Women’s US World Cup team takes America by storm – set sights on the Capital to use the “special” platform they now own. Really?

Perhaps they were misinformed by the liberal news media obsessing to have them as guests, but as great as the victory in France might be, the high-charged egos might need a bit of humility before they get to the swamp in Washington, DC.

 

So, hold on Women’s World Cup Soccer champions, you were good but not that good when it came to actual television ratings, which mean everything in politics.  You may be receiving the VIP treatment from NYC which was well earned for your play, but your adoration from the liberal television networks and Democrats is a bit over the cliff.

America may not be ready to hand over the keys to the White House just yet, nor can Nancy Pelosi or AOC promise you any action on your causes because they cannot deliver anything without the approval of a Republican Senate and Republican President.

You are the pride of the pitch but do not let the progressive, liberal news media or politicians hoodwink you, they are still far on the outside of power looking in.  I suspect you might be caught up in the adoration which was well deserved for your play on the field but your demands for change have little chance for success without the help of the dastardly GOP.

Here are a few facts regarding the relative power of the performance of the team.

The Netherlands saw record figures, with 5.5 million people, or 88 percent of the viewing public, tuning in to watch their side go down 2-0 to Team USA.

The United States' 2-0 victory over the Netherlands, its second straight title and fourth overall, on Sunday delivered an average of 13.98 million viewers on Fox.

Streaming added an average minute audience of 289,000 (a 400 percent increase over 2015), bringing the total to 14.27 million on Fox Sports platforms. Telemundo added 1.6 million viewers — the most ever for a Women's World Cup match on a Spanish-language network — for a total of 15.87 million on all platforms.

Sunday's broadcast, which aired at 11 a.m. ET/8 a.m. PT, is down considerably (almost ten million) from that of the 2015 final. That match is the most-watched in Women's World Cup history in the U.S. with 25.4 million viewers on all platforms.

The U.S. audience for this year's final is third all-time for Women's World Cup games, behind the 2015 final and the final match of 1999 (18 million).

What does it all mean?

The population of the Netherlands is 17.08 million (2017), which means 32.2% of the nation’s entire population was tuned in.

The population of the US is 327.2 million (2018), which means just 4.2% of the entire US population was tuned in on television.

For comparison purposes, the 2019 Super Bowl drew a TV audience of 98.7 million viewers, which was the smallest audience in eleven years.  Still it was seven times more than the World Cup finals.

As for the President you seem inclined to reject, Donald Trump’s inauguration ratings were the second-highest in 36 years, according to Nielsen.  The swearing-in of the 45th president in 2017 was seen by 30.6 million viewers.

Even more ominous, the President’s State of the Union address - TV Ratings: 46.8 million watched Trump’s 2019 State of the Union, up slightly from 46.79 million in 2018.

Soccer team appearances on Rachel Maddow (MSNBC) and CNN, the liberal bastions of cable news, might not help much.  The June ratings tell the truth.

    

As for the Top 5 cable news shows, June was a lot like last year, with the exception of Tucker Carlson moving up to the second slot previously held by Dems debate co-moderator Rachel Maddow. Other than Tucker’s uptick, everyone else in the Top 5 took a little hit, with the final tally being Hannity - Fox (3.2 million), Tucker Carlson Tonight - Fox (2.8 million), The Rachel Maddow Show - MSNBC (2.5 million), The Ingraham Angle - Fox (2.4 million) and The Five - Fox (2.3 million).

Then there was lowly CNN.  Down 18% in both total day and primetime viewership from Q2 2018, not a single one of the Warner Media-owned net’s shows made it into the cable news Top 20. Cuomo Prime Time was the most watched CNN show, sitting at No. 25 among cable news offerings.

Did I mention Trump got over 62 million votes for president and has 61 million followers on Twitter?  That is reality.  That is the truth.

Election Eve News - Fox continues to crush liberal media in latest Nielsen results. Trump trumps Mainstream Media Whiners

Trump praises Fox News for 'fair' coverage as channel's

ratings soar, beating CNN and MSNBC combined

Once again, the liberal media failed to destroy President Trump with their 93% negative media coverage, a fact he has grown to exploit.  Wolf has just been crying wolf too long to excite anyone anymore.  Why would anybody believe the media?

Overall for October, Fox averaged 2.8 million total viewers in prime time while MSNBC got 1.58 million and CNN 931,000, according to Nielsen Media Research.

Donald Trump expressed great satisfaction that Fox News crushed the liberal opposition in the latest ratings noting that the fake news gang just do not get it.  Trump's favorable rating has soared to 50, or 54, or maybe 69 percent, I mean, who is counting?

In the latest cable news ratings for the month of October, Fox News achieved higher ratings than MSNBC and CNN combined.

Overall for October, Fox averaged 2.8 million total viewers in prime time while MSNBC got 1.58 million and CNN 931,000, according to Nielsen Media Research.

The president took to Twitter to react to the latest ratings.

It is time for my Midterm prediction. Liberals, progressives, and news media may want to unpack the Prozac - Trump Trumps or gets Trumped?

Trump Trumps or gets Trumped?

It is time to put aside all fear, stop worrying about being wrong, and make my picks for the Midterm Election results.  I note with amusement my liberal friends and the Main Street Media have adopted the position that in projecting the results never commit to anything specific.  Thus, they hold to the belief that “it could go either way” and assume we are fools enough to think they actually picked a winner.

If I had their dismal record in picking winners and losers I guess I would be gun shy as well but I do not nor am I afraid to go on the record.  What good is writing about politics and not picking winners?  No one expects predictions to be right and those wrong will just deny it by saying their words were simply misunderstood.

My belief is neither party will be the winner, nor will the news media, for the only winner will be that dastardly Trump again.  Only a fool like Trump would have the gall to hijack the Midterm election and make it a referendum on himself.

For once again standing alone while the rest of the world goes the other way, Trump will Trump in my opinion.

 

While the margin in the House may be close, the Republicans will maintain the majority of seats and control the House.

In the Senate the fruits of Trump’s efforts will also pay off as I expect the final count will reflect an increase in GOP seats from 51 to 54 or 55.

Why do I think that way?

First, the Democrats, pollsters, and news media continue to use faulty methodology for polling as they do not understand how to account for the 43% of the population who are registered as Independents.  They are underrepresented in most all polls, do not like Trump's demeanor or attitude, do like Trumps delivery on campaign promises, and really like his Drain the Swamp attack.  These people know better than to trust any politician, political party, or member of the news media.  Results dictate how they will vote, not promises, personalities nor power.  At a minimum they can make a 4-5% difference in the actual vote.

Second, they fail to understand the bond Trump has made directly to the people.  Since day one of his political career he has rejected the notion that politics is good, effective, honest or sincere.  Trump always speaks directly to people, either in the audience or at the other end of the television broadcast.  As long as he maintains this direct connection, of which Twitter and pop up news conferences are tools, he can ignore the constant media efforts to direct the national agenda and try to influence public opinion in a liberal direction.

My predictions are most likely going to raise the fear and dread in the news media.  They might shock the Democrats as well but long ago they lost their emotional connection to the people.  Stress levels will be way up and sales of the anti-depressive drug Prozac should spike when the realization settles in that Trump’s victory is not at all about the Midterm, he has just laid the groundwork for the 2020 general election.

If the Russia Collusion investigation fades away with no convictions of Trump insiders, which there will not be, the Prozac intake may increase.  Add to that Trump being positioned to greatly increase his agenda and you can count on a new health care system, (note neither party has offered an alternative to Obamacare), and trade deals with China and other nations will make Trump unbeatable in 2020.

For all those who spent the last two years trashing the President and trying to make life miserable for him, you may need a lot more than Prozac to get through the next six years.  Should that happen the promised Blue Wave may become the Red Sea.  If I am right I hope you learn the lesson that when anyone tries to tell the people who or what they need, you have become expendable to the public.  It is time to hit the Delete button and move on.

   

Nielsen Ratings week of January 22 including Trump Inaugural Activities

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This week’s cable ratings

January 25, 2017

In cable ratings for the week ended Jan. 22:

Top five networks in primetime (18-49s): TBS, USA, TNT, Fox News Channel, Discovery Channel.

Top five networks in primetime (total viewers): Fox News Channel, CNN, HGTV, USA, Discovery Channel.

Top five total-day networks (total viewers): Fox News Channel, Nickelodeon, CNN, Disney Channel, HGTV.

Top cable news networks in primetime (total viewers): Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, HLN, CNBC, FBN.

Top cable news programs (total viewers): 1. Fox News Channel’s “AEHQ: Inauguration 2017” (Friday 12 p.m.); 2. Fox News Channel’s “AEHQ: Inauguration 2017” (Friday 11 a.m.); 3. Fox News Channel’s “AEHQ: Inauguration 2017” (Friday 4 p.m.); 4. Fox News Channel’s “AEHQ: Inauguration 2017” (Friday 1 p.m.); 5. Fox News Channel’s “The Five” (Friday, 5 p.m.)

Top movie (total viewers): Nickelodeon’s “Rufus 2,” (Monday, 7 p.m.) 2.88 million.

Top sporting event (total viewers): TNT’s “NBA Basketball: Cleveland/Golden State” (Monday, 8 p.m.) 4.53 million.

Show on the rise: Discovery Channel’s “Alaskan Bush People,” Wednesday, 9 p.m. The reality show was one of very few programs to show week-to-week gains, rising 8 percent among total viewers to 3.22 million.

Show on the decline: FX’s “Taboo,” Tuesday, 10 p.m. The drama’s second episode averaged 1.84 million total viewers, down 39 percent from 1.12 million for the previous week’s premiere.

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CNN Bad Boys not content trashing Trump - they decide to Assassinate the entire Trump Administration

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As CNN continues to flounder far, far behind Fox News in viewership, the network seems to be facing a reality check knowing that Trump helped them to the highest ratings in years in 2016,  but with Trump now settled in office, CNN no longer has access to the Golden Goose of TV ratings.

Trump has already demonstrated his extreme disdain of CNN by refusing to take a question from a CNN reporter at his only news conference since getting elected.  Fear not, while throwing bad taste and sheer idiocy to the wind, the CNN producers decided if they could not stop Trump from being elected, and they could not stop Trump from being certified as winner, they might as well kill him off.

So the following program was aired on the eve of the Trump inaugural in one of the worst examples of journalistic lack of ethics and integrity, and poorest taste on behalf of a radicalized cable television network, in television history.

If CNN ran the same program on the eve of the Obama inaugural in 2009, the entire network would have been in jail for civil rights violations, bias, and perpetrating HATE crimes, before being crucified in the court of public opinion by the progressive radicals.

In today's age of ethical violations and lack of journalistic standards, no other member of the Establishment Media even bothered to note the ill-timed effort for last ditch ratings by a quite desperate cable news network.

CNN Wonders About Trump, Pence Assassination Leaving Obama Administration in Charge

BY RICK MORAN JANUARY 19, 2017

Bizarre, incredible, irresponsible, shocking -- you could run out of adjectives describing this CNN segment before you exhausted your outrage.

Apparently, the network thought that, in the interest of informing the public, they should posit a scenario where Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Speaker Paul Ryan, and President Pro Tempore of the Senate Orin Hatch, would all be assassinated before 12 noon on inauguration day.

Since no Trump cabinet members have been confirmed, the presidency would go to the highest ranking Obama administration cabinet member left alive.

Isn't that fascinating?

Washington Free Beacon:

“On the day of the inauguration, as a precaution, a Cabinet secretary called the designated presidential successor will not attend the inauguration, ready to step in if something happens,” Todd said. “But, it won’t be a Trump Cabinet secretary, since none of them have been confirmed yet. It will be an Obama appointee.”

He said there was “no word from the White House on who that will be.”

Todd then asked an expert if the line of succession switches to the new presidency at noon.

The former director of the Continuity of Government Commission, John Fortier, explained that there are two lines of succession, one that is already in place and one that will not be in place until the inauguration is over.

” … And one which really won’t be in place until Donald Trump is inaugurated, comes into office, and actually formally nominates and the Senate confirms his people,” Fortier said. “You might actually end up with a president from the prior administration because of a tragedy.”

Since Secretary of State John Kerry will be officially out of office on Friday by noon, and Rex Tillerson, Trump’s nominee to head the State Department, will not be confirmed by then, the person to take over the position could be Obama appointee Tom Shannon, the undersecretary for political affairs.

He is the highest ranking non-political official.

Todd said Former Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman was the designated survivor during one of Bill Clinton’s State of the Union addresses.

“In 1997, during an address by President Clinton to Congress, he [Glickman] was the designated survivor,” Todd said.” He left Washington and went to his daughter’s apartment in Manhattan but he wasn’t alone. The role is a serious one and he says he was accompanied by a doctor, a military officer with access to the nuclear codes, and the Secret Service.”

Question: If Fox News had run a similar segment on January 19, 2009, the reaction of Democrats and the media would have been ....(fill in the blank)?

What was the purpose of this little exercise in Constitutional impossibilities? There's a better chance that President Obama will appear before the press tomorrow morning and apologize for being such a royal screwup as president than there is that the Republican leaders in government will all go down in a hail of bullets or a massive bomb blast before noon..  This is a daydream by desperate, stupid people who have convinced themselves that the end times are upon us because Donald Trump is going to be president of the United States. They have talked themselves into hysteria because, of course, all their friends are hysterical about Trump and this reinforcing feedback loop gives certainty to their delusions.

Are they ever going to snap out of it?  Or are we doomed to being treated to four years of every move Trump makes being a step toward fascism or Armageddon depending on the issue and the day of the week?

Hopefully, the press will lose interest and eventually move on to playing up a more conventional GOP hate. Meanwhile, pop some popcorn, sit back, and enjoy watching the meltdown. 
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Fox News Tucker Carlson new Darling of News Media

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Tucker Carlson’s First Two Weeks In Primetime Outstrip Megyn Kelly On FNC

by Lisa de Moraes

January 24, 2017 10:03am

Two full weeks into hosting Fox News Channel’s 9 PM timeslot, Tucker Carlson is averaging 3.7 million viewers, 775,000 of them in the 25-54 news demo, topping CNN and MSNBC in both metrics.

Tucker Carlson Tonight’s numbers also are 37% higher in viewers and up 50% in the news demo compared with the 2016 average of Megyn Kelly’s The Kelly File in the 9 PM slot. Compared with Kelly’s performance in the same two weeks last year, Carson is up 95% in the demo and 46% in overall audience. That said, the same two weeks last year did not include Donald Trump’s inauguration. But Carlson’s numbers seem to make the point that FNC has managed to transition the timeslot after Kelly’s very dramatic tenure and departure for NBC News without seeming to miss a beat.

Against Carlson’s two-week average, CNN’s various programs logged 2M viewers and 633K news demo viewers, while MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show logged 2.01M total viewers and 417K news demo viewers.

Last week, January 16-22, FNC again dominated all basic cable networks in both total viewers and in the news demographic in primetime (3.92M, 840K)  and total day (2.48M, 522K). The week of Trump’s inauguration marked FNC’s  highest-rated week since the 2016 election.

CNN (1.77M) was basic cable’s second-most watched network in primetime, ahead of HGTV (1.65M), USA (1.53M) and Discovery (1.5M).

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Cable News Slugfest Ratings for Third Quarter - Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC Duke it Out!

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Top 21 Cable News Shows, Ranked: What are the Most Popular CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Programs? (Photos)

Find out who is the most watched among Rachel Maddow, Anderson Cooper and Megyn Kelly

Brian Flood, provided by
Published 9:50 am, Sunday, October 2, 2016

Fox News, CNN and MSNBC had a lot of news to cover during the busy third quarter of 2016. Morning shows, standard newscasts and political opinion shows make up the Top 21 programs in the world of cable news. Which show was the most popular among the key demo of adults age 25-54 during Q3?

21. MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews” averaged 244,000 viewers among the key news demo.

20. “Happening Now” on Fox News averaged 260,000 demo viewers during the third quarter.

19. “Your World with Neil Cavuto” maintained momentum despite its namesake missing the summer following heart surgery.

18. CNN’s “Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer” averaged 275,00 viewers among the key demo.

17. MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes” tied Blitzer with 275,000 demo viewers.

16. “Fox & Friends” averaged 278,000 to dominate cable morning news programs among the demo. MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and CNN’s “New Day” finished below 200,000 viewers.

15. “Shepard Smith Reporting” tied Fox News’ “Outnumbered” by averaging 284,000 viewers between age 25-54.

14. Fox News’ “Outnumbered” is extremely popular considering its noon ET time slot, averaging 284,000 viewers.

13. “America’s Newsroom” with Martha MacCallum and Bill Hemmer fell short of the 300,000-plateau with 294,000 demo viewers.

12. MSNBC’s “Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell”averaged 301,000 viewers to finish as the second-most popular show on MSNBC.

11. “Erin Burnett OutFront” averaged 326,000 viewers among the key demo to finish as CNN’s third-most watched show.

10. “CNN Tonight with Don Lemon” cracks the Top 10 with 339,000 viewers among the key demo.

9. The late-night replay of “The O’Reilly Factor” racked up 341,000 average viewers, topping most live shows on cable.

8. MSNBC’s most-watched program is “The Rachel Maddow Show” with 361,000 demo viewers.

7. “On the Record with Brit Hume” has thrived since Greta Van Susteren surprised the media world by leaving Fox News in early September, averaging 371,000 viewers in the third quarter that reflects both hosts.

6. Fox News’ “The Five” is regularly among the most-watched shows on cable and also averaged 371,000 demo viewers.

5. CNN’s most-watched show is Anderson Cooper’s “AC 360,” which averaged 384,000 demo viewers.

4. “Special Report with Bret Baier” is so popular that Fox News recently added a Sunday version.

3. “The O’Reilly Factor” with Bill O’Reilly dominated total viewers, but finished behind two colleagues in the key demo.

2. Fox News’ “Hannity” with Sean Hannity averaged 564,000 viewers in the key demo as the Donald Trump supporter continues to make news on a regular basis.

1.Megyn Kelly has plenty to smile about, finishing the third quarter as the most-watched show on cable news among the key demo, averaging 569,000 viewers between age 25-54.

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