Agreed. The Hearings are not a TV show and are not primarily evaluated in terms of ratings.
But the ratings, albeit imperfectly, are an indication of public interest. My take is that, contrary to the claims of Trump collaborators that the American people no longer care about the 1/6 Attack, the ratings, at least on the first night, indicate a high level of interest; Americans were at least as interested in learning more about the Attacks as they are in watching prime time football. I feel like the Hearing over performed reasonable expectations in the ratings, and in substance. On Sat, 11 Jun 2022 at 1:16 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > Summer TV numbers have always been relatively low and more and more people > don’t think of the networks when they choose what to watch in the evening > (Eastern time zone). > > For me the purpose of the hearings is to get all of this information and > evidence into the public record in the most accessible way and to make the > DOJ more aggressive in prosecuting those responsible. Neither of those > requires big ratings. > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 5:29 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I wish I had thought to ask this in advance, but I am interested in if >> folks here think this is a high, low or expected number of viewers for last >> night. For context, 19 M is less than the State of the Union (38M) and >> about the same as Sunday Night Football, which is the highest rated regular >> TV program. >> >> I got home at 6:25 from work, and watched the recording I had kind of >> randomly made from NBC News. The NYT reports the following breakdown: >> >> ABC: 4.8 M >> NBC: 3M+ >> CBS: 3M+ >> MSNBC: 4.2M (4X their normal audience) >> CNN: 2.6M >> >> Fox “News” got its usual 3M viewers, so I guess that really does mean >> that almost no regular FN viewer watched the Hearing. >> >> I watched the events of 1/6/21 live in horror and often literally in >> tears. I dug in pretty deeply over the weeks that followed on any available >> information, and I feel like about 90% of what the Committee is reporting >> was known before the end of January last year. Still, I have been impressed >> with the work of the Committee, and thought they did an effective job last >> night, consistent with finding that most people who tuned in at the start >> stayed with the whole two hours. >> >> I can also report the unsurprising news that Chuck Todd continues to be >> an incompetent twit. >> >> >> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/10/business/media/jan-6-hearing-ratings.html?referringSource=articleShare >> >> -- >> Sent from Gmail Mobile >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYKALpiLXaYuiWxbG4n%2BOV4b_bXfH_Z7TH0kWwK_2Umj%2BA%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYKALpiLXaYuiWxbG4n%2BOV4b_bXfH_Z7TH0kWwK_2Umj%2BA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiFcgqgqehemvafPJWAsuyhndB-h9RHi6%2B8cdV4BOQ6O9g%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiFcgqgqehemvafPJWAsuyhndB-h9RHi6%2B8cdV4BOQ6O9g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYKwFH%2BKpkL5UaUVR0xH7MX-hMyhx%3Dv2OPgZc9yRM61bkw%40mail.gmail.com.
