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• Boycotted. Criticized. But Fox News Leads the Pack in Prime Time.

Boycotted. Criticized. But Fox News Leads the Pack in Prime Time.

by Lightlynews.com · On August 9, 2020 · In Business / Media

In one sense, this has been a troublesome interval for Fox News: a star anchor fired after being accused of sexual harassment, a lawsuit depicting a misogynist office, a high author uncovered as a racist web troll, advertiser boycotts and outrage after Tucker Carlson referred to as protesters “felony mobs” and questioned the patriotism of a senator who misplaced her legs in Iraq.

In one other sense, enterprise has by no means been higher.

In June and July, Fox News was the highest-rated tv channel within the prime-time hours of eight to 11 p.m. Not simply on cable. Not simply amongst information networks. All of tv. The common stay Fox News viewership in these hours outstripped cable rivals like CNN, MSNBC and ESPN, in addition to the published networks ABC, CBS and NBC, in response to Nielsen.

That three-hour slot is a slim however vital slice of TV actual property, and it’s exceedingly uncommon for a basic-cable channel to outrank the Big Three broadcasters, which can be found in additional households and provide a greater variety of programming.

Even the return of stay sports activities did little to cease the momentum: The Fox News applications hosted by Mr. Carlson and Sean Hannity drew extra stay viewers than competing baseball and basketball video games, together with a Yankees-Nationals matchup on Opening Day.

Fox News’s large summer time has been boosted by an increase in viewers for information programming usually, a rise pushed by curiosity within the pandemic, civil rights protests and the presidential election. ABC, CBS, and NBC, in the meantime, have extra reruns on the summer time schedule; the coronavirus has suspended most TV productions; and viewers are being lured away by streaming providers and on-demand Hollywood motion pictures.

But the Fox News scores additionally show the scale and resilience of America’s viewers for pro-Trump opinion, and the loyalty of Fox News viewers who shrug off the controversies that routinely swirl across the community.

“Massive information occasions that conservatives view by means of a extremely partisan lens are driving the scores, and not one of the controversies actually land with loyal Fox News viewers,” stated Nicole Hemmer, a scholar at Columbia University and a historian of American conservative media.

Lachlan Murdoch, the manager chairman of Fox News’s guardian firm, bragged on an earnings name final week in regards to the community’s “astronomical” scores. He additionally stated its advert income was up from a yr in the past — a reminder that Fox News, for all of the flak it takes from critics, politicians and the advertisers that fled Mr. Carlson, stays an unmatched revenue engine for the Murdoch empire.

Complaints that Fox News prime-time hosts downplayed the coronavirus — and, within the case of Laura Ingraham, inspired the usage of hydroxychloroquine, a drug proven to be ineffective, and even harmful, for Covid-19 sufferers — made little distinction.

“The perception that hydroxychloroquine is one thing between a therapeutic and a miracle remedy is wildly in style in conservative media, particularly discuss radio,” Ms. Hemmer stated. “Tucker Carlson’s controversies have by no means actually damage his scores, although they’ve value him advertisers.”

Two days stood out when Fox News scores fell considerably: the funerals of George Floyd, the Minnesota man who died after a police officer pinned him to the bottom throughout a routine cease, and Representative John Lewis, the towering civil rights determine.

Like its rivals CNN and MSNBC, Fox News carried the memorial providers stay. During Mr. Floyd’s funeral, viewership on all three networks dipped. On each events, the drop in Fox News’s viewers was stark, all the way down to numbers extra sometimes seen throughout in a single day hours. (CNN and Mediaite beforehand reported on the scores dips.)

Over all, viewers have proven a robust urge for food for information on politics, public well being and pure disasters.

The night newscasts on ABC, CBS and NBC are notching their largest audiences in years. David Muir’s “World News Tonight” on ABC has been a standout: In July, its episodes had been the highest 18 telecasts throughout all of broadcast and cable tv, drawing extra viewers than common summertime scores leaders like NBC’s “America’s Got Talent.”

All three of the community newscasts, which air at 6:30 p.m., draw extra viewers than Fox News’s prime-time exhibits, with Mr. Muir greater than doubling Mr. Hannity’s common in July.

Cable channels outline prime-time as eight to 11 p.m., however the Big Three broadcasters embody the 7 p.m. Sunday slot of their common prime-time viewers counts. That is when “60 Minutes” airs on CBS — one other information present that’s vastly in style with viewers — and the published networks’ definition of prime time allowed CBS to eke out a win towards Fox News in June and July.

But Fox News was the king of eight to 11 p.m., partly as a result of conservative viewers have few choices for right-wing political commentary. Smaller networks like Newsmax and One America News have tried to siphon off viewers however lag far behind.

MSNBC, whose liberal prime time is an ideological inverse to Fox News, has elevated its viewers from a yr in the past. But Rachel Maddow, as soon as neck and neck with Mr. Hannity at 9 p.m., has fallen behind all three of Fox News’s prime-time stars in complete viewers. Ms. Ingraham, who seems within the much less fascinating 10 p.m. slot, has drawn extra viewers than Ms. Maddow for a lot of months.

Fox News gained reward this summer time due to a number of news-making interviews with President Trump, together with Chris Wallace’s grilling on “Fox News Sunday” and an interview with Harris Faulkner wherein Mr. Trump struggled to handle racial grievances. Even Mr. Trump’s June discussion board with Mr. Hannity yielded headlines when the president couldn’t identify a coverage precedence for a second time period.

Sean Hannity drew extra viewers than competing baseball and basketball video games.Credit…Julie Jacobson/Associated Press

But the community’s critics say the language of its prime-time hosts could be reckless. Mr. Carlson has confronted a specific backlash since Mr. Floyd’s loss of life in Minneapolis in late May sparked nationwide demonstrations for civil rights.

Major advertisers, together with the Walt Disney Company, T-Mobile and Poshmark, boycotted his program as Mr. Carlson denounced the protesters as violent anarchists. Later, the host referred to as Senator Tammy Duckworth, a wounded veteran, a “moron” and questioned her patriotism. In current days, Mr. Carlson referred to as former President Barack Obama a “greasy politician” and questioned if Mr. Floyd’s loss of life had been brought on by drug use slightly than being pinned to the bottom by a police officer.

Mr. Carlson’s scores have by no means been larger. And based mostly on Mr. Murdoch’s telling, the boycott had little impact on Fox News’s backside line. Mr. Carlson’s present has just about no main sponsors, however many adverts had been redistributed to different applications on the community. Fox News additionally continues to make a fortune in so-called carriage charges, the cash paid by cable and satellite tv for pc suppliers to maintain the community of their lineups.

Fox News vigorously defends itself from critics who say its information protection is biased or its commentators are excessive. When a author for Mr. Carlson, Blake Neff, resigned in July due to racist and sexist messages he had posted in an internet discussion board, Fox News’s chief govt, Suzanne Scott, publicly denounced his conduct as “abhorrent.” Mr. Carlson issued a halfhearted mea culpa, saying Mr. Neff’s posts had been “fallacious” but in addition warning that his critics can be “punished.”

Mr. Murdoch was made conscious of Mr. Carlson’s on-air remarks earlier than the published, in response to two individuals with data of the change, which was reported earlier by The Daily Beast.

Rachel Maddow of MSNBC, as soon as neck and neck with Mr. Hannity for viewers, has fallen behind him and different Fox News hosts.Credit…MSNBC

CBS stays neck-and-neck with Fox News within the eight to 11 p.m. slot, and will nonetheless take the summer time crown.

On Wednesday, nevertheless, CBS aired what ought to have been a serious draw: the two-hour season premiere of the fact present “Big Brother,” a uncommon new episode amid a raft of summer time reruns.

“Big Brother” was seen by a median of three.7 million stay viewers. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” lured three.9 million and “Hannity” simply shy of 4 million — the most-watched telecast of the evening.

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