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Ratings Are in for Jan. 6 Committee Production – Opinion

By Pluralist / June 10, 2022

These are the numbers for Jan. 6 Committee production. If we looked at how people were tuning out, it stood to reason it wasn’t going to go well. As anticipated, it didn’t.

So to translate that into something that helps you understand how much it bombed, here’s The Hill’s media guy, Joe Concha noting that this is significantly smaller than the regular newscasts that they run that don’t have the advantage of running in primetime.

“Context: The evening newscasts on CBS, NBC & ABC average anywhere from 18 to 20 million viewers combined on a typical night,” Concha explained. “Those newscasts do not air in primetime. The January 6 hearings airing in primetime Thursday took in just 11+ million viewers on those three same networks.”

According to Newsbusters, “evening newscast audiences on any given night last week were 1.6 times larger than the total number of broadcast viewers who tuned into the hearings on Thursday.” Of course, one of the issues is that it wasn’t “new”; most people have seen most of it and it’s from a year-and-a-half ago. Not to mention that many don’t view it as a legitimate committee, but as a political show trial.

For more contrast, Joe Biden’s “State of the Union” address in March had 38 million viewers. In 2018, President Donald Trump’s first “State of the Union” attracted 45.6 million, in 2019 it was even higher at 46.8 million.

It didn’t go well on CBS, as the Free Beacon explained.

Just 3.24 million people watched the network’s “Capitol Assault Hearings” coverage Thursday night, according to the TV Ratings Guide. Just one week earlier, 3.86 Million people watched CBS’ “Capitol Assault Hearings” coverage. That means an old episode, which is a coming-of age sitcom, tallied roughly 600,000.

For new Young Sheldon episodes, this gap is even greater. More than seven million people, for example, watched the show’s season five finale, titled “A Clogged Pore, a Little Spanish, and the Future,” during CBS’s 8 p.m. slot on Thursday, May 19. Three weeks earlier, 6.9 million people watched a new episode titled, “Uncle Sheldon and a Hormonal Firecracker.”

Now, there were more people on CNN and MSNBC than they might normally have, but that’s preaching to the choir — those are the people who already buy into the Democratic talking points on the matter. So, it doesn’t say much; that’s not achieving the purpose of the political show. For the American independent, the main bellwether will likely be the regular network. But, Fox still beat out CNN, and Fox didn’t even show the hearing.

Let’s just say that it didn’t work out as planned. This didn’t work out as the Democrats had hoped. Most people aren’t interested in seeing a political show. The failures of the current election are being attributed to Biden and the Democrats. They are aware that Democrats have thrown this in as their last hope before the midterms. They are aware that Democrats ridiculed President Donald Trump in 2020 when protesters invaded the White House.

Journalist Andy Ngo has a great thread, and I’m guessing none of the people here are currently being hunted by the FBI or have a dedicated page, despite the organized nature of the riots in 2020. Below are a few highlights from the thread.

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