Who Watches What: Party Lines & Cable News

By SteveK 

Every two years, the Pew Research Center looks at how people get their news. Throughout the day, we’ll take a look at several facets of the latest study, which was released today.

• When it comes to audience breakdown by political lines, CNN and MSNBC showed more Democrat viewers while FNC, more Republican. But the minority party viewership is much stronger at Fox News than its competitors: 33% of Fox viewers are listed as Democrats, while 18% of CNN and MSNBC viewers say they are Republicans.

“Currently 51% of regular CNN viewers are Democrats, up from 45% two years ago. Nearly four-in-ten regular Fox News viewers are Republicans (39%), about the same as in 2006,” reports the survey.

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