Jeffrey Brown's nor'easter report blows past PBS NewsHour's usual start
A cleanup report on a storm that battered the coast from New England to New Jersey began at roughly thirty times the pace of a typical first day for the channel.
PBS NewsHourStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 271,471 views a day, 31 times a normal first day on this channel (8,690).
Powerful nor’easter batters parts of East Coast
Among the larger news broadcasters, LiveNOW from FOX and TMZ are running above their usual daily pace. PBS NewsHour is sitting just under its own, an ordinary day on the whole, except for one report that is moving very differently.
"Powerful nor’easter batters parts of East Coast" is barely a day old and is drawing views about thirty times faster than a new NewsHour video usually does on its first day. It is also a change of subject. A day earlier, the busiest thing on the channel was a Friday political conversation with David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart about Trump's welcome for Xi Jinping.
The report follows the cleanup after the storm swept the coast from New England down to New Jersey. It brought dangerous waves, flooding and damaging winds, and it knocked out power for many. The correspondent is Jeffrey Brown, a longtime NewsHour reporter who has led much of the program's arts and culture coverage over the years. Here he is covering a storm.
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- Channel
- PBS NewsHour
- Subscribers
- 5,380,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,130,782 (on a normal day: 1,176,953)
- Video published
- September 28, 2026
- Video views so far
- 67,982 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 271,471
The numbers
The figures show a first day far outside the channel's usual range for a new report, on a day when the channel overall stayed close to normal.
