They have been doing this for decades, including when Clinton was president. The fact is, even when all the networks aired every presidential address, a lot of people would change stations to watch the Mets or Merv Griffin (in New York, different objects elsewhere).
Network broadcasts are no longer the 800 pound gorilla they once were. CNN not showing it, on the other hand, shows hypocrisy as this is news, and they are a news station, with no Movie of the Week or crime drama to pre-empt at a loss of millions.
“They have been doing this for decades, including when Clinton was president.”
Yes, but this time, it is not Clinton or Obama, it is President Trump, and that is what matters to America.
Liberal news supports Liberal programming on those networks.
They can’t air Conservative News and have Liberal T.V. Sitcoms at the same time. Woke commercials support the content.