seen the level of intelligence and decided that stupid isn't for them.


And the math leaves something to be desired.


Gives me hope for the young people and the future.

[Skidmore]

13. Ailes and Murdoch are literally no different than terrorists.