A reminder to Cable news, 10 times more people watch Network news than you.

[pwb]

All of you. This chart is from 2007 but if you look at the growth over the years it is still mostly the same statistically.

https://www.journalism.org/numbers/cable-news-vs-network-news-viewership/

[MineralMan]

1. Absolutely true.

In fact, I encourage everyone to watch local and national news on their ABC, CBS, or NBC affiliate for an hour in the morning, late afternoon, or at night. It might just surprise you. In aggregate, the poster is correct. 10 times as many people watch that than watch the scarce straight news programming cable news networks.

[Dream Girl]

2. This is pretty outdated the media landscape has changed markedly since 2007

There wasn’t even streaming and social media was nascent back then. Not even smart phones.

[a kennedy]

4. Yah, 2007 is a pretty long time ago......almost 14 years ago. Just saying.....

[pwb]

7. I found this. Same topic.

It could be down but not by that much over this new period.

https://www.journalism.org/fact-sheet/network-news/

[Elessar Zappa]

5. It's still true that network news

gets much more viewers than cable.

[SCantiGOP]

3. I doubt most people under 40

Ever watch network news.

[Dream Girl]

6. Exactly. Some millinials and Xers would even be able to name the networks.

My 21 year old son would have no idea of ABC, CBS, or NBC. He knows MSNBC because I watch it. (He says I shouldn’t watch it because it’s biased.) my hubby watches local news, but he’s 60.

[Mr.Bill]

8. Some Millenials and Xers probably

couldn't name their Congressman or the Senators from their state.

[Dream Girl]

9. Why would you say that???

I work with outlying Millenials and that is certainly not the case. They are well informed and involved at least in my neck of the woods.

[Mr.Bill]

10. The ones in my family

only know what's on Netflix. And I'm not afraid to admit I wasn't very knowlegable in my younger years. The best part of retirement is having time to get involved in all this stuff.

My grandson is 33 and he voted for Trump because he owns 25 guns. That's it. Case closed. He knows nothing else about Trump. He can rebuild a motorcycle blindfolded, though.

I'm glad to hear the ones you know are more astute.

[pstokely]

13. they don't watch network or cable news to begin with

explains all the ads for geezer products on those

[Kaleva]

15. Or cable news

[brooklynite]

11. Since folks here don't seem to like cable OR network news, what's the point?

[AngryOldDem]

12. I'm just about done with it.

The almost-final straw was both MSNBC and CNN casting doubt on the COVID booster. No wonder people don’t know what the hell to believe.

Not been watching a whole lot in the first place because of all the Biden bashing over the past day, but they’re getting pretty insufferable.

Is it ratings season? That’s the only reason I can think of for this bullshit.

[Spider Jerusalem]

14. Network news viewership is down by 5 million since 2006

while the population has increased by 35 million, so overall the viewership of network and cable news combined is less than 10% of the population.

[Kaleva]

16. Fox has far less viewers then CBS, ABC or NBC

http://www.ratingsryan.com/2021/08/news-ratings-week-ending-august-8-2021.html

Combined, the Big Three have about 19 million viewers compared to Fox News Prime's 1.5 million viewers.