It’s been six months since Newsmax TV CEO Chris Ruddy said his network would “probably overtake [Fox News] in the next six months in total audience.” That didn’t happen, but a spokesperson tells TheWrap it’s still “inevitable.”
Ruddy made his prediction to Newsweek at a time when Fox News was capping the highest-rated year in cable news history, but then-president Donald Trump was railing against the behemoth network for not falling in line enough as he falsely claimed he, not now-President Joe Biden, won the 2020 election.
Trump was directing his followers to defect from Fox News in favor of Newsmax or One America News. Months on, Fox News remains the top-rated cable news channel.
Here’s how total-day ratings looked for the two networks — which both feature conservative opinion shows, though Fox News also has straight-news programming — this January: Newsmax averaged 239,000 total viewers in January, according to Nielsen Media Research ratings data.
Ruddy made his prediction to Newsweek at a time when Fox News was capping the highest-rated year in cable news history, but then-president Donald Trump was railing against the behemoth network for not falling in line enough as he falsely claimed he, not now-President Joe Biden, won the 2020 election.
Trump was directing his followers to defect from Fox News in favor of Newsmax or One America News. Months on, Fox News remains the top-rated cable news channel.
Here’s how total-day ratings looked for the two networks — which both feature conservative opinion shows, though Fox News also has straight-news programming — this January: Newsmax averaged 239,000 total viewers in January, according to Nielsen Media Research ratings data.
- 6/24/2021
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
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