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“Lights Out In 7 Years” - CNN Ratings PLUMMET As Cable Giants Face EXTINCTION
13 Feb 2026
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Chapter 1: Why are CNN's ratings declining?
Tom, CNN. Let's go back to CNN. Ratings being down. Can they do anything about it?
Well, they can. And I think if you just go take a look at what's happening at CBS, see, the news divisions have been lost. They've been lost leaders for media companies and the media companies accepted the loss because the people at the top of those media companies were in cahoots with the liberal side of America, the progressive side of America.
Chapter 2: What strategies can CNN implement to recover?
And they were using that as the megaphone to promote progressive liberalism. That's what they were doing. Now, things like CBS are owned by adults who are looking to make a profitable You know, make make CBS profitable. And they are bracing for another round of cuts is what's happening over at CNN. CNN is trapped in this group of cable nets that David Zaslav Zas is going to spin.
If Netflix wins, he's spinning that into a what I believe will be a worthless tracking stock where they will just languish. If the Ellison's and Paramount wins, they want to take the cable nets and they want to make them profitable. And people are scared to death of that because that means CNN will go more toward the center the same way as CBS is leaning toward the center. And it's causing this.
apoplectic seizure that's happening in the progressive movement. So can CNN save itself? Yes, but it's going to be more layoffs and new leadership the same as you're seeing at CBS.
CBS, they are looking in the mirror over at CNN, and they don't like the reflection they're seeing because if they look, instead of let themselves look out the window at what's happening at CBS, they know what's coming. And that's why they're in such a... By the way, if you took Scott Jennings off, what would those ratings be?
It's a good point.
325?
We send a couple of our guys a shout-out to Umberto and Justin to the YouTube event in D.C. And apparently they didn't go to a single meeting. All they did was party and drink and have fun.
He's monitoring toilet flushes.
For the seven minutes that they went to the meeting. For the seven minutes that they went to the meeting. Now, the report we got was phenomenal. But one of the things that a couple of the guys there talked about, he's texting me right now, is the fact that the conversations are that Cable has seven years left.
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Chapter 3: How are media companies adapting to audience shifts?
It's a different market today.
Vinny. It's crazy, though, Pat. It's crazy, though, that our audience and them, that 8%, that 9%, guys, that 9% still can cause an uproar. They could cause riots. They could shut down the... It's still working. Don't get me wrong.
They still get their message out, and there's still a bunch of brainwashed zombies that can't step back, get all the information, and then make a decision based on that and have an opinion on it. The fact that they're not, that 9% isn't giving fact. They're political activists. They want you. to think a certain way because they're getting money from donors.
Thank God for the 92% that we have going on. It's going to stop. But don't sleep on them because that little, little percentage still works, Adam. I still run into a lot of times people are just like, I hate Trump and they hate him. They don't get it.
It is amazing. You watch Harry Enten, Pat. Every night he's got a poll that's like saying exactly this, but they still don't move their position. There's also an age gap, though. Like, people that are watching us are predominantly 50 and under.
This is a good clip to show, Rob. The TV just went off.
People watching mainstream media are 65 and older. They're loading.
Watch this clip here. Go ahead.
Democratic base, right? But what about all Americans, right? How about all voters? Voters who say the Democrats are now too liberal? Look at this percentage. It's 42% in 96, 48% in 2013. Now 58% in 2025 of all voters say that the Democratic Party is too liberal.
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Chapter 4: What does the future hold for cable news?
I mean, can you just show that stat one more time? The 42, 40. Voters. Yeah, 48, 58. Is that all voters? Democrats. Democrats. Are saying the Democrats have become more liberal.
The Democratic Party is basically saying we've gone too woke. Democrats have become more liberal. We've gone too woke.
Yeah.
Yeah. About time. Yeah. So, I mean, the question becomes, what happens next with this, right? That's the question.
A new Faith Over Fear hat is coming soon to a theater near you, but I just wanted to... This morning, I was listening to Billy Graham, which, Pat, you told me to...
listen to him you're like you know vinnie dive in and listen to him so i'm getting ready in the morning i'm just listening to billy graham and he said something that i hadn't heard uh in a while and it was the apostle thomas uh when jesus rose from the dead thomas wasn't there to see the resurrection so thomas goes i'll believe that he rose if i get to put my hands in his wounds and in his side so then he finally sees jesus and and he goes in there he goes god thomas god put your put your hands in here and jesus looks at him he goes because you have seen me
you believe blessed of those who haven't seen me and still believe it in that moment, Tom, it hit me. He's talking about us. Okay. We weren't there. We didn't see Jesus walk. We didn't see him die. We didn't see him rise from the dead, but we believe. And that is faith in real time.
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Chapter 5: How significant is the shift towards podcasts for news consumption?
And he's talking about us. And the last one, you mentioned the story about the Nigeria that we're sending 200 troops, uh, Trump is sending 200 troops. They're saying they're not going to do anything crazy. But think about that. Think about the priests. Think about the parishioners in those churches that were bombed and murdered and slaughtered.
And they were in that church praying and saying, please help. That is faith over fear in real time. And that's what we're about. And that's what the brand is about. And I can't tell you how many people see me with the shirt because the shirt's on the back. and just tap me on the back and go, I'm with you. Or they see this hat and they go, where can I get that hat?
So you can go on vtmerch.com, get the hat. We have the hoodies. We have Here Am I, Send Me, which is Isaiah chapter six, verse eight as well. But yeah, just go to vtmerch.com and pick it up.
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