Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. We’ll get final broadcast figures - and an all-in tally of TV viewers - from Nielsen in a few hours. Beyond the (very valid) argument surrounding journalistic integrity, it’s hard to fault the counterprogramming maneuver.ĬNN and MSNBC skew left and younger, often dividing liberal viewers of cable news programming between themselves. program and the 9 o’clock show was steady with its May total-viewer averages, up a bit in the demo, and up a bit more vs. In May, Fox’s Tucker Carlson averaged 3.233 million total viewers (522,000 in the demo) and Sean Hannity drew 2.720 million per evening (428,000 in the demo). The committee also interviewed a pair of key witnesses from the scene, including an injured Capitol police officer and the documentarian who provided much of the footage that was first shown to the public in the two-hour primetime television event. The January 6 hearing shared shocking, never-before-seen footage of the insurrection on the Capitol building. The right-wing Fox News Channel did not air commercials while the hearing ran live on other platforms.
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The Fired Fox News Political Editor Just Testified at the January 6 Hearing - and Is Still RightĨ Upfronts Takeaways: Streaming Crashes the Party, TMI from Lizzo, and Fox Might Want a Do-Over So suffice it to say, your average Fox News viewer would not be particularly interested in Liz Cheney (pictured above) & co.’s presentation. Said findings are also very critical of extreme conservative groups like the Proud Boys. The decision was a strategic, if not overtly politically motivated one: The January 6 Committee is presenting some very unflattering information about former President Donald Trump’s role in stoking the seditious actions of many. Fox was widely criticized for not fulfilling its news duties by sticking with its regular talking heads. That’s a 22 percent advantage over MSNBC and 28 percent win over Fox News.ĬNN, MSNBC, and a whole host of other TV channels simulcasted the hearing last night. CNN finished way ahead of its direct cable news competition in the key demographic for news programming, adults 25-54, with 709,000 viewers from that age range vs. MSNBC averaged a whopping (for them) 4.161 million total viewers, trouncing both Fox News (2.957 million total viewers) by 29 percent and CNN (2.617 total million viewers) by 37 percent. While the cable news network topped CNN’s carriage of the congressional committee’s hearing in total viewers, it did not come close to MSNBC’s massive tally.
Let’s be honest.Fox News Channel elected to not air Thursday’s January 6 hearing live last night, which took place in primetime from 8 p.m. In short, on top of being implicated in an outright insurrection, Fox News had to take a beating from MSNBC, which probably stings the most over there. English Standard Version 6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. In fact, the network skipped commercial breaks altogether so viewers wouldn’t be tempted to flip over to the proceedings that shared damning evidence about Donald Trump, Republican politicians, and Fox News itself thanks to Sean Hannity‘s close relationship with the former president. MSNBC had an average audience of 4.2 million, and CNN drew 2.6 million.Īs IndieWire notes, MSNBC crushed Fox News (which just barely beat CNN for the night) thanks to the conservative network’s eyebrow-raising choice to not air the Jan. NBC and CBS each had an audience of more than three million. And it’s in the ballpark of television events like a big “Sunday Night Football” game or the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.ĪBC attracted the biggest audience among the broadcast networks, with 4.8 million viewers. Though the Thursday night figure pales next to presidential debates (63 million to 73 million) or this year’s State of the Union address (38 million), it’s still much larger than the audience that would normally watch a daytime congressional hearing. While we’re not talking Super Bowl numbers, millions of Americans tuned into the hearing, which pulled in viewers on par with major NFL games. 6 hearing brought in sizable ratings for the networks that actually decided to air it. When the House Select Committee set out to make its January 6 hearing public, it banked on using primetime television hours to draw in the most viewers.
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