Tuesday, July 25, 2006
War Good for CNN's Numbers; FNC's Total Viewers Down From This Time Last Year
Pretty good article from Broadcasting and Cable about the ratings of the coverage of the crisis in the Mid-east. Here it is, please pay close attention to the next to the last paragraph as most of the other blogs have failed to report this:
CNN typically gets a big Nielsen boost when the world starts going to hell, and its coverage of the war in Lebanon is no exception. Still, Fox News by far won the week.
The Israeli attack on Lebanon drove CNN’s total primetime audience 51% compared to the same week last year, to an average of 1 million viewers, while the Nielsen Media scores among the 25-54 news demo soared 97% to 364,000.
Fox News’ total audience actually dropped 3% to 1.9 million. But the No. 1 news network increased 13% in news demo to an average of 586,000.
MSNBC’s total audience increased 28% to 386,000 but zoomed 41% in the news demo to 161,000.
CNN typically gets a big Nielsen boost when the world starts going to hell, and its coverage of the war in Lebanon is no exception. Still, Fox News by far won the week.
The Israeli attack on Lebanon drove CNN’s total primetime audience 51% compared to the same week last year, to an average of 1 million viewers, while the Nielsen Media scores among the 25-54 news demo soared 97% to 364,000.
Fox News’ total audience actually dropped 3% to 1.9 million. But the No. 1 news network increased 13% in news demo to an average of 586,000.
MSNBC’s total audience increased 28% to 386,000 but zoomed 41% in the news demo to 161,000.
# posted by ATN @ 9:34 PM 
