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CNN Plummets, Hosts Lose Nearly Half Their Audiences
Media Buyer Planner.com ^ | 3/29/10

Posted on 03/30/2010 9:55:13 PM PDT by advance_copy

CNN’s most popular hosts have lost nearly half their audience over the last year in precipitous falls that have affected the entire network.

In February, the network came in last place among the cable news nets, trailing not only Fox News and MSNBC, but also behind HLN (formerly Headline News) and CNBC, reports The New York Times.

The first quarter of 2010 was Larry King’s worst quarter ever, with his audience down 43%, to 771,000 viewers, for the quarter and down 52% for the month of March. In the same quarter in 2009, Larry King’s show had 1.34 million viewers. King’s audience is just a quarter of the size of Sean Hannity’s Fox News show, is regularly beaten by Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, and is now fighting a sometimes-losing battle against a new competitor, Joy Behar on HLN.

Campbell Brown, too, dipped significantly, seeing its worst quarter ever in the advertiser-friendly 25-54 demo.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cnn; dnctv; enemedia; liberalmedia; lkl; lol; mainstreammedia; msmdeathwatch; obamamedia
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To: advance_copy

Larry King—who wants to see a dead man held up by suspoenders?


61 posted on 03/31/2010 4:29:32 AM PDT by exit82 (Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
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To: freedumb2003

Oh, but Rush so had BOR pegged!


62 posted on 03/31/2010 4:30:38 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: wjcsux
Breaks my heart...

Makes me feel better all over than any place else.

63 posted on 03/31/2010 5:55:29 AM PDT by dearolddad
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To: lewislynn

Tastes differ. I like his radio persona, along with his buddies. Lots of fun and often informative. On TV, he comes across as less effective, because so emotive.

No big deal, just that what is sauce for one is not necessarily sauce for another.

God bless.


64 posted on 03/31/2010 6:15:25 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (Dear Leader: you have two ears and one mouth. Start using them in proportion.)
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To: theelephantway
What I do not get is why I am oftentimes “forced” to watch CNN on TVs that are in public places such as airports, bars, waiting rooms.

Large airports (in general) are owned and operated by the cities, ie: DIA by Denver City. Large urban cities are governed by....liberals. Just follow the money.

65 posted on 03/31/2010 6:51:13 AM PDT by frankenMonkey ("Natural Born Citizen" - US Constitution, 1787; "Words have meaning" - Barack Obama, 2009)
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To: freedumb2003

Larry King is Les Nesman.

O’Reilly is Baxter.

(Shep Smith is Mary Tyler Moore.)


66 posted on 03/31/2010 6:57:45 AM PDT by MortMan (It's unconstitutional, it's wrong, and it's evil. But that's Obama in a nutshell.)
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To: advance_copy

The folks over at CNN should be careful what they wish for. They could be on the unemployment line. On the upside, they’ll be eligible for the health exchange.


67 posted on 03/31/2010 6:59:06 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: nutmeg

Call me crazy but if the headline read MSNBC I would be jumping for joy. I think that network and guests feed more hatred toward the right (with Joy Behar coming in a very close second) than CNN. Matthews, Olberman, Maddow and Mika Brezinski (sp) cannot think without the WH talking points guiding their every word.


68 posted on 03/31/2010 7:45:53 AM PDT by StarFan
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Ted Baxter (Ted Knight) was awarded 5 Bronze Stars for his service during the Second World War. Larry King’s not in the same league with him.


69 posted on 03/31/2010 8:05:34 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: y6162
During the lay over in Atlanta, I felt like a hostage with CNN watching me.

If I recall correctly, it's an Atlanta city ordinance that all must watch CNN and drink Coca Cola.

70 posted on 03/31/2010 8:16:30 AM PDT by DeFault User
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To: advance_copy

CNN is splitting up the pie of America-hating socialist goofballs with MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, etc. Meanwhile, Fox News has normal Americans all to itself. It’s not fair. President Ubanga should do something about this.


71 posted on 03/31/2010 8:20:15 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: StarFan
Call me crazy but if the headline read MSNBC I would be jumping for joy. I think that network and guests feed more hatred toward the right (with Joy Behar coming in a very close second) than CNN. Matthews, Olberman, Maddow and Mika Brezinski (sp) cannot think without the WH talking points guiding their every word.

Oh there's no doubt that MSNBC was redesigned fairly recently with the intent to go head-to-head against Fox News. But as liberals always do, they overreach and spew pure hatred toward the right, including ordinary folks like Tea Partiers.

CNN is still left-leaning, as far as I can tell. When either CNN or MSNBC lose market share to Fox News - and it's prominently reported in the media - I rejoice.

Why that 'ol harpie Maude Behar was rewarded with her own TV show, I'll never understand...

72 posted on 03/31/2010 8:20:34 AM PDT by nutmeg (Bart Stupak: Judas, Neville Chamberlain or Benedict Arnold?)
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To: TigersEye

Snort!!!


73 posted on 03/31/2010 8:22:33 AM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: advance_copy

Do they even have a clue?


74 posted on 03/31/2010 8:57:08 AM PDT by Exit148 (Loose Change Founder. A little goes a long way!)
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To: nutmeg

Good news! Keep it up Fox!


75 posted on 03/31/2010 9:24:15 AM PDT by stanz
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To: advance_copy

76 posted on 03/31/2010 9:32:58 AM PDT by timestax (CNNLIES..BIG TIME)
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To: Mr. Lucky

>>Ted Baxter (Ted Knight) was awarded 5 Bronze Stars for his service during the Second World War. Larry King’s not in the same league with him.<<

Of course they meant the character — in RL Ted Knight had a difficult time with acting his character.

Up until this generation, actors were patriots and many were in the armed forces. Today, they are by and large traitors (with a small number of notable exceptions) and very, very few have been in the military.


77 posted on 03/31/2010 9:36:05 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Craven spirits wear their master's collars but real men would rather feed the battlefield's vultures)
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To: lewislynn

Radio? Rush, Mark Levin, Hannity, you can’t go worong with
them becae they are patriots.


78 posted on 03/31/2010 10:01:19 AM PDT by Candor7 (Now's the time to ante up against the Obama Fascist Junta ( member NRA))
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To: advance_copy

I like Greta Van Susteren’s program. She is pretty fair and objective; she is now persuing stories that the media used to do. Her legal background is an asset. If I was a news maker, I would desire to be on her program instead of Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity.


79 posted on 03/31/2010 10:05:02 AM PDT by TMA62 (TMA62)
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To: cricket

“They paid for - or just owned - the tv’s in airports and their lounges etc. with stipulation of course, that they ‘channel’ CNN.”

I have noticed people have even stopped watching in airports.


80 posted on 03/31/2010 10:05:25 AM PDT by Gabrial (The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
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