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Ratings burn! Turns out folks prefer Home & Garden programing over CNN
Bizpac Review ^ | December 29, 2016 | Frieda Powers

Posted on 12/30/2016 3:24:19 AM PST by kevcol

It seems all of CNN’s bashing of Donald Trump and sucking up to Hillary Clinton in 2016 did nothing to score a higher ratings win for the network.

Not only did CNN come in behind rival Fox News Channel in the ratings lineup, it was knocked out of even third place by the very non-news network, HGTV.

Home & Garden Television was the third most-watched cable network in 2016, right behind ESPN and first place winner Fox News,

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TOPICS: Politics; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: clinton; cnn; mediabias; ratings
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1 posted on 12/30/2016 3:24:19 AM PST by kevcol
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To: kevcol

Yeah but even HGTV is starting to get political.


2 posted on 12/30/2016 3:29:37 AM PST by McGavin999
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To: kevcol

Thanks to Chip and Joanna Gaines and their great “Fixer Upper” show, HGTV has hit ratings gold.


3 posted on 12/30/2016 3:29:42 AM PST by txrefugee
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Well yeah, even watching plants grow is more animated than that dumb network. And it’s a 1000 times more honest.


4 posted on 12/30/2016 3:33:31 AM PST by Bullish
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To: McGavin999

...”Yeah but even HGTV is starting to get political.”...

If they continue doing that, they will lose viewers, too. People are sick of tyranny.


5 posted on 12/30/2016 3:45:26 AM PST by jazzlite (esat)
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To: kevcol

HA HA


6 posted on 12/30/2016 3:58:03 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: txrefugee

My wife loves that show and admires that couple. I’ve never watched it; so busy fixin up broke stuff around the house.


7 posted on 12/30/2016 3:58:24 AM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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8 posted on 12/30/2016 3:59:18 AM PST by eaglestar
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I prefer entertainment over news too. What’s the point. CNN is awful. MSNBC is worse. FOX is barely ok. News sucks. I get most of mine here. I confess to watching about an hour or so of Fox and Friends in the AM then the news goes OFF. I check the headlines here at at FR during the day then follow links that seem like real news stories.


9 posted on 12/30/2016 4:02:46 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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I start with Breitbart, followed by Drudge, Daily Caller, Lifezette, then clean up with FR while listening to Breitbart News Daily.

Every so often the Mrs. will turn on F&F if she gets up early. I typically have the browser with a tab set to FR so I can click and see the news long before any one else even gets close to it.


10 posted on 12/30/2016 4:14:54 AM PST by mazda77
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That was how I started. I clean up the day with Lou Dobbs. We record Carlson for viewing at our leisure.


11 posted on 12/30/2016 4:16:20 AM PST by mazda77
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To: kevcol

But but but HOW can THIS be? Clinton News Network is so very liberal and THAT is just what people want, right?


12 posted on 12/30/2016 4:23:22 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: kevcol

Wolf does resemble a shrub in that pic. Coincidence?


13 posted on 12/30/2016 4:28:04 AM PST by Yardstick
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The last time I went to my dentist, the television in the waiting room was set to HGTV, and Food Network was on while I was recently at my doctor. Both were pleasant breaks from the wall of CNN that is occasionally spackled here and there with MSNBC.

Mr. niteowl77

14 posted on 12/30/2016 4:32:37 AM PST by niteowl77 (Don't need no Bushes. Don't need no Clintons. Don't need no fooling around.)
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I see quite a few libs getting their “news” from the Comedy Channel anyway. CNN should get some washed up comedians to improve their ratings. Rosaanne Barr, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O’Donnell, etc...


15 posted on 12/30/2016 4:49:35 AM PST by CPONav
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To: kevcol

For me, it’s the Food Network.


16 posted on 12/30/2016 4:51:35 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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How fitting that the DNC/MSM complex that invented the term "Fake News" to use as a club against Americans, now wears the term as a badge of shame.

They kicked up poo, but it stuck to their shoe.

17 posted on 12/30/2016 5:03:28 AM PST by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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That’s for sure. But if they go political bye bye hgtv


18 posted on 12/30/2016 5:04:46 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Yardstick

A shrub with some kind of mold or fungus disease. He needs to make up his mind, and either shave or grow a beard.


19 posted on 12/30/2016 5:05:41 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: mazda77

Can’t stand the commercials on Breitbart and find Drudge’s format difficult to use. I start here then use the links here to go to other sites like Breitbart etc.

So support FR to keep the commercials away.


20 posted on 12/30/2016 5:11:44 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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