Posted on 07/09/2019 9:48:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Trumps plan to turn the Fourth of July into a commercial for his reelection campaign paid off spectacularly, if youre using Nielsen ratings as a metric. According to just-released figures from the audience-measurement company, more than 6 million Americans watched coverage of the Trump propaganda effort between 7 and 8 p.m. EDT last Thursday, the hour during which the former star of The Apprentice read remarks from a teleprompter. Unsurprisingly, Trump-friendly Fox News, which covered the event most exhaustingly, dominated the hour, notching an eye-popping 4.9 million viewers during the hour, about double what the network normally draws in the time slot. CNN, which mixed coverage of Trumps speech with some analysis, drew about 1.5 million viewers, also a substantial improvement over its typical early-evening numbers (which generally hover around the 1 million mark). That puts the combined audience for the Trumpified festivities at around 6.4 million.
As impressive as these numbers are, it should be noted that more Americans opted to watch NBCs politics-free presentation of the Macys Fourth of July fireworks/concert. The Peacocks two-hour premiere telecast of the show generated an average audience of 5.9 million from 8 to 10 p.m., with the audience peaking at 8.8 million viewers from 9:30 to 10 p.m. (when the actual fireworks were going off). The network also aired a condensed version of the special in the 10 p.m. hour, drawing another 3.8 million viewers. That puts the estimated combined audience for the two telecasts at around 9 million viewers (since there was likely some overlap between the two telecasts viewerships).
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People who found or find fault with it show only their incurable hatred for the United States. The speech and the fireworks were utterly non-partisan. On the other hand the show was inspiring to the end.
What sort of vegetable stays in a country he or she can't stand?
It will work even better next year.”
Yeah. Trump might declassify the Government project that is being mistaken by Navy pilots as UFOs and have them do a fly-by.
President Trumps plan to turn the Fourth of July into a commercial for his reelection campaign paid off spectacularly.
Hey guess what, Snowflake? EVERYTHING Trump does is going to be a commercial for his re-election campaign! Hes got the kavorka!
We recorded it and will watch multiple times.
And all of that viewership data means nothing in regards to who actually watched. Most younger viewers dont even watch yhings on tv, everything is online. I myself watched online and recorded on some “other” station I dont normally watch so the people in my house watched it twice from two different sources yet none of us would be counted.
I watched about five seconds worth of Fox coverage early on and switched to C-Span for true generic coverage then back to Fox when they dumped the commentators. There looked to be quite a crowd there.
I did a quick check of youtube and came up with close to 5 MILLION views of the various videos of Trump’s speech.
The other major 4th show was fantastic, John Stamos hosted it, plenty of Patriotic themed songs, no politics, lots of flag waving. Good Fire works display. God Bless America, Grand Old Flag, others like it. Even the Muppet’s did a good Patriotic skits.
High light was the President’s Speech, only watched the show because husband taped both, and I made him turn off Macy’s liberal latest fad song fest by libtard artists.
And, boy, did some of us have to work to do it. Between lack of coverage, tech issues, bad weather, suspicious cable outages, but we still managed. And was it worth it!
And we’re gonna do it again next year!
The smarminess of these proggie, butt-hurt,TDS writers is funny!
We knew 40% wouldnt watch it, because TDS. Because pro-America. Because military stuff. Ohhhhhhhh soooooooo triggering.
Women love Trump because he is strong and unpredictable.
A big, strong, handsome, charismatic, successful, funny, bit of a bad boy but good-hearted kinda guy.
Wonder how many proggie gals secretly crave him...
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