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.
CNNs average audience in May fell to 388,000, with only 113,000 in the 25-54 age bracket that advertisers covet. Foxs average was 1.65 million, and MSNBCs was 658,000.
Its really a bloodletting theres 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 arent 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 Blitzers two-hour Situation Room are down by more than half.
I have a fair amount of production and engineering experience. If your friend is ever looking for an experienced technical person in SC, point him my way....
1 right here at McDonalds. Thankfully I have my Droid.
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.
Here’s a link for Soledad/Sununu interview, since folks are talking about it here in the thread.
CNN = unbiased as much as Elvis Presley = one-hit wonders.
You are absolutely correct! I posted in haste totally forgetting Hanoi Jane, Ted Turner and all that crap.
Maybe Rush should buy it and rename it Conservative News Network. Ratings would skyrocket I’m sure.
Best news I’ve heard all day.
Oh dear, I misspelled paid! What will I ever do?
Predictive typing on my iPad can be a real pain.
The horror, the horror.........
Weren't they usually first to cover plane crashes?
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.
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.
...”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.
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.
I’m sick of seeing CNN on my doctor’s, my dentist’s TV.
ROTFLMFAO!!! "unbiased"??? Being the Communist News Network is being "unbiased"? Maybe if you are trying to be more like Pravda!
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.
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.
I heard that CNN is the official news channel “consumed” at the UN... like no other competitors allowed.
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.
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