Friday, October 30, 2015

Americans and TV News

This article was about the use of TV and news in peoples homes today. It talked about the difference between liberals and conservative and how they watch the news. The difference between each news station and the science behind the way the news is produced. The article talked about how each channel sets up its time slots and why people watch specific news. It touched on the difference between local news and large news corporations and why people choose to watch the local news more.

Top 10 facts from this article:
1. 71% of Americans watch Local TV News while 65% of Americans watch Network TV News
2. People who watch cable TV watch for an average of 25 minutes a day
3. The local news audience is highest during the late 11 P.M. newscast, with 15% more viewers
4. Greatest overlap of news channels is between local and network, 90% of network news viewers also watch local news while 82% of local news viewers also watch network news.
5. Cable news viewers is the smallest group, 3/4 of cable viewers watch some network news and more watch some local news.
6. CNN reaches 20% of adults, Fox reaches 18% of adults, MSNBC reaches 14% of adults.
7. Fox News and MSNBC viewers are compatible with each other, each having around a 30% viewing sharing between the two each way.
8. This is even greater between CNN and MSNBC with each daring about 50% of views between the two each way.
9. 24% of Americans watch ONLY Fox News, 23% of Americans watch ONLY CNN, and 15% of americans watch ONLY MSNBC.
10. Nbcnews.com (used to be MSNBC.com) is the most viewed news website, followed by cnn.com, and then foxnews.com.




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