'Bloodbath': Fox News suffers ratings crash, prime-time viewership plummets in key demo



The ratings of Fox News continue to crash following the firing of Tucker Carlson.

In its first week without Carlson, Fox News Channel’s prime-time viewership tumbled 29.6% from the previous week.

The Los Angeles Times reported, "Fox News Channel averaged 1.449 million viewers for its prime-time programming between April 24 and Sunday, third among cable networks, according to live-plus-same-day figures released by Nielsen on Tuesday."

Carlson's 8 p.m. time slot has been replaced with "Fox News Tonight," which was hosted by Brian Kilmeade last week and Lawrence Jones this week.

Approximately 1.48 million viewers tuned in to "Fox News Tonight" on Tuesday. By comparison, Carlson averaged over 3 million total viewers per night from April 17 to 21 – the final week of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" airing on Fox News.

In Carlson's final week before being fired, episodes of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" accounted for the five most-watched programs on Fox News.

On Tuesday, "Fox News Tonight" lagged behind in the key 25-54 age demographic against the direct competition of MSNBC's "All in with Chris Haynes" and CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360."

Blaze Media CEO Tyler Cardon noted that Fox News Channel's 25-54 demographic ratings have crashed by a whopping 75% since Carlson was fired by the cable news network compared to the first-quarter ratings of this year.

\u201cSince firing Tucker Carlson, Fox News Channel\u2019s ratings in the all-important 25-54 demo have fallen off a cliff: \n\n\u20226pm ET: -42%\n\u20227pm ET: -62%\n\u20228pm ET: -75% \n\u20229pm ET: -70%\n\u202210pm ET: -66%\n\u202211pm ET: -49%\n\nOof.\u201d
— Tyler Carditis (@Tyler Carditis) 1683139052

Former Fox News star Megyn Kelly called the ratings of her former employer a "bloodbath."

"Bloodbath. Not even Bud Lite (which is currently giving away its beer in an effort to get ppl to pls pls drink it) lost this much of its customer base," Kelly tweeted on Wednesday.

\u201cBloodbath.\nNot even Bud Lite (which is currently giving away its beer in an effort to get ppl to pls pls drink it) lost this much of its customer base.\u201d
— Megyn Kelly (@Megyn Kelly) 1683149946

Last week, Kelly said that Fox News is "clearly determined to destroy" Carlson.

The few bright spots for Fox News in the key demo were the "The Five" hosted by Greg Gutfeld in the 5 p.m. time slot with 301,000 viewers and "Gutfeld!" in the 11 p.m. slot with 216,000 key demo viewers.

Some of the disgruntled Fox News audience may have migrated to Newsmax.

"On the day Carlson was fired, Newsmax's 8 p.m. offering — hosted by former Fox News host Eric Bolling — drew a competitive 531,000 total viewers, five times larger than a week earlier and only 200,000 behind CNN's 8 p.m. hour," according to the Washington Post. "Bolling's show got up to 562,000 on Tuesday night but then dropped to 456,000 by Thursday."

A new poll shows that Tucker could have an immediate audience if he were to launch his own independent show.

According to a Redfield & Wilton Strategies survey of 1,500 eligible U.S. voters conducted on April 30, 36% of Americans would be "significantly likely" or "likely" to watch an independent online show hosted by Carlson.

Carlson's popularity was evident in a video released on Twitter after his termination. The video went viral with over 80 million views and was liked more than 970,000 times.

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Joe Biden’s new FAIL, Fox News ratings PLUMMET & deep space?!



Does a child have a better memory than Joe Biden?

According to recent footage, yes.

Glenn Beck shares a clip of Joe Biden speaking to a crowd, unable to recall where he had recently traveled.

“I’m trying to think, what was the last, where was the last place I was, it’s hard to keep track,” Biden said.

A little girl yelled “Ireland” from the audience.

“I mean, yeah, you’re right, Ireland, that’s where it was,” Biden responded.

Biden’s multiple gaffs in recent years have led many Americans to wonder if the president is too old for re-election.

“If the dinosaurs ever come back, he’ll remember, maybe, how they were fought, and maybe he’ll save us,” Beck jokes.

However, Biden’s age isn’t the only thing dominating the news cycle right now.

Tucker Carlson made his departure from Fox News last week and broke his silence a few days later.

Carlson uploaded a 2:16 video to Twitter, where he received 1.7 million views within the first hour that it was posted. By Friday afternoon, the video had been watched almost 75 million times.

Fox’s ratings have plummeted since.

“That should give you great hope,” Beck says, “because that’s not just the conservatives spreading that one around. That tells you an awful lot.”


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Trump supporters embrace Newsmax and OANN while confidence in Fox News as the 'most trusted source of news' plummets: poll



Fox News received more bad news on Sunday after a poll found that a large percentage of Trump supporters no longer embrace the cable news behemoth as their most trusted source of news.

A new USA Today/Suffolk Poll discovered that only 34% of Trump voters named Fox News as their "most trusted source of news." This is a massive 24% drop from the poll in October 2016, when 58% of former President Donald Trump supporters declared Fox News as their most trusted news source.

Trump voters are jumping the Fox News ship and embracing relative newcomers Newsmax and One American News Network. The poll of 1,000 Trump voters taken by phone between Feb. 15-19 found that 17% of Trump voters see Newsmax as their most trusted source of news, and 9% trust OANN.

"At the time of our October 2016 poll, OANN and Newsmax were barely 2 years old, so they were not offered as options," David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, said. "However, we do not believe that in 2016 they would have been trusted the most by a statistically significant portion of respondents."

Newsmax and OANN are snatching Trump's most loyal backers. The survey found that 92% of Newsmax viewers believe Joe Biden was "illegitimately elected" tune into Newsmax, and 90% of OANN watchers question the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election.

If they had to pick between the Republican Party and Donald Trump, those who trust Fox News skew 51%-37% in favor of the former president. But with those committed to Newsmax, 72% chose Trump over the GOP, and the percentage jumps up to 80% in Trump's corner for viewers who watch OANN.

In a Hill-HarrisX poll from earlier this month, 64% of Republicans said they would quit the GOP to follow Trump if he started a third party.

Paleologos said the switch from longtime cable news powerhouse Fox News to these burgeoning alternatives is a "seismic shift in the landscape of trusted news sources for conservatives." He added that despite the falling numbers, Fox News is still the "most trusted news network/media source among previously identified Trump voters."

This continues a worrying trend for Fox News, which has seen its TV ratings drop ever since the 2020 presidential election. Fox News lost the primetime ratings war to CNN in the week after election night.

In the two weeks after the 2020 election, Fox News saw a drop of 32% in viewership in viewership among the coveted 25-54 age demographic during primetime.

During the week of the riots at the U.S. Capitol building in early January, perennial ratings champion Fox News fell to third place behind CNN and MSNBC.

Breaking: Fox News cancels Lou Dobbs Tonight



Fox News canceled "Lou Dobbs Tonight" from its lineup and is expected to part ways with the show's host, it was reported Friday.

Dobbs, 75, has been one of the most stalwart defenders of former President Donald Trump on his show and often featured interviews from the Trump campaign and the former administration.

The program aired twice daily on Fox News Business. It had its last show on Friday with guest hosts, and will be replaced with "Fox Business Tonight."

Some speculated that the move might have been related to a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit filed by voting machine company Smartmatic on Thursday. The filing specifically mentioned Dobbs' comments related to claims that the company helped rig the election against Trump.

However, a spokesperson for Fox News denied the contention to the Los Angeles Times, saying, "As we said in October, Fox News Media regularly considers programming changes and plans have been in place to launch new formats as appropriate post-election, including on Fox Business. This is part of those planned changes. A new 5 p.m. program will be announced in the near future."

Dobbs has not commented publicly on the announcement.

Fox News ratings plummet to third behind MSNBC and CNN after Capitol rioting



Cable news network giant Fox News saw its ratings plummet to third place behind competitors CNN and MSNBC after the coverage of the rioting at the U.S. Capitol last week.

The stunning turn for Fox News comes after years of domination in total viewers and across most demographics.

In the latest ratings data reported by Nielsen on Tuesday, Fox News garnered 1.7 million daily viewers for the period between Jan. 4 and Jan. 10.

That fell short of CNN, which garnered 2.8 million daily viewers, and MSNBC, which garnered 2.3 million daily viewers.

Fox News finished 2020 as the top cable news network in the ratings, their fifth year in a row of winning that distinction.

The network also fell short in primetime viewers, with 3.2 million average viewers, compared to 4.2 million for CNN. MSNBC also saw 3.8 million viewers in primetime.

Many critics of Fox News faulted the network when it called Arizona for then-candidate Joe Biden before other networks who said early results were too close to call. Eventually, the state was indeed called for Biden after legal challenges from the Trump campaign.

President Donald Trump also attacked the coverage from Fox News numerous times and pushed his followers to seek out alternative news sources that were more supportive of his administration. In one instance, he decried Fox News for not doing enough to help elect him and other Republicans.

"Many will disagree, but @FoxNews is doing nothing to help Republicans, and me, get re-elected on November 3rd," the president said from his official Twitter account.

That account has since been permanently suspended by Twitter after rioting at the U.S. Capitol by the president's supporters left five dead and many injured.

Here's more about the Capitol rioting:

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Fox News daytime ratings drop by 32% in two weeks since the election



Cable news network behemoth Fox News dipped in viewership among a key demographic in recent ratings reports, and lost 32% of viewership in daytime.

Nielsen Media Research said that CNN took both top spots among the 25-54 age demographic during primetime on Friday. Anderson Cooper's show, "AC360," took the time spot with 604K viewers. Chris Cuomo's CNN show took the second highest slot.

Fox News' total viewership also fell an astounding 32% in the two weeks after the Nov. 3 election compared to its viewership the two weeks before the election.

While Fox News' viewership dropped, the viewership for CNN and MSNBC increased to near parity. In weekday average daytime viewership, Fox News garnered 1.63 million viewers, CNN received 1.68 million viewers, and MSNBC received 1.71 million viewers.

But despite the precipitous drop in daytime, Fox continues to beat the competition in total numbers of viewers during prime-time hours.

Fox News averaged 2.98 million viewers in prime time, with CNN averaging 2.05 million, and MSNBC seeing an average of 2.18 million viewers.

Critics of Fox News have excoriated the network after they called the state of Arizona for former Vice President Joe Biden on election night while most other outlets were saying the results were too close to call. The state has since been called for Biden by the mainstream news outlets.

President Trump has also turned on the cable news network and has been criticizing Fox News in favor of some of its lesser known competitors. In one instance, he appeared to refer to himself as the "Golden Goose" and blamed them for the 2020 election.

"Very sad to watch this happen, but they forgot what made them successful, what got them there. They forgot the Golden Goose," the president tweeted.

.@FoxNews daytime ratings have completely collapsed. Weekend daytime even WORSE. Very sad to watch this happen, but… https://t.co/WyQJORrjOA
— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump)1605197418.0

"The biggest difference between the 2016 Election, and 2020, was @FoxNews!" he added.

In another missive sent out in March, the president accused Fox News of not doing enough to get him and other Republicans re-elected.

Some viewers have posted on social media that they are actively seeking alternative sources of news, including the YouTube channel of BlazeTV host Steven Crowder.

Here's more about Trump criticizing Fox News:

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