The Weekend grew 41 percent and 47 percent in total audience (along with 41 percent and 37 percent in adults 25-54) on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.
Both can get more attention in the marketplace by doing things differently, generate positive energy, and most importantly, generate legitimate content people might actually want to see and hear.
With radio, the top of the hour always begins with a self-aggrandizing, overly-produced introduction to a program I may have been listening to for half an hour already.
Although CNN drew 690,000 in the 2 p.m. hour, it was the only major cable news outlet to grow within the same Friday timeslot compared to its previous five Fridays.
Talk radio and other traditional media are constantly exploited by slick professional manipulators of public opinion who operate at every level of political influence from the White House Press Secretary down to your local school district’s media department.