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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Dec 29, 2016, 02:10 PM Dec 2016

Trump Was a Boon to Cable News


December 29, 2016By Taegan Goddard

“Presidential politics was stranger than fiction in 2016 and that made it a good year to be in the cable news business. All three major cable news networks had their largest audiences ever, thanks to the drawing power of the nonstop surprises of the 2016 White House campaign that culminated with the election of Donald Trump,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

“Year-end numbers from Nielsen showed that the 21st Century Fox-owned Fox News Channel was the most-watched network in all of cable with an average of 2.43 million viewers in prime time, up 36% over last year. Only the four major broadcast networks had a larger audience.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2016/12/29/trump-boon-cable-news/
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Trump Was a Boon to Cable News (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2016 OP
And they'll keep it up in 2017 and beyond. Every time the COLGATE4 Dec 2016 #1
And that is why cable news gave tRump mega-hours of free air time... Raster Dec 2016 #2

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
1. And they'll keep it up in 2017 and beyond. Every time the
Thu Dec 29, 2016, 02:21 PM
Dec 2016

shitclown opens his yap it'll be on cable 'news' 24/7 whether or not (usually not) he actually says anything. They're not going to let go of the golden-egg goose that easily.

Raster

(20,998 posts)
2. And that is why cable news gave tRump mega-hours of free air time...
Thu Dec 29, 2016, 02:22 PM
Dec 2016

...tRump did NOT have to spend a vast fortune financing his campaign's media expenditures. The media provided their services GRATIS.

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