Charles Barkley Unloads on Nielsen

When Neilsen released the ratings for CNN’s new show called King/Charles, hosted by Gayle King and Charles Barkley, the ratings were not very good.

The show pulled about 500,000 viewers, according to Nielsen, which was far behind Fox News and MSNBC.

It also did not make Barkley very happy, and he went after Nielsen.

“An article came out that our ratings weren’t great … but I want to tell my team, man, these Nielsen people are the biggest clowns in the world. Name me one person you know with a Nielsen box,” Barkley said on a podcast he hosts with Ernie Johnson.

“These Nielsen people try to say our ratings weren’t great, but we won a certain demographic. Hey man, to my team, fuck them,” Barkley added. “Don’t you worry about what people tell you about your ratings? Nobody knows what people are watching. They don’t! You got a group of people who get to dictate who gets hired and fired, and that’s the part that sucks about the Nielsen ratings.”

He makes a good point.