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Among the many things that have been unkind to Democrats lately, polls seem to be chief among them. Back in January, we reported that poll shows that only one-third of Americans approve of a president whom were are told got 81 million votes — the most in the history of U.S. elections. At that time, we reported that 55% of Americans did not approve of Biden’s response to the coronavirus situation. Well, now the unforgiving figure of the polls are being pointed at Democrat-minded mainstream media.
NBC’s Chuck Todd got the news earlier when it was revealed that his show Meet The Press has just had its worst ratings since he took over the Sunday show. In fact, a leading television commentator stated that “This does not augur well for Chuck,” He went on to say that “Chuck lost his gig at MSNBC and the guise that he’d rather leave MSNBC completely and focus on Meet the Press on Sunday.”
“But when you are focusing on the Sunday show and it is in freefall, perhaps you have to consider whether it is you and not the show itself that is driving viewers away.”
“NBC News Chairman Cesar Conde must really be concerned. This is like David Gregory all over again.”
Radaronline went on to report that:
“In top-secret ratings data that has caught the attention of network brass, RadarOnline.com has learned Meet The Press — the longest running show in television history — recorded its lowest rated quarter over the April-May-June period.
“Todd peaked at more than 4 million viewers in the first quarter of 2017 (January-February-March) in the midst of Donald Trump’s presidency.
“But in recent Nielsen Media Research ratings, the magic number faded to a paltry 2.4 million — shaving off a third of the notoriously goateed anchor’s audience.
“Making matters even worse for the Peacock network and its executive, Todd has also been in ratings free fall with viewers in the younger A25-54 demo.”
NBS issued a statement when they moved Todd’s daily show on MSNBC to streaming only:
“Building on its position as the nation’s fastest-growing streaming news network, NBC News NOW will add new anchors and original shows to its lineup of daily programming.”
It was further reported that Chuck was one of the first broadcast anchors to see the massive potential of streaming and bringing Meet the Press’s daily franchise to NBC News NOW reinforces the platform’s status as the destination for news on streaming.”
As the #1 ranked Sunday public affairs show, Meet the Press remains the gold standard in political journalism.
Todd, who serves as NBC News’ political director in addition to moderating the Sunday program, has led a rapid expansion of the Meet the Press brand across broadcast, audio, newsletters, and streaming, and Meet the Press NOW advances the team’s early commitment to News NOW, where Todd has anchored Meet the Press Reports — which takes an in-depth look at one hot-button issue each week — for four seasons.
The far reaching effects of low ratings seem to have permeated other legacy networks as well. We reported around this time last year that the dreaded and risible figure of Brian Stelter of, of course, CNN fame had an appearance on alleged comedian Stephen Colbert’s show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
In the wake of the at the time fresh allegations of sexual assault that were leveled and later proven true against CNN cohort, Chris Cuomo’s brother, Andrew, the ratings… well… weren’t good. Brian Stelter’s segment was the least-watched segment of the night on CBS.
One wonders how much more of these ratings debacles the purveyors of the main stream media can suffer through.
