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Both CNN and Fox News score election night wins on cable

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Nate Wesley

Odd parsing of a 'winner': CNN had the most overall viewers from the entire Election Night experience of 8PM ET to approximately 2AM, along with the most 25-54 money demo viewers during that same time period. Fox News however, had the most viewers from the traditional primetime block of 8pm to 11pm--both in overall viewers and the money demo.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/11/07/election-night-ratings/

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser...oadcast-but-viewership-down-from-2008_b153855

MSNBC was a distant third to both, but [IIRC] it and NBC News (tops on broadcast?) were the first outlets to declare President Obama re-elected based upon Ohio projections. I noticed that MSNBC was pundit-heavy with its usual hosts while NBC News used Brian Williams & company, mostly network talent. Both outlets shared correspondents and personalities like Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd (Williams accidentally threw to him live while he was busy talking to MSNBC viewers). Oddly, MSNBC's own Tamron Hall was mostly featured on NBC News' team outside Rockerfeller Center.
 
We mainly watched CNN and Wolf Blitzer/Anderson Cooper, sometimes over to MSNBC when they had a commercial.

-crainbebo
 
I just saw your threads on this, you beat me to it. Sorry about that.

crainbebo said:
We mainly watched CNN and Wolf Blitzer/Anderson Cooper, sometimes over to MSNBC when they had a commercial.

-crainbebo
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I mostly watched broadcast coverage on CBS News, though I did toggle back and forth amongst the cable news channels.
 
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...e-news-nets-in-election-night-viewing/156570/


My link has changed from CNN Wins election coverage to

Updated: CNN Leads Cable News Nets in 7p-2a Election Night Viewing, But Fox News Leads Primetime

Incidentally NBC News had beat Fox News and CNN for election COverage at 12 million people, ABC has 11 Million Viewers. CBS News was tied with Fox News and CNN for election news all were tied at 8 million viewers.

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/11/07/tv-ratings-tuesday-nbc-wins-election-night/156493/
 
There is no question that viewers go to CNN for breaking news, and for important events, like last nights election. The reason is simple, they are viewed as the most balanced, rightly or wrongly.

However, I thought their virtual sets and magic wall (does it really need to still be called that?) were much more impressive than their rivals.

I spent more time with CNN than the others. Glad I didn't catch ABC with the questionable condition of anchor Sawyer, who I generally like.
 
I was mainly watching CNN and CBS, with an occasional flip to Fox News Channel. I found Fox's vote total graphics at the bottom of the screen to be confusing and hard to read.
 
I agree that CNN appeared to be the most balanced. Their approach was the most interesting to watch. I switched to CBS and was bored. It was very dull. Then over to ABC, where the tone was very silly and shrill. NBC was a bit more nuts and bolts, although Brian Williams always does a fine job. I thought Fox News was fairer than I expected, given the story. And MSNBC did what I expected.

My problem with CBS was the set. Pelley is sitting at a desk alone in an empty studio, talking to a lot of people. He should have been in the middle of some action somewhere. NBC invented this Democracy Place box at Rockefeller Center. It was just more interesting to watch. But the huge CNN studio seemed like a pretty exciting place, with numerous "activity centers" for the anchors to work with. Good TV.
 
TheBigA said:
I agree that CNN appeared to be the most balanced. Their approach was the most interesting to watch. I switched to CBS and was bored. It was very dull. Then over to ABC, where the tone was very silly and shrill. NBC was a bit more nuts and bolts, although Brian Williams always does a fine job. I thought Fox News was fairer than I expected, given the story. And MSNBC did what I expected.

My problem with CBS was the set. Pelley is sitting at a desk alone in an empty studio, talking to a lot of people. He should have been in the middle of some action somewhere. NBC invented this Democracy Place box at Rockefeller Center. It was just more interesting to watch. But the huge CNN studio seemed like a pretty exciting place, with numerous "activity centers" for the anchors to work with. Good TV.
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Well Its not just CBS that had Pelley sit in the CBS Newsroom also the PBS Broadcasts had their anchors sit in the PBS Studio and Newsroom for analysis. As far as I know PBS and CBS did not want to act too "cable news like" to their audience.
 
recto101 said:
Well Its not just CBS that had Pelley sit in the CBS Newsroom also the PBS Broadcasts had their anchors sit in the PBS Studio and Newsroom for analysis. As far as I know PBS and CBS did not want to act too "cable news like" to their audience.
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I sort of expected that from PBS, so I didn't watch. But CBS needs to step it up a bit. Pelley is a newsman, and he should be on site somewhere. Not sitting in an empty studio.
 
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