Some shareholders are getting justifiably unhappy. As the old joke goes, Fox News succeeded by targeting an unsatisfied niche market: half the country.
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Some shareholders are getting justifiably unhappy. As the old joke goes, Fox News succeeded by targeting an unsatisfied niche market: half the country.
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One does wonder why their (Fox) success and MSNBC’s failure hasn’t taught anyone running these networks that tailoring their broadcasts to please just the folks they meet at cocktail parties is a really bad idea. When you have guys like Bill O’Reilly (a mediocre talent at best) killing pretty much everybody else in his time slot, that should be a really big clue you are doing something wrong.
“As indicated by a New York Times article, based on Nielsen statistics, Fox appears to have an aging demographic.[43] In 2008, in the 25-54 age group, Fox News had an average of 557,000 viewers, but dropped to 379,000 in 2013 while increasing its overall audience from 1.89 million in 2010 to 2.02 million in 2013. The median age for Fox News viewers is listed as 65+ as Nielsen does not give exact figures for ages over 65.”
Fox News targeted a bunch of old farts who sit around at home with the tube on.
Certainly a way to build nielsen numbers but, the market is pretty undesirable.
“Certainly a way to build nielsen numbers but, the market is pretty undesirable.”
Old people vote and have money to spend. Seems like a desirable market. Young people tend not to watch that much TV and don’t follow the news all that closely.