By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--October 25, 2020
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“President Trump’s rally on Saturday attracted a record-setting audience on TV despite the smaller-than-expected crowd in attendance at the Tulsa, Okla., event. (Fox News) "A whopping 7.7 million total viewers tuned into Fox News from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. EDT during Trump’s remarks, making it the most watched Saturday in the network’s history during that time period, according to early Nielsen data.Notice how they just had to squeeze into their crowing: “despite the smaller-than-expected crowd in attendance at the Tulsa, Okla., event” ?
“Trump’s State of the Union address is the only telecast on Fox News in 2020 to outdraw the 9 p.m. hour of Trump’s speech on Saturday, which averaged 8.2 million total viewers. “By comparison, ESPN’s coverage of the NFL Draft’s opening night averaged 8 million, MSNBC’s most-watched Democratic primary debate averaged 7.7 million and CNN’s most-watched weekday Democratic primary debate averaged 7.4 million.”Hello Fox, quit with the comparisons unless you include independent RSB (Right Side Broadcasting). Conservatives do not watch ESPN, MSNBC and CNN, and more of them are not tuning into you these days. Stats indicate that Cable Television is dying.
“The Trump campaign has stated that even more viewers tuned in when including the significant audience that watched via streaming platforms. (Fox News) “President Trump’s rally in Tulsa attracted over 4 million unique viewers across all of the campaign’s digital media channels. The live-streamed pre-rally shows drew an audience of more than 2.5 million unique viewers by themselves,” Trump 2020 communications director Tim Murtaugh said in a statement.Not everybody watches Trump’s rallies on Fox News, hundreds of thousands watch them live streamed by Right Side Broadcasting, which does a better job than Fox, with RSB’s retinue of enthused amateur journalists—who are the only ones who pan the crowd allowing the audience to see the massive throngs. Braggartly Fox News—like all mainstream and social media will be scrambling to attract viewers and readers in the aftermath of Election 2020 as the unvarnished truth comes streaming out. Part of that truth will be seeing whether the negative-to-Trump election-year polls conducted by Fox News were presenting the truth or laying the groundwork for the election of corrupt Joe Biden in an election campaign environment where everyone only wants to vote for a winner. Election 2020 will show us the truth.
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