America Sends Message to Hannity, Media Stunned
Fox News’ Sean Hannity has been under attack from the
Left for quite some time. Lately, those attacks have amplified, causing
advertisers to cave under pressure and remove their ads from Hannity’s show. However,
that move hasn’t affected his ratings the way the Left was hoping.
According to ratings reported Wednesday by Adweek, Hannity continues to dominate cable
news. In both the key 25-54 age demographic, and total viewers, Hannity is the
#1 watched cable news show between the 4 PM and 11 PM hours. These ratings are
in spite of the intense smear attacks executed by the Left.
Hannity placed first with over 3.3 million total
viewers, surging ahead of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. Hannity’s ratings have increased
from 3.2 million total viewers reported
in October, during which time he was also the most watched cable news program
for the entire month.
In the key 25-54 demographic, Hannity pulled in
677,000 viewers. The only close rivals in the demographic were Maddow at
670,000 viewers, and Hannity’s Fox Newscolleague, Tucker Carlson, at 606,000
viewers.
This strong performance comes after Hannity returned
to the 9 PM time slot. After his first full month in the time slot, his ratings
have increased by 27 percent. These recent ratings are Hannity’s second highest
ever. The ratings have increased 15 percent compared to the same time last
year.
While Hannity continues to prove himself a cable news
juggernaut, it hasn’t been easy. He’s been faced with constant left-wing
attacks, with the latest impacting the advertisers airing during his show.
The Left successfully influenced several advertisers
to drop their ads from Hannity’s time slot after they were enraged by Hannity’s
coverage of controversial issues.
Dollar Shave Club, Green Mountain Coffee, Reddi-Wip,
Hebrew National, and others made announcements via Twitter regarding their
discontinued advertising.
Keurig also joined the companies withdrawing their
advertising, only to receive massive backlash from disgruntled fans who began
destroying their Keurig coffeemakers. The Hannity fans uploaded photos of their
destroyed machines to social media to express their outrage, using the trending
hashtag, #BoycottKeurig.
Hannity pleaded with his fans to stop smashing
machines after Keurig CEO, Bob Gamgort, released a statement apologizing for
the action. The statement admitted to giving “the appearance of ‘taking sides’
in an emotionally charged debate…which was not our intent.”
The statement concluded: “Our company and brand
reputations are too valuable to be put at risk in this manner. I apologize for
any negativity that you have experienced as a result of this situation and
assure you that we will learn and improve going forward.”
Hannity accepted the apology, urging his supporters
to do the same. “Frankly, I think they were victims of a group they knew
nothing about. I feel sorry that they were dragged into politics,” Hannity said
on his radio show.
As the leader in cable news, Hannity will continue to
be a target for leftist attacks. Since the latest efforts influencing
advertisers to pull from Hannity’s time slot clearly failed to move him from
his number one position, it is likely that the Left will have to return to the
drawing board for their efforts. It will take much more than pulled
advertisements to derail this cable news veteran.
Sean Hannity is seeing major success despite what
liberals want everyone to believe. Do you watch Sean Hannity?
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