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The James Comey congressional hearing

When Andy Warhol said that everyone would each get 15 minutes of fame,
he sure didn't have James Comey in mind. This guy has come back for helping #8.
 
Yeah and he's loving every minute of it. This guy has managed to offend all sides of the
political spectrum in this country, which really takes some doing.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
Yeah and he's loving every minute of it. This guy has managed to offend all sides of the
political spectrum in this country, which really takes some doing.
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Curious how one knows what's going on in someone else's head. Perhaps he was simply doing what he felt his duty was. The job (or former job as the case may be) comes with the potential for being in the public eye to varying degrees. It may or may not be something someone particularly enjoys, but handles because it has to be handled.

Side note: I'm on the political spectrum, and he hasn't offended me. I might wonder why things were handled in certain ways, but I also know I'm in no position to understand all of the dynamics at work.
 
http://www.fiercecable.com/broadcas...comey-testimony-while-bbc-leads-facebook-live

Ratings are out for the Comey Senate hearings

In a rare move, the major networks upended their daytime schedules to air live coverage of former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, and it paid off.

ABC, CBS and NBC—along with the three big cable news networks—pulled overnight ratings of 14.3 for the Comey testimony, which began about 10 a.m. EST and ran for about three hours.

According to the Washington Post, the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954, Watergate hearings in 1973, Iran-Contra hearings in 1987, Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings in 1991 and Clinton impeachment hearings in 1998 were the only previous Congressional hearings to be aired live on broadcast television.

While broadcast ratings got a boost from the high-profile testimony, Facebook Live streams of the event also drew big numbers. According to a chart by Delmondo, a social video analytics firm, BBC led the way on the platform by attracting 793,865 total views.

Interestingly, Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Facebook Live stream of the event drew a bigger audience (660,180) than The New York Times (615,630) and Fox News (525,164). Also surprising, Super Deluxe’s psychedelic remix stream on Facebook chalked up 483,000 views, more than the Washington Post (474,661) and ABC News (347,967).


For the networks, the rare daytime ratings blockbuster came after a 2016-2017 season in which both NBC and CBS notched significant ratings wins.

For NBC, it’s a first-place finish in the 18-49 demographic for the third time in the past four years. The broadcaster finished the season with a 2.1 Nielsen live program/same-day time-shifted rating, mostly on pace with what it posted last year, according to MediaPost.

While CBS may have trailed in that demographic, the broadcaster won out in terms of total viewers, with 9.6 million. NBC had 8.1 million, ABC had 6.2 million, Fox had 5.8 million and the CW had 1.8 million.
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Will_H_69_9 said:
enough already kenrayc, we all know you voted for Trump in the election and you are a bleeding heart conservative.

and yes, this is a huge news story related to one of the biggest, if the the biggest presidential scandal since Watergate and the whole Clinton/Lewinsky affair scandal.
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What scandal? This is not a scandal. Only Comey has been involved in "a scandal".
 
Will_H_69_9 said:
enough already kenrayc, we all know you voted for Trump in the election and you are a bleeding heart conservative.

and yes, this is a huge news story related to one of the biggest, if the the biggest presidential scandal since Watergate and the whole Clinton/Lewinsky affair scandal.
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Enough people voted in the places that mattered that he won. Just another day on the media merry-go-round. Somebody must have hit the switch to make it go faster.
 
newsmark said:
Here in Dallas, it's a separate feed although they're almost identical. The only difference is in the lower right of the screen. On CBSN, you see the CBSN logo. On KTVT, you see the transparent CBS eyeball.
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In San Francisco the Fox O&O KTVU is simulcasting the Jeff Sessions Hearing from Fox News. All the San Francisco Network O&O's are using their Network News feeds to carry the Jeff Sessions Congressional hearing. I'm not sure if the rest of the country are doing the same thing specifically stations not owned by the network.

NPR News/Talk stations are airing the hearing via NPR News feed. PBS Newshour is providing the Jeff Sessions Hearing through their Youtube feed.
 
I remember as a kid/teen being angry over the Watergate hearings because of the networks dropping game shows, cartoons, and sitcom reruns. In my adult life I thought it was ridiculous for the networks to be showing other congressional hearings in the place of regular daytime programming, although in most cases I was working and wasn't watching anyway. Now because of the sorry state daytime TV is in I could care less. And in some cases where it's trash talk, courtroom shows, and infomercials being pre-empted, it's probably an improvement. :rolleyes:
 
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