{"id":1510904,"date":"2022-06-10T18:05:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T22:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1510904"},"modified":"2022-06-10T18:06:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T22:06:04","slug":"the-world-is-watching-jan-6-hearings-committee-chairman-boasts-americans-ratings-disagree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-world-is-watching-jan-6-hearings-committee-chairman-boasts-americans-ratings-disagree\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The World Is Watching,\u2019 Jan 6 Hearings Committee Chairman Boasts. Americans\u2019 Ratings Disagree."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fthe-world-is-watching-jan-6-hearings-committee-chairman-boasts-americans-ratings-disagree%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=1510904&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--><p>On Thursday night, as the Jan. 6 Committee convened to start their hearings, Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MI) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/09\/us\/bennie-thompsons-opening-statement-jan-6.html\">boasted<\/a>, \u201cThe world is watching what we do here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to preliminary ratings figures from Nielsen, the world might have been watching, but most Americans had better things to do.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times tried to hype the number of people watching the hearings by writing breathlessly, \u201cAn audience of at least 20 million people watched the first prime-time hearing of the House Select Committee\u2019s investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on Thursday night, according to Nielsen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But as <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/10\/j6-committee-pulls-dismal-ratings-in-prime-time-show-trial\/\">The Federalist<\/a> pointed out, that wasn\u2019t much to brag about:<\/p>\n<p><em>According to preliminary ratings figures from Nielsen\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/10\/business\/media\/jan-6-hearing-ratings.html?referringSource=articleShare\">published<\/a>\u00a0by 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The three major networks, CBS, NBC, and ABC, pulled in a total of 11 million viewers. But <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\/\">AdWeek<\/a> noted for the week of May 30 that those networks\u2019 evening programs collectively averaged seven million more viewers than the number on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough the Thursday night figure pales next to presidential debates (63 million to 73 million) or this year\u2019s State of the Union address (38 million), it\u2019s still much larger than the audience that would normally watch a daytime congressional hearing,\u201d The New York Times reluctantly admitted.<\/p>\n<p>The hard-core leftists watching CNN and MSNBC did give them a bump as they drew 2.6 and 4.1 million viewers respectively.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/resistance-porn-ratings-fail-jan-6-committee-hearing-crushed-by-young-sheldon-rerun\/\">The Washington Free Beacon<\/a> pointed out that CBS might have done better had they not bumped a \u201cYoung Sheldon\u201d rerun from its 8 p.m. primetime slot in order to broadcast the hearings.<\/p>\n<p><em>The decision backfired.\u00a0 Just 3.24 million people watched the network\u2019s \u201cCapitol Assault Hearings\u201d coverage Thursday night, according to the TV Ratings Guide. Exactly one week prior, 3.86 million people tuned into CBS to watch a Young Sheldon rerun, meaning an old episode of the coming-of-age sitcom garnered roughly 600,000 more viewers than the inaugural hearing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If CBS had run a new \u201cYoung Sheldon\u201d episode, the gap likely would have grown far greater:<\/p>\n<p><em>That gap is even more pronounced for new Young Sheldon episodes. More than seven million people, for example, watched the show\u2019s season five finale, titled \u201cA Clogged Pore, a Little Spanish, and the Future,\u201d during CBS\u2019s 8 p.m. slot on Thursday, May 19. Three weeks earlier, 6.9 million people watched a new episode titled, \u201cUncle Sheldon and a Hormonal Firecracker.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday night, as the Jan. 6 Committee convened to start their hearings, Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MI) boasted, \u201cThe world is watching what we do here.\u201d According to preliminary ratings figures from Nielsen, the world might have been watching, but most Americans had better things to do. 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