But, according to Media critic David Zurawik at The Baltimore Sun, there are three ratings stories the last two weeks that taken together show Fox News rising to a new and remarkable level of dominance - and they have been under reported in the mainstream media.
- Fox News beat not just CNN and MSNBC, but also ABC, NBC and CBS on Nov. 4, the night of the mid-term elections. It did so in both total viewers and the key news demographic: viewers 25 to 54 years of age. Fox more than tripled the audiences of MSNBC and CNN in total viewers, while beating ABC, NBC and CBS by more than 3 million, 2 million and 1 million viewers respectively. (See figures at end of post.)
- Second, buoyed by its election-night juggernaut, Fox was the highest-rated cable channel of the week of Nov. 3, beating such ratings engines as Nickelodeon and ESPN. That’s not the highest-rated cable news channel, the universe it used to live in. That’s highest-rated period – beating all the entertainment channels like AMC and TNT.
- And finally, last week, Fox News aired a documentary, “The Man Who Killed Usama Bin Laden,” and it drew more than 3 million viewers. Part Two, which drew 3.37 million viewers, was the highest-rated documentary in Fox News history.
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