The Digital Footprints of Fox News’ Top Personalities

What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news.

In honor of the 15th anniversary of the often controversial, always immensely popular Fox News Channel, we here at the PeekScore blog thought it would be fun to put the channel’s current crop of on-air personalities to the PeekScore test (we threw in a couple of the bigger names from Fox Business Network for good measure, as well). We know they’re hotshots on cable, but how about here on the Internet?

Well, wherever you may fall in terms of your opinion of the way they report and/or opine on the news, or the degree to which they are – as they declare – “fair and balanced,” there’s no refuting that this is a bunch who have made their mark here in cyberspace. Employing websites, social media, and FOX’s own internet channels, this is a rather digitally impactful group, all in all.

Would you like to see us do a list of this nature for the anchors and personalities from CNN, or MSNBC, or from some other channel? Is there a Fox News personality we overlooked who you’d like to see included? Let us know in the comments.

Rank Picture Name Main Program PeekScore
1

Bill O’Reilly The O’Reilly Factor 9.59 / 10.00
2

Mike Huckabee Huckabee 9.23 / 10.00
3

Sean Hannity Hannity 8.90 / 10.00
4

Megyn Kelly America Live 8.22 / 10.00
5

John Stossel Stossel 8.20 / 10.00
6

Neil Cavuto Your World with Neil Cavuto 8.16 / 10.00
7

Greta Van Susteren On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren 8.13 / 10.00
8

Andrew Napolitano Freedom Watch 8.09 / 10.00
9

Shepard Smith Fox Report with Shepard Smith, Studio B 8.07 / 10.00
10

Greg Gutfeld Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld 8.06 / 10.00
11

Bret Baier Special Report with Bret Baier 8.06 / 10.00

The Digital Footprints of American Nightly News’ Most Recognizable Faces

What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news.

Some are proper news anchors, and others are commentators with a decided editorial slant. Some have recently left their jobs, and others have only just begun theirs. What unifies the names on this list is that they all belong to people who would spring to most Americans’ minds immediately when talk turns to “nightly news” (well, contemporary – as of June 2011 – nightly news, in any event).

The gentleman topping our list – at 77 years of age, and comfortably outside the prime demographic for such activities – is not an avid social networker. A very recent, and very high profile departure from his longstanding anchor seat is likely what nudged him to first place. Ms. Couric, in second place, in addition to grabbing headlines lately due to her own departure from her anchor seat, is a rather net savvy sort; having in fact tweeted no more than 3 hours prior to our typing this very entry.

Is there a television news source we overlooked, or a nightly host/anchor you’d have preferred to see included? Let us know in the comments.

Rank Picture Name Bio PeekScore
1

Jim Lehrer The, as of very recently, departed anchor (and co-originator) of PBS Newshour. 9.16 / 10
2

Katie Couric The very recently departed anchor of CBS Evening News. 9.15 / 10
3

Anderson Cooper Host of Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN. 9.00 / 10
4

Bill O’Reilly Host of Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor. 8.52 / 10
5

Scott Pelley The brand new anchor of CBS Evening News. 8.15 / 10
6

Diane Sawyer The anchor of ABC World News. 8.12 / 10
7

Rachel Maddow The host of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show. 8.10 / 10
8

Brian Williams The anchor of NBC Nightly News. 8.01 / 10
9

Matt Frei The soon to be departing anchor of BBC World News America 7.01/ 10