I wonder what the demographics are for MSM nightly news broadcasts? (I'm curious, but not curious enough to take the time to look it up). I suspect that most of their viewers are over the age of 50. I can't imagine anyone who knows how to find news on the Internet waiting around for the network talking heads to tell them what the news is at night.
I'm over 50, and haven't watched a network news broadcast for years. The only one that I know who watches them is my 85 year old mother, but that is mainly because she forgets how to use her remote.
I suspect that the only ones that watch the MSM news are the same ones that watch Chris Matthews. Unless you are a socialist, why would you watch it? By the time that the nightly news comes on TV, it is old news. If I were the president of these networks, I would drop these relics and put on something that people would watch. No one needs the nightly news to find out what the news is.