CNN Hits 20-Year Weekday Primetime Low
The only ratings news CNN is getting lately is bad news. Last week, the cable news network had its lowest-rated weekday primetime in 20 years in terms of total viewers. From May 14-18, CNN averaged 395,000 viewers in primetime with Anderson Cooper’s AC360 and Piers Morgan Tonight. The full seven days of last week was the third-lowest-rated full week in primetime since March 1997. Additionally, last Monday to Friday was also the network’s fourth-lowest-rated weekday primetime week among adults 25-54. CNN scored just 111,000 viewers in the demo. CNN’s previous worst weekly weekday primetime among adults 25-54 was May 15-21, 2000, when the network recorded 91,000 viewers among adults 25-54.
This ratings news comes less than a week after the network hit its lowest primetime among adults 25-54 in 15 years on May 15 with Pier Morgan Tonight. That followed a terrible April where CNN had its lowest-rated month in a decade.
I get all my news online from CNN and Al Jazeera English. Whenever a big story breaks and I go to CNN or Fox News channel, they’re not covering it, it’s usually just some political talking heads type of show. Let the news take center stage, the “personalities” mean nothing to me.
Written by Ted Turner? Or a CNN employee?
CNN tries to disguise itself as a centric network but they are skewed to the far left and most people are more centric right, I tuned them out years ago, they are cheerleaders for radicals who do not represent the majority of our society.
Maybe they will fold, we can only hope so.
My guess would be that CNN is reformatted and/or merged with someone else. They have a lot of potential.
MSNBC is probably a lost cause. I suspect there’s a lot of overlap in their operations and of course NBC News itself has been a disaster since Russert died. They need a complete reorg.
I do so love conservatives.
“FOX IS THE HIGHEST RATED NETWORK!”
Yes, thanks to the legions of 55+ year-old, retired red-staters who find Fixed Noise perfectly matches their “Complain About The Government All Day”
“CNN IS LIBERALLY BIASED!”
Compared to the ultra-conservative, contraceptive-banning, the-president-is-a-forriner-whos-gonna-take-our-guns, base that makes up the Republican party now, I would say yes. You got me there. Now go wash your sheets.
“FOX TELLS THE TRUTH!”
Did we EVER find those WMD???
Is there really a wonder why???
ABC World News and NBC’s Nightly News refused to report the fact that 43 Catholic dioceses and organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Obama administration.
CBS Evening News gave this historic news event 19 seconds of air time.
CNN used their short airtime to counter the legitimacy of the lawsuit and failed to do so with their live interview.
Viewers are tuning in for NEWS. Not biased commentaries or slanted positioned news.
I am not surprised. It is your typical liberal/left leaning main stream medium. When I heard Randi Kaye describe George Zimmerman last week-end as a ‘white’ hispanic (a new term coined by the liberal media to exacerbate the racial tensions the MSM has been so keen to inflame) I realized CNN is hopeless as a news organization. It is a propaganda machine – spewing bad propaganda that people don’t want to hear. CNN richly deserves its pathetic ratings. Fortunately you can get real news elsewhere. Bye bye CNN.
CNN’s more interesting programming is when it’s world-news-focused. They excel in that area and will devote hour long stories and reporting on world news and how it ties into our every day lives in the states (how it impacts us and our politics).
Their others programs are really lame. Ditch all that goofy talk-back crap, vote on story-of-the-day, holograms, or whatever gimmicky thing you’re doing to try to be relevant.
But you’re own by a corporation, so we all know that they will dictate what type of news stories CNN will drive each day. Cable news has become a joke.
Oh and get rid of Wolf Blitzer. Seriously he’s an embarrassment. He’s the Huell Howser of cable news.
I guess you never traveled to, say, Europe and hear all of CNN Int’l's slams against American.
Except that Huell Howser has a goofy charm about him, and you can actually learn something from his programs.
The international reporting was always CNN’s specialty and if they survive that will surely be part or possibly all of the reason why.
I haven’t watched CNN in YEARS. Is Blitzer STILL on there?? Seriously?
Nobody watches the liberal media anymore…tired of hearing their rhetoric!
you’re spot on, Dino.
if ABC, NBC and CBS weren’t on ‘free tv’, they wouldn’t have an audience either.
CNN should try being fair and balanced. Duh.
It isn’t just that horrible Piers. CNN is just not interesting to watch. No heat, no insight, no noting. They’re just kind of there.
Their talent is bad, morning, noon and night. Their shows are dull and forced.
Look at how they botched the Facebook IPO. Just a disaster all day long. The stand out failure was the Sara Jessica Parker look-a-like who bumbled and fumbled her way through live shots.
Everyone seemed ill at ease.
CNN has just become bad TV. Too bad. So much potential.
If CNN are not careful they will lose both their viewers
Roland Martin, Soledad O’Brien, Piers Morgan…. just some of CNN’s bright stars.
why is CNN going down the tubes again?