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New York (CNN Business)Trump supporters are seeking alternatives to Fox News after President Donald Trump criticized the network that, like mainstream media networks, called the presidential race for Joe Biden.
Newsmax and One America News — which falsely claim Trump won the 2020 election — are two of the biggest beneficiaries of Trump and his supporters’ ire. The channels’ ratings have surged in recent days.
Although Biden won the election — a fact Trump acknowledged Sunday — Greg Kelly, the highest-rated host on Newsmax, claims that Trump will prevail and that he will be president for another four years. The network has gone from about 100,000 viewers a day on a good day to about one million viewers per night for Kelly’s show.
“Fox has never seen competition like this,” CNN’s chief media correspondent Brian Stelter said on “Reliable Sources” Sunday. “There is demand for a fictional universe…. Reliable news sources are mostly moving on to cover President-elect Biden. There is an entire constellation of websites and talk shows that are in denial just like Trump.”
Helping boost the Fox News rivals’ ratings, Trump is telling his Twitter followers to try Newsmax and One America News. In a Sunday tweet, Trump criticized Fox and said, “Try @OANN & @newsmax, among others!”
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Article URL : https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/15/media/fox-news-newsmax-competition/index.html