{"id":1510823,"date":"2022-06-10T17:04:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T21:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1510823"},"modified":"2022-06-10T17:04:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T21:04:59","slug":"jan-6-committee-pulls-dismal-ratings-in-prime-time-show-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jan-6-committee-pulls-dismal-ratings-in-prime-time-show-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan. 6 Committee Pulls Dismal Ratings In Prime-Time Show Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjan-6-committee-pulls-dismal-ratings-in-prime-time-show-trial%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1510823&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Bennie-Thompson.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Television networks that broadcast the Jan. 6 Committee\u2019s first summer hearing in prime time Thursday night failed to attract more viewers than on a typical weeknight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world is watching what we do here,\u201d Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/09\/us\/bennie-thompsons-opening-statement-jan-6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> in his opening statement. \u201cAmerica has long been expected to be a shining city on a hill, a beacon of hope and freedom, a model for others when we are at our best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thompson\u2019s viewership, however, missed the mark.<\/p>\n<p>According to preliminary ratings figures from Nielsen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/10\/business\/media\/jan-6-hearing-ratings.html?referringSource=articleShare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published<\/a> by The New York Times, more than 19 million tuned in for what was anticipated to be a blockbuster event. While 19 million may seem high at first glance, a look at what cable and broadcast networks typically pull for an average evening reveals Thursday\u2019s viewership as little to brag about, especially when all but one, Fox News, aired the livestream.<\/p>\n<p>ABC News, a former president of which <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/07\/former-abc-news-president-producing-primetime-j6-show-trial-hearings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">produced<\/a> Thursday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/10\/the-j6-inquisition-is-an-obvious-soviet-style-show-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">show trial<\/a>, drew 4.8 million viewers. NBC and CBS each pulled just more than three million. The legacy networks, then, pulled about 11 million viewers combined Thursday night. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/tvnewser\/week-of-may-30-evening-news-ratings-top-rated-world-news-tonight-delivers-year-over-year-growth-in-holiday-shortened-week\/508537\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According<\/a> to AdWeek\u2019s latest analysis of weekly television news ratings for the week of May 30, the broadcast networks\u2019 evening programs collectively averaged nearly 18 million viewers, 7 million more than tuned into Thursday night\u2019s Democrat programming.<\/p>\n<p>Nielsen data <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/pundits-blog\/media\/3519284-nearly-20m-watched-jan-6-hearing-nielsen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published<\/a> by The Hill revealed bumps for CNN and MSNBC which drew 2.6 and 4.1 million viewers respectively. The numbers are major jumps for the struggling networks which now typically struggle to reach an average 1 million viewers for their prime-time lineups. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/tvnewser\/wednesday-june-8-scoreboard-the-five-tucker-carlson-tonight-split-first-place\/508813\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According<\/a> to AdWeek, CNN averaged 555,000 viewers between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Wednesday and MSNBC averaged about 1.2 million. In contrast, Fox News Channel pulled an average of more than 2.8 million Wednesday night between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., and on Thursday, averaged 3 million without carrying the Jan. 6 Committee proceedings as did every other network.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Television networks that broadcast the Jan. 6 Committee\u2019s first summer hearing in prime time Thursday night failed to attract more viewers than on a typical weeknight. \u201cThe world is watching<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}