News channel trailed NBC and ABC, but edged out CNN, MS Now and CBS in primetime hours on midterm election night
On a midterm election night that was a huge disappointment for Republicans, with Democrats taking control of the US House and Senate, the country’s most prominent conservative television network seemingly felt the brunt of viewer disillusionment with Donald Trump and his party, according to final audience numbers released on Thursday.
The Fox News channel, which often leads among all news networks in viewership on election nights, fell behind two top broadcasters on Tuesday. According to ratings dating from the Nielsen firm, the network averaged 4.3 million total viewers between 8 and 11pm, behind broadcast networks NBC (6.7 million viewers) and ABC (5.2 million viewers), though it edged out fellow cable networks CNN (4.1 million viewers) and MS Now (3.7 million viewers). Fox News handedly defeat CBS News, which attracted just 2.8 million viewers. CNN performed better in the 25-to-54 age demographic prized by advertisers, besting Fox News, MS Now and CBS.
Who the fuck even watches TV anymore?
Isn’t Hasan Piker’s election night strean blowing all these guys out of the water?
Old people. My mom has had directtv for 15 years.
Why watch anyone is what I don’t get, the numbers on the AP news app is the fastest way to see the results. The news channels and that streamer, just get their information from them and yap.
I moved away from the US several years ago and unfortunately grew up in a fox household. On election night/the next day, I found myself seeking out CNN and MSN for the first time in my life. Normally I just do the results, but I wanted to bathe in people finally choosing differently. I wanted to hear the commentary and see their relief and I’m glad that I got to see Rachel Maddow talking about just throwing away trump’s comments.
You’re right. I was watching the results alone on AP, but I kept bouncing here to lemmy and even signed back into my reddit account to read what others were noticing as the votes were being counted. I was wanting the social feedback too.
TIL DirecTV was still a thing.
She’s paying like 250 a month to watch 1 channel. Newsmax.
That is stupid, makes perfect sense, and makes my head hurt.
My mom pays $255 a month for cable TV just so she can watch MS Now. I’ve tried to change her account so she can pay less, but no package other than the “every fucking channel there is” package has MS Now.
I wish my mom was like your mom.
Yeah, my parents’ obsession with politics made it hard to relax around them (they despised trump with a passion but could not stop talking about him). But at least they weren’t conservatives – that shit would have broken me.
Why not YoutubeTV?
Idk. I bought her a chromecast for Christmas years ago. She has the technology. She’s just stubborn and stupid.
I watch local news ota for…local news. I’ll be damned before I watch 24/hr news. That said I’m an elder millennial so ymmv
GenX here. I made that switch (and quit listening to radio as well) around 16 years ago when it dawned on me where it was all headed. Was local only until I just got sick of the constant unending political ads. I can’t take it anymore. I quit television altogether except OTA football on Sunday pretty much. As for local news, all I do now is go to their websites to watch their weather forecasts.
People who aren’t terminally online. It’s a real issue. Piker can’t even approach their reach.
what I’m taking away from this is we need to make a lot more people terminally online. /s
Average age is 69.
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Yeah you keep having that thought of all those fake blonde women fawning over trump
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I sometimes watch conventional ota TV for football and basketball games and SNL.
Old folks are the only ones with cable or satellite these days.