CNN Sees Lowest Primetime Ratings In Three Decades
Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness,
The cable news channel CNN has suffered its lowest primetime ratings since 1991, in yet another indication that traditional television news coverage, as well as increasingly left-wing media, has taken a massive hit to its viewership in recent years.
As reported by the New York Post, the week of May 13th through May 19th saw the channel’s 8 PM to 11 PM programming draw just 83,000 viewers in the most crucial demographic of viewers between the ages of 25 and 54.
In that same time period, Fox News saw over 186,000 viewers in the same demographic and the same time slots.
MSNBC came in second with 111,000 viewers.
CNN’s 8-11 PM programming consists of Anderson Cooper’s “AC360” at 8 PM, followed by “The Source with Kaitlan Collins” at 9 PM, and concluding with “CNN NewsNight,” hosted by Abby Phillip, at 10 PM.
The channel’s overall weekly performance saw just 494,000.
By contrast, Fox News saw over 2 million in the same week, while MSNBC saw 1.1 million viewers, according to Nielsen Ratings.
The horrendous performance has put CNN’s new boss Mark Thompson under even greater scrutiny, as well as the CEO of CNN’s parent company Discovery, David Zaslav.
“Thompson better get his act together before he completely destroys CNN,” said one anonymous TV news producer.
