Nearly 20 million people watched Thursday night's first hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol across broadcast and cable news, according to preliminary ratings figures from Nielsen. Each of the major television news networks pre-empted their regularly scheduled programming on Thursday to show continuous live coverage of the two-hour hearings. ABC took the largest haul of viewers, earning 4.8 million viewers while NBC and CBS carried 3.5 million and 3.3 million, respectively. On cable, MSNBC pulled in a whopping 4.1 million viewers during the hearings, nearly four times what the network averages on a typical weeknight. Usually dominant Fox News Channel came in second place on cable on Thursday night, averaging 3 million viewers from 8 to 10 p.m. CNN came in third place with 2.6 million. Fox took criticism this week for its decision not to air continuous live coverage of the hearings on its main cable channel and pre-empt the regularly scheduled opinion shows featuring hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. Read more. |
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5️⃣ Five takeaways on the Jan. 6 panel's public case against Trump
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The Jan. 6 committee's prime-time hearing was its opening argument in making its public case that former President Trump was at the center of a plot to remain in power. |
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🗳 Trump says Ivanka was 'checked out' on election results |
Former President Trump dinged daughter Ivanka Trump, a former White House adviser, after the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot included her testimony at its first public hearing Thursday night. |
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🗣️ Biden: Jan. 6 hearings important so 'American people understand' |
President Biden is stressing the importance of the House committee hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, warning the same forces that led to the riot are still a threat to U.S. democracy. |
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🏫 Uvalde school police chief didn't think he was in charge |
Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo said in an interview this week he did not consider himself to be the on-scene incident commander during the shooting at Robb Elementary School last month.
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🎓 David Hogg: Attitudes on gun control changing |
Parkland shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg said in a Fox News op-ed that he feels attitudes on gun control are "changing for what feels like the first time" after high-profile mass shootings in the past month. |
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⛽ Biden bashes big oil: 'Exxon made more money than God this year'
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President Biden on Friday called out Exxon for raking in large profits while addressing high inflation and calling on Congress to act to tackle it.
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💊 CDC data detail overlap of substance misuse, psychiatric disorders
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Reports of increased substance use and rising rates of mental health disorders throughout the past few years are nothing new, especially as Americans struggled with the economic and humanistic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. But data the CDC released Friday show to what extent the conditions overlap.
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📈 These products have seen the biggest price increases this year |
Inflation is on the rise, putting a pinch on consumers, unnerving Wall Street and creating heavy political headwinds for President Biden and Democrats in this fall's midterm elections. |
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✈️ Biden nixes Trump design for Air Force One over cost, delay |
President Biden's administration has scrapped former President Trump's red, white and blue design for the new generation of presidential aircraft after an Air Force review suggested it would raise costs and delay the delivery of the new jets. (Via AP) |
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🏈 Commanders fine coach $100,000 for Jan. 6 remarks |
The Washington Commanders team has fined coach Jack Del Rio $100,000 for comments calling the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack a "dust up," comparing it to protests after the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
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Enough: We need gun violence prevention legislation now |
Youth activists across the country share in this message, which is why we are marching this weekend in more than 400 cities," writes Mariah Cooley, a board member of the March For Our Lives Foundation. |
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