Fox News Is Grumpy 24/7?

Do you ever get the sense that the drama and outrage over on Fox News is the general theme of every show? Well, there might be reason for it after all. It seems that Fox News has the oldest cable audience! Yes, according to Hollywoodreporter:

In a survey released by analyst Steve Sternberg, Fox News has the oldest audience among fully distributed cable networks. The network’s average viewer last season was 65 years old, according to Nielsen. Heck, it’s viewers are even older than viewers of Hallmark Channel, Military Channel and Golf Channel.

Speaking to the hey kids get off of my lawn demographic isn’t limited to Fox News though:

CNN wasn’t far behind, though — its average audience was 63. MSNBC was a perky 59. CNBC is the young turk at 52.

The youngest fully distributed cable channel? Oxygen. Followed by Bravo and, weirdly, VH1 Classic, then Travel and TLC — all averaging about 42 years old.

So where do we really get the news these days? Why the tubes — dude. If I had cable I’d be flipping over the Travel Channel about now. Alas, my demographic, which grew up when there were the big 3 channels and stuff on UHF, are just tuning out, and clicking on, dropping off the cable television limited offering. The mangling of that generational phrase just might get  Timothy Leary to rocket into orbit. Oh wait.

  • Interesting article

    Thank goodness that they have Glenn Beck, Bill O, and Greta b/c we would be hoodwinked w/out them!

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  • BLARNEY

    Can you imagine if the only places we could get our news was from

    MSNBC aka MSOBAMANBC
    NY TIMES
    NEWS WEEK.

    That would be stick you finger down your throat slanted news

    • Barnstorm

      Could you cite specific examples of their “slant” or are you, as usual, just regurgitating the same biased FOX crap?

      All these years and NOBODY has been able to provide ONE single credible bit of evidence about any so-called “left-wing bias” in the news media. Just because FOX says it’s so doesn’t make it so.

      The good news is, if you stick your finger far enough down your throat, eventually you’ll be able to scratch the top of your head.

  • BLARNEY THE IMPALER

    YOU’RE A FUNNY GUY

    PS

    I read your letter in the Hour.

    Barnstorm
    The good news is, if you stick your finger far enough down your throat, eventually you’ll be able to scratch the top of your head.

    SEE TURFY he just begs to be slammed

  • Barnstorm

    News to me. I never wrote a letter to the HOUR, so I don’t know how you saw it. Must either be another one of your hallucinations or maybe, just maybe, there are others who think you’re full of it.

    Beg to be slammed? Blarney, you ain’t got enough game to do that.

  • BLARNEY THE IMPALER

    Barnstorm
    The good news is, if you stick your finger far enough down your throat, eventually you’ll be able to scratch the top of your head.
    ———————————————————————
    All I can say in my defense is;

    In your case if stick your finger up your butt, you might poke yourself in the EYE.