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Television: Network News & Cable

  • Evening network news programs on ABC, NBC and CBS reach about 27 million viewers while morning news shows on those networks are seen by 14.1 million viewers daily (according to ratings data)

  • Nightly newscast on PBS reaches 2.4 million viewers daily (according to its internal figures)

  • During prime-time hours, news programs on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News reach 2.7 million viewers combined while 1.6 million watch during daytime hours (according to ratings data)

    Newspapers

  • About 54 million people still buy a newspaper each weekday (This number does not include the pass along rate of newspapers, which some estimate, depending on the paper, to be approximately three times the circulation rate)

    Online News Sites

  • About 30 million Internet users go online for news each day with about 6.8 million people reading a blog each day

  • In an Arbitron survey, 27% of respondents said they listened to online radio in the previous month (about 69 million people), which is up from 21% in 2008.

    Traditional Broadcast or Terrestrial Radio

  • Radio is a diverse medium that reaches the majority of the people, with 94 percent of Americans 12 years and older listening to traditional radio each week. 236 million Americans listened to at least some radio in an average week in the fall of 2009 (a number that has been basically static for the past five years)

    Citations: Pew Research Center's The State of the News Media 2012 at http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2012/

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