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CNN Lost Another 38% Of Viewers In 2021
Zubu Brothers ^ | 12-30-2021 | Steve Watson via Summit News,

Posted on 12/30/2021 5:54:28 AM PST by blam

CNN managed a remarkable feat in 2021. The network, currently reeling from a spate of pedophilia related allegations among its staff, succeeded in losing ANOTHER 38 percent of its viewership.

According to Nielsen data, CNN saw the massive drop in weekday prime-time viewership, while MSNBC saw a 25 percent drop in viewership for the same time slots.

The data shows that on average there are 919,000 Americans watching MSNBC, while only 787,000 are still watching CNN.

At this rate the networks will soon be out of business.

At this point, anyone still watching CNN has to be either completely brainwashed or brain dead. The network is now desperately attempting to corral these zombies into paying for its services with subscriptions.

Howard Stern recently posited the question “who the hell’s gonna pay for CNN+?” noting that “people don’t want CNN. I mean are they outta their minds?”

Fox News also saw a decline of 34 percent, but still has vastly more viewers with an average of 2.3 million during prime time hours.

Network news channels also saw significant declines in viewership, with NBC “Nightly News” registering a 14% decline, and both ABC’s “World News Tonight” and the “CBS Evening News” seeing 12% drops in viewership.

The data also revealed that visits to mainstream media news websites plummeted, with unique visitors to the Washington Post’s website dropping by an staggering 44% between November 2020 and 2021, and the New York Times registering a 34% decline in unique visitors.

While analysts claim the decline is due to President Trump leaving office, one might posit that it has more to do with the torrent of bullshit pouring out the mouths of every anchor and talking head visible on the networks, and practically every ‘journalist’ woefully attempting to disguise their opinions as real news in the Post and the Times.


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KEYWORDS: chh; cnn; media; msm; msnbc; news; viewers
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To: blam

If you have Cable through Comcast, you are paying CNN. I tried to get a Comcast Package without CNN - no can do.

So it doesn’t matter how many people are watching CNN - they still get paid.


21 posted on 12/30/2021 6:11:55 AM PST by EC Washington
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To: blam

This is why they proposed the tax credit for local stations—so they can shift their brainwashing down to the local level.


22 posted on 12/30/2021 6:13:18 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: blam

The ‘news” media will end up as You Tube channels, where juvenile propaganda is the rule, and no one even questions what they are being fed— by npr and various other spigots of drivel.


23 posted on 12/30/2021 6:15:30 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the Narrative.. )
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To: frogjerk
Correct. I also wonder for 2021 just how much of this reduction was due to booting CNN out of the airports in March, where they had a captive audience.

How much was due to more people moving to streaming applications like Roku, where you can choose NOT to have CNN in your line-up?

24 posted on 12/30/2021 6:16:09 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: skeeter

True. A lot of what they do is seen through conservatives making fun of them.


25 posted on 12/30/2021 6:16:16 AM PST by cdcdawg (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: blam
CNN Producer In Second Pedo Scandal RUNS When Asked If Network Still Employs Him
26 posted on 12/30/2021 6:18:59 AM PST by blam
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To: EC Washington; ShadowAce
Spot on, both of you. Tried to get Comcast to just provide internet services because I work from home and need a reliable connection. No can do, they only sell packages and CNN is on the most basic package.

I'd switch to satellite if it would give me a reliable connection just to bypass Comcast, but Comcast has a license to scramble signals in our area. I kid you not.

27 posted on 12/30/2021 6:23:55 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: blam

CNN has a plan to bring back their viewers...hiring perverts...which appeals to their viewers.


28 posted on 12/30/2021 6:25:59 AM PST by moovova
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To: frogjerk

“CNN is not a business. It is a propaganda outlet for AT&T. A cost center not a revenue generating center.”

Exactly! Much of the MSM has adopted this model.


29 posted on 12/30/2021 6:27:13 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Vigilanteman; EC Washington
Tried to get Comcast to just provide internet services because I work from home and need a reliable connection. No can do, they only sell packages and CNN is on the most basic package.

Interesting--I have a Comcast internet-only plan. Have had one for several years now.

30 posted on 12/30/2021 6:27:24 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: blam

Of all possible causes of viewer loss to all the news sites, no one mentions an uneducated population that has been conditioned to let others take care of them.

Do schools even teach history, civics, or geography any more? Foreign news is really foreign when you have no idea of where a country is or that its actions are a break with history in some way. Why pay attention to news about legislation when you have no idea how your government works. And it’s not important to you anyway, because the government will always take care of you.

The news network situation is probably more serious than this article suggests.


31 posted on 12/30/2021 6:27:38 AM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: blam

The fake news / corporate media is being kept afloat by sugar daddies like Jeff Bezos and AT&T. Ratings and paid subscriptions are mere byplay to them.

These sugar daddies choose to subsidize propaganda, disguised as “News”, in order to ingratiate themselves with the Demrat party. The task is made easier by the fact that most of the management and staff of these networks believe their own lies.

They know they’re lying to us. We know they’re lying to us. They know that we know they’re lying to us. But they keep on lying anyways.


32 posted on 12/30/2021 6:28:50 AM PST by LuxAerterna (/)
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To: brownsfan

33 posted on 12/30/2021 6:29:16 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

The words Howard Beale said back in 1976 are even more relevant today....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Gf0VKXk5Q


34 posted on 12/30/2021 6:30:43 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: blam
When all you hear is endless repetition of BS that you already know is BS, then you'll switch the channel or turn it off.

35 posted on 12/30/2021 6:42:31 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: blam

although 38% sounds high, we ARE talking about 38% of a very diminished viewership, so....maybe 15, 20 people?


36 posted on 12/30/2021 6:44:13 AM PST by Karma_Sherab
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To: blam

From the article Fox News also lost 34% of their viewers.


37 posted on 12/30/2021 6:47:56 AM PST by outpostinmass2
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To: outpostinmass2

People are finally catching on that news, regardless of where it comes from, is all propaganda.


38 posted on 12/30/2021 6:50:38 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: blam

38% of zero is still a small number. How can they report a negative viewership? Because CNN is about as negative as they come.


39 posted on 12/30/2021 6:51:16 AM PST by alloysteel (There are folks running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches - Will Rogers)
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To: blam

Another four people called it quits.


40 posted on 12/30/2021 6:52:28 AM PST by Disambiguator
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