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Yes. Many, many people. Latest "average stats" for 7 day primetime viewing in 2023 were a bit over 500,000 CNN viewers and 1.8mil Fox News viewers.
Of course, we have to guesstimate as these are likely Nielsen ratings, as well as including things like how many TV's per airport.
If we take the ~5,000 public airports and divide that by CNN's 550,000k viewers (over 7 days) that would be 110 TV's per airport needed to be playing CNN. Given that I don't think most airports have this many TV's, specific playing CNN, I think it's fair to assume that there are actual people watching the news.
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asdfasdfsadfasfasdfMy mistake I have no idea how I misread that lol. Maybe I got excited for math
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