SCOOP: The Little Known Backstory To The "GOP" – Plus: What Makes A Hurricane?
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Jenna Lee
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
We take a closer look at the acronym center-stage for the first presidential debate of the 2024 election season – plus: the storms to watch, and a new way to look at the moon (and why it matters).
0:00 New data shows that for the first time, more content is being consumed through streaming than through cable or broadcast channels. Here's why this matters as we wonder if this trend will continue!
4:33 Storms We're Watching: One historic storm on the West Coast – Tropical Storm Hilary – and one "more typical" storm creeping towards the Texas Coast.
7:26 An update on what's happening in Maui.
13:00 Politics: What we're watching for in the first presidential debate for the Republican Party (which will occur on Wednesday). Plus ~ Why do we use the term "GOP"?
23:18 Also On Wednesday: Whether or not India will land on the south pole of the moon, and why this matters.
25:35: Leaving you with a question!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to Scoop where you get the scoop on this week's news. I'm Jenna, |
| 0:07.3 | and this is Smarter News. And we have a big week of news ahead of us, a lot to talk about. We had the very |
| 0:12.1 | first presidential debate of this presidential election cycle. I can't believe we're here as well, |
| 0:18.7 | but we are. The end of August seems so distant on the horizon, and now suddenly the horizon is right before us. |
| 0:26.1 | And as we get this first debate, we have another one coming in September. |
| 0:28.8 | We're completely off to the races into the presidential cycle of 2024. |
| 0:33.4 | And so it's a big week. |
| 0:34.2 | We have a couple big news stories that I also want to get into the mix and just get you prepped and ready. But before I do, I want to congratulate you on really being a pioneer in the way that we're consuming information. We're so grateful for you at smarter news and for your support. We're trying to build a solution in news, quick and concise and partisan information seamlessly throughout your life. So we actually add value |
| 0:55.3 | to your life when it comes to news and information and headlines and context. And we couldn't do that |
| 1:01.2 | without you. So I wanted to say thank you so much for that. But I also want to show you how you are |
| 1:06.9 | creating a real change, a real disruption in the industry. So we have some new data and this data is out from Nielsen. |
| 1:14.6 | Nielsen is really the only game in town as far as a platform that is measuring who's watching |
| 1:21.3 | what on television. |
| 1:22.8 | So Nielsen data is going to tell me, for example, when I had a show on a cable news channel, it would |
| 1:29.6 | tell me every 15 minutes how many people were watching and what the demographic was. |
| 1:34.0 | It was really powerful information for the network overall because they could see who was |
| 1:39.6 | doing well and who wasn't. |
| 1:41.1 | Sometimes you could also try to see what topics were resonating with the audience, |
| 1:45.2 | what was keeping them watching and what was not. And overall, it would give you an idea of the |
| 1:49.8 | competitive landscape. So, you know, how does your show compare it to other shows? And this is what |
| 1:54.9 | we're seeing in Nielsen for the very first time. We're seeing for the very first time when it |
| 1:59.8 | comes to content being consumed |
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