Posted on 01/23/2020 11:27:24 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The first night of arguments in favor of President Donald Trump’s impeachment before the U.S. Senate was judged not ready for prime time by many of the nation’s television executives.
ABC, CBS and NBC all stuck with regularly scheduled programs like “Chicago Med,” “Criminal Minds” and “Modern Family” Wednesday evening instead of showing the House managers’ evening session at the impeachment trial. That lasted about two hours, 15 minutes.
CNN and MSNBC carried the trial in full. Fox News Channel, after showing Rep. Adam Schiff speak for about a half hour, interrupted for a story about a child support case involving former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, and never returned.
Even two PBS stations in the New York area showed science programming and “Antiques Roadshow” instead of the trial Wednesday evening. PBS said it gave its local stations the option to show the trial or not.
The calls Wednesday night are significant because if the top networks decided not to pre-empt programming on the first full night the case against Trump was laid out, chances are they won’t reverse course later unless the unexpected happens.
Daytime was an intriguing contrast, since the top three broadcasters and cable news outlets all carried Schiff’s initial stand at the podium, which lasted more than two hours.
It was rare for anyone in today’s media world to command full television attention to that extent. The Senate’s rules for the trial, which required using a single camera on the speaker and didn’t allow reaction shots of senators, only served to accentuate Schiff’s message.
Meanwhile, Trump was setting a record for sending out the most tweets in a single day since he’s been president.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Not much point in watching the same lies repeated in different ways again and again and again for 24 hours over three days
Two bit player...
Broadcast and cable tv as SOOOOO 20th century. Streaming is doing to them what Amazon is doing to brick and mortar retail.
Whenever I watch this sort of stuff, it’s a live Youtube stream.
But, but I was told he, ScHIT, was brilliant as hell aaaaaand that folk couldn’t take their eyes off the reveting evidence!!
Why watch the Dems put up poorly crafted power points with theories - where is their overwhelming evidence?
I hope ratings drop more today.
Day 1 of the impeachment farce pulled in a measley 11 million...
The first day of the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump delivered a total audience of more than 11 million viewers, according to ratings data compiled by Nielsen. From the opening of the proceedings at 12 p.m. ET through 5 p.m., Fox News had the largest audience of any of the broadcast or cable networks, with 2.654 million viewers, followed by CBS
(1.943 million), MSNBC (1.909 million), ABC (1.630 million), CNN (1.439 million) and NBC broadcast (1.437 million).
Plus who’d be watching?
I havent watched one damn minute of it. Wont.
I watched 5 minutes...that was enough. And they were worried about people being up at night?
More people would have watched it in the evening.....CUZ....people work...and the job didn't come with a TV.
Dear Adam Schiff, bless youre little heart, you should have remembered what Shakespeare wrote about your presentation: “Brevity is the soul of wit.”
Problem is the evening fakenews is pulling the rats over the finish line...their 5-6 o’clock viewership is 10x’s higher of gullible Americans! 11 million during the day is a measly number....Now multiply that 11million x tens of millions! I hate the fakenews along with FAUXnews biased mediapukes!
Yep, exactly!
No one cares about the Schiffhead and Nadler show. No one is clamoring to watch it.
Ready for prime time, indeed.
They’re reaching only the already converted. The rest of America has tuned out.
The real excitement is going to be the Trump team. Those guys are going to have one home run after another.
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