{"id":2542,"date":"2017-06-20T10:47:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T10:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/new\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2017-07-12T20:42:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T20:42:10","slug":"who-won-the-trump-fox-news-feud-heres-what-the-ratings-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/20\/who-won-the-trump-fox-news-feud-heres-what-the-ratings-say\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO WON The Trump-Fox News Feud?! HERE\u2019S What The RATINGS Say!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was probably the most highly anticipated debate of this presidential election cycle, only because el Trumpo made such a melodramatic exit from the Fox News stage.<\/p>\n

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But if you want to know who the clear winner is, all you have to do is look at the ratings\u00a0(from\u00a0CNN Money)<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Donald Trump counter-programmed Thursday\u2019s GOP primary debate with his own prime time event. So whose show scored a bigger audience?<\/p>\n

Answer: Fox\u2019s debate. But it was the second lowest rated debate of the season. So Trump is certain to take credit for hurting the channel\u2019s total viewership.<\/p>\n

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The first hour of Fox\u2019s Trump-less debate had an 8.4 household rating, according to early Nielsen data on so-called metered markets.<\/p>\n

This means 8.4% of American homes with TV sets were watching the face-off.<\/p>\n

The second hour had an 8.3 rating, which means the audience was loyal even though Trump was absent.<\/p>\n

By comparison, two of the cable channels that showed parts of Trump\u2019s event, CNN and MSNBC, had about a quarter of Fox\u2019s audience combined.<\/p>\n

The most recent GOP debate, televised two weeks ago on the\u00a0Fox Business Network<\/a>, had a household rating of 7.4.<\/p>\n

So Thursday\u2019s debate was bigger \u2014 but not by much.<\/p>\n

The other five GOP debates of the cycle have had household ratings ranging from 8.9 to 15.9.<\/p>\n

Actual viewership numbers will be available later in the day on Friday. Fox News likely had 11 million to 13 million viewers for the debate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notice that they\u2019re trying to downplay it to give Trump a win here \u2013 but why would the media want to do that? Makes you wonder.<\/p>\n

A more honest comparison would be to show the ratings from four years ago in the 2012 presidential election cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was probably the most highly anticipated debate of this presidential election cycle, only because el Trumpo made such a melodramatic exit from the Fox News stage. &lt;\/div&gt; &lt;div id=’passback-wbe74ed5e1f’&gt;&lt;\/div&gt; But if you want to know who the clear winner is, all you have to do is look at the ratings\u00a0(from\u00a0CNN Money): Donald Trump counter-programmed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4335,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions\/4335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}