For most of the past 20 years, Fox News has had the highest viewership of the news channels. That has apparently changed since the November election.
The average daytime viewership so far this month (January, 2021):
2.08 million - CNN
1.74 million - MSNBC
1.41 million - Fox News
whereas, historically, Fox News viewership was often larger than the viewership of CNN and MSNBC combined.
The following article
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news...e-reasons-why/
gives five reasons for this flip:
(1) Fox has a tendency to not report news which is negative about Trump, forcing viewers to change channels if they want news coverage
(2) Fox is reducing news coverage in favour of opinion shows
(3) Fox opinion shows are "all in" on all conspiracy theories, no matter how unbelievable the theories are
(4) OANN and Newsmax are "outfoxing Fox", and
(5) message fatigue (isn't it time Fox stopped talking about Hillary???)
Detailed daily ratings for the news channels can be found at the following website.
https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/category/ratings/
The average daytime viewership so far this month (January, 2021):
2.08 million - CNN
1.74 million - MSNBC
1.41 million - Fox News
whereas, historically, Fox News viewership was often larger than the viewership of CNN and MSNBC combined.
The following article
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news...e-reasons-why/
gives five reasons for this flip:
(1) Fox has a tendency to not report news which is negative about Trump, forcing viewers to change channels if they want news coverage
(2) Fox is reducing news coverage in favour of opinion shows
(3) Fox opinion shows are "all in" on all conspiracy theories, no matter how unbelievable the theories are
(4) OANN and Newsmax are "outfoxing Fox", and
(5) message fatigue (isn't it time Fox stopped talking about Hillary???)
Detailed daily ratings for the news channels can be found at the following website.
https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/category/ratings/
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