Since the 2020 election, the slide in ratings for many of the large networks has been particularly acute. The popular programming on these platforms – which includes“Bad Faith ,”“Breaking Points ,”“The Katie Halper Show ,”“The Joe Rogan Experience ,”“The Jimmy Dore Show ,”“Empire Files ,”“Useful Idiots” and“The Realignment Podcast” – are collectively, and sometimes individually, drawing audiences as big as CNN's primetime viewership. Īudiences have instead gravitated toward nascent media makers that got their start on platforms like YouTube, Substack, Spotify and TikTok.
It seems that any hope that legacy media had of recovering audiences was crushed by the recent and rapid collapse of CNN's streaming service, CNN+.įor the past decade, viewers and listeners have gradually been abandoning legacy broadcast media, which refers to news media institutions established before the digital era, such as ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, NPR and NBC.
