Fox News Ratings Crash

The owners of Fox News fell in love with Biden/Harris and their viewers have abandoned ship.

After years of dominating cable news, Fox News has found itself in an unfamiliar spot: the bottom of the ratings charts. Last week, for the first time since 2000, MSNBC and CNN topped Fox in viewership, capitalizing on huge numbers after the Georgia runoff and riots in DC.

According to ratings data, CNN “topped cable networks” with roughly 2.8 million viewers per day between January 4th and January 10th, with 4.2 million viewers in primetime. During that same time period, MSNBC had approximately 2.3 million viewers per day and 3.8 million in prime time. Fox News, however, had just 1.7 million per day and 3.2 million in primetime. Yahoo Finance reported that “Newsmax, a smaller rival that has been promoted by President Trump, said it saw record ratings in primetime of 443,000 for the week. Its total day ratings averaged 294,000.”

It's a tragic outcome. Entirely self inflicted since the leadership there veered off course. But it doesn't change the fact that many small voices on the right aren't necessarily better than many plus one big.

As the home to Tucker and Sean and Laura and Jude Jeanine and others, Fox is still an important alternative voice.