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By losing 9% of their audience in 2011, Fox News’ prime time lineup now averages fewer viewers than Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show.

“Red Eye” was the only Fox News show to post ratings gains in 2011. Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and On The Record With Greta Van Susteren all lost viewers. In the morning, Fox and Friends remained flat. Fox News still showed its dominance by having the top 13 rated cable news programs, but a certain program hosted by a comedian that Fox News loves to hate on Comedy Central blew past most of the Fox News shows in the ratings.

According to Comedy Central, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart averaged 2.3 million viewers per episode in 2011. Unlike Fox News, “The Daily Show” was up in total viewers (+7%) and all key demos: adults 18-49 (+6%); men 18-34 (+2%); men 18-24 (+4%).” The Daily Show was also the top cable late night talk show in terms of total viewers, and was generally dominant. While Fox News was losing 14% in the demo in 2011, Jon Stewart was gaining 6%.

Jon Stewart has become Fox News’ #1 media nemesis. To put Stewart’s ratings into a head to head context, The O’Reilly Factor tends to hover around the 3 million viewers range. Hannity is at around 2+ million, and On The Record with Greta Van Susteren varies between 1.1 million and 1.5 million as an average. This means that The Daily Show is more popular than both Hannity and On The Record, and trails O’Reilly by about 700,000 viewers.

The reason why Fox News feels so threatened by Jon Stewart is because his program is more popular than anything not named Bill O’Reilly on the network. Not only is Stewart popular, but he is popular with the coveted young demographics that Fox News struggles with. The average Fox News viewer is 65 years old. For years, the Fox News model of success has been powered by viewers literally aging in to watching Fox.

kalm wrote:AZgriz is already much smarter since he's been watching Stewart. Doesn't even post much on the poliboard anymore probably out of embarrassment. The rest of you conks should follow suit.

89Hen wrote:

kalm wrote:AZgriz is already much smarter since he's been watching Stewart. Doesn't even post much on the poliboard anymore probably out of embarrassment. The rest of you conks should follow suit.

"you conks"? I thought you were a centrist.

Gil Dobie wrote:

89Hen wrote: "you conks"? I thought you were a centrist.

I assumed if you weren't a bed-wetting liberal you were a Conk.

kalm wrote:I'm part of Jon Stewarts "radical middle"

89Hen wrote:

kalm wrote:I'm part of Jon Stewarts "radical middle"

Spit my coffee out on that one.

kalm wrote:

Gil Dobie wrote:
I assumed if you weren't a bed-wetting liberal you were a Conk.

I'm part of Jon Stewarts "radical middle" like most of the rest of the country. You two are free to join at anytime.

kalm wrote:The majority of America agrees with Kalm on the big issues.

89Hen wrote:

kalm wrote:The majority of America agrees with Kalm on the big issues.

What do you consider the big issues?

BTW, I was spitting out my coffee at using Jon Stewart and "middle" in the same sentence.

kalm wrote:

89Hen wrote: Spit my coffee out on that one.

The majority of America agrees with Kalm on the big issues.

Bronco wrote:-
Not surprised that people are looking for a little humor after what Dirty Harry, Pelosi-Galore and Obama have done to this country.

Not surprised that a party in war wit the constitution would be happy to shut down any conversation they don't agree with..not surprised at all

youngterrier wrote:Satire is the best way of communicating commentary. Say what you want about Stewart, but he makes some valid points about pointing out the hypocrisy and idiocy of news pundits, despite ideology, but mainly those of Fox. That's all his shtick is really...pointing out Fox's hypocrisy. And it has good merit and it's pretty funny too.

89Hen wrote:

youngterrier wrote:Satire is the best way of communicating commentary. Say what you want about Stewart, but he makes some valid points about pointing out the hypocrisy and idiocy of news pundits, despite ideology, but mainly those of Fox. That's all his shtick is really...pointing out Fox's hypocrisy. And it has good merit and it's pretty funny too.

Fox is no more hypocritcal than MSNBC. Stewart is a Lib, so his satire goes 90% in one direction and his followers like to point to the 10% and pretend he's "fair and balanced". Rather ironic in a way.

Cap'n Cat wrote:

89Hen wrote: Fox is no more hypocritcal than MSNBC. Stewart is a Lib, so his satire goes 90% in one direction and his followers like to point to the 10% and pretend he's "fair and balanced". Rather ironic in a way.

Don't agree, Hen, but I will say this - Fox and Conks give other media outlets SO much ammo that it's impossible not to laugh at them.

Gotta admit that's true, Romney Boy.

89Hen wrote:

youngterrier wrote:Satire is the best way of communicating commentary. Say what you want about Stewart, but he makes some valid points about pointing out the hypocrisy and idiocy of news pundits, despite ideology, but mainly those of Fox. That's all his shtick is really...pointing out Fox's hypocrisy. And it has good merit and it's pretty funny too.

Fox is no more hypocritcal than MSNBC. Stewart is a Lib, so his satire goes 90% in one direction and his followers like to point to the 10% and pretend he's "fair and balanced". Rather ironic in a way.

Grizalltheway wrote:

89Hen wrote: Fox is no more hypocritcal than MSNBC. Stewart is a Lib, so his satire goes 90% in one direction and his followers like to point to the 10% and pretend he's "fair and balanced". Rather ironic in a way.

He blasts CNN all the time; no way it's a 90/10 split.

89Hen wrote:

Cap'n Cat wrote:

Don't agree, Hen, but I will say this - Fox and Conks give other media outlets SO much ammo that it's impossible not to laugh at them.

Gotta admit that's true, Romney Boy.

Sure they do, but not much more than MSNBC and some other outlets.

bluehenbillk wrote:Just out of curiousity I'd like to see viewer numbers on MSNBC's schlop of a prime-time lineup....