This Wednesday, renowned Fox News host Geraldo Rivera announced his departure from the hit program “The Five.”
“Morning, it’s official, I’m off @TheFive. My last scheduled show appearances are Thursday and Friday June 29th and 30th. It’s been a great run and I appreciate having had the opportunity. Being odd man out isn’t always easy. For the time being, I’m still Correspondent at Large,” Rivera tweeted.
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The cable news ratings for Fox News have significantly decreased among the critical 25-54 age group as a result of the absence of top host Tucker Carlson.
The situation at the network has gotten so bad that veteran personality Sean Hannity is already falling behind MSNBC’s Joy Reid in the key audience.
Reporter Glenn Greenwald, a liberal, tweeted: “The 8 pm slot on Fox with Tucker was not only consistently number 1 in the key demo – 25-54 – but routinely had 400,000 viewers or more. Without Tucker, it’s crashed to worse-than-MSNBC levels: barely 100,000 people. Hannity is in 14th place, behind Joy Reid! A total collapse. It’s so clear Fox’s firing of Tucker was not just financially driven, bereft of the Murdochs’ and Paul Ryan’s ideological goals. Firing Tucker destroyed its prime-time ratings. There’s no argument Tucker’s twice-a-week Twitter postings compete with Fox. They want him silenced.”
The primetime Hannity program has come under more scrutiny since Carlson’s departure.
The number of people tuning in to Hannity’s show has decreased recently, going from an average of over 2 million in May to about 1.7 million on average in June. To put things in perspective, before Carlson left, Hannity’s primetime program often drew in the neighborhood of 3 million viewers.
“Fox News and MSNBC have been neck and neck in the cable news ratings in recent days and Wednesday was no different as Fox News and MSNBC tied in the total day demo. Fox beat MSNBC in total viewers in both the total day and primetime averages but lost the prime-time demo to MSNBC,” Mediaite reported. “Fox’s The Five remained the top-rated show on cable news with 2.68 million total viewers, helping to boost Fox’s average.”
“MSNBC and Fox both scored 156,000 total day demo viewers, while CNN was third with 111,000. In total day viewers, Fox won with 1.39 million viewers to MSNBC’s 1.2 million — CNN had 557,000. In prime time, Fox just beat MSNBC with 1.79 million total viewers to 1.76 million, and CNN was in third with 706,000. MSNBC won the prime-time demo with 216,000 viewers over Fox’s 166,000. CNN was third with 140,000 demo viewers,” the outlet added.
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In important time periods, MSNBC, a left-leaning rival, has overcome Fox News Channel, a longtime leader in cable news.
“Nielsen data regarding the week ending this past Sunday was shared on Twitter on Tuesday by A.J. Katz, a reporter specializing in the cable news business. According to the data, Fox’s primetime 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET viewership averaged 1,504,429. The average viewership for the more left-leaning MSNBC over the same time frame averaged 1,520,857, narrowly beating out the conservative network that has long been a leader in cable news viewership,” Newsweek reported.
The 8 o’clock p.m. The network hasn’t chosen a permanent replacement for the ET primetime slot. They have chosen to feature a range of guest hosts during this time, in the meanwhile.
Fox News has kept first place in the average weekly primetime viewing for nearly two and a half years, 120 weeks in a row.
The network briefly lost first place in weekly ratings in mid-February 2021, but has retained it ever since.
After being removed from the air, Carlson is blatantly breaking his contractual commitments by tweeting brief monologues.
The person in question has been given a cease-and-desist order from the network, but has refused to abide with it because he claims Fox is in violation of their contract with him.
