Just wait until Monday, when the dwindling audience ready to watch their "stories" see the hearings instead.
Mark Jeffries [email protected] On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 4:29 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYKwFH%2BKpkL5UaUVR0xH7MX-hMyhx%3Dv2OPgZc9yRM61bkw%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/CAJ_uKi9cxiXzfaBnRqBE5O9jOSyR65W-bJSO_zLjNU8HbT8vnQ%40mail.gmail.com.
