CNN is propped up by airport TV’s and such where the audience is captive.
When I am traveling through an airport and waiting for my next flight rather than watching the Communist News Station I have a good book or my iPad "propped up" in my lap.
I’ll grant the premise of your argument and further there are other perhaps lots of places with permanent CNN locked on.
My question and rebuttle is are such places actually included in the count? I thought Nielson was counted by boxes on site to record and report what was watched when
Then that begs the question.... how is tha count made these days?
Correct ... what would CNN’s “ratings” be if they were eliminated from the airports?
Bingo. I wonder what their actual ratings would be if they did not have the captured audience that CNN has, 24/7.
Every Navy ship I was on, there was only CNN on the mess tvs.
We at least we knew there was a mission coming down when the tvs went dark.
In airports I never see anybody watching those overhead TV screens, and I mean nobody. Everybody is on their phones or their laptops.
Would love to see the split on those numbers. Bet they have them but wont release them.