Joy Reid and Chris Hayes both have now sunk to fewer than 100,000 people watching their shows in prime-time under the age of 55: the only demo that matters to advertisers.
No way to over-state what a complete failure that is: with a huge corporation and cable access behind them.
Meanwhile, CNN — with a gigantic corporation of their own behind them and full national cable access — has been below 1 million total viewers all years (even counting senior citizens) and is falling further and further toward zero. The whole model collapsed nobody watches.
We cut our cable (well, satellite) ten years ago. Saved ourselves a lot of money and have not missed it one bit.
Why should people pay for consumption of biased main stream media?
If people still choose to do so, their critical thinking skills are more necessary than ever before.
Good luck with that.
If you dump bovine excrement on everybody’s front lawn, eventually the smell will cause hostility.
Cant believe that 225k people still watch the hard left Neil Cavuto.
At any rate, we are at the point that ratings do not matter – its the official narrative that matters, and the official narrative is what is pumped out by corporate media and big tech.
They know they are lying and we know they are lying – and as the shit hits the fan hard, more are going to wake up to that fact.
Unfortunately there are a great many Canadians who would turn on their fellow man for an extra bowl of gruel.
Not to worry. A media bailout bill is in the making. I can’t wait to hear the hypocritical and ironic arguments on the House floor of how the bill must pass to assure Freedom of the Press and the necessity to hear all sides of an argument.
Ok, so I just made that up. But, you know they are going to do it. I was shocked it wasn’t part of the infrastructure bill. One thing about political puppeteers…they sure are lazy.
A few days after the Afghanistan debacle unfolded, I clicked on CNN out of morbid curiosity. I was so stunned, I kept it on for about an hour… it was so surreal, as if I were watching actors doing a news version of Orwell’s 1984.
Every talking head, every chyron, every report, hell, even every sentence came across as manipulated to push and protect the government narrative. The word “Pravda” repeatedly sprung to my mind.
Apart from a couple comments blaming Trump for everything, they were too busy spinning to spit any of their usual venom at the right. Maybe that is why I was able watch that long without retching.
Yet there are dummies out there who actually think they know something.
Years ago some friends and I had a local cable show. There was no way of knowing what our ratings were, but this is beginning to cheer me up about our, uh, exclusive, niche market viewership.
And yet they’re still living rent-free in our minds.
I wish I could comment with authority of first hand knowledge but I stopped watching commercial TV back in the early 80s, though I do confess to looking in on major golf and tennis finals when I visit family who do subscribe. I was shocked recently when a “wildfires Climate Change!!” alarmist item came on some news report and I blurted out “that’s bullshit” in front of my former professional chemist brother-in-law (i.e. presumably rationally-oriented in his approach to such matters) and he seemed almost offended that I would say such a crazy thing.
Even if the content was great, no one would be watching tv anymore. It’s an obsolete medium. No matter how many channels you get, there is way more content on line, and you don’t have to organise your time around a broadcasters schedule.
Cable just isn’t available here. We had satellite for a while when the youngest kids were at home, but gave that the chop a dozen years ago because they started dicking us around with price and packaging. We have nothing but an antennae now, but that’s just fine. We get 28 channels… some of them are duplicates. About the only thing we watch are nature/science/current affairs documentaries, but more often than not we’re turning those off because of preachy messages about saving the planet or overcoming our inherent racism and queerphobia.
So we read a lot and walk in the bush and fields quite a bit. And that’s just fine. 🙂
CUT that Cord….
Yep, and so we did – Instant savings of around 130/month.
We initially bought a “MINIX” Android box – Loaded up KODI and were good for a cpl years – WATCHED whatever the hell we wanted to…then the Majors started going after Kodi Developers….and so we switched not only our MINIX (for an NVIDEA Shield – AWESOME..!!), but stream as well & went to STREMIO. (ya have to DL it from the Web – then install and set up your “add-ons” (Dead Easy)
We have U-Tube, Netflix if we want (we dont), Disney if we want (we dont)..and all the other pay-per-view crap…just STREMIO and those U-tube Channels I subscribe to . Fox news, numerous Nikon Camera gurus – lens repair guys etc…and some crazy/fun shit to boot…LOL.
BEST thing of all..??
4.5 yrs of not being subjected to BS Canadian Media Hoe’s spewing their propaganda.
That and the fact TELUS could care less what I do with my 75gB/month….
$1,560 savings. After tax. You might, depending, have to earn $2,500 pre tax to pay that post tax $1,560.
If you are independent small business, clearing 10% gross, you have to do $16,000 in sales.
For what, swirling the bowl, turd TV?
You could once a year take a $500/night nice weekend car trip. First class.
TV is junk.
I watch car repair videos. Guy is pulling 20,000 viewers every day cleaning sparkplugs.
For the most part, Tucker tells the TRUTH, unashamed, unfiltered … straight up. Funny how that kind of truth-telling resonates with the public. Tucker’s TRUTH resonates about 5x as much as comical lies … according to the ratings book.
Sure miss those Canadian Heritage Minutes though. My loss.
If it wasn’t for Laura Secord we’d all be speaking American…hey, wait a minute!!
Can’t say ever seen Hayes or Reid other than on Carlson while he was commenting on the bullshit they come up with.
Ain’t never watched MSNBC
Last time actually watched CNN was when Blitzer and the black guy were hiding under the table in Baghdad.
Watched the spitting guy when Clinton was president, never since.
Well duhhhh. This has been going on for the last 10 years and you are just realizing this now? Where have you been? Under a rock?
Ya, Baghdad @ night, tracers, etc, that was gripping TV
9-11 wtf is going on
Japan tsunami
Justin getting stoned