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CNN Bombs in First Quarter, Fails to Crack Top 20 in Ratings
Newsbusters ^ | April 4, 2020 | Randy Hall

Posted on 04/05/2020 7:14:26 AM PDT by kevcol

When the CNN debuted in 1980, it soon earned a reputation as the top source for quick information 24 hours a day, all week long. That was 40 years ago and objective journalism is hard to find on the network in 2020. The liberal station has since fallen so far in the ratings that it was unable to generate even one program in the top 20 list during the first three months of 2020, which has been labeled “a dismal first quarter.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Politics; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cnn; fakenews; mediabias; ratings
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1 posted on 04/05/2020 7:14:26 AM PDT by kevcol
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To: kevcol

This Old House reruns outperformed CNN.


2 posted on 04/05/2020 7:15:59 AM PDT by Drango (1776 = 2020)
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To: kevcol

A long slow fade.
Fox > CNN + MSNBC


3 posted on 04/05/2020 7:16:53 AM PDT by nascarnation
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The people who fund CNN do not care


4 posted on 04/05/2020 7:17:02 AM PDT by BRL
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To: kevcol
Even with so many eyes turned to the news to stay current on the Chinese Plague, CNN has its worst quarter in history.

Hope is rising that this dinosaur of a fake news network may be near extinction.

5 posted on 04/05/2020 7:17:08 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: kevcol

Can’t somebody figure out how to replace CNN in the airports?


6 posted on 04/05/2020 7:17:20 AM PDT by Savage Beast (There is no limit to the heights of heroism and saintliness to which people can ascend.)
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To: kevcol; Impy; BillyBoy; LS; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ...

A silver lining to the ChiCom virus madness.


7 posted on 04/05/2020 7:17:34 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: Savage Beast

Are airports still open?

Thank China.


8 posted on 04/05/2020 7:18:09 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: kevcol

“Oh, crap, come on.”

or

“You stupid m-f b##ch!”

Was it curse-curse (apologies to Whoopie) or exasperation?


9 posted on 04/05/2020 7:18:40 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (*)
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If we ever get all three branches of government we need to pass a law that parent companies of news media can not use media losses as tax write offs, for tax purposes media must be stand alone.


10 posted on 04/05/2020 7:18:49 AM PDT by McGavin999 (Queen Fancy Nancy Of North Poopistan)
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To: nascarnation
Fox > CNN + MSNBC

30 years ago? Great! Now? Fox is probably left of what CNN used to be in its early days.

11 posted on 04/05/2020 7:19:15 AM PDT by CatOwner
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To: Jonty30

Good point. Maybe that’s why CNN’s ratings are so low. I was thinking about the future, after the pandemic is over and the US economy is booming again.


12 posted on 04/05/2020 7:22:37 AM PDT by Savage Beast (There is no limit to the heights of heroism and saintliness to which people can ascend.)
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To: nascarnation

Fox turned to crap years ago.. perhaps not as bad as cnn or manbc, but when they went hot chicks in miniskirts they lost their edge on actually reporting news as well..

About the only channels worth anything anymore are the business news channels... Fox Business, CNBC etc... the rest are dreck


13 posted on 04/05/2020 7:24:55 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Jonty30

Most businesses labor to succeed, yet CNN seems to continue to bust its butt to fail. Being lost is seldom a matter of not knowing where you want to go, but most often a matter of not knowing where you are. Apparently CNN has a weird sense about where it wants to go, because the ratings are telling them very clearly exactly where the are. They seem to relish their status.


14 posted on 04/05/2020 7:28:00 AM PDT by Saltmeat (69)
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To: HamiltonJay

CNBC is a Democrat mainstream outlet.
I think Rick Santelli is the only remaining good guy now that MCC has left to run against AOC.
FBN is flushing good guys/girls too, sadly.


15 posted on 04/05/2020 7:28:55 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Savage Beast

CNN PAYS the Airports to run it and I think they pay a lot. AT&T is willing pay all the airports to run CNN which no one watches at home. If you have AT&T anything dump it.

7T


16 posted on 04/05/2020 7:31:29 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: kevcol
THIS is CNN…
17 posted on 04/05/2020 7:31:33 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: Savage Beast
Can’t somebody figure out how to replace CNN in the airports?

Makes one wonder just how much CNN pumped up their fraudulent viewership numbers by counting the "captive" audience at the nation's airports.

18 posted on 04/05/2020 7:32:10 AM PDT by Flick Lives (A liberal is someone who worries that somewhere, someone is enjoying life.)
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So if AIRPORTS are closed WHO IS WATCHING CNN?


19 posted on 04/05/2020 7:35:07 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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“The people who fund CNN do not care”

Who are they? I’ve been thinking that they must be Soros owned.


20 posted on 04/05/2020 7:37:29 AM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn R)
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