EP.8 - Rachel Maddow Ratings hit Year Low, ESPN Says "Get Woke Go Broke," Drops Politics
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🗓️ 22 May 2019
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Rachel Maddow Ratings hit Year Low, ESPN Says "Get Woke Go Broke," Drops Politics
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| 0:00.0 | Rachel Maddow's ratings are at a year low and following the Pete Buttigieg town hall Fox News' |
| 0:06.8 | writings are up 22% over last year CNN's ratings are also fairly bad. Now I'm not doing this |
| 0:14.0 | video to rag on Rachel Maddow specifically. I actually want to make a point about right-wing |
| 0:19.3 | populism and conservatism because for many of you haven't been following there was apparently |
| 0:24.7 | a big upset in Australia where the right-wing party was supposed to lose but ended up winning. |
| 0:30.1 | And so what I want to do is I want to look at the ratings of Rachel Maddow and talk about why |
| 0:34.0 | her ratings were good in the first place, why they're going down and why I think Fox News is going up. |
| 0:39.3 | We have here from TV News or this is Add Weeks Basic Cable Rankings Week of May 13th. |
| 0:45.5 | We can see that Fox News finished the week of May 13th as the most watched Basic Cable Network in |
| 0:50.1 | total day 6am to 6am to 6am marking 19 consecutive weeks at the top of the heap in that day part. |
| 0:58.5 | However Fox News finished number two in prime time behind ESPN. Now there's another |
| 1:04.6 | a big thing that I want to point out and there's a reason I'm reading this. ESPN has just announced |
| 1:09.0 | they're going to stop politics which means a lot of people believe the ratings for ESPN are going |
| 1:14.4 | to go up. This has another really big thing about the culture war for one. Rachel Maddow's ratings |
| 1:19.5 | are going down Fox is going up and ESPN has realized politics are poisonous. People want to watch |
| 1:26.3 | football. They don't want to hear about Donald Trump and weird, you know, French politics. |
| 1:31.2 | Now before we go into the numbers, go to Timcast.com slash donate if you'd like to support my work. |
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| 1:56.0 | So they say the worldwide leader in sports attracted huge audiences for its NBA, Western |
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