[frank ballenger]

After people said to me “no one watches TV news any more so your arguments about them influencing anyone are useless.”-—paraphrase.

Just heard someone from Media Research Center say the regular TV news shows are the number one source of news to form opinions by voters. Number one, despite declines.

Horrifying to think Nicole Williams and Michael Steele on MSNBC sway people.

[CatOwner]

Just heard someone from Media Research Center say the regular TV news shows are the number one source of news to form opinions by voters.

I bet this is especially true with the political apathetic. They don't really care, so they'll tune in to find out the "latest".

[Bob Wills is still the king]

“Just heard someone from Media Research Center say the regular TV news shows are the number one source of news to form opinions by voters. Number one, despite declines.”
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Average daily viewers:

Fox News: 1.4 million (About 2.3 for evening shows)
MSNBC: 800k
CNN: 550-600k

ABC: 8 million (for World News Tonight)
NBC: 6.5 million (NBC Nightly News)
CBS: 4.7 million (CBS Evening News)

The cable ratings are daily viewers. The broadcast channel ratings are for a single news program.

[Luke21]

“Horrifying to think Nicole Williams and Michael Steele on MSNBC sway people.”

Who is Nicole Williams? Do you mean Nicole Wallace?

[Mr. Jeeves]

So Elon needs to counter with X.tv - 24 hour programming available for free through Starlink.