FoxNews Beats All Comers

Wonder why FoxNews seems to be the target of so much bad-mouthing this year? Well, it turns out it is now the #1 cable news channel, easily beating out even CNN for the crown as the most-watched network.

According to Nielsen Media Research, Fox News averaged 1.8 million viewers, while CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and Headline News averaged a combined total of 1.7 million. The quarter ended Sunday...CNN came in a distant second, averaging 882,000 viewers, while MSNBC drew 421,000. Headline News averaged 226,000 in primetime, and CNBC attracted a paltry 133,000.

Personally, I still prefer CNN for most of my news. Fox is fine and all, but it doesn't have the same breadth of world news. But you have to wonder whether the reason for this success is that FoxNews gets it right, or because the others get it wrong. Or because all of the viewers who left CBS News over the filegate fiasco decided that FoxNews was the only one who got that right?