Jon Stewart Crushes Fox News In The 2011 Ratings
From Politicususa, -- Jon Stewart Crushes Fox News In The 2011 Ratings:
By losing 9% of their audience in 2011, Fox News’ prime time lineup now averages fewer viewers than Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show.
According to TVNewser, Fox News averaged 1.868 million total viewers in prime time compared to 2.3 million for The Daily Show.
The audience erosion continued over at Fox News as the network lost 8% of its total viewers and 14% of their viewers in the 25-54 demo. The total number of daytime Fox News viewers slipped to 1.073 million.
“Red Eye” was the only Fox News show to post ratings gains in 2011. Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and On The Record With Greta Van Susteren all lost viewers. In the morning, Fox and Friends remained flat. Fox News still showed its dominance by having the top 13 rated cable news programs, but a certain program hosted by a comedian that Fox News loves to hate on Comedy Central blew past most of the Fox News shows in the ratings.
According to Comedy Central, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart averaged 2.3 million viewers per episode in 2011. Unlike Fox News, “The Daily Show” was up in total viewers (+7%) and all key demos: adults 18-49 (+6%); men 18-34 (+2%); men 18-24 (+4%).” The Daily Show was also the top cable late night talk show in terms of total viewers, and was generally dominant. While Fox News was losing 14% in the demo in 2011, Jon Stewart was gaining 6%.
Jon Stewart has become Fox News’ #1 media nemesis. To put Stewart’s ratings into a head to head context, The O’Reilly Factor tends to hover around the 3 million viewers range. Hannity is at around 2+ million, and On The Record with Greta Van Susteren varies between 1.1 million and 1.5 million as an average. This means that The Daily Show is more popular than both Hannity and On The Record, and trails O’Reilly by about 700,000 viewers.
The reason why Fox News feels so threatened by Jon Stewart is because his program is more popular than anything not named Bill O’Reilly on the network. Not only is Stewart popular, but he is popular with the coveted young demographics that Fox News struggles with. The average Fox News viewer is 65 years old. For years, the Fox News model of success has been powered by viewers literally aging in to watching Fox.
Good for Jon Stewart. As we've noted here at Crooks and Liars Fox viewers are less informed than anyone else. The same cannot be said for Daily Show viewers.
And for a bit more on Fox's brand of "journalism" taking another defeat this year in Canada, here's more from last May -- A Law Against Lying on the News. Sadly they'll still be supplying Jon Stewart with more material here in the United States.
F'awesome.
Can't wait for BillO, Greta, Not Doocey, and Hannity to bring this up. Actually, I probably will end up waiting.
and others tune in out of morbid curiosity. Fox is just one big freak show.
I've always felt that a LARGE portion of Fox's audience are just that...people tuning in out of morbid curiosity...or just looking for a good laugh. I used to watch periodically just for that reason. As the rhetoric got more and more disgusting and openly racist and hateful, I stopped watching. It wasn't even good for a laugh anymore. I think a lot of the "viewers" they are losing are people just like me...people who used to view as morbid entertainment, but it's too disgusting even for that now. I'm a college student, and I have been to many parties where large groups of people crowd around the TV and watch O"Reilly or Hannity just for a laugh (I have witnessed drinking games that revolve around these shows) This coupled with, as you said, their rapidly aging demographic dying off, and the fact that many fast food restaurants and doctor's offices tune their TV's to Fox, I would say that the lions share of Fox's viewers are not there because they support the right-wing agenda. It's a joke channel.
Thank Goodness for Jon Stewart, Lawrence O'Donnell, Ed Shultz, Rachell Maddow, Elizabeth Warren,
Al Sharpton, etc. These people know what they're talking about and are concerned about our Nation!
The Fox news spits out lies only for the Fox buck. The moronic people that believe these lying thieves deserve the consequences .... brain-dead!!!
BRILLIANT break down of the facts,now wait for the troll army / posse of deniers & liars,hold your fire til you see the WHITES of their eyes.
Most of the people I talk to who watch FOX say they do it for the "entertainment"; that it's fun when FOX pisses off Liberals. Unfortunately, these people are too fucking stupid to see the damage that's being done.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
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