September 29, 2004

Fox News beats all rivals

For the first time in its history, Fox News Channel beat the combined competition in primetime during the third quarter of 2004, with major headlines of the summer including the national political conventions and a brutal string of hurricanes.

According to Nielsen Media Research, Fox News averaged 1.8 million viewers, while CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and Headline News averaged a combined total of 1.7 million. The quarter ended Sunday.

Good for them to get this good news!
Together with blogs and Conservative talk radio, Fox News is part of the triumverate of the New Media.
The big alphabet networks made a real mistake not to carry most of the RNC and Fox News covered that breach, covering the Republican Convention from gavel to gavel (as they also did DonkeyCon) and this was quickly followed by the school attack in Beslan (also reported with live coverage on Fox, but under-reported or ignored on the alphabets) and then came CBS's Rathergate, although I think the American public started getting the message that the MSM were Democrat partisan shills during Gore's attempt to steal the Election 2000 Controversy, if not during Clinton's impeachment.
FoxNews still isn't 100% "Conservative"--you have to put up with Liberals like Alan Colmes, the Fox News panel members from NPR and the WaPo, Greta van Sustern and Bill O' Reilly's wild "for the folks" ideology--but it's a lot less biased than the others by a long shot and FoxNews remains the only news channel that will cover the Iraq war (good and bad) at all.

And to be fair to Bill O' Reilly, he just concluded tonight a 3-part interview with President Bush that was outstanding!
(I dunno, but something about the temperament of these 2 "regular guys" really worked together and they got a terrific enery and synergy going!)
Find transcripts and video of that interview here:
The O'Reilly Factor