The Alphabet Soupers can run "My Mother the Car" re-runs instead for all I care. The Soupers blacked out quite a few Reagan event during his second term. But unlike Reagan, Trump bypasses the Soupers with Twitter, and Fox is much less likely to join their black-out, effectively breaking it. Maybe the Alphabet Soupers did those mental calculations and decided the risk of reduced audience through the rest of the speech night was too great.