There’s been a whole lotta hoopla revolving around House Speaker Kevin McCarthy giving Tucker Carlson and his team access to over 40,000 hours of January 6th surveillance video, but for a moment let’s focus on what television outlets really care about, and that’s *ratings (*not including CNN).
House Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and others did a lot of promotion for Carlson’s show Tuesday night after begging Fox News execs to pull the plug on his upcoming show after Monday’s program. That, combined with other factors, led to big ratings while the cable nets working hard to guard the preferred narrative were left in the dust:
Cable News Ratings Overload Tue Mar 7
Fox News had more total and 25 to 54 year old demo viewers than MSNBC, CNN, Newsmax & NewsNation combined.
Primetime Average Demo | Total Viewers
1⃣@FoxNews 404,000 | 3,057,000
2⃣@MSNBC 163,667 | 1,494,333
3⃣@CNN 94,333 |… https://t.co/z5GhW3ko6o pic.twitter.com/26EcR9ATen— RoadMN 📈 (@RoadMN) March 8, 2023
CNN hardest hit:
Fox News Scores 6 Times More Viewers Than CNN in Prime Time Tuesday https://t.co/koqOf9UEvZ
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) March 8, 2023
Ouch! But it’s not like CNN isn’t used to it.
Thanks Chuck Schumer! https://t.co/9jkZoml2Qj
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 8, 2023
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Cheney, Kinzinger, Schumer and McConnell did this! 😂 https://t.co/ma0iQKtovo
— Kristi (@TheyCallMeNans) March 8, 2023
Carlson should send them all a gift basket.
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