Posted on 10/17/2020 10:22:40 AM PDT by MAGA2017
Many of you have probably seen headlines like this:
CNN: More people watched Biden on ABC than Trump on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC
Washington Post: Biden’s ABC town hall ratings beat Trump’s three-network NBC event
The Hill: Biden's town hall viewership surpasses Trump's
So does this really mean anything? Should President Trump be worried?
The answer is no.
Biden's campaign event was on ABC "News". Trump's hour-long town hall was aired on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC.
Who mainly watches ABC, NBC, MSNBC and CNBC?
Democrats and people who don't realize these "news" outlets are mainly broadcast channels for the Democratic party. I don't think I've watched ABC "news" since John Stossel left. I know what ABC represents and what they will "report" so I don't waste my time watching it. I suspect that's the case for most Conservatives and for people who support President Trump.
Biden's town hall was viewed by people who have already decided to vote for him. Big deal.
I watched hoping he’d go off the rails. I foolishly didn’t anticipate how he’d get protected from tough or substantive questions.
I agree. I don’t know anybody under 40 at this point who watches the alphabet channels.
Have a feeling a lot of older people did. It is a demographic that Democrats have terrified with their talk of the virus. I see it in the elderly people I know.
I am sure Trump has addressed or will address the issue.
But let’s not lie. if Trump had blown biden away in viewership it would have been a very big thing here :-)
it’s also necessary to watch Biden on TV because he doesn’t talk at all after 10:00 a.m.. if you wanted to learn about him you had to watch.
Trump is going to win and all of this will be behind us
Reflects a universal interest in biden gaffes as likened to racetrack crashes.
I watched Tucker as many people did because he had fresh Biden email news. I watched excerpts of Trump’s Town hall on twitter. I haven’t seen much of the Samantha Gunthrie VS Trump debate and had no desire to. I did see most of the actual Trump townhall, the small portion of the show, in video excerpts.
In Phoenix, the DISH programming guide did not list Trump’s town hall a good part of the time. The problem with the program guide appeared to be deliberate. Early in the day, a program with Lester Holt was featured in the time slot. After noon, it was fixed to list the Trump town hall. But by the time came for the town hall some other standard NBC program had replaced it. So you weren’t going to be able to find it when the time slot actually arrived.
As was noted on the Timcast podcast, viewership was only for TV. Add in streaming services and Trump actually had more viewers in total.
Reality evades them again!!!
On the West Coast, the ABC town hall was broadcast live at 5:00 pm PDT, while the NBC town hall was delayed broadcast by NBC at 8:00 pm PDT. Many people did not wait to watch the NBC delayed broadcast and instead watched it on the Internet. As such, TV ratings are meaningless.
I find it interesting that both town halls had relatively low viewership. In fact, based on the numbers I saw, it seems Tucker had about the same number of TV viewers as the two town halls combined!
Trump is out there everyday telling us all what he has done and what he is going to do. Biden creeps out of his basement and people want to verify he i alive.
Biden should have a town hall with Tucker Carlson or Mark Levin. Viewership would be through the roof.
Did the ratings take into account that Trump’s town hall ended after one hour, which would have allowed his viewers to switch channels and watch ABC?
It was the same here in California where we tried to find DEcision 2020 and came up “nada”. About half our later than the 5 pm timeslot, it popped up on MSNBC. Censorship?
In large parts of the country, it was not broadcast on NBC live, but on CNBC. Not only that, but the program guides for many, including dish and directv listed previously scheduled programs, so you couldn’t find it in the guide. NBC broadcast the townhall later on tape delay, but few people are going to bother watching a recorded townhall when they can be fed “highlights” by the talking heads.
“Biden should have a town hall with Tucker Carlson or Mark Levin.”
He cannot. He cannot function without a teleprompter and an earpiece. He can not.
Trump allowed this in the debate as Trump had motives that were different from the usual RNC type motives.
BTW her Trump-hating self, Dana Perino, Was lecturing Trump yesterday about Trump taking Biden’s air time, a time in which Biden should have been allowed to look bad to more people
As if steppingalloverus was going to allow such a thing. She is out of it.
IF hotels, airports, hospitals, businesses etc were practically forced to show channels other than CNN, or the channel the biden TH was on that night- the ‘viewership’ for biden would not have been as high, and like bort said- many switched after TRump’s town hall to biden’s to see how he was being treated by the ‘moderator’- that accounts for a lot of viewers that they no doubt counted too-
Dish also did not list Trump’s townhall. This crap is to be expected. The corruption of the media is wide and deep.
I think Stephanopoulos made a mistake by letting him ramble for so long on each question. He came off as a doddering old fool answering many of them.
You could tell by the looks on the faces of the supporters who asked the questions trying to continue to appear interested as he went off on “all kidding aside” rabbit holes. The “you ain’t black” question was answered especially poorly as he went back in time and described the race relations of his youth that no longer exist.
Smart people know they have to watch Biden live because by morning everything will be edited by the networks to fit their spin.
Why do people go to the circus? To view abnormal. Simple to explain, normal is comparitively boring.
Biden makes up his “past” as he goes along, telling whatever lie he thinks his audience will find endearing.
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