Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - O'Reilly Update Morning Edition, July 18, 2025

Episode Date: July 18, 2025

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No Frills delivers. Get groceries delivered to your door from No Frills with PC Express. Shop online and get $15 in PC Optimum Points on your first five orders. Shop now at NoFrills.ca. Bill O'Reilly here and I'm warming up. Stand by for the O'Reilly Update Morning Edition. On this Friday, for the first time ever, the four broadcast networks have fallen below the 20% viewing level. That means that 80% of Americans are no longer watching shows on the networks. The folks now look at streaming. Where have you gone, Mary Tyler Moore and Johnny Carson?

Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you with apologies to Paul Simon. It's not hard to figure out why this is happening. The networks have turned away from quality programming because those shows are too expensive. Instead, they offer a survivor 86, big brother 45, and retreads of the price is right. Even people in solitary confinement won't watch. Add to that the far left tilt of Stephen Colbert, The View, as well as NBC in general, and you have these companies giving a giant middle finger to traditional Americans on a daily basis. The national news programs don't provide much either.

I believe ABC anchorman David Muir wears the same outfit every night. Peter Jennings, who I work for, used to buy custom suits on Savile Row. Apparently old Dave gets his threads on Skid Row. The point here is that television has become, well, turgid. The Nets don't want to pay for big talent or produce big budget dramas. So it's over. If the Mouseketeers ever come back, their new slogan might be, why? Because we don't like you.

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