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How senior-skewed Fox News is winning in a young audience's game
Fox News Channel has one of the biggest audiences among cable networks, but also one of the oldest -- its viewers' median age for the last two years has been 65 and up. Analyst Craig Moffett says Fox News has been able to remain competitive, even with marketers preferring the 25-to-54 demographic, due to "the level of passion and engagement" among its audience. "That translates into big money because cable systems now pay Fox News one of the highest per-subscriber fees in television, 94 cents a month, topped in cable television only by a few networks, most of which have expensive sports rights to pay," Bill Carter writes.

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