MSNBC Crushes Competition During Jan. 6 Hearings, CNN Sees Big Boost While Fox News Retains Audience

[Tennessee Hillbilly]

Source: Mediaite

MSNBC topped Fox News in terms of total viewers, averaging 3.95 million across prime time.

Fox averaged a total of 2.92 million total viewers for its counter-programming, which is a small boost from the night before, which brought in some 2.58 million total viewers.

CNN, along with MSNBC, beat Fox News in the key 25-54 age demographic. CNN won the night with a big 733,000 demo viewers, while MSNBC had 573,000 and Fox landed in third with 537,000.

CNN also saw its total-viewer average skyrocket as the struggling network brought in 2.62 million total viewers – a major boost from its 517,000 average prime time viewers the night before.


Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/daily-ratings/msnbc-crushes-fox-news-with-jan-6-hearings-cnn-sees-big-boost/

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Overall this is very good. Fox usually gets a bigger prime-time audience than MSNBC and CNN combined.

But I was disappointed to see that Fox had the biggest audience for post-show hearings coverage.

[paleotn]

1. But, but, but....I was told no one would watch!

Other than a few political junkies. Everyone's on vacation June thru August. Read it right here. I think their name was Debbie something.....umm....Downer. That's it. Debbie Downer.

[rownesheck]

5. I'll admit it!

I was one who thought no one would watch. I thought maybe 5 million.

This crow doesn't taste very good.

Love,

Rownesheck Downer

[Marcuse]

22. Put some Buffalo hot sauce on it; tastes like chicken.

[aggiesal]

2. There's a reason for Fox to have the biggest post-show hearings coverage...

I was disappointed to see that Fox had the biggest audience for post-show hearings coverage.

Most of MSNBC & CNN viewers don't need to have people explain to us what we just saw and heard.
Fox viewers can't think without Fox, they need to be told what to think.

[ananda]

7. Exactly!

They Fox viewers need to be told the alternate reality
version.

[cstanleytech]

18. Don't forgot they need to also be told who to hate.

[chillfactor]

3. I thought MSNBC coverage was excellent

perhaps because Rachel was there?

[Rebl2]

6. Yep

[FailureToCommunicate]

4. Apparently Tucker's show didn't break for any ads. Afraid viewers might switch channels?

[Rebl2]

8. I believe

that’s what they thought. Other channels didn’t break for commercials either, I don’t think.

[aggiesal]

9. Apparently, neither did Hannity. n/t

[mpcamb]

10. "Fox News Retains Audience"

Well, A-holes will be A-holes.

[ificandream]

20. They were waiting for the cartoons to start.

[FakeNoose]

11. NBC - the network giant - must have gotten way more viewers

... than MSNBC or any of the cable news channels. This isn't Nielsen ratings, this is just a small piece of the pie.
Also what about the people watching on their phones, tablets, laptops, etc.? What about DVR/watch later numbers?

There's no way to count ALL the people who saw the hearings last night. This is is just a small comparison of Faux Noise vs. everyone else, BUT it's not the sum total of who actually tuned in last night.

[Tennessee Hillbilly]

12. Here are sone "preliminary" Nielsen ratings

"ABC took the largest haul of viewers, earning 4.8 million of them, while NBC and CBS carried 3.5 million and 3.3 million, respectively."

"On cable, MSNBC pulled in a whopping 4.1 million viewers during the hearings, nearly four times what the network averages on a typical weeknight."

"Usually dominant Fox News Channel came in second place on cable on Thursday night, averaging 3 million viewers from 8 to 10 p.m. CNN came in third place with 2.6 million."

But as noted earlier, CNN beat Fox in the key 25-54 age demographic.

Link:
https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/media/3519284-nearly-20m-watched-jan-6-hearing-nielsen/?email=066c0990fa413d52c3842f29a42abb22ffa00eae&emaila=02c3337a6605235631b8cab2e023d54e&emailb=e0d37ab6f97ed06914f0e75a1ebed673001a81f7f84978ff9209f3e23f7ba5d3&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=LC%2006/05-06/11%20Breaking%20News%20Alerts%20-%20WITH%20ADS&utm_term=Breaking%20News

[appalachiablue]

13. Howdy & thanx for the info. We checked out NBC, some

CNN and ABC coverage and analysis- all good.

[SouthernDem4ever]

14. fox viewers need their heads' examined

I don't understand why they watch a channel featuring a huge collective of lying assholes.

[Skittles]

15. should say "retains the cult"

fucking morons

[efhmc]

16. What about the millons of us without tvs who streamed it on other sources?

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[canetoad]

17. I thought Fox declined to run the hearing

Live-streamed it, but wanted to rewatch some segments later on so grabbed a YouTube version. Surprisingly, it had a Fox logo.

FOMO?

[New Haven]

19. these comparison would be more accurate is they were Fox news vs non-Fox news

we are continually duped into thinking that Fox did better than MSNBC ---a more accurate portrayal would be the combined viewership that refuses to watch Fox and is watching all of the other stations. Tucker Carlson has a paltry audience, we just let the media wonks tell us he's doing great

[randr]

21. The ratings are a false picture of reality

That Faux comes up with the most viewers it is in comparison to several networks, all of which come up with a total number twice the size of Faux claims.
The bottom third of Americans have found their cult home at faux.
We shall call them the turd of America.