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CNN Loses Half Its Audience in Past Year
Newsmax email | 6/3/2012 | Unknown

Posted on 06/03/2012 5:50:37 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist

CNN in May suffered its worst month for ratings in nearly 20 years, according to Nielsen figures, and has lost 50 percent of its audience in the past 12 months.

The cable network pioneered 24-hour news in the 1980s and for years was the top-rated news channel, but it has lost audience to Fox News and MSNBC in recent years and now lags both competitors in attracting viewers.

CNN’s average audience in May fell to 388,000, with only 113,000 in the 25-54 age bracket that advertisers covet. Fox’s average was 1.65 million, and MSNBC’s was 658,000.

“It’s really a bloodletting — there’s no other way to describe it,” said Robert Thompson, professor of television and popular culture at Syracuse University.

“They are trying to stick to old-fashioned, unbiased news broadcasting when their rivals have worked out that to draw an audience when there aren’t major stories breaking you need to do the opposite.”

Piers Morgan, who was hired 18 months ago for the 9 p.m. hour, drew an average of 417,000 viewers in May, the worst ratings for that slot since the early 1990s, according to The Independent, a London-based website. When he took over in early 2011, his predecessor in that slot, Larry King, was averaging around 600,000 viewers.

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper has lost a quarter of his viewers in the past 12 months, and ratings for Wolf Blitzer’s two-hour “Situation Room” are down by more than half.


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KEYWORDS: chat; cnn; communistnewsnetwork; janefonda; tedturner; vanity
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To: Utah Binger

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41 posted on 06/03/2012 6:52:57 AM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: big'ol_freeper

1 right here at McDonalds. Thankfully I have my Droid.


42 posted on 06/03/2012 6:53:17 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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To: nascarnation
Great point. The polls and the media are hiding one fact that I can see everywhere. Having the most leftest administration in history is causing our country to take a hard right. I can see more people than ever that I thought were moderate or slightly left leaning, becoming conservative.

This big experiment in our country with Socialism has been an utter failure. Therefore CNN and MSNBC are fighting for a dwindling demographic. Clear as day.

43 posted on 06/03/2012 6:56:42 AM PDT by catfish1957 (My dream for hope and change is to see the punk POTUS in prison for treason)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Here’s a link for Soledad/Sununu interview, since folks are talking about it here in the thread.

http://youtu.be/03H-y5DV0ZY


44 posted on 06/03/2012 7:03:19 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: New Jersey Realist

CNN = unbiased as much as Elvis Presley = one-hit wonders.


45 posted on 06/03/2012 7:03:41 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: RetiredArmy

You are absolutely correct! I posted in haste totally forgetting Hanoi Jane, Ted Turner and all that crap.


46 posted on 06/03/2012 7:06:10 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
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To: New Jersey Realist

Maybe Rush should buy it and rename it Conservative News Network. Ratings would skyrocket I’m sure.


47 posted on 06/03/2012 7:10:34 AM PDT by mc5cents
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To: New Jersey Realist

Best news I’ve heard all day.


48 posted on 06/03/2012 7:12:32 AM PDT by bgill
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To: New Jersey Realist

Oh dear, I misspelled paid! What will I ever do?
Predictive typing on my iPad can be a real pain.
The horror, the horror.........


49 posted on 06/03/2012 7:22:31 AM PDT by 9422WMR (Life is not fair, just deal with it.)
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To: Texas Eagle
"If it wasn’t for nursing homes and airport terminals, CNN would have no audience at all."

Weren't they usually first to cover plane crashes?

50 posted on 06/03/2012 7:31:11 AM PDT by Average Al (Forbidden fruit leads to many jams.)
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To: wally_bert
Will do. His brother is more well known. Golfs with Rush on occasion.

He and his wife will be here in southern Utah helping us conduct our annual event August 22-26. He acts as our Master of Ceremonies.

51 posted on 06/03/2012 8:16:10 AM PDT by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
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To: FreedomPoster

I stopped watching CNN years ago because of their “in your face” liberal-left bias. I do not know how dumbed down you would have to be to consider CNN as unbiased.


52 posted on 06/03/2012 8:18:23 AM PDT by jazzlite (esat)
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To: big'ol_freeper

...”I wonder how many of their viewers are captive viewers, sitting in airports etc. where the only choice is CNN”...

Exactly..Considering captive viewers, they might have no more than 100,000 or so viewers.


53 posted on 06/03/2012 8:20:57 AM PDT by jazzlite (esat)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I saw the clip and I thought she looked like she knew she got pwned. I don’t think she’s stupid, just a left wing apparatchik who does what is expected of her so she gets to go to all the right dinner parties.


54 posted on 06/03/2012 8:31:44 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: New Jersey Realist

I’m sick of seeing CNN on my doctor’s, my dentist’s TV.


55 posted on 06/03/2012 8:45:21 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Criminaliens or Crimigrants...0bamao's people?)
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To: New Jersey Realist
"“They are trying to stick to old-fashioned, unbiased news broadcasting "

ROTFLMFAO!!! "unbiased"??? Being the Communist News Network is being "unbiased"? Maybe if you are trying to be more like Pravda!


56 posted on 06/03/2012 8:47:54 AM PDT by CodeToad (Homosexuals are homophobes. They insist on being called 'gay' instead.)
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To: 9422WMR

I think I was at Phoenix Sky Harbor when I asked an official to change the channel because the NFC Championshp was on (Giants at Green Bay) The guy told me he couldn’t because the airport had a contract with CNN.


57 posted on 06/03/2012 8:48:24 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: New Jersey Realist

CNN and HLN, they both have become the “no-news” is good news channels. Why are they even existing? Jersey Shores would be funnier at this point.


58 posted on 06/03/2012 8:48:56 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: 9422WMR

I heard that CNN is the official news channel “consumed” at the UN... like no other competitors allowed.


59 posted on 06/03/2012 8:52:38 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: ETL

Ted Turner was knocked into the ocean where he floated for thirty minutes with no oxygen going to his brain. He has been technically brain dead for years. Listen to him some time.

“I like Fidel Castro. I also like pudding. Pudding tastes good. Sometimes I put M & Ms in my pudding. Castro likes pudding.” He’s gone.


60 posted on 06/03/2012 9:27:58 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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