NFL Network scores third-place primetime finish with pre-season football games.
MSNBC’s coverage topped out during the 9 p.m. ET hour on Monday, in which The Rachel Maddow Show featured live reports from Georgia as well as a pre-scheduled sitdown interview with Hillary Clinton. Maddow’s show averaged 3.9 million viewers, a big spike from the 2.45 million average viewers Maddow received last month.
The California governor had taunted his Florida counterpart for months. Now, with his presidential campaign struggling, DeSantis agreed to a debate hosted by Sean Hannity.
The Fox leaders appealed to the former president to participate in the first GOP debate, which is being hosted by the network.
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Fox News is reportedly fighting a subpoena from former President Donald Trump seeking access to an interview that never aired on the now-defunct Tucker Carlson Tonight.
Average viewership at Newsmax more than doubled in the second quarter and was higher than after the 2020 election.
The former president’s refusal to commit to the first debate of the 2024 cycle could make it a ratings wash-out. Aides say he’s unlikely to change his mind.
Jesse Watters’ debut as the permanent occupant of Fox News’ 8 p.m. hour gave the network a boost in the timeslot, versus the series of replacement hosts who have filled the time period since the cancellation of Tucker Carlson’s show. Jesse Watters Primetime averaged 2.47 million viewers during the hour. That compares to the 1.66 million that Fox News Tonight averaged in June.
The Murdochs Are Awful. But Don’t Punish Fox O&Os For It.
Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch undermined trust in American democracy with their reckless propagation of Trump’s Big Lie, but Fox’s O&Os shouldn’t be in the FCC’s crosshairs to pay for it, as a watchdog group would have it.
Rivera said in June that he quit his job at Fox News after being “fired” from the network’s afternoon panel show.
Fox News is facing a new defamation lawsuit from a man who claims that its former host Tucker Carlson falsely identified him as an undercover FBI agent who triggered the January 6th attack on the Capitol. The lawsuit was filed in Delaware Superior Court, the same venue where the network recently faced a lengthy trial over Dominion Voting Systems defamation claims that its hosts and guests amplified a false narrative that the company rigged the 2020 presidential election. Fox News settled the case for $787.5 million.
Wells Fargo analyst Steven Cahall downgraded Fox Corp. stock to “underweight” from “equal weight” as lower ratings at Fox News Channel and cord-cutting threaten to depress earnings. Cahall lowered his target price for Fox stock to $31 a share from his previous $35 a share target and Friday’s close of $31.92. According to Cahall, FNC accounts for about 80% of Fox Corp.’s earnings.
Tucker Carlson, before he was sidelined by Fox, repeatedly endorsed a conspiracy theory about an Arizona man, who may sue for defamation. Legal experts say it would be a viable case.
“I don’t know why I was fired, I really don’t,” declared Tucker Carlson on his sudden departure from the airwaves of Fox News on April 24. “I’m not angry about it,” the former primetime host told pal Russell Brand on the latter’s podcast. “I honestly don’t know.” At another point he said: “I was surprised. I was shocked, but I wasn’t really shocked. And I wasn’t mad. It’s not my company. “You can believe me or not, but …I wish Fox well.” Carlson may wish his former employer well, but as the two sides continue to scuffle over his more than $20 million 2025 ending contract and his new-ish Twitter show, there didn’t seem to be much good will between the lines between the parties
What It Takes To Rupture Fox News’s Wall Of Silence
Erik Wemple: “Fox News relies on a battalion of anchors, reporters, producers and assistants to generate its ratings-topping programming. Trouble is, some of those employees double as walking, talking, text-happy corporate risk centers, privy as they are to the making of the network’s rancid sausage.”
The settlement with a former producer, Abby Grossberg, is the latest development in a series of legal battles involving Fox.
”After 23 years tomorrow ‘Fox and Friends’ could be my last appearance on the network,“ the anchor said. (Photo: AP)
Greg Gutfeld has installed his brand of insult conservatism as the institutional voice for the next generation of Fox News viewer. And it’s catching on.
Fox had its post-Tucker nosedive, CNN had the disastrous Trump town hall — and MSNBC has been reaping the benefits.
Fox News Channel experienced a chaotic second quarter of 2023, one which featured the landmark $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems and the ouster of primetime star Tucker Carlson in April. Amid the chaos, Fox News not only marked its 86th consecutive quarter as the top-rated cable news network in total viewers, and No. 1 in total viewers and among Adults 25-54 for nine straight quarters. It also continued to average more total day viewers than any other basic cable network.
Tucker to go on sale in July, while Hated by All the Right People doesn’t yet have release date.
It’s not just Trump’s legal problems that are turning courtroom veterans into sought-after pundits. But, well, it has a lot to do with that.
Jesse Watters Primetime will begin at 8 p.m. ET on July 17 as part of a revamped weekly nighttime lineup on Fox News. Laura Ingraham’s show will air at 7 p.m., with Sean Hannity’s popular program remaining at 9 p.m. Greg Gutfeld’s latenight show will move up to the 10 p.m. hour that was previously Ingraham’s time slot.
The first Republican presidential primary debate of the 2024 presidential election season has been awarded to Fox News. The event will take place on Wednesday, Aug. 23, at 9-11 p.m. ET and be held at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, home of the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks.
The interview got tense as soon as the former president brought up Trump’s recent indictment surrounding classified documents.
Fox News is on the verge of settling another major lawsuit. Abby Grossberg, the former network producer who filed an explosive complaint against the company earlier this year, is in the final stages of ironing out a settlement with the company, according to people familiar with the matter.
Former Fox Exec: Is It Time For The FCC To Take A Close Look At Rupert Murdoch’s Licenses?
Preston Padden: “False news has consequences. Despite all the factual information available to the contrary, millions of Americans, including Fox viewers, believe that the 2020 election was stolen. The rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 were chanting ‘Stop the Steal.’ To the best of my knowledge, the FCC never before has been confronted with a judicial holding that a broadcast licensee knowingly and repeatedly presented false news. It is hard to imagine an issue that more directly impacts a broadcast licensee’s character qualifications.”
An advocacy group that wants the Candian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to ban Fox News says the network’s “abusive content” extends beyond its divisive personalities such as recently fired host Tucker Carlson. Fox News should be banned from Canadian airwaves because it has “repeatedly and regularly” violated broadcasting standards with content that subjects many groups to hate, Egale Canada is arguing in its formal submission to Canada’s broadcasting regulator.
Do You Believe in Miracles? Sean Hannity And Gavin Newsom Teamed Up To Give The Best Hour Of Cable News In Ages
Travel across the partisan spectrum, and nearly every talking head will tell you in great detail that the country is splintered by fierce partisan loyalties and competing sets of “facts” while blaming their political foes for the current state of enmity. Which is why something of a miracle happened last week, during the 9 p.m. hour of Fox News of all places.
