Posted on 11/04/2009 4:25:43 PM PST by Typical_Whitey
Highlighting even further the ratings erosion at CNN in prime time, the “Most Trusted Name in News” finished in fourth place among cable news outlets during election coverage last night.
Fox News was #1 by a mile, followed by MSNBC, then CNN sister network HLN and CNN in 4th place. They were fourth in both total viewers and the A25-54 demographic.
CNN’s 4th place finish last night was only made more glaring because last year’s election coverage on the network was their best night of all time. They didn’t just have more viewers than every other cable news network last year – it was the most of all time.
Here’s the ratings breakdown in prime time last night:
FNC: 4,043,000 in total viewers (1,130,000 in A25-54)
MSNBC: 974,000 in total viewers (308,000 in A25-54)
HLN: 842,000 in total viewers (341,000 in A25-54)
CNN: 826,000 in total viewers (227,000 in A25-54)
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Obama is just plain wrong on everything!!
FNC is not just beating the competition, it’s destroying them. Or maybe “humiliating” is a more appropriate term.
So this is why Axelrod was willing to talk to Major Garrett today :)
while I don’t like CNN’s bias, I have to admit the have the best set of techno-toys in the studio. I mean, come on, who doesn’t want one of the computer maps that John King gets to play with and go county by county to see just where the “good” and “bad” Americans live. If a game company were smart, they could develop a computer game about elections based on that technology.
It really is stunning isn’t it? Even if you combined CNN/MSNBC/HLN together...Fox is still smoking them by 2 million...LMAO.
CNN has to get rid of Brown, King, and Cooper. A losing trio if there ever was one. My bet is they get a conservative talk show host to have a show over there at 10 pm to fight Greta. They stand no chance against Hannity and O’Reilly.
No surprise that fox is beating their competitors but I’d rather see MSNBC in 4th place with a promise to cancel them altogether.
I agree about the toys and I like John King, he seems quite unbiased, am I wrong? On the other hand they are extremely in the tank as you are well aware. Campbell Brown, Larry King etc, have fun with those toilet ratings CNN!
Was that 4th place in a three horse race? That describes CNN alright!
One word from Gergen was enough to turn anyone’s stomach.
Fox may have blown the others away, but Shepard Smith on Fox was pretty hard to stomach
Bump
FoxNews > MSNBC + HLN + CNN
And that was mostly Freepers channel surfing to see what those idiots were doing.
Fox news is greater than 4 times the audience, but, it’s not ‘real news’. LOL, liberals are living in fantasy land, and Americans are waking up. There are good things brewing out there.
CNN: Serious Coverage You Can Count On
True! I flipped through the news channels to see what the others were saying and MSNBC had Rachel Maddow on. No thanks. CNN's panel was yipping about how the results meant nothing in the long run. I turned it back to Shepard.
MSNBC didn’t have election coverage! (bc dems were losing!)
I had been waiting for the ratings for Sunday’s shows, particularly Chris Wallace’s, with Rush as guest. Nearly doubled the other three combined. Good day for Wallace’s show.
Ba! Humbug! We had a delicious time watching CNN and their liberal talking heads exploding last night.
If you look at all cable channels CNN and MSNBC are not in the top 30.
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When channel surfing I saw Olbermann playing football videos during election results last night???
I guess if his 0bama political commie party won, he would have reported the news.
But wait - every Dem or Dem talking head asked about the returns last night they gave the same answer!
What a joke these idiots are!
I despise both him and Donna Brazile.
I watched some of CNN’s coverage after FNC went into repeat around 10pm Pacific. Anderson Cooper’s coverage was pretty decent, as was some of their other coverage. It couldn’t help but be better than MSLSD. But, lol, CNN’s Larry King’s coverage was just hideous. His first mistake was having Jesse Ventura on his 4-person pundit panel. Good gawd, what a colossal jackass. The man is a pugnacious moron. He’s dumber than a bag of hammers and a bully.
Anyway, good for Fox. Those numbers should be sent to zero so he can whine about how a non-news organizations has more than four times the audience of any of the others.
There is not a single on air personality on CNN that is worth wasting five seconds of my time to watch.
I don’t think Cooper is so bad. Compared to the others, he’s an asset. Larry King makes it obvious that the CNN is a joke because he is such a joke.
I was stuck in a hotel room last night, and the only news channel they had was CNN. Their panel of political commentators consisted of James Carville, Ben Stein, and Jesse Ventura. Is there any wonder no one was watching?
man...those pursed lips and intense Brokeback Mountain stare is just too much
shame....he is one half Mississippian...like me
comes from an interesting but extremely dysfunctional family though
I only rarely watch for analytic reasons.
Their spin cycle is at times quite a thing to behold.
I either laugh out loud or blood shoots out of my eyes.
Obama’s feelings must be hurt.
Only one year out from the arrogant, jaw-in-the-air speech in cold Chicago.
They deserve it.
Arrogance is the Downfall of a Great Number of Highly Placed Individuals. It will be no different for THIS current crowd in there. Watch for them to really start pulling some illegal, Nixonian type impeachable tricks now.
These are my top 3 worst.
1) Campbell Brown
2) Jack Cafferty
3) Rick Sanchez
Uncover the truth, no matter who it helps or hurts. Take economic reporting, tell the truth. Expose the insanity of the Obama administration's phony numbers. Expose the real unemployment rate. Report on when and how jobs were created in American History.
Of course, this means giving up liberal bias. Sometimes, 'we hold them accountable' will help liberals (mostly it won't) and sometimes it would hurt conservatives.
Just imagine honest reporting on any number of issues; race, guns, crime, foreign policy, Afghan and Iraq Wars.
I'd watch the 'we hold them accountable' news network.
Mine would be Rick Sanchez, then Larry King, then Campbell Brown. I’ve watched those three many 2-3 times each. I would never watch again. I don’t even know who Cafferty is.
How many wake up calls can CNN get?
It’s not like their constant position at the bottom of the cable news standings is a surprise to anyone. The ratings come out every weak.
The bottom line is: They don’t give a damn that they are at the bottom. They have an agenda and they are going to stick to it come hell or high water, ratings be damned.
They’ll change whenever they run out of money or are bought out. No other way.
It is - that's Austria.
Ooh - major face-palm - it’s the Czech Republic.
They WOULD be smart if they did that. But they're not. They're collectivists, remember? In fact, they're recently made a rule prohibiting talk show hosts from even appearing as guests! Now, that's WAY BEYOND stupid. It's evil.
With recorded on-line views of the Rush interview, I imagine the real number is probably at least "tripled."
HF
Wallace did a great job with that interview.
I agree. MSNBC needs to be the Air Amerika of television.
Wow, look at those numbers above... Fox News absolutely blew away the competition! Incredible.
"Oh Sheepie... that was great."
Cooper’s puerile teabagger remarks should send his gay lame smirky butt packing
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