Hillary Clinton went on offense against a fusillade of attacks from Donald Trump and his defenders among rightward talk hosts and media outlets, as she took aim specifically at Fox News.
02.02.2022 - 00:03 / deadline.com
The Five finished January as the most watched show among total viewers, as Fox News also saw growth in its 7 PM hour with the debut of Jesse Watters.
Jesse Watters Primetime debuted on Jan. 24 and helped push the hour into the top five among all cable news shows. It drew 3.3 million viewers during its launch week, and 490,000 in the 25-54 demographic, according to Nielsen figures via Fox News. Watters was selected as the permanent host of the hour previously filled by rotating opinion commentators under the umbrella name Fox News Primetime.
Fox News topped the month of January in primetime and total day, in what the network said marked its 20th consecutive year as the number one cable news network in those categories.
All of the cable news networks saw primetime audience erosion versus January 2021, marked by the Capitol siege, another Donald Trump impeachment and the presidential inauguration, but the falloff was much greater for CNN and MSNBC. Both networks saw viewership spikes in January, 2021 with the extraordinary events.
In primetime, Fox News averaged 2.24 million total viewers, down 12% versus a year earlier, compared to 1.15 million for MSNBC, down 56%, and 633,000 for CNN, down 77%. In the 25-54 demo, Fox News topped with 338,000, down 20%, versus 140,000 for CNN, down 82% and 130,000 for MSNBC, off by 73%.
Fox News did see an increase in total day viewers with an average of 1.41 million viewers, up by 4% compared to a year earlier. MSNBC averaged 656,000, down 60%, and CNN posted 493,000, off by 74%. In the 25-54 demo, Fox News averaged 226,000, down 7%, followed by CNN with 101,000, down 81%, and MSNBC with 74,000, down 75%.
Among total viewers, The Five topped with an average of 3.57 million, followed by Tucker
Hillary Clinton went on offense against a fusillade of attacks from Donald Trump and his defenders among rightward talk hosts and media outlets, as she took aim specifically at Fox News.
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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorDavid Crosby and Stephen Stills have joined Neil Young and Graham Nash in asking their labels to remove their collective recordings from Spotify.According to the announcement, in support of stopping harmful misinformation about Covid-19 on Joe Rogan’s Spotify-hosted podcast, the musicians have decided to remove their records from the streaming platform including the recordings of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; Crosby, Stills & Nash and Crosby-Nash, as well as Crosby’s and Stills’ solo projects. Nash has already begun the process to take down his solo recordings.In a unified statement, the band members commented, “We support Neil and we agree with him that there is dangerous disinformation being aired on Spotify’s Joe Rogan podcast. While we always value alternate points of view, knowingly spreading disinformation during this global pandemic has deadly consequences. Until real action is taken to show that a concern for humanity must be balanced with commerce, we don’t want our music – or the music we made together – to be on the same platform.” Reps for Spotify did not immediately respond to Variety‘s request for comment.Following a similar request by Joni Mitchell, the move reunites the five artists, who have been friends and collaborators since the 1960s, in a stance that they certainly could not have imagined 50 years ago.
David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash have issued a statement supporting former bandmate Neil Young in seeking the removal of their music from Spotify in protest of podcaster Joe Rogan.
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Zack Sharf Graham Nash and India Arie are the latest music artists to announce they are following in the footsteps of Neil Young and Joni Mitchell by removing their music from Spotify. Nash said in a statement that he “completely agrees” with his Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young bandmate Neil Young after “having heard the COVID disinformation spread by Joe Rogan on Spotify.” Nash added, “I am requesting that my solo recordings be removed from the service.”While Young, Mitchell and Nash exited Spotify because of Joe Rogan’s podcast spreading COVID misinformation, India Arie noted on Instagram that she is leaving Spotify because of Rogan’s “language about race.”“Neil Young opened a door that I must walk through,” Arie wrote on Instagram.
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