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  • Bill O’Reilly renews association with Fox News

    Bill O’Reilly renews association with Fox News

    MUMBAI: Bill O’Reilly has re-signed a multi-year deal with Fox News Channel (FNC) to continue hosting The O’Reilly Factor. Said Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, “Bill’s immense talent, intellect and raw convictions are an extremely rare combination in television and exemplify why The O’Reilly Factor has been the number one programme in cable news for more than a decade. He is a tremendous force in the business and has helped to make Fox News the success story it is today.”

    Joining FNC in 1996, O’Reilly initially served as host of The O’Reilly Report, which was renamed The O’Reilly Factor when it moved to primetime in 1998.

    O’Reilly is known for his anti-establishment stance. He said, “It’s been great fun in challenging the establishment and exposing the corruption across the nation. The Factor takes pride in holding people accountable and I especially look forward to the exciting news cycle ahead. Fox News has become the primary force in television news under Roger’s leadership and I’m delighted to continue there for years to come.”

    Prior to joining FNC in 1996, he anchored the nationally syndicated programme, Inside Edition, for six years. His seasoned career in broadcast journalism also includes stints at CBS News, where he was awarded with an Emmy for outstanding investigative reporting, as well as ABC News’ World News Tonight, where his work was recognised with two National Headliner Awards for excellence in reporting.

  • CNN is top network with 13.3 mn viewers on US election day

    CNN is top network with 13.3 mn viewers on US election day

    MUMBAI: The Obama smile spread to CNN which emerged as the most-watched network on the election day. CNN garnered 13.3 million viewers to take the top spot that day, according to Nielsen Online Custom Analysis data, P2+ Home/Work Panel.

    ABC had a total viewership of 12.5 million, followed by NBC (11.9 million), Telemundo (8.5 million), FNC (8.1 million), CBS (7.5 million), MSBNC (6.4 million) and Fox (4.7 million).

    CNN topped the cable news competition with an average of 12.3 million total viewers tuning in during primetime, a 36 per cent advantage over FNC’s 9 million and an impressive 109 per cent lead over MSNBC’s 5.9 million.

    Among adults 25-54, CNN was also number 1 with 5.8 million, a 48 per cent advantage over FNC’s 3.9 million and 119 per cent lead over MSNBC’s 2.7 million demo viewers. Among younger viewers 18-34, CNN was also first with 3.4 million. FNC stood second with 1.8 million while MSNBC was third with 1.4 million.

    CNN had the largest gains in prime time compared to 2004 in 25-54, up 102 per cent, while FNC only increased 4 per cent and MSNBC was up 87 per cent. (This was also reflected in total day where CNN grew the most among 25-54, up 97 per cent and MSNBC was up 94 per cent, while FNC declined 16 per cent).

    CNN.com delivered the largest daily audience in its history with 30 million unique visitors on Election Day, more than doubling the previous record of 13.4 million generated on Super Tuesday of this year.

    CNN.com Live, the Internet’s only multi-stream, live video news service, pocketed 5.3 million live streams on election day. The number of live video streams served by CNN.com on election day is nearly triple that of its previous daily streaming record, which was set on 1 September, 2008 – the first day of the RNC and the day Hurricane Gustav made landfall. CNN.com also served an additional 6.8 million on-demand video streams on 4 November.