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CNN’s Ratings Go Down the Toilet, Tumbling Over 70 Percent Since January
Newsbusters ^ | 5/25/2021 | Curtis Houck

Posted on 05/26/2021 6:45:00 PM PDT by simpson96

Along with its ongoing ethical problems, a deceptive marketing campaign, and a continued hatred for non-liberal voices, it’s been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year for the Jeffrey Zucker-led CNN. And as per the latest Nielsen ratings, CNN has continued to hemorrhage viewers with primetime and entire day total viewership down over 70 percent since January.

Nielsen Media Research has the breakdown and it’s not pretty, no matter how the Zucker Borg would spin it. Since a January high of roughly 798,000 primetime viewers and 530,000 total day viewers in the 25-54 demographic, CNN has fallen off a cliff and into the pit of misery with the network fetching only 229,000 in primetime and 152,000 in total day over the past month.

That, dear NewsBusters readers, would represent a cratering of 71 percent for both metrics.

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Before we go, we should check in on how the rebranded Don Lemon Tonight did in its first week since Lemon and his bosses engaged in some shady marketing by trying to make it seem like Lemon was leaving CNN and his show CNN Tonight had been cancelled.

Sadly for CNN (though fortunately for America), Don Lemon Tonight fetched Lemon’s worst week of the year across both metrics.

As the saying goes, you just hate to see it.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


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KEYWORDS: cnn; media; msm; ratings
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President Trump said "If they don't have me, they'll have nothing to talk about." He's right again, of course.

Anything bad that happens to CNN makes me smile.

Who would advertise on CNN?

I don't think it would be worth spending the money when you aren't reaching anyone.

There are YouTuber's with higher ratings.

1 posted on 05/26/2021 6:45:00 PM PDT by simpson96
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Cmon we can do better

One day the world will be free from the libtard plague that is CNN


2 posted on 05/26/2021 6:45:58 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: simpson96

It’s not about ratings. It’s about defining the narrative.


3 posted on 05/26/2021 6:47:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Biology is science. Homemade pronouns are narcissism.)
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To: simpson96

And yet it still lives like the NY Slimes and the Wa Compost. Sorosand big tech must be propping it up.


4 posted on 05/26/2021 6:48:04 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate tfo mother's actual parenting of children)
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it’s been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year for the Jeffrey Zucker-led CNN

Even the airports have abandoned CNN.

5 posted on 05/26/2021 6:49:40 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: simpson96

CNN: Still Zucked up.


6 posted on 05/26/2021 6:50:15 PM PDT by Paladin2
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...ongoing ethical problems...

Lemon performed on stage? That can't be good.

7 posted on 05/26/2021 6:51:16 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Sweet!

“CNN has fallen off a cliff and into the pit of misery with the network fetching only 229,000 in primetime and 152,000 in total day over the past month.”


8 posted on 05/26/2021 6:51:39 PM PDT by caww ( )
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Doesn’t matter. Every subscriber to a service which carries their network funds them whether it is watched or not.

And their clips on YouTube appear to get millions of views.


9 posted on 05/26/2021 6:54:59 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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All the cnn airport crap ended in almost all airports end of march this year.


10 posted on 05/26/2021 6:55:49 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Zucker said he is leaving at the end of the year. Hugh Hewitt opined that he might be doing this intentionally so that the one who takes over cannot help but do well. Even a doubling of the remnant audience would be great performance for the new person.


11 posted on 05/26/2021 7:04:00 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: simpson96

Freude’s getting his Shaden on.


12 posted on 05/26/2021 7:06:52 PM PDT by sevlex
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To: Paladin2

“CNN: Still Zucked up.”

LOL


13 posted on 05/26/2021 7:07:46 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: 17th Miss Regt

But historically, and measured against other news channels, still crappy


14 posted on 05/26/2021 7:08:55 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: simpson96
CNN’s Ratings Go Down the Toilet

In Australia, that toilet flushes to the left.

15 posted on 05/26/2021 7:10:56 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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We all know what CNN’s reaction will be: They will create something out of nothing. People know that CNN fabricates stores, doesn’t bother to verify stories, and will fake support for stories if they think it will gather viewers. Finally, people are tired of fake news, and CNN heads the list and it’s catching up with them. When the airport contracts run out, CNN will be gone.


16 posted on 05/26/2021 7:11:27 PM PDT by econjack
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They don’t care. They’re not in it for ratings.


17 posted on 05/26/2021 7:13:44 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: simpson96

Karma’s a bitch. Too bad CNN did not think they were subject to consequences for their underhanded behavior


18 posted on 05/26/2021 7:15:23 PM PDT by griswold3 (NBA/ Plumlee Ball. = poor entertainment value while insulting the audience gets you broke )
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To: simpson96

You know, I’ve heard this same b.s. about various networks, shows etc., for years but yet, they never go away. They keep on spewing garbage/sewage, lies and never suffer any ramifications except an occasional bad headline in some news article.


19 posted on 05/26/2021 7:17:00 PM PDT by LibertyWoman ("Where there is no law, there is no liberty." Benjamin Rush)
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To: simpson96

“Tumbleweeds, tumbleweeds!
See them tumbling down,
Pledging their love to the ground!
Lonely but free, they’ll be found
Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds.”

As sung by Sons of The Pioneers


20 posted on 05/26/2021 7:19:13 PM PDT by lee martell
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