Fox News Ratings Drop In 1st Month Without Tucker Carlson, Down 37% In May
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Fox News’ decision to get rid of Tucker Carlson is backfiring.
Their ratings are going in the wrong direction.
Their first month without Tucker Carlson saw their ratings tank by 37%.
It got even worse among the key demo.
In the 25-54 demo their average viewership dropped 62%.
The month of May was the first full month without cable news’ top primetime host, Tucker Carlson, and it showed.
Fox News continued to top primetime and total day viewers, but the margins have narrowed considerably with MSNBC, which was the only major cable news network to see viewership gains.
Fox News averaged 1.42 million viewers in primetime, a 37% drop from the same month a year ago. MSNBC averaged 1.16 million viewers, an increase of 14% from May, 2022. CNN averaged 494,000, a drop of 25%.
In the 25-54 demo, Fox News averaged 135,000, down 62% from a year ago. MSNBC averaged 120,000, up 14%, while CNN posted 113,000, down 25%.
Breitbart’s Nolte pointed out this is “shaping up to be a long-term ratings collapse.”
Fox News is facing a serious crisis. Dropping Carlson has created what is shaping up to be a long-term ratings collapse due to what I would call a viewer rebellion
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With alternatives to Fox, like OAN, Newsmax, and the pleasures that come with not watching the toxic bilge that is cable news at all, former Cuck News viewers appear to have finally had enough stabs in the back.
Over the past few years, Fox News has lied to viewers, released a countless number of rigged polls, interfered in a presidential election, rigged a presidential debate, treated a proven liar like Christine Blasey Ford seriously, and even took seriously the ludicrous-on-its-face fairytale that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of the presidential limo and then attempted to assault a Secret Service agent …
Americans want the truth.
