The following story must absolutely drive the far left into a frenzy. As you will read, Fox News dominates the cable news world. Not CNN. Not MSNBC. None of the others. Can you imagine a cable news network featuring Hannity and O'Rielly, neither of whom I care to listen to, dominating the airwaves?
Of course, in the meantime, the network media (ABC, CBS, NBC) continue to hemorrhage viewers and our traditional print media (newspapers and magazines) continue to lose subscribers. Why? Because they are driving an agenda that most Americans simply are no longer forced to buy. As we know, you can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time but thereafter folks wise up and pursue their alternatives. The traditional American media has been on the wrong side of most of the major issues and events in American History. Their track record is abominable and it continues to be so going forward.
Which brings us to mention the plethora of alternatives out there. We have the blogesphere, talk radio and a huge array of on line publications coming from every point of view and every corner of the globe. It is indeed a wonderful smorgasbord for people to browse and study.
The losers: the former dominant traditional media that controlled all of what we saw and heard in pursuit of their hidden agenda (it is clear they have been losers all along). The winners: the people who can no longer be fooled or manipulated if they choose not to be so abused.
Is this a great country or what?
May Ratings: FNC Stays On Top
For the 77th consecutive month, FNC finished first in total day and prime time ratings during May. FNC was the sixth highest rated cable network on all of basic cable during prime time for the month (CNN and MSNBC finished 19th and 26th) and the seventh rated network in total day (CNN and MSNBC were 19th and 27th).
FNC also had 11 out of the top 13 programs in cable during the month in Total Viewers. The O'Reilly Factor was the #1 program in cable news for the 90th consecutive month, and saw gains in Total Viewers year-to-year (26%).
Amercia's Newsroom (9-11amET) was up 30% year-to-year, with the program averaging more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined during the time period.
Meanwhile, On the Record with Greta Van Susteren has been #1 for 73 consecutive months in Total Viewers while Hannity & Colmes has been #1 in its timeslot for 54 consecutive months.
Posted by SteveK Ratings
Taken from: http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/may_ratings_fnc_stays_on_top_85816.asp