FOX ran Tucker's show WITHOUT COMMERCIAL BREAKS-because they were afraid audience would CHANNEL SURF

[kpete]

Heather Cox Richardson: “Pundits had speculated before tonight’s televised hearing that it would not make compelling television, but they could not have been more wrong. The Fox News Channel, some of whose personalities were involved in the events surrounding January 6, refused to air the proceedings. Nonetheless, that channel inadvertently proved just how powerful the hearing was when it ran Tucker Carlson’s show without commercial breaks, apparently afraid that if anyone began to channel surf they might be drawn in by the hearing on other channels.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-9-2022?s=r

[pwb]

1. Fox can stay on the air with no commercials at all forever. Cable corporations pay it big time

with your money.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/31/1933075/-If-you-have-cable-you-are-subsidizing-Fox-News-It-might-be-time-to-cut-the-cord-Here-s-how

[underpants]

4. Interesting. Didn't know that. Ailes initially flipped the playbook

He paid something like $50-80 per household to get it on the air. I’ve also read that they paid for wall mounted TVs and paid for cable at restaurants bars etc but the TVs had to be in Fox. They checked too.

Lots of red white and blue graphics and tons of T&A- he knew what he was doing

[Hortensis]

6. Very interesting article, pwb. Options to check into. Thanks.

[kentuck]

2. Why would they do that?

Why would they not want their viewers to see the hearing??

I think we know.

[underpants]

5. Are you kidding?

People were talking bad about Dear Leader. Oh and actual facts. That’s totally counter to their model.

[Cracklin Charlie]

10. Even the fox personalities.

Did Tucker exhort the masses not to change channels during his show?

[Hortensis]

7. :) Right. Anyway, most viewers probably felt they were. Fox's version,

refuting and attacking, doubling down with their "alternative reality," rather than ignoring.

We had Fox recording. Nothing like being an outsider watching Fox then having to spend the next hour looking up "facts" of their conspiracy narratives. Their viewers already have this stuff internalized as truth, and most no doubt find it too reassuring to risk getting angry and upset from switching over to listen to the lies. Know how they feel.

[Auggie]

3. I bet they channel surfed anyway

[woodsprite]

8. I wondering about his normal numbers vs last night vs the hearing. nt

[blm]

11. Same thought.

[inwiththenew]

9. Seems like a waste

I highly doubt anyone who watches him was going to watch the hearings.

[Eyeball_Kid]

12. Someone with knowledge of strategic interventions

will tell FNC viewers to NOT SWITCH to a channel that’s carrying the J6 hearing when the next hearing approaches. “Don’t look! You can’t watch!” Give Trumpers a defiance-based strategic intervention.