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Post by billisonboard on Nov 13, 2021 10:51:45 GMT -5
Yes, a well established fact.
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Post by Value Buy on Nov 13, 2021 10:52:58 GMT -5
Open the link and view the data for every hour to compare audience numbers.
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Post by Value Buy on Nov 13, 2021 10:55:09 GMT -5
Yes, a well established fact. Yes. Unfortunately I am told I am in the minority of the nation's actual political makeup. This is a snapshot of how the nation views their own political stance. Far different than the make up of this board forum.
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Post by billisonboard on Nov 13, 2021 11:28:58 GMT -5
Yes, a well established fact. Yes. Unfortunately I am told I am in the minority of the nation's actual political makeup. This is a snapshot of how the nation views their own political stance. Far different than the make up of this board forum. It is a snapshot of television viewing numbers. Nothing more.
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Post by steff on Nov 13, 2021 13:27:48 GMT -5
Why do we care about news ratings? Is it really something that is "bigly" important to the average person? I'd say no, it's only important to one small voting block who has been told it's the be all end all by their orange emperor. They are the only ones still sitting around foaming at the mouth over "ratings". It must soothe their ugly souls or something.
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Post by Value Buy on Nov 13, 2021 13:33:25 GMT -5
Why do we care about news ratings? Is it really something that is "bigly" important to the average person? I'd say no, it's only important to one small voting block who has been told it's the be all end all by their orange emperor. They are the only ones still sitting around foaming at the mouth over "ratings". It must soothe their ugly souls or something. Steff, this is exactly what I said in reply #3 America is well right of most posters here on the forum. Even in the most coveted demographic age group Fox wins. This forum is not the national norm politically speaking
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Post by Value Buy on Nov 13, 2021 13:35:15 GMT -5
I do not want to muck up that thread with politics, unlike you. That thread has been there for years without infighting among posters. Surely you would agree with that.
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Post by Tennesseer on Nov 13, 2021 13:42:39 GMT -5
I do not want to muck up that thread with politics, unlike you. That thread has been there for years without infighting among posters. Surely you would agree with that. You try to make something a current event or political issue when it isn't. This thread is about TV Ratings yet it is in Current events. The other day you tried to make something political when your linked article was all about personal finances and taxes. Stop trying to make purses out of sow ears.
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Post by mollyc on Nov 13, 2021 18:50:28 GMT -5
Maybe but maybe not. Maybe it's just more TV watchers are right of centre. I can't link with my phone but I found info which suggests that only 40some% of people get most of their news from TV. Maybe the answer is more centre of right people still watch TV news versus using other sources.
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Post by billisonboard on Nov 13, 2021 19:45:14 GMT -5
Why do we care about news ratings? Is it really something that is "bigly" important to the average person? I'd say no, it's only important to one small voting block who has been told it's the be all end all by their orange emperor. They are the only ones still sitting around foaming at the mouth over "ratings". It must soothe their ugly souls or something. Steff, this is exactly what I said in reply #3 America is well right of most posters here on the forum. Even in the most coveted demographic age group Fox wins. This forum is not the national norm politically speaking No, that isn't exactly what you said in reply #3.
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Post by Opti on Nov 13, 2021 19:48:09 GMT -5
Why do we care about news ratings? Is it really something that is "bigly" important to the average person? I'd say no, it's only important to one small voting block who has been told it's the be all end all by their orange emperor. They are the only ones still sitting around foaming at the mouth over "ratings". It must soothe their ugly souls or something. Steff, this is exactly what I said in reply #3 America is well right of most posters here on the forum. Even in the most coveted demographic age group Fox wins. This forum is not the national norm politically speaking Are you sure about that? I wouldn't hang my hat on cable news ratings as representative of much except who's viewing what. I don't get those cable channels. I prefer a NJ channel for news and the major channels seems to have news pretty often. Noon, 5PM, 6PM, 11PM and or 10PM depending on the channel. I found the ratings for the big broadcast stations, which no surprise, are higher than any of the cable channels. www.adweek.com/tvnewser/week-of-nov-1-evening-news-ratings-world-news-tonight-continues-winning-streak-but-sees-week-to-week-audience-losses/493555/Live-plus-same-day Nielsen data for the week of Nov. 1, 2021 is in, and ABC World News Tonight with David Muir finished as the No. 1 newscast for the week, not just in average total viewers (8.01 million) but also among adults 25-54 (1.4 million) for the seventh week of the 2021-’22 TV season.
Second-place NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt averaged 6.90 million total viewers, 1.27 million adults 25-54 per original broadcast. Nightly News’ 1.27 million adults 25-54 average is the newscast’s largest in six weeks.
CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell averaged 5.04 million total viewers, which is -4% from previous week, and 913,000 adults 25-54, which is actually +6% from the prior week and the newscast’s largest audience from the measurement in 9 weeks.
This forum is not the norm politically speaking, but I thought that was pretty much a known fact. Many people don't like talking politics for one, and some prefer to do it only once in a while. PM and what predated YMAM probably never approximated anything except the posters currently talking politics on a forum.
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Post by kadee79 on Nov 13, 2021 22:32:03 GMT -5
^^^^Well, if you add all those viewers up for the 3 major networks, it comes out to 19.95 million folks who watched the news last week on those networks...so...how would that compare with the cable networks? Roughly 20 million folks isn't a lot compared to the total population of roughly 333 million folks. I rarely watch either...cable or regular network news. Where does that put me?
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Post by tallguy on Nov 13, 2021 22:37:20 GMT -5
There is an old saying that, "There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics." Even with that being said, it has been a long time since this board has had anyone so dedicated to so often trying to throw mud and score political points with completely bullsh** numbers.
Fox is not the national norm politically speaking either. First, the higher ratings of Fox News compared to MSNBC or CNN means nothing except that more people watch one compared to the others. It says nothing about the country or its political makeup. Cable viewership skews heavily toward older persons. Those 65 and over are two and a half times more likely than those 18-29 to watch cable shows. The better-educated are less likely to watch cable news than the less-educated. Liberals are both less likely to watch cable news and far more likely to gather news from multiple sources. Those are just the first three facts that came to mind as to why Fox ratings would be higher. None of this is surprising. It has been known for a long time.
Second, there was a study done years ago where it was found that those who got their news from Fox News were less-informed than people who watched or read no news whatsoever. Conservatives in general, and Fox viewers in particular, are FAR more disposed to believe untruths than any other group, and Fox management is only too happy to feed it to them because Fox makes a fortune off of those fools.
If you really think that America is a right-leaning nation along with you, why is it conservatives who are so driven to voter suppression efforts and cannot win either a fair election or the popular vote? If the electoral college were not in existence, Republicans may never win the presidency again. And they know it.
On a personal level, I am moderate, independent, socially liberal and fiscally conservative. I have not historically been a fan of either party, but where the Democrats now have some bad ideas, the Republicans no longer have any good ones. The GOP has abandoned every good thing they ever espoused. The only things they truly value now are power, greed, and their various bigotries. The sooner that party dies, the better.
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Post by teen persuasion on Nov 14, 2021 15:16:49 GMT -5
Yes, a well established fact. Yes. Unfortunately I am told I am in the minority of the nation's actual political makeup. This is a snapshot of how the nation views their own political stance. Far different than the make up of this board forum. It's a snapshot of the cable-tv viewing portion of the nation, not the entire nation. That's a subset of the nation. We've never had cable, we watch OTA tv, including Canadian channels. We've also added streaming services for a broader selection of shows. DH also listens to BBC news on a jazz radio station out of TO. There's a lot of stories covered on that station that never makes US news.
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Post by Opti on Nov 14, 2021 15:47:24 GMT -5
Yes. Unfortunately I am told I am in the minority of the nation's actual political makeup. This is a snapshot of how the nation views their own political stance. Far different than the make up of this board forum. It's a snapshot of the cable-tv viewing portion of the nation, not the entire nation. That's a subset of the nation. We've never had cable, we watch OTA tv, including Canadian channels. We've also added streaming services for a broader selection of shows. DH also listens to BBC news on a jazz radio station out of TO. There's a lot of stories covered on that station that never makes US news. Exactly. Many folks must not watch the news on a regular basis. Per Google, this is the number of voters who voted in 2020. Even adding broadcast numbers plus cable numbers we are far from even half of the voters. Apr 12, 2021 · More than 159 million Americans voted in 2020: 159,633,396 to be exact. That’s the largest total voter turnout in U.S. history and the first time more than 140 million people voted.
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Post by djAdvocate on Nov 15, 2021 1:34:45 GMT -5
Yes, a well established fact. Yes. Unfortunately I am told I am in the minority of the nation's actual political makeup. This is a snapshot of how the nation views their own political stance. Far different than the make up of this board forum. one of the reasons I want out of this place.
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Post by djAdvocate on Nov 15, 2021 1:36:08 GMT -5
Yes. Unfortunately I am told I am in the minority of the nation's actual political makeup. This is a snapshot of how the nation views their own political stance. Far different than the make up of this board forum. It's a snapshot of the cable-tv viewing portion of the nation, not the entire nation. That's a subset of the nation.We've never had cable, we watch OTA tv, including Canadian channels. We've also added streaming services for a broader selection of shows. DH also listens to BBC news on a jazz radio station out of TO. There's a lot of stories covered on that station that never makes US news. it is a very minor and increasingly irrelevant portion of the public. I have not watched cable since 1995.
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Post by thyme4change on Nov 16, 2021 9:43:13 GMT -5
Younger people are fleeing cable. The statistics on who watches cable are likely true, but it does not represent the USA as a whole.
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Post by bean29 on Nov 16, 2021 10:11:35 GMT -5
My kids never watch cable (24 and 28). Even when DD lived at home, and we had cable in the house, she never bothered to learn how to tune in cable on the basement TV. She cast HULU or Netflix from her phone or computer to the TV.
My DH and I watch various commentators on MSNBC, and CNN once or twice a week, but we try to keep it to an hour or so - to keep it from taking over our lives. DH commented to me the other day that when he watches the news in the AM he is watching the local Fox news station. He said he does not feel their news is as slanted as the FOX Cable network. Idk if that is true or not, I very rarely have time to watch the news. I do read several newspapers daily mostly USA Today and the Local Paper, but I read others on the internet too.
As far as which board this thread belongs on, I am not one that cares. I tend to read the "New Topics" which puts everything together anyways. Put it wherever you want.
Whether or not you lean republican or democrat, I would not say this conversation had no value, I found the various comments interesting.
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Post by Tennesseer on Nov 16, 2021 17:50:25 GMT -5
No wonder Fox News is so popular with trump's cult members. Tucker Carlson claims Kamala Harris is 'not from this country' because she went to school in CanadaFox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday used a portion of his primetime show to criticize Vice President Kamala Harris, claiming that she's "not from this country" because she went to school in Canada. There's a lot we don't know about Kamala Harris. Most people probably don't know she really grew up in Canada, it's where she went to high school. She's not from this country in that sense, or she's certainly also from Canada," Carlson said. Carlson has raised similar questions about Harris' background in the past — notably attacking her dating history — and has repeatedly mispronounced her name. Carlson's comments on Monday also add to the rumors floated about Harris' nationality. Far-right figures, as well as then-President Donald Trump, repeated racist conspiracy theories about the vice president's eligibility to be on the Democratic ballot last year when she became then-nominee Joe Biden's running mate. Harris is undoubtedly an American. She was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and moved to Montreal, Canada, for her middle- and high school years because her mother, a biologist and cancer researcher, got a job there. She returned to the United States for college at Howard University. Carlson, who's also from San Francisco, attended school outside of the country when he was growing up as well, according to an interview he gave to a Swiss magazine. The conservative commentator told the magazine he was briefly a student at a boarding school in Switzerland before he "got kicked out." Tucker Carlson claims Kamala Harris is 'not from this country' because she went to school in CanadaSays the 'man' who attended school in Switzerland even if "briefly".
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Post by Opti on Nov 16, 2021 18:38:45 GMT -5
Tucker Carlson doesn't get that citizenship thing.
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Post by Tennesseer on Nov 16, 2021 19:22:05 GMT -5
Tucker Carlson doesn't get that citizenship thing. Tucker Carlson plays to his followers' biases and bigotry.
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Post by Opti on Nov 16, 2021 20:24:50 GMT -5
Tucker Carlson doesn't get that citizenship thing. Tucker Carlson plays to his followers' biases and bigotry. Their stupidity.
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Nov 17, 2021 6:58:15 GMT -5
No wonder Fox News is so popular with trump's cult members. Tucker Carlson claims Kamala Harris is 'not from this country' because she went to school in CanadaFox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday used a portion of his primetime show to criticize Vice President Kamala Harris, claiming that she's "not from this country" because she went to school in Canada. There's a lot we don't know about Kamala Harris. Most people probably don't know she really grew up in Canada, it's where she went to high school. She's not from this country in that sense, or she's certainly also from Canada," Carlson said. Carlson has raised similar questions about Harris' background in the past — notably attacking her dating history — and has repeatedly mispronounced her name. Carlson's comments on Monday also add to the rumors floated about Harris' nationality. Far-right figures, as well as then-President Donald Trump, repeated racist conspiracy theories about the vice president's eligibility to be on the Democratic ballot last year when she became then-nominee Joe Biden's running mate. Harris is undoubtedly an American. She was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and moved to Montreal, Canada, for her middle- and high school years because her mother, a biologist and cancer researcher, got a job there. She returned to the United States for college at Howard University. Carlson, who's also from San Francisco, attended school outside of the country when he was growing up as well, according to an interview he gave to a Swiss magazine. The conservative commentator told the magazine he was briefly a student at a boarding school in Switzerland before he "got kicked out." Tucker Carlson claims Kamala Harris is 'not from this country' because she went to school in CanadaSays the 'man' who attended school in Switzerland even if "briefly". What does Carlson say about Ted Cruz who wasn't even born in the US?
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Post by pulmonarymd on Nov 17, 2021 7:00:52 GMT -5
It’s different. He is a white male conservative.
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Nov 17, 2021 7:23:46 GMT -5
It’s different. He is a white male conservative. Is he? He is half cuban I believe. Does that fit the conservative "purity" standards? <sarcasm...lots and lots of sarcasm>
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"Hey, as long as he hates the same people I do, he's good!"
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