Despite the breathless promotion, the first of several Jan. 6 Committee hearing broadcasts was a rating dud.
During the evening’s most popular time slots, ABC, NBC, and CBC took major hits, as very few people tuned in for the night’s propaganda theater.
According to Cable News Watch, only 4.5 million people watched the hearing on ABC, while NBC and CBC only got roughly 3 million viewers.
The Hill’s Joe Concha said that, on an average night, the networks normally get about 20 million viewers combined; Thursday night’s fiasco reeled in only 11 million.
Meanwhile, a recent Scott Rasmussen National Survey found that only 16 percent of Americans are following the hearing “very closely.”…