Fox News reportedly having difficulty selling ads for Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham's shows

[Gothmog]

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This makes me smile https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/06/04/fox-news-reportedly-having-difficulty-selling-ads-sean-hannity-and-laura-ingraham-s-shows-pro-trump/220370

We now have further confirmation that Fox News’ role as a mouthpiece for Donald Trump is affecting the network’s bottom line.

According to a report by Gabriel Sherman in Vanity Fair, the network is struggling to sell ad space on their 9 and 10 PM respective programs.

While Fox News dominated the ratings in May—a fact Trump bragged about on Saturday—the network is having new difficulties monetizing its most pro-Trump programming. According to three sources briefed on the numbers, advertising revenues for Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham are down in recent months. “The pro-Trump thing isn’t working. We can’t monetize DACA and the wall and that right-wing shit,” one staffer said. “Despite all the hype on Hannity, they can’t sell it,” another insider told me. (Tucker Carlson’s show is faring better, sources said).

This follows an October 2017 report that Fox News’ ad revenue had dropped 17% year over year, at the same time that ad revenue at other cable news networks was relatively stable.

[Freethinker65]

1. Thoughts and prayers

[Zambero]

2. Free market, Laura!!!

Bootstraps, Sean!!!

[magicarpet]

3. What ever might be the cause.... FASCISM ?

[nolabear]

4. May the rats abandon that sinking ship.

[NewJeffCT]

5. Not to worry

Sean Hannity will become the new White House Communications Director and Ingraham will replace SHS as press secretary, or vice versa since Ingraham actually has a degree and WHCD might require some intelligence.

[DBoon]

7. "WHCD might require some intelligence"

when has this been a requirement for any post in the Trump administration?

[lpbk2713]

6. Will they both have an announcement soon?

Will they say they want to "spend more time with family" ?

[PSPS]

8. Doesn't matter. They'll run these shows indefinitely even at a loss.

Their sole purpose is to shape government policy so it enriches the Kochs, Mercers, Murdochs and their ilk, who will insure Fox's financial stability one way or another.

[struggle4progress]

9. "We blame the axis of evil: Obama, Hillary, and Comey"

[gibraltar72]

10. Bad things keep happening to good people.

[Gothmog]

11. David Hogg Renews His Call for an Advertiser Boycott Against Laura Ingraham

It is time for another boycott https://secondnexus.com/news/david-hogg-laura-ingraham-another-boycott/?utm_content=inf_677_1164_2&tse_id=INF_cb97b3b0740711e891b1752e4aebc11c

David Hogg, the Parkland, Florida student who survived the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and became one of the nation’s leading gun reform activists practically overnight, has renewed his call for an advertiser boycott of Fox News personality Laura Ingraham’s show, The Ingraham Angle, after she described the child detention centers housing immigrant children as “essentially summer camps.”

“As more illegal immigrants are rushing the border, more kids are being separated from their parents,” Ingraham said during her show last night. “And temporarily housed at what are, essentially, summer camps.”

To underscore her point, Ingraham cited a news report from The San Diego Union-Tribune that compared the camps to “boarding schools.”

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

12. Advertiser flees another Fox News show after deplorable child immigration commentary

This makes me smile https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/22/1774443/-Advertiser-flees-another-Fox-News-show-after-deplorable-child-immigration-commentary

Stoneman Douglas shooting survivor David Hogg launched a boycott against Laura Ingraham after the segment and *at least* one major advertiser has pulled the plug. From Politico:

The media and internet company IAC will no longer be running ads for HomeAdvisor or Angie’s List on the show, an IAC spokesperson confirmed on Thursday. The day after Ingraham’s statements, David Hogg, a survivor of the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, called on advertisers, including IAC, to boycott Ingraham, a reprise of the highly successful boycott campaign he launched against her in April, after she insulted him on Twitter.

Politico notes that others may have bailed because there have been fewer spots offered. Fox News contends the boycott is not hurting them:

A Fox News spokesperson said the network was unaffected by any loss in advertising resulting from Ingraham’s latest comments.

“There’s been no impact on our business, and new advertisers continue to opt in for our powerful prime-time lineup,” the spokesperson said.