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| Guest | Mar 26 2014, 06:20 PM Post #1 |
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![]() According to Pew, year-over-year numbers show that the business of left-wing cable news is in trouble. The cable news viewing audience overall declined for everyone, but MSNBC lost 24% of its primetime audience. CNN dropped 13%. Fox only lost 6%. Those percentages are even more graphic when you consider how few viewers CNN and MSNBC have to begin with, especially when compared to Fox News. Fox beats both of its left-wing competitors combined with 1.75 million viewers. Only 619k tune into MSNBC, while CNN comes in third (for the fourth year) with 543k viewers. Daytime viewership was especially bad for MSNBC. Both CNN and Fox News increased viewers over last year: 12% and 2%, respectively. MSNBC lost a whopping 15.5% of its daytime audience. In revenue, Fox News jumped 5%, CNN increased by 2%, and MSNBC decreased by 2%. All three networks benefit greatly by cable licensing fees. CNN's revenue is 64% licensing fees. Fox is 58% and MSNBC is 51%. This is how low-rated networks like CNN and MSNBC stay in business. They could never survive at the level they do with such low-ratings on advertising alone. Advertising revenue is based on eyeballs. Bundled cable -- forcing tens of millions of Americans to purchase expensive cable packages -- is what keeps these left-wing networks afloat. The trend of people cutting the cord and dumping pay TV is a much bigger threat to CNN and MSNBC. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/03/26/pew-msnbc-loses-quarter-primetime-audience --------------------------------------------------------------------- Libs couldn't do talk radio, what made them think they could do talk t v? That being said, I don't listen to pundits giving their opinions on any channel. It seems the real news is on the tape at the bottom of the screen. |
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| Guest | Mar 26 2014, 06:24 PM Post #2 |
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THANKS FREEPER FUNDIE CUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Guest | Mar 26 2014, 06:25 PM Post #3 |
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Politico's Media Reporter, Dylan Byers, highlights a new Pew Research report which shows that MSNBC is circling the drain. But Byers' own summary of what is driving MSNBC's ratings and earnings down is, perhaps, even tougher than the Pew findings themselves. MSNBC isn't seeing that growth, and it's not clear how it will. In a world where liberals wanted to be outraged by George Bush every night, or celebrate the rise of Barack Obama, MSNBC had a theory of the case. But now Obama's presidency has turned into a slog, and MSNBC isn't compelling. Prime time is just hours of what often seems like feigned outrage. And the daytime strategy -- giving shows to kids in their 20s and 30s, in an apparent bid to reach the youths -- is comically bad, and rendered absurd at every commercial break when the catheter ads come on. Pew Research plots Nielsen ratings data and finds that MSNBC lost 24% of its prime-time audience in 2013, the sharpest decline among the three big cable news outlets. Fox viewership was down 6% for the year but was still higher than both the other networks combined. While MSNBC still holds a narrow lead over 3rd place CNN in terms of prime-time viewers, the situation is different when it comes to revenues. Here CNN has a wide lead, bringing in more than double the money last place MSNBC managed. As Dylan Byers points out, the problems at MSNBC won't be solved by adding a few inexperience young hosts. As I've argued before based on previous Pew results, the real problem is that MSNBC doesn't do news. http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/03/26/Politico-s-Dylan-Byers-Slams-MSNBC-s-Daytime-Lineup-as-Comically-Bad |
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| Guest | Mar 26 2014, 08:31 PM Post #4 |
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I guess losing some of your audience is bad. But not as bad as losing your life because you are a cocaine addled drunk who just left a bar and has a heart attack on a lonely sidewalk, like Mr. Breitbart. |
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| Guest | Mar 27 2014, 07:57 AM Post #5 |
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The real news is delivered via your computer or your phone. Who watches tv news? Only old fogies who are Left Behind. Fox News is number one and reaches about a million or two people per show (and often the same people for other shows). Whoop de do. There are 320 million Americans. All this means is reading about and thinking about cable news is like bragging about which Watchtower pamphlet is up on top of the stack at Lou's Fluff and Fold. |
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| Tybee | Mar 27 2014, 09:00 AM Post #6 |
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I can't fathom why people pay any attention to any TV news shows. They're all nothing but exaggerations by the network, personal perceptions by their stupid on air news readers, and schlock filler. You could count the number of true news professionals left in America on one hand, and they get so little air time these days because the networks are pandering to the lowest level of intelligence of their viewership. |
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| Guest | Mar 27 2014, 09:14 AM Post #7 |
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Tybee ITA, you said it better than I ever could. I swear if it wasn't for Law and Order and Frasier reruns there wouldn't be much for me to watch on t v. |
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| Guest | Mar 27 2014, 09:30 AM Post #8 |
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ALL TV "news" is doomed. The only reason FoxNews is exhibiting the last gasp of success is that not all its very old demo has died yet. But they will. And nobody will be left who turns to ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC or Fox to get his news. |
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