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The Mark Simone Show

Mark’s Weekend Bonus Segment -- NOT HEARD ON THE RADIO!

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3694 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Mark discusses MSNBC's latest ratings troubles; Trump's lawsuit against 60 Minutes; a possible Steven Colbert lawsuit; Bill Belicheck and his girlfriend; Ed Martin and NewsMax interview interrupted; update with the cause of the helicopter crash weeks ago; Mark Zuckerberg buying Instagram and its value now; Nassau County candidate Bruce Blakeman endorsed by President Trump; Kentucky Derby winner news; NPR and PBS loss of funding.

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Mark Simone here for you podcast listeners. This is the extra bonus segment that we do every

0:07.4

weekend. So, you know, over at MSNBC, big trouble. You know, after the election, ratings

0:14.8

started to plunge for MSNBC. They went way down. They lost like 55, 60 percent of their audience.

0:21.7

Well, in the last week or two, they're losing even more of the audience.

0:25.3

There's another plunge going on, MSNBC, which did not have big ratings anyway.

0:30.0

I mean, it was a tiny audience compared to Fox.

0:33.8

But it's shrinking and shrinking and shrinking.

0:36.5

Now, NBC has spun off MSNBC. They got rid of it. but it's shrinking and shrinking and shrinking now.

0:40.6

NBC has spun off MSNBC.

0:41.5

They got rid of it.

0:43.5

They spun it off into a separate company.

0:46.1

And they can't call it NBC or anything like that.

0:46.7

They're going to call it.

0:49.2

I think the new company is going to be called Vescent.

0:51.8

Whatever the heck that means.

0:54.0

So it's a big problem. Now, the other problem you got is cbs 60 minutes

0:58.3

you know that used to be the biggest show in television there was a time where 50 50 55

1:04.3

million people would watch 60 minutes 40 million people well now they're lucky if it's 2 million

1:10.3

3 million it's shrinking million, 3 million.

1:11.7

It's shrinking.

1:13.4

And as you know, they got caught with all kinds of fake news.

1:16.0

It became the most fake news left-wing slanted, biased show.

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