I am sure you have all heard wingnuts bragging about FOX "news" being the #1 cable news network. Well, looks like it all depends how you define #1.
It is not #1 among cable networks in where people go to get their news if you look at the internet ratings.
http://www.observer.com/...
Quietly, on the Internet, the terms of the cable-news ratings battle have been reversed: Web audiences flock to CNN.com and MSNBC.com, while FoxNews.com trails badly.
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At MSNBC, the MSNBC.com Web site sometimes earns more in monthly ad revenue than the cable channel does, said Kyoo Kim, the site's vice president of sales.
On Feb. 3, BusinessWeek reported that MSNBC and CNN have been beating Fox on the Web in Nielsen online ratings.
On Feb. 6, CNN supplied The Observer with its own internal traffic-tracking numbers: According to the site's data, CNN.com had 1,313,592,095 page views in January 2006.
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