Hundreds of thousands of Fox News viewers are reacting to Tucker Carlson’s firing by abandoning the network in his old time slot — at least temporarily. Fox drew 1.33 million viewers for substitute host Brian Kilmeade in the 8 p.m. Eastern hour on Wednesday night, putting the network second to MSNBC’s Chris Hayes in a […]
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NFL Ratings Continue To Fall, Down Almost 8% From Last Year
“If ratings don’t improve materially, we see a potential headwind to domestic advertising revenues,” the investment bank’s analyst Omar Sheikh wrote of Fox on Thursday. In the past week, Credit Suisse lowered its price targets on both Fox and CBS stock, citing NFL ratings declines. “If ratings don’t improve materially, we see a potential headwind […]
NFL Ratings Continue To Fall As Player Protests Grow
On a day full of criticism from Donald Trump, political protests, linked arms, players taking a knee or not coming on the field at all during the national anthem, and renewed pleas for unity from the league, NBC and the NFL took a ratings hit on Sunday Night Football. In metered market numbers, the primetime […]
Trump’s Approval Rating Continues To Fall
The most recent Gallup survey, the first conducted entirely after the resignation of Michael Flynn as national security adviser, has Mr. Trump’s approval rating down to 38 percent, with 56 percent disapproving (a differential of minus 18). Mr. Trump’s ratings aren’t just bad for an incoming president. They’re bad for a president at any point […]