Faux News takes the prize for the oldest demographic

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http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117988273.html?categoryid=14&cs=1


Among ad-supported cable nets, the news nets (along with older-skewing Hallmark Channel, Golf Channel and GSN's daytime sked) sport the most gray, with Fox News Channel's daytime and primetime skeds the absolute oldest, clocking in with a median age above 65. Youngest nets are the daytime skeds for Noggin and Nickelodeon, with a median age under 10.

At ABC, youngest series was "Supernanny" (with a median age of 41), while oldest was "Women's Murder Club" (57). At CBS, youngest was "How I Met Your Mother," "Kid Nation" and the Tuesday edition of "Big Brother," tied at 45; oldest was "60 Minutes" (60). NBC's youngest show was "Scrubs" (34), and oldest was "Monk" (58).

At Fox, the youngest shows were "American Dad" and "Family Guy" (29), while the oldest was "Canterbury's Law" (55). At CW, "One Tree Hill" was youngest (26), while "Life Is Wild" was oldest (45).

Among latenight gabbers, "Tonight Show With Jay Leno" is oldest, with a median age of 54, followed by "Late Show With David Letterman" at 53. Interestingly, "Nightline" -- which should conceivably be older than those talkers, is younger, at 52. ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," meanwhile, passed the 18-49 threshold for the first time, clocking in with a median of 50. "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" is getting closer at 46.

[Ian David]

1. A good flu season will kill their ratings.

Let's air anti-vaccination commercials on Fox "News"!

[Faygo Kid]

2. Geez, at 56, I'm a youngster. Love those Andy Griffith/Star Trek reruns.

No tribble at all, Captain.

[hisownpetard]

3. Has Fox taken into consideration the percentage of viewers who've died

in front of their rabbit-earred tvs and not yet been discovered?

[Bluzmann57]

4. More importantly, has Faux killed anyone

Either by boredom or an elderly person getting worked up by all the bullshit they spew?

[muntrv]

5. That's because faux snooze spouts off neanderthal concepts.