Time After Time
After Judith Regan filed her suit against News Corp, the media immediately became curious as to exactly how many times Rudy Giuliani had been on Fox News Channel. Since The Hotline keeps track of how many times the '08ers do a one-on-one interviews on the newsmaker cable and broadcast network shows, we've gotten a lot of inquiries.
So we've broken down the number of times the GOPers have appeared on the three main cable nets in the past year (going from 1/1/07 to 11/15/07). A caveat, we did not start timing Fred Thompson until it looked like he was serious about a run so his first appearance in our candidate times chart was 3/11/07. The raw data:
There have been arguments made on blogs that other '08ers have made more appearances on FNC than Giuliani. That's true. The data above proves it. However, proportionally, Giuliani gives more cable interviews on FNC than the other two nets. Of his 21 cable interviews this year, 16 were on FNC. Mike Huckabee did have more FNC interviews than Giuliani (27 compared to Giuliani's 16) but Huckabee also had more overall cable interviews, plus Huckabee gave more interviews to CNN and MSNBC than Giuliani did.
Interestingly, the only candidates who tend to show favoritism to FNC as Giuliani does are Thompson and Mitt Romney. Thompson has yet to appear on MSNBC and Romney hasn't made many appearance on the other two nets.
All the raw data can be seen at The Hotline's subscriber-only site, here. Any questions about the methodology, e-mail Emily Goodin.