Fox News Continues Dominance

[Belsnickel]

(11-30-2023, 12:47 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: What is confusing to you? The concept of market share?

Let's say this country is made up of 50% conservatives and 50% liberals (it isn't, but let's just simplify the equation). If conservatives only have 1 major news outlet, Fox News, but Liberals have 5 or 6 major news outlets, it is not surprising that Fox has more viewers than each individual liberal news network.

For this particular month of November 2023, Fox had more viewers than MSNBC and CNN combined, but in October 2023, MSNBC and CNN combined for more viewers than Fox, per the article in the original post of this thread. And that's not accounting for the vast majority of other liberal networks that I mentioned previously in my post. If you added up NBC news, CBS news, ABC news (all news networks that have been labeled "liberal" relative to Fox News), NPR, CNN, and MSNBC for November, it likely exceeds Fox News' viewer count. Or, at the very least, equals it.

I did not suggest people are stupid and have no exposure to other news sources. I am speaking strictly along ideological lines and how one side has to split their market share while the other does not.

The other component to this is that the use of cable news channels has declined steadily since 2015 due to the trend in cord cutting. The people more likely to be Fox New viewers are the ones still watching cable news. Also, Fox has had the highest ratings of the "big three" since 2002. It's not a new thing. CNN was the only one around until 1996, and then because the market share split with MSNBC and Fox News both starting at that point it reduced their ratings at that time.