Sunday, March 31, 2024

Fox Dominates TV News 3-31-24

Fox Corporation revenue grew by $5B from 2017 to 2023. 

Fox Corporation Revenue

2017 $9.92B

2018 $10.15B

2019 $11.39

2020 $12.30B

2021 $12.91B

2022 $13.97B

2023 $14.91B

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1270363/fox-corporation-revenue/

Fox Business News

2023 $1.6B

Fox Corporation owns and operates Fox News and Fox Business News and has served as the only Conservative voice since 1996. Fox was created by Australian-American media mogul Rupert Murdoch in 1996 to appeal to a conservative audience, hiring former Republican media consultant and CNBC executive Roger Ailes as its founding CEO. It launched on October 7, 1996, to 17 million cable subscribers.

The other networks leaned anti-conservative, particularly MSNBC. Trump called them “fake news”.

Fox continues to rank first in viewers during prime time and day time viewing hours.

https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/cable-news/

NBC Revenue  NBC is owned by Comcast

2022 $10.36B

2023 $8.6B

MSNBC            MSNBC is owned by NBC Universal a subsidiary of Comcast

2022 $977M

2023 $903M

CNN Revenue  CNN is owned by Warner Brothers

2022 $750M

2023 $ 1B     

ABC Revenue  ABC is owned by Disney

2022 $3.78M

2023 $3.80M

CBS Revenue   CBS is owned by National Amusements

2022 $ 3.865636M

2023 $ na

Comments

In the 1990s, CNN grew under Ted Turner in Atlanta. Their coverage of the Gulf War to liberate Kuwait was the high point of CNN.

The war consisted of two phases the first was codenamed Operation Desert Shield (August 2 1990 to January 17,1991) for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia. And the second was Operation Desert Storm (January 17,1991 to February 28 1991) was the combat phase.

CNN covered Desert Storm from their hotel rooms in Iraq as the US rocket attacks were underway. The US introduced it’s Lockheed Stealth Aircraft bombers and fighters in Desert Storm. None of these planes were hit by Iraqi missiles, because they didn’t show up on radar.

In 1996, Fox News began broadcasting and Bill O’Reilly and Glen Beck were favorites. Bill O’Reilly alerted us to the culture wars. He left Fox in 2017. In 1998, Fox & Friends began with an early morning show.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Fox_News

Glen Beck told us about George Soros. He left Fox in 2011 to found The Blaze.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#:~:text=He%20hosts%20the%20Glenn%20Beck,and%20now%20airs%20on%20TheBlaze.

In 1996, Ted Turner sold CNN to Time Warner. CNN is still owned by Warner Brothers.

Fox News had a deep bench to replace O’Reilly and Beck. Tucker Carlson was the #1 show on Fox from 2009 to 2023. Brian Kilmeade joined Fox in 1997. Laura Ingraham has hosted the Ingraham Angle since 2017. Harris Faulkner has hosted the Faulkner Focus, “Outnumbered” since 2014. Stuart Varney hosts Varney & Company on Fox Business News since 2010. Charles Payne hosted Making Money on Fox Business News since 2014. Elizabeth MacDonald joined Fox Business News in 2007 and hosts the Evening Edit. Maria Bartiromo has hosted Mornings with Maria since 2014.  Jesse Waters joined Fox in 2002 as a Production Assistant. In 2003 he was OReilly’s “man on the street” interviewer and now hosts Jesse Waters Primetime and is Co-Host of The Five. Judge Jeanine Pirro joined Fox in 2011 and is Co-Host of the Five. Lisa Boothe joined Fox in 2016 and appears on the Big Weekend Show. Dana Perino joined Fox News in 2017 and served as Press Secretary for GW Bush. Sean Hannity joined Fox News in 1996. Aishah Hasnie joined Fox News in 2019. Greg Gutfeld joined Fox in 2007. Kat Timpf joined Fox in 2015. Fox has more talent than all the other news networks put together. The 16 listed above is less than 30% of their talent bench.

https://www.google.com/search?q=fox+news+babes&oq=fox+news+babes&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRg9MgYIAhBFGDzSAQkxODc2NmowajeoAgiwAgE&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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Fox has the largest talent pool. The other Networks are owned by Movie and Cable companies. Movie companies are in the business of making things up.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

 

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