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[Victoria Watcher]

Sean Hannity has officially relocated to Florida.

 

The Fox News host first made the announcement on his radio show Tuesday, noting that he was "broadcasting now from my new home in the free state of Florida."

 

"If anybody is listening to this program for any length of time, been threatening now to do this for quite a while, but we are now beginning our first broadcast of my new home, and that is in the free state of Florida. I am out. I am done. I’m finished. New York, New York, goodbye. Florida, Florida, if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. But it’s great to be here," Hannity said.

 

 

 

https://www.foxnews....ew-york-florida

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 03 January 2024 - 05:37 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

MTV’s median-age viewer is 51, according to Nielsen data. The cable news audience is even older, with MSNBC’s median age at 70, Fox News’s at 69 and CNN’s, 67. Among broadcasters, CBS’s median age is 64 and ABC’s is 66.

 

 

 

 

For years, media executives built their pitches to advertisers around the idea that they could reach younger audiences, with viewers 18 to 49 years old drawing a big premium and those 25 to 54 offering the greatest appeal to news advertisers.

But there is a hard reality these days: Most people watching TV are older than those groups. Among cable channels, the median age for TNT and Bravo viewers is 56, for HGTV it is 66, and even the once-youthful MTV’s median-age viewer is 51, according to Nielsen data. The cable news audience is even older, with MSNBC’s median age at 70, Fox News’s at 69 and CNN’s, 67. Among broadcasters, CBS’s median age is 64 and ABC’s is 66.

Now media executives are embracing a new sell. They are focusing more on the mass-market reach of TV, and playing down the importance of age for advertisers. What really matters, they say, is whether your ad is reaching people who are likely to buy your product, whether they are 37 or 67.

“Everybody uses credit cards and buys paper towels and buys insurance and buys phone plans, so those are not age-specific things,” said Colleen Fahey Rush, chief research officer at Paramount, owner of CBS and cable channels such as MTV and Comedy Central.

 

https://www.wsj.com/...matter-63badbd1

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 01 August 2024 - 08:33 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

[Barrister]

Is that his granddaughter?

[Victoria Watcher]

She's 49, he is 62.

 

They both divorced in 2019.

 

They have been dating (and likely livng together) for a few years.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 26 December 2024 - 06:04 PM.

[lanforod]

That’s 49? Wow.

[Victoria Watcher]

Megyn Kelly is 54.

[Victoria Watcher]

Fox News surpasses broadcasters ABC, CBS, NBC in primetime viewership during first week of March

 

'The Five' maintains its status as the most-watched cable news program averaging 4.7 million total viewers

 

 

 

https://www.foxnews....irst-week-march

 

 

During the week of March 3, Fox News averaged a whopping 4.8 million total viewers in primetime, topping CBS's 4.2 million, NBC's 3.4 million and ABC's 2.6 million, according to Nielsen Media Research. 

 

 

 

This is interesting though:

 

 

 

"Jesse Watters Primetime" was the most-watched show in primetime, averaging 4.4 million total viewers and 554,000 in the advertiser-coveted demographic of ages 25-54 during the 8 p.m. ET timeslot. "Hannity" maintained its dominance in the 9 p.m. ET timeslot, averaging 3.7 million total viewers with 503,000 in the key demo. 

 

 

 

 

The average age of cable news viewers tends to be older, with the median viewer age for major cable news networks like CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC around 67-71 years old. 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 12 March 2025 - 02:17 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Fox fans will soon be able to see all of their favorite news, sports and entertainment content come together under one roof on the new streaming service, "FOX One."

FOX One, a wholly-owned streaming platform, will give customers live-streaming and on-demand access to all Fox brands, including FOX News, FOX Business, FOX Weather, FOX Sports, FS1 (Fox Sports 1), FS2, BTN (Big Ten Network), FOX Deportes, FOX Local Stations and the FOX network, as well as the option to bundle FOX Nation within one platform.

"We know that FOX has the most loyal and engaged audiences in the industry, and FOX One is designed to reach outside of the pay-TV bundle and deliver all the best FOX branded content directly to viewers wherever they are," said FOX One CEO Pete Distad. "We have built this platform from the ground up to allow consumers to enjoy and engage with our programming in new and exciting ways, leveraging cutting edge technology to enhance the user experience across the platform."


https://www.foxnews....ce-fox-one-fall

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 14 May 2025 - 05:18 PM.

[Blair M.]

It is starting to appear as if some of the major news outlets online are beginning efforts to try and monetize their platforms. 

 

Just over the last few days, CNN has monetized its platform such that it now requires you to pay for a subscription in order to receive access to more than just a few news stories. 

One could anticipate that FOX One serves this same purpose, and that eventually, FOX's basic online news website would result in a person being directed to FOX One, where they would be informed that, like CNN, they would be required to sign up, and pay for access.

 

For me personally, any online news service that requires my financial investment to allow my basic access is a news service that gets removed from my browser bookmarks, and I go elsewhere for my news. 

Currently, CBC News, BBC News, Al Jazeera, and Reuters are my go-to's for news, with the occasional access to CNN and FOX under the "Private Window" setting in my browser when somebody links directly to one of their stories.

 

That "Private Window" setting in your browser is, of course, how you defeat the various efforts to monetize any given web site.

BUT, as various websites have quickly found out, requiring readers to sign-in to their account for every single access to their website results in a massive reduction in users/viewers.

 

I can see CNN's readership eventually being reduced by at least half (if not more) as a result of their need to access that cash in their readers pockets.

For me personally, I've removed CNN from my browser bookmarks already, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be alone in that deletion, and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in my refusal to "pay for news".

[Victoria Watcher]

But the New York Times has had a hard firewall for more than a decade and it’s quite profitable.

[lanforod]

But the New York Times has had a hard firewall for more than a decade and it’s quite profitable.

 

I think it works for news outlets that are considered top tier. I think it will work for Fox due to the Maga effect, but not for CNN.

[Blair M.]

Doesn't the New York Times generate somewhere north of 100 to 150 unique news stories every day though?

Some "stories" on CNN's webpage remain unchanged, and up for two weeks or more. 

As well, from what I've read on CNN over the years, their stories are nowhere near as well researched as the New York Times, with CNN rarely offering attribution or credit for direct sources. CNN very often comes across as more of an "opinion" news source.

Some likely feel the New York Times does as well, but from what I've seen and read, the NYT is much more traditional (read "more neutral")  in their reporting than the likes of CNN.

 

If you add in the dozens (hundreds?) of Lifestyle, Entertainment, and general interest stories in the New York Times, I'd subscribe to it as well if I felt that paid, subscription online news was something I was interested in.

But I'm not interested in paid subscription news in an online format. 

 

Having said that, I imagine if all the news services went to a subscription model, I'd have no choice but to subscribe to at least one news site in order to get my daily news. But the reality right now is that there are plenty of very credible online news sources that provide unlimited and free access. 

 

I find the only thing you need with any online news site is to visit at least two or three different sites in order to avoid subtle bias that some services continue to display (whether they intend to or not).

[Mike K.]

There’s also a market for niche news sources that provide timeline focused content, and can deliver breaking news. CNN and Fox are not likely to break major news.