Thanks, Rockingham. Yes, you’re right. It is indeed a mixed bag. Cable system carriage fees are huge, and it’s directly linked to consumer demand for certain stations.
There’s also an international dimension. My wife gets the NHK broadcast from Japan. And on the news programs, I’ve noticed they usually lead an American politics story with a short clip from our Lamestream media — and it’s almost always ABC News.
And that makes sense because Disney has a strong presence in Japan’s entertainment scene. Unless it’s a huge news story, NHK broadcasts the story two days later, probably because the rights to broadcast are prohibitively high to show it the next day.
CNN is the only American news broadcast station shown on national TV in many countries. And I wouldn’t be surprised if CNN works its film assets from Warner Media the same way as Disney. And now that CNN is owned by AT&T, there are all sorts of telecom contract deals and satellite links they can offer.
One key benefit of the Trump rallies is that a foreign news network can get cheap access to an exciting event that’s a natural human interest story. Maybe an outlet like Right Side Broadcasting Network can make some extra money providing those clips to foreign outlets. In fact the Trump rallies are a key way people in foreign nations get a glimpse of what average working people in America think.
It allows them to see behind the Silicon Curtain and Great Wall of Lies put up by the CNNs.
I think an inside look at how the media business really works is a best selling MAGA book in the making. There are commercial reasons why big media flock together to maintain the status quo and squelch the forces of freedom and truth.
. . . and Fox News Channel just mentioned that, even apart from Trump’s own rallies, pro-Trump events are being locally organized and well attended.