![]() ![]() More data: Most viewers are still watching on the network, rather than from streaming devices, and viewership doubled from week one of the trial to week two, when Depp first took the stand. Streaming numbers have, he said, practically quadrupled during the trial. ![]() “I’m sure it doesn’t shock you, but we’ve more than doubled our daytime ratings due to this trial,” Jon Marks, chief research officer at the Scripps’ national networks, which owns Court TV, told me. (Anti-Depp and pro-Depp, respectively.) It has all led to Court TV’s peak viewership since its relaunch in 2019, the network said. Howard Stern and Joe Rogan have both weighed in. Simpson, created a cultural conversation around it. As such, it has enthralled viewers and, much like the network’s greatest hits in its halcyon days of the 1990s when it provided daily coverage of the Menendez brothers and O.J. It has been sometimes-disturbing, occasionally-bizarre, always-tragic television. The trial, which has provided a rare, unblinking look into the dissolution of a mega-celebrity marriage, has included allegations of abuse from each partner. In defense of Nelson’s singularity of focus, a killed feed would be a devastating scenario for his recently revived network-and for the obsessive audience that’s tuned into it on TVs, laptops, and smartphones every day for the last several weeks to see the latest day’s testimony in Depp’s defamation suit against his ex-wife Amber Heard. Proper clearance has the added benefit of preventing traffic catastrophes in the greater Washington area too. “We had to construct a pole structure that would lift the wire up and put it over, so we would have proper clearance for trucks, so the wire would not get knocked out and the feed would be killed,” Nelson said. It’s 1.5 million square feet.” The network needs a lot of cable to successfully get a feed between the courtroom, where they’ve set up their cameras, to the press pool in a parking lot, which is a figurative football field and a literal two-lane highway away. As head of program development, Scripps Networks News Group, and interim head of Court TV’s Ethan Nelson recently explained to me, the court from which he and his team stream daily is “a massive complex. One challenge of offering unrelenting footage of the Johnny Depp– Amber Heard defamation case inside the courtroom is the scale of Fairfax County, Virginia’s suburban sprawl. ![]()
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