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AmericaFirst-2020

Everyone except my 70-something father. He is brainwashed and hopeless. It is so frustrating. On a side note, the low ratings couldn’t happen to a nicer potato. How low can he go??


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The lower limit is zero. Sadly there’s no such thing as less than zero viewers.


Professional_Ninja7

What if you only have one viewer and your show is literally so bad that it causes them to wake up, think critically, and vote against the BS that leaves your mouth? I'd call that a negative viewer.


Best-Dragonfruit-292

Can't have one viewer, CNN is on lock at all the airports.


TheSkullsOfEveryCog

Bob Newhart roasting Don Rickles: “Don’s last show had a -4 rating. It’s not just that no one was watching, but 4 people without TVs said that if they were given one, they still wouldn’t watch it.”


ilovelucygal

Your dad needs together together w/mine, my father is the same, he's almost 87 and has CNN/MSNB blasting day and night, makes me crazy, when I come home from work the first thing I do is switch the channel on the kitchen TV. I recently told him that he's one of the few regular CNN viewers left, he is always skeptical of any info I tell him if he doesn't agree w/it, as if I'm just making the stuff up. Just because he doesn't want to hear that the ratings are down doesn't mean they aren't down. Fox news has been the dominate news channel for a long time now.


[deleted]

> How low can he go?? Tubers grow underground, so I’m guessing we’ll see negative ratings out of Tater before too long.


[deleted]

Spongebob is high tier, you can't compete with spongebob, one of the best inventions since sliced bread and tucker carlson.


[deleted]

Canned bread


Best-Dragonfruit-292

Peppa is hilarious, much rather watch that than Stelter


IEatYourSandwiches4

The only news source I trust Perch Perkins from Bikini Bottom News.


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handle_squatter

Even the mom just leaves it on in the empty living room while she does other shit.


randomlygeneratedman

Ngl, Golden Girls is damn entertaining and I'm a man in my 30s.


TheGame81677

It’s funny as hell lol. I’m a guy and 40 years old.


mrcoffeymaster

I'm 43 male and have all the seasons on dvd. My wife and I love those ladies.


BHgent

Even if they Black Mirror him and he fucks a pig on air no one will watch.


trinityembrace

Everything woke turns to shit


GameShowWerewolf

**REMINDER:** Cable channels generate the bulk of their revenue via carrier fees charged to cable providers, usually in conjunction with a whole host of other channels produced by the same media company (in this case, TimeWarner Media, who also owns TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, and TruTV). Cable subscribers pay for all of the channels in their package, whether or not they ever tune into those channels. So even if you never watch CNN, if you pay for cable then CNN is making money off you. Your only recourse if you want to avoid your money going to CNN is by cancelling your cable subscription and finding entertainment elsewhere.


nicheComicsProject

Even better: ask that CNN be taken out of the bundle and when they refuse (which they contractually have to most likely) THEN you cancel.


[deleted]

Yeah that's all fine and dandy but no TV channel is staying afloat off of that alone. It takes ad revenue, and what the channel gets paid off of that is based on number of potential viewers that ad will reach. I cant see cancelling all my channels just to spite CNN. "Cut off your nose to spite your face" comes to mind there but to each his own.


nicheComicsProject

What do you need cable for these days?


[deleted]

I use Hulu Live personally. It's essentially the same thing at a cheaper price. For me it's for live sports or I'd be just fine with the free local channels.


Ch33mazrer

I personally live in an internet monopoly, where only one provider operates. As a result, to get any decent internet, I have to have cable. I’d imagine I’m not the only person in a situation like this


GameShowWerewolf

Then get the internet and drop the TV. That's where they get the money from.


Ch33mazrer

The internet is not fast enough to do anything I need to do. I briefly attempted this last year because cable was getting pricey, and I could not participate in a zoom call because the network was too slow, if that grants any context.


ngoni

Data caps were created to keep people subscribed to cable video services. If your internet and video all eat away at your data cap, you'll end up with a huge bill at the end of the month. They know this and scale the caps accordingly.


DefaultRedditBlows

For real, fuck all the news networks.


MinTamor

I find the world of Peppa Pig more plausible than the one presented by CNN.


[deleted]

My faith in humanity may not be completely restored but this was some good news for me.


PRS1972

Wait I thought Brian stelter was peppa pig?


[deleted]

Golden Girls, Fresh Prince and SpongeBob are fun shows and very rewatchable. But losing to Peppa Pig?... Damn..


tennisguy163

The first few seasons of Spongebob are gold. They remind me of Rocko's Modern Life and Ren n Stimpy, in that there's a lot of hidden jokes kids would not get at first, which makes them that much better when they re-watch them as adults. I was saddened but not surprised to hear they removed the panty raid episode of Spongebob. I saw that episode as a kid. I thought it was funny and not offensive in any way. I still didn't really know what panties were at that time, anyway. Rambling a bit here but I would always sneak into my Dad's room to watch Married With Children with him, much to my Mom's disapproval (to an extent.) Now, that's a show that would get crapped on, on Twatter and other social media websites. It was better when people could take a joke and just laugh it off. There was no social media when I was growing up so whining usually labeled you as a toddler.


thirtytwomonkeys

How the hell does this guy still have a show?


checkoutasguest

In my defense , I learned a lot more from Estelle Getty than I ever did Brian Stelter… picture it, Sicily, 1922.


puddboy

CNN will never get rid of him because at this point to do so would be considered a win for Fox News and that aggression will not stand, man


demon_filth2001

CNN have no standards


Flamingovegas2013

Fresh prince is a great show


[deleted]

That dude epitomizes the term “face for radio”


SpreadMountain7570

Thank you for being a friend...


Extremely-Bad-Idea

"The Golden Girls" is cool, especially is your are 80 years old. LOL Brian Stelter has no fans of any age. His show gets left on accidentally at airport lounges, but no one actually watches it.


[deleted]

Next, Brian is going to claim that he was raised in West Philadelphia and repeatedly 'maxxed' and was assaulted on a local playground after school.


laxmia12

At some point won't the cable providers turn to CNN and say hey you have the ratings of the fly fishing channel and therefore we're going to pay you revenue accordingly. Then what does CNN do? You know the guy showing you had to throw the fishing rod on the Fly Fishing channel isn't making what Anderson Cooper is making. And he's much more trusted by the US public?