Crazy like a Fox

A Huge HAT TIP to Mrs. COMMON CENTS for this blog entry! Once again and for the last 8 years Fox News is dominating the Cable News competition. Fox News has the top 11 cable news programs and 12 of the top 15. Former rainmaker Larry King has long been a has been thanks to Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. In fact the reruns of The O'Reilly Factor at 11PM Eastern still beat all other cable tv news shows. So dominating is Fox News that they beat CNN and MSNBC combined. Consider:

How's this for cable news domination - Fox News beat CNN and MSNBC combined in every hour from 6amET to MidnightET in both Total Viewers and the A25-54 demo for April 2009. FNC had the top 11 cable news programs in Total Viewers and 12 of the top 15 in the demo. FNC is the #2 network in Total Viewers on all of cable. From 9amET on, every program grew by more than 60% in the demo. The 5pmET hour, now occupied by Glenn Beck, is up 212% in the demo and up 128% in Total Viewers. Your World with Neil Cavuto is up 102% in the demo and up 60% in Total Viewers. On the Record with Greta Van Susteren is up 75% in demo and up 55% in Total Viewers. Also in demo: FOX Report is up 75%, Special Report 70%, The O'Reilly Factor 74% and Hannity 64%. Fox & Friends has now been #1 for 90 consecutive months, Studio B with Shepard Smith for 80 consecutive months. Read about it here.

It gets better. Zogby did a poll last year and Fox's "Fair and Balanced" finished #1 in being the most trustworthy cable news network: 39.3% of those surveyed trust FOX News most for the issues they consider most important, followed by CNN with 16% and MSNBC with 15%. Read about it here.