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Nearly 20M watched Jan. 6 hearing: Nielsen
« on: June 10, 2022, 08:09:57 pm »
 Nearly 20M watched Jan. 6 hearing: Nielsen
by Dominick Mastrangelo - 06/10/22 3:14 PM ET

Nearly 20 million people watched Thursday night’s first hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol across broadcast and cable news, according to preliminary ratings figures from Nielsen.

Each of the major television news networks pre-empted their regularly scheduled programming on Thursday to show continuous live coverage of the two-hour hearings.

ABC took the largest haul of viewers, earning 4.8 million viewers while NBC and CBS carried 3.5 million and 3.3 million, respectively.

On cable, MSNBC pulled in a whopping 4.1 million viewers during the hearings, nearly four times what the network averages on a typical weeknight.

Usually dominant Fox News Channel came in second place on cable on Thursday night, averaging 3 million viewers from 8 to 10 p.m. CNN came in third place with 2.6 million.

Fox took criticism this week for its decision not to air continuous live coverage of the hearings on its main cable channel and pre-empt the regularly scheduled opinion shows featuring hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham.

Instead, Fox relegated live coverage of the hearings to Fox Business Network, which ratings figures show pulled in 223,000 viewers from 8 to 10 p.m. Fox also provided its live coverage on its various streaming platforms and made it available to its affiliate stations across the country.

Friday’s preliminary figures are likely to grow and do not include viewers who watched the hearing via streaming service online like YouTubeTV and other platforms.

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Re: Nearly 20M watched Jan. 6 hearing: Nielsen
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2022, 08:13:04 pm »
Everyone gawks at fatal car crashes too.
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Re: Nearly 20M watched Jan. 6 hearing: Nielsen
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2022, 08:18:24 pm »
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Everyone gawks at fatal car crashes too.

Joe is his own car wreck.
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Re: Nearly 20M watched Jan. 6 hearing: Nielsen
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2022, 10:15:38 pm »
Keep in mind 33 million watched Biden's last SOTU debacle....

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TV RATINGS: Jan 6th Committee primetime hearing watched by over 19m viewers, early numbers show:
1. ABC 4.88m
2. MSNBC 4.16m
3. NBC 3.56m
4. CBS 3.37m
5. Fox News 2.83m (normal shows)
6. CNN 2.62m
7. Fox Business 223,128
8. CNBC 158,439
9. Newsmax 137,268https://t.co/uGxgqHL0GX— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) June 10, 2022



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Re: Nearly 20M watched Jan. 6 hearing: Nielsen
« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2022, 11:27:23 pm »
I'm glad I very rarely watch TV.
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Re: Nearly 20M watched Jan. 6 hearing: Nielsen
« Reply #5 on: June 10, 2022, 11:34:38 pm »
About one fifth of the M*A*S*H finale viewers.
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Re: Nearly 20M watched Jan. 6 hearing: Nielsen
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2022, 01:09:18 pm »
Trainwreck: Ratings Are in for Jan. 6 Committee Production
By Nick Arama | Jun 10, 2022 8:15 PM ET

The numbers are in for the Jan. 6 Committee production. If we looked at how people were tuning out, it stood to reason it wasn’t going to go well. As anticipated, it didn’t.


https://twitter.com/CableNewsWatch/status/1535297304931999744

So to translate that into something that helps you understand how much it bombed, here’s The Hill’s media guy, Joe Concha noting that this is significantly smaller than the regular newscasts that they run that don’t have the advantage of running in primetime.


https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1535299526508130305

“Context: The evening newscasts on CBS, NBC & ABC average anywhere from 18 to 20 million viewers combined on a typical night,” Concha explained. “Those newscasts do not air in primetime. The January 6 hearings airing in primetime Thursday took in just 11+ million viewers on those three same networks.”

According to Newsbusters, “evening newscast audiences on any given night last week were 1.6 times larger than the total number of broadcast viewers who tuned into the hearings on Thursday.” Of course, one of the issues is that it wasn’t “new”; most people have seen most of it and it’s from a year-and-a-half ago. Not to mention that many don’t view it as a legitimate committee, but as a political show trial.

For more contrast, Joe Biden’s “State of the Union” address in March had 38 million viewers. In 2018, President Donald Trump’s first “State of the Union” attracted 45.6 million, in 2019 it was even higher at 46.8 million.

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https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/06/10/trainwreck-ratings-are-in-for-jan-6-committee-production-n577240
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Re: Nearly 20M watched Jan. 6 hearing: Nielsen
« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2022, 02:58:13 pm »
Quote from: rustynail on June 10, 2022, 11:34:38 pm
About one fifth of the M*A*S*H finale viewers.

And that took place when the US population was considerably lower.
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