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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 24 January 2020

Impeachment trial not ready for broadcast prime time

By DAVID BAUDER New York area showed sci- speaker and didn't allow
AP Media Writer ence programming and reaction shots of senators,
NEW YORK (AP) — The first "Antiques Roadshow" in- only served to accentuate
night of arguments in favor stead of the trial Wednes- Schiff's message.
of President Donald Trump's day evening. PBS said it Meanwhile, Trump was set-
impeachment before the gave its local stations the ting a record for sending
U.S. Senate was judged option to show the trial or out the most tweets in a
not ready for prime time by not. single day since he's been
many of the nation's televi- The calls Wednesday night president.
sion executives. are significant because if For the television networks,
ABC, CBS and NBC all stuck the top networks decided however, prime time is a
with regularly scheduled not to pre-empt program- different animal altogether, In this image from video, House impeachment manager Rep.
programs like "Chicago ming on the first full night with more viewers and ad- Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, speaks during the impeachment trial
Med," "Criminal Minds" and the case against Trump vertising revenue available. against President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol
"Modern Family" Wednes- was laid out, chances are After pulling away from in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020.
day evening instead of they won't reverse course House managers Wednes-
showing the House manag- later unless the unexpect- day evening, Fox News ing the comments "porno- Carlson also interviewed
ers' evening session at the ed happens. personalities spent much of graphic." He said Trump Republican Sen. Josh Haw-
impeachment trial. That Daytime was an intrigu- their time ridiculing the pro- wasn't the only victim of the ley of Missouri, with the
lasted about two hours, 15 ing contrast, since the top ceedings. Fox mostly kept a impeachment trial — sug- host saying Hawley had
minutes. three broadcasters and postage stamp-size picture gesting viewers were, too. "stepped out of the trial" to
CNN and MSNBC carried cable news outlets all car- of the speaker soundlessly He brought on a former Re- talk on television and criti-
the trial in full. Fox News ried Schiff's initial stand at mouthing words in a corner publican congressman to cize House managers. The
Channel, after showing the podium, which lasted of the screen, with an invi- talk about alleged crimes interview was taped during
Rep. Adam Schiff speak more than two hours. tation for viewers to go on- in the Obama administra- the trial's dinner break, a
for about a half hour, inter- It was rare for anyone in line if they wanted to hear tion and Texas Republican Hawley aide said.
rupted for a story about a today's media world to the arguments. Rep. John Ratcliffe to as- Similarly, Fox's Sean Hannity
child support case involv- command full television Fox's Tucker Carlson ran sess the trial. labeled the impeachment
ing former Vice President attention to that extent. clips of TV commentators "Today was really boring trial the "Schumer Schiff
Joe Biden's son Hunter, and The Senate's rules for the on other network person- and the president's de- Sham Show" and attacked
never returned. trial, which required using alities who praised Schiff's fense team is very happy," Schiff for his afternoon
Even two PBS stations in the a single camera on the afternoon speech, call- Ratcliffe said. speech.q