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A town hall between CBS Editor in Chief Bari Weiss and Erika Kirk stumbled in the ratings, falling far behind Kirk\u2019s appearances on Fox News.<\/p>\n
The heavily-promoted Saturday town hall drew 1.9 million viewers, according to Nielsen data. That represents an 11% decline for the year-to-date average for that hour of 8 pm EST. It also marked a 41% decline in the key demo of 25-54, bringing in 265,000.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t all bad news for CBS. The drawing marked a 32% increase in season-to-date ratings in the time period, as well as a 19% upward shot in the 25-54 demo.<\/p>\n
Kirk drew a much bigger crowd when guest-hosting on Fox News\u2019 The Five<\/a> on Tuesday. That episode drew 3.3 million viewers.<\/p>\n On YouTube, the CBS town hall has drawn<\/a> 107,000 views, as of Tuesday evening. An extended<\/a> town hall has also brought in around 80,000 views.<\/p>\n Weiss promised at the end of the town hall that there would be similar events forthcoming. Weiss took over<\/a> as editor in chief of CBS in October.<\/p>\n \u201cSo stay tuned. More town halls, more debates, more talking about the things that matter,\u201d the former New York Times op-ed writer said.<\/p>\n Kirk took part in the town hall just months after the assassination of her husband, Turning Point USA founder<\/a> Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n During the town hall, Erika Kirk called on pundits like Candace Owens to \u201cstop\u201d spreading conspiracy theories about her husband\u2019s killing. The two have since personally met for what both described as a productive conversation<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cStop. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s all I have to say. Stop,\u201d Kirk said when asked for a message to conspiracy theorists speaking about her husband\u2019s death.<\/p>\n Kirk also spoke about offering forgiveness to her husband\u2019s suspected killer, Tyler Robinson.<\/p>\n \u201cAm I gonna take that moment to say, \u2018Rally the troops, burn the city down, march in the streets?’\u201d she said. \u201cOr am I gonna take that moment and unleash something like we talked about, even greater, more powerful and say, \u2018It\u2019s a revival.\u2019 And let that unleash, and let the Lord use it in ways that no one else could\u2019ve ever imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Bari Weiss\u2019s CBS Erika Kirk Town Hall Falters In the Ratings, Way Behind Kirk\u2019s Fox News Appearances<\/a> first appeared on Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Screenshot A town hall between CBS Editor in Chief Bari Weiss and Erika Kirk stumbled in the ratings,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[135126,49,48,73453,75,77358,24558,93477,152208,348],"class_list":{"0":"post-350191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bari-weiss","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-charlie-kirk","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-erika-kirk","14":"tag-fox-news","15":"tag-town-hall","16":"tag-town-halls","17":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}