
<p>FOX News continues to bury its main cable news competitors – CNN and MSNBC. ; It is not even close. ; For the most part, FOX has a larger viewing audience than CNN and MSNBC combined.</p>



<p>What makes this even more remarkable is FOX triumphs even as virtually all the leftwing media attacks FOX on a daily basis. ; They call the network with the broadest range of reporting – with the greatest balance – a right-wing propaganda machine. ; Which is really rich when you consider that CNN and especially MSNBC have become propaganda machines for the radical left.</p>



<p>The viewing public has kept FOX at the top month-after-month, year-after-year. ; Sean Hannity not only has kept his position in the top five shows in cable news – often as the number one show – but he is now the longest running show on cable, surpassing the 25-year run of Larry King.</p>



<p>FOX accounts for the top six rated shows with “The Five” as <em>numero uno</em> – drawing an audience of 3.5 million viewers.</p>



<p>In overall ratings, Fox was up 25 percent from April 2021 with an overall average of 1.5 million viewers. ; MSNBC came in second with 668,000 viewers – a drop of 30 percent. ; And the struggling CNN had 582,000 viewers – down 26 percent from a year ago. ; FOX is running almost 50 percent more than CNN and MSNBC combined.</p>



<p>In Primetime, FOX holds an audience of 2.4 million (up 6%) against MSNBC’s 1.1 million (down 29%) and CNN’s 694,000 (down 33%). ; In the all-important 25 to 54-year-old demographics, FOX’s primetime programming also dominates – with 248,000 younger viewers (up 16%). ; CNN has 132,000 (down 35%) and MSNBC with 75,000 (down 46%). ; Among the younger viewers, Tucker Carlson takes the number one position with “The Five” at number two.</p>



<p>Rachel Maddow has the top-rated show on MSNBC and ranks seventh in the ratings. However, Maddow will be giving up her five-day schedule for a once-a-week program in May. ; The top spot for CNN is Anderson Cooper at sixteenth.</p>



<p>These figures demonstrate that leftwing programming has limited appeal among the American audience – and diminishing. ; That small east coast bubble-encased media barons and news analysts have failed to reach the public because they have not accepted that their political culture is offensive to fly-over America. ; They are not winning by brow-beating the American people into political and cultural submission. ; The left’s policies are not what the center-right public embraces &#8212; and using biased propaganda and exaggerated fearmongering narratives to force the issues is not working.</p>



<p>Understandably, the mainstream media does not give these ratings a lot of coverage – and virtually no in-depth analysis. ; The reason is obvious, of course. ; But that is why the media establishment is confounded by the fact that Republicans and conservative policies and candidates fare much better than they assume. While FOX provides a range of news and features, MSNBC and CNN dish out arrogance and hubris on a platform of disinformation. ;</p>



<p>These numbers should scare the hell out of the left. ; They mean that the entire leftwing messaging platform is collapsing. ; Eventually, the CNNs and MSNBCs of the world will have to abandon the strident leftwing bias or descend into the depths of total irrelevancy.</p>



<p>Whenever I cringe at the outrageously dishonest reporting and analysis that I see on several of the MSNBC/CNN shows, I take comfort knowing that I am one of the relatively few who are actually watching them – and not because I am a fan. ; It is my professional obligation to my readers. ; (See how much I am willing to suffer to provide readers with both sides of the issues?) ; ; ; ;</p>



<p>Based on the current trajectory, FOX will continue to rise while MSNBC and CNN will be in a race to the bottom. ; And that is a good thing for America.</p>



<p>So, there ‘tis.</p>

FOX Out Foxes the Competition…Again
