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Canadian news organizations don't care, because they're all heavily subsidized by the government, and so essentially state media[1]: > But given the trend in C
by telotortium 4y ago
Canadian news organizations don't care, because they're all heavily subsidized by the government, and so essentially state media[1]:
> But given the trend in Canadian media, I’d guess low Thousands… possibly 10-20k if they do really well, but also quite possibly down into the hundreds some episodes… C-SPAN, a sorta equivalent network, got 440,000 viewers for the 2020 republican convention and 76,000 for the 2020 Democratic convention (Citation)… so divide by 10 for the Canadian population…divide by 2 to 10 again for how exciting a week night of TVO isn’t compared to a 2020 US political convention… and ya a few single digit thousand, or even a few hundred viewers on an off night… that’s what we’d estimate for an Average episode of the Agenda.
> The Agenda was thriving as a property in the Internet age. If anything the internet was a massive boon to it. It went from this obscure regional talk show in Ontario to regularly getting hundreds of thousands of views internationally on YouTube.
> The Agenda had dozens of videos in the 2015-2016 period that got millions of views. One of Jordan Peterson’s more famous appearance on The Agenda got 8.5 million views. for a long form interview!? Those are Joe Rogan numbers!
> How the hell does that happen!? How do you go from Joe Rogan big, to smaller than my hobby Substack?
> Hell How does The Agenda pay the production costs!? As of writing, this substack doesn’t pay for the coffee I drink writing it. (please subscribe) How do they produce a 5 day a week show with multiple full time staff for…
> Oh right my tax dollars.
[1] https://anarchonomicon.substack.com/p/why-is-legacy-media-like-this#:~:text=But%20given%20the,of%20the%20Agenda https://anarchonomicon.substack.com/p/why-is-legacy-media-li....