NBC News struggles with significant ratings decline.
NBC News struggles with a significant ratings decline.
Beyond “Today,” which is down about 4 percent in total viewers and about 9 percent in that 25-54 age group, “NBC Nightly News” has declined about 11 percent among those 25-54. Its main rival, ABC’s “World News,” also is down about 8 percent. (CBS’s newscast is up 1 percent.) On Sundays, “Meet the Press” is still the most watched show, but its lead over the second place “Face the Nation” on CBS has shrunk to just 2 percent in total viewers, while “Nation” is now ahead in the 25-54 group. And NBC’s effort to start a newsmagazine, “Rock Center,” led by its chief anchor, Brian Williams, has been greeted with some of the lowest ratings in prime time.
The article cites “talent transitions, weakness in prime time and late night programming, and changes in consumer behaviors” as reasons for this decline. I suggest it might be a loss of creditability. When you fake the news, get caught, and then refuse to clean house, the audience will desert you for more trustworthy sources.
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NBC News struggles with a significant ratings decline.
Beyond “Today,” which is down about 4 percent in total viewers and about 9 percent in that 25-54 age group, “NBC Nightly News” has declined about 11 percent among those 25-54. Its main rival, ABC’s “World News,” also is down about 8 percent. (CBS’s newscast is up 1 percent.) On Sundays, “Meet the Press” is still the most watched show, but its lead over the second place “Face the Nation” on CBS has shrunk to just 2 percent in total viewers, while “Nation” is now ahead in the 25-54 group. And NBC’s effort to start a newsmagazine, “Rock Center,” led by its chief anchor, Brian Williams, has been greeted with some of the lowest ratings in prime time.
The article cites “talent transitions, weakness in prime time and late night programming, and changes in consumer behaviors” as reasons for this decline. I suggest it might be a loss of creditability. When you fake the news, get caught, and then refuse to clean house, the audience will desert you for more trustworthy sources.
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Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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Hows the numbers for FOX news? Up, down or steady?
it is still important to keep track of the fake news i think
Fox hit a target market that was not being served by the liberal media. Fox is upfront about the bias in their commentary but other news organizations not so much. Is there other bias in what stories are selected for coverage and the vocabulary used in covering stories? Sure there is and exposing oneself to Fox makes those biases more clear from other news outfits.
What is the lesson the media sbould be learning? There is an demand in the market for coverage of the news played straight without any left/right bias; it doesn’t exist right now. There is also a demand for a back and forth on political issues where both sides get to make their best case; this also doesn’t exist right now because the panels are all stacked one way or the other. The defenders of the “other” side are often chosen for how poor they will perform. Just looks at Megan McCain and Bob Beckle.
So there is a large untapped market just waiting for a new station to come along or and old one to radically change their institutional biases. CNN is ripe for a shake up but they would have to fire nearly everyone.
It does exist, in my opinion, in PBS’ NewsHour. But most don’t watch because no one is yelling at each other.