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Piers can see the writing on the wall, the viewership is online for long, multi-hour content to compliment short form clips on TikTok, not broadcast media and their strict regime of schedules.
Have to say, I have also seen regular content creators on YouTube, Rumble, Odysse et al also move in this direction. Channels that used to put out 20-30 minute concise content are now expanding it to 1-2 hour live streams, if not longer on increasing occasion.
The days of 10-60 minute video and audio form content is dying. People either want long form or clip form content, nothing in between.
He overestimates how much people care about what he has to say.
Yes it's not about the format but the personality. Recall that Chris Wallace tried to do the exact same thing on CNN Digital and failed spectacularly.
That's cause Wallace has permanent smug douchebag face.