Joey Concha, the ersatz “media reporter” for TheHill, made a hilariously wrong prediction Monday relating to the ratings of the first day of the Democratic National Convention.
Concha, who had a media review show on New York radio canceled earlier this year, spent Tuesday morning on “Fox & Friends” predicting a sharp decline in viewership for the opening night of the Convention.
“I get that we’re in a pandemic and it can’t be like a normal convention but this made a PBS telethon look like New Year’s Eve in Times Square,” Concha told “Fox & Friends First” on Tuesday. “It was just beyond boring, for lack of a better term, and it just felt too homogenized. There didn’t seem to be any authenticity to it.”
Per a Fox “News” review of Concha’s segment, he noted an odd thing about the star of the night former first lady Michelle Obama’s speech, said he believes ratings will drop this year compared to 2016 [when 26 million people watched the opening night] between 40% and 60% because “it’s just not very compelling.”
Well, Li’l Joey was wrong. Really, REALLY wrong.
NEWS: 28.9 million Americans tuned in to @DemConvention last night across TV & digital platforms, up from 2016 & shattering the previous record for digital streams, which totaled 10.2m even as numbers still come in.
We are producing a digital convention, and people are watching.
— TJ Ducklo (@TDucklo) August 18, 2020
Apparently, the guy responsible for writing up reviews of “The View” for TheHill doesn’t understand the media environment is changing, and more people will watch programs on other platforms, via live streaming, or through DVR recordings.