So I guess the big question out there in
state-controlled media land is, just how low can the ratings for the Communist News
Network (CNN) really go? Because,
apparently, CNN’s ongoing ratings crisis has now reached the point where the
far-left anti-Trump network was unable to place a single show in the top 25
throughout the entire month of May. Worse
still, the network didn’t have a single show that managed to attract an average
of even 900,000 total viewers, much less a million.
As was reported earlier this week, the overall
picture at CNN has become pretty gloomy. Because even as Fox News climbed in
the ratings, the hate-spewing CNN has virtually collapsed just since last year
with a rather calamitous drop of -25 percent of primetime viewers. CNN is now doing so poorly it doesn’t have a single
breakout star. Every hour is a ratings
disaster. CNN’s best showing in May was
Anderson Cooper 360, but his primetime hour placed at #26 with an average of
only 888,000 viewers.
It was with the exception of Fox & Friends First
that every single show on Fox News, every single one, regardless of the hour it
aired, beat CNN’s highest rated show. Other
than Fox & Friends First, the left-wing Shepard Smith has the lowest rated
show on Fox, but even his average viewership of 1.35 million was still able to
crush Anderson Cooper’s 888,000, Erin Burnett’s 818,000, and Jake Tapper’s 793,000.
Those folks are what is comically referred to as being the TOP three shows on
CNN.
Other than CNN’s ‘Early Start’, which airs before 6
a.m., CNN’s lowest rated show was ‘New Day’, which was co-hosted by far-left
kook, Chris Cuomo. New Day managed to only average 584,000 total viewers, while
its timeslot competition at Fox, Fox & Friends, averaged 1.58 million. Nevertheless, Cuomo still managed a promotion
to CNN primetime. The news is all good
for Fox, which appears to have fully recovered from its primetime shake-up that
came with the loss of Bill O’Reilly and others.
Sean Hannity, who has consistently beat MSNBC’s
Rachel Maddow throughout all of 2018, widened the gap considerably in May. Hannity averaged 3.3 million viewers to
Maddow’s 2.6 million. And it was Tucker
Carlson and Laura Ingraham who were also right there in the mix with 2.1
million, respectively. Of the top 20
shows, Fox owned 15 of those slots, with MSNBC claiming the rest. The only Fox
show not in the top 20 was the aforementioned Fox & Friends First, which
airs at 4 a.m.
Overall, Fox News pretty much humiliated both CNN
and MSNBC with an average of 2.381 million total primetime viewers, compared to
MSNBC’s 1.384 million and CNN’s 835,000.
And in the advertiser-coveted 25 to 54 age group, Fox soundly beat
MSNBC, 461,000 to 329,000, and left CNN in the dust (265,000). In all of cable, in total primetime viewers,
Fox News came in second behind TNT, MSNBC came in fourth, and CNN limped into
12th place behind HGTV and Investigative Discovery.
In total day viewers, Fox News was number one in all
of cable with an average of 1.4 million total viewers. CNN bottomed out in total day viewers with a
pathetic average of just 654,000. All of
which begs the question, why is it that CNN chooses not to follow the Fox News
model? Why continually allow yourself to
be humiliated and refuse to do anything that could improve things? There can be no other explanation than that
the network continues as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party.
And if CNN’s failure proves anything it’s that a
steady stream of what is nothing more than fake news/propaganda, no matter how
expertly delivered, simply doesn’t sell, or at least doesn’t sell well enough
to be able to keep the bills paid.
Unless, of course, there’s a certain amount of subsidizing that’s taking
place by those whose talking points are constantly being spewed and presented
as ‘news.’ CNN will never again be considered
as relevant. They have been forever branded as ‘fake news.’
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