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5 months agoThe statement was 1% of the US population is watching it on any given night. Some quick searching I found the most-watched cable news show is The Five from Fox News with 3.57M viewership.
335M people in the US, so that number is actually a bit greater than 1% of the entire US population.
- 36% of eligible voters didn’t vote last year(I know this is not equally representative across all ages but I’m trying to keep it back-of-napkin)
- 60+ accounts for 24% of the population (80M people)
335M * 24% * 64% = 51.5M
If the all their viewers are >60, then about 7% of all >60 people who care about politics could be watching that one Fox News show.
That’s not quite 2/5, but it’s still significant! And again, that accounts for only 1 show’s viewership. I couldn’t find easy numbers for how many people watch Fox News in a given day or week.
Sorry, you probably don’t care but your comment made me curious.
Do I win something for achieving it all a few years early?