{"id":1927163,"date":"2023-05-09T06:25:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T10:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-can-fox-news-recover-from-the-post-carlson-ratings-crash\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T06:28:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T10:28:04","slug":"analysis-can-fox-news-recover-from-the-post-carlson-ratings-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-can-fox-news-recover-from-the-post-carlson-ratings-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Fox News bounce back from Carlson&#8217;s ratings drop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanalysis-can-fox-news-recover-from-the-post-carlson-ratings-crash%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1927163&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2> Fox News Ratings Plummet After Tucker Carlson&#8217;s Departure <\/h2>\n<h3> Can Fox News Recover? <\/h3>\n<p>Since Tucker Carlson&#8217;s departure from Fox News on April 24, the network&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-reason-cnn-plus-failed-isnt-what-you-think\/\" title=\"The Reason CNN Plus Failed Isn\u2019t What You Think\">prime-time ratings<\/a> have taken a nosedive. The 8 p.m. ET hour, which Carlson anchored as the most-watched show in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/are-covid-case-surges-more-fake-news\/\" title=\"Are COVID Case Surges More Fake News?\">cable news<\/a>, has seen an average of only 1.45 million total viewers, with 156,625 viewers in the key 25-54 demographic tuning in between April 24 and May 4. In comparison, Carlson averaged 3.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sundays-golden-globes-no-celebrities-no-red-carpet-no-media-no-audience-coronavirus-protocols-galore\/\" title=\"Sunday\u2019s Golden Globes: No Celebrities. No Red Carpet. No Media. No Audience. Coronavirus Protocols Galore\">42 million viewers<\/a> in his final week on air and 3.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnns-ratings-tanked-44-the-week-after-trump-left-the-white-house\/\" title=\"CNN\u2019s Ratings Tanked 44% The Week After Trump Left The White House\">3 million viewers<\/a> per episode in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not just the 8 p.m. slot that&#8217;s suffering. All of Fox News&#8217; one<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-can-fox-news-recover-from-the-post-carlson-ratings-crash\/\" title=\"Can Fox News bounce back from Carlson's ratings drop?\">-hour prime-time slots<\/a> have seen a decline in ratings since Carlson&#8217;s departure. The 6 p.m. hour experienced a 42 percent drop, while the 7 p.m. slot went down 62 percent. The 8 p.m. slot saw a 75 percent decrease, and the 9 p.m. hour experienced a 70 percent dip among the 25-54 demographic. The 10 p.m. slot saw a 66 percent drop, and the 11 p.m. hour saw a 49 percent decline.<\/p>\n<p>The question on everyone&#8217;s mind is whether Fox News can recover from this major blow to its ratings. Media analyst Jon Nicosia doesn&#8217;t think so. He believes that Tucker Carlson is his own brand, and Fox News won&#8217;t be able to replicate his energy, legacy, and passion. Nicosia also thinks that every other network will see the same type of decline.<\/p>\n<p>While Fox News declined to comment on whether it expects to rebound in the 8 p.m. hour, it did cite last week&#8217;s Nielsen ratings and the fact that advertisers have come back to that slot. However, former Fox News stars like Megyn Kelly and Bill O&#8217;Reilly have decried Carlson&#8217;s ouster, with Kelly calling it a &#8220;terrible move&#8221; and O&#8217;Reilly saying that it&#8217;s about more than just the network.<\/p>\n<h3> Fill-In Anchors and Rival Networks <\/h3>\n<p>So far, the fill-in anchors for Carlson have been Brian Kilmeade, Lawrence Jones, and this week, Kayleigh McEnany. But none of them have been able to deliver the same numbers as Carlson.<\/p>\n<p>While Fox News&#8217; ratings have plummeted, its rivals CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, and NewsNation have mostly trailed behind, even with Carlson no longer on air. The only exception was on April 26 when MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;All in with Chris Hayes&#8221; led the 8 p.m. slot with 1.38 million viewers, or 500,000 more than &#8220;Fox News Tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3> Conclusion <\/h3>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether Fox News can recover from the loss of Tucker Carlson and his massive audience. But one thing is clear: Carlson&#8217;s departure has had a devastating impact on the network&#8217;s ratings, and it may be the beginning of a decline for Fox News as its audience fragments more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Analysis Fox News\u2019 prime-time ratings have crashed since the network parted ways with host Tucker Carlson on April 24. Between April 24 and May 4, an average of about 1.45 million total viewers, with 156,625 viewers in the key 25-54 demographic, tuned in to Fox News\u2019 8 p.m. ET hour, which Carlson had anchored<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":1927164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[20613,10433,5053,7690,4133,4882],"class_list":["post-1927163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-bounce","tag-carlsons","tag-drop","tag-fox","tag-news","tag-ratings"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}