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TV news ratings, online readership plunge during Biden's first 100 days (Feel good story of the day)
MSN ^ | 5/1/2021 | Thomas Moore

Posted on 05/03/2021 11:10:05 AM PDT by MountainWalker

Broadcast and cable news ratings, along with website traffic, are all taking a hit in the post-Trump era.

During President Biden's first 100 days in office, weekly full-day cable ratings for CNN and MSNBC have been trending down, according to statistics from ratings company Nielsen.

On average, 1.3 million household viewers were watching MSNBC in the last week of January, shortly after Biden took office. For the week ending April 25, that number was 868,000. At CNN, those figures went from 1.2 million to 749,000.

Even perennial ratings leader Fox News is seeing a decline, though a much smaller one compared to its cable competitors, dipping to just 1.2 million from 1.3 million in late January.

Prime-time cable viewership is also down across the board. In the same time comparisons as the full-day ratings, CNN has lost 792,000 viewers, while MSNBC is down 788,000 and Fox is short 348,000.

Network evening news isn't faring any better. Ratings leader "World News Tonight" at ABC had 1.8 million fewer viewers in the seven days ending April 25 compared to the last week of January.

NBC's "Nightly News," in the No. 2 slot, lost 1.7 million viewers in that same period, while CBS is down 1.2 million.

Media experts like Scott Robson, a research analyst with S&P Global Market Intelligence who studies cable news, say viewership this year essentially peaked during the Jan. 6 insurrection and has been going down since.

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“Media experts like Scott Robson, a research analyst with S&P Global Market Intelligence who studies cable news, say viewership this year essentially peaked during the Jan. 6 insurrection and has been going down since.” These propagandists can’t go bankrupt fast enough.
1 posted on 05/03/2021 11:10:05 AM PDT by MountainWalker
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To: MountainWalker

...doin my part....

cancel culture works both ways, as it turns out


2 posted on 05/03/2021 11:11:12 AM PDT by QualityMan ( I got nuthin...)
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To: MountainWalker

But....But.....But.....he’s the most popular president in history of this country!!!!


3 posted on 05/03/2021 11:14:34 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: QualityMan

yup

they don’t like evil money anyway


4 posted on 05/03/2021 11:15:04 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MountainWalker

The Dems and media created this model: Orange man bad, no matter what. Get rid of orange man, install dementia Joe and everything will be wonderful. The American public is getting money for nothing, and there is nothing but good news in the mainstream media, so why bother to watch/listen/read!

The other side is, people like me who can no longer watch and see the details of our country being dismantled.

Now, the media is going to bleed out.


5 posted on 05/03/2021 11:16:45 AM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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To: brownsfan

Joe Biden does not say much. So not much to watch. Other than liberal propaganda.


6 posted on 05/03/2021 11:19:40 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MountainWalker

You stop watching or listening when you finally realize that none of the news organizations including Fox have the journalistic courage to defend the difference between truth and lies. As long as both drive ad revenue they pay the same.

I stopped watching because its all just bad theater at this point until they confront the central truths of the stolen election, the Wuhan lab source of the COVID pandemic, and the corruption of the Biden crime family. If they can’t even report these stories honestly they are useless and watching them just makes you dumber.


7 posted on 05/03/2021 11:19:45 AM PDT by Dave Wright
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To: QualityMan

Yup, cancel culture works both ways.

Why pay people to lie to you?


8 posted on 05/03/2021 11:19:46 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being played by forces most do not understand)
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To: QualityMan

I am definitely doing my share I have seen every damn rerun of law and order, Golden Girls, Criminal Minds, Hallmark movies haven’t turned on ANY news ONE TIME!! Get the information I need right here, I have been so full of absolute RAGE I just could not deal any longer!! After decades of fighting this BS Trump was my very last hope the utter TRASHING of of him and the slobbering over this SENILE IDIOT had my blood pressure at an unhealthy area!! I just don’t give a damn anymore republicans are the same as democrats AND STILL no new party!! I AM DONE!! BEYOND DONE!!


9 posted on 05/03/2021 11:20:46 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Bigtigermike

I don’t get it. Nobody wants to watch Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, Anderson Cooper et al cheerleading for Biden?


10 posted on 05/03/2021 11:23:08 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: MountainWalker
They should just do a nightly recap of the day's stumbles, brainfreezes and general confusion.


11 posted on 05/03/2021 11:26:28 AM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: MountainWalker

Something really good came out of the Covid-19 pandemic:

“CNN announces it is pulling network from airports’


12 posted on 05/03/2021 11:29:59 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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To: MountainWalker

13 posted on 05/03/2021 11:30:00 AM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: MountainWalker
I make my own videos and post them on YouTube. They're mostly just mindless mocking, but my channel is coming up on 10 million views soon.

Impeachment Farce 2 - The Saga Concludes

14 posted on 05/03/2021 11:30:11 AM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: MountainWalker

Ahhh that’s the reason for the surge at the border. To get more illiterate dumbasses to watch the news! Must be illegals sweeps month.


15 posted on 05/03/2021 11:35:02 AM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian (Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

I have learned, over the last 35 years of studying the creatures on the potomac, to step back from the abyss on a regular basis. It is not a good idea to immerse in it, day after day.

I have stepped back from this particular abyss since Thanksgiving. I have rediscovered many former hobbies and interests in that time.

I, too, get all of my news (what little I get these dayS), from here and OANN..15 minutes over lunch. It is enough to keep me abreast of the major issues.

Take a step back..take a deep breath, and remember..in the end, God wins. It says so in the last book.

Be well, FRiend..


16 posted on 05/03/2021 11:36:18 AM PDT by QualityMan ( I got nuthin...)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Hallmark went woke, so I don’t bother with their
channels except to record ‘When Calls the Heart’.
If you like Law and Order, check out ‘The Closer’ and
‘Major Crimes’ (which was a continuation of The Closer
with some different characters).
I also stopped watching fox and have seen
just about every episode of Law and Order and
Law and Order Criminal Intent.. I do sometimes
catch Greg Kelly’s show on Newsmax.


17 posted on 05/03/2021 12:03:59 PM PDT by psjones (u)
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To: MountainWalker

Loss of advertising revenue will force Soros to dig a bit deeper.


18 posted on 05/03/2021 12:09:34 PM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: QualityMan

Youtuber videos are getting bigger audiences.


19 posted on 05/04/2021 12:25:07 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: minnesota_bound

And that’s mainly cat videos! 🐈🐈🐈


20 posted on 05/04/2021 12:55:17 PM PDT by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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