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May Ratings Are In! MSNBC and CNN Are About As Popular As the Black Plague
RedState.com. ^ | 12:25 PM on May 29, 2025 | By Jim Thompson

Posted on 05/29/2025 3:07:49 PM PDT by airdalechief

With a couple of days left in May, ratings are in, and the results are both predictable and ugly.

In primetime programming for the month of May 2025, Fox News was up 23% with an average of 2.46 million viewers. Meanwhile, MSNBC had an average 877,000 viewers, which was down 24%, and CNN raked in an average 426,000, down 18%. Total day programming saw Fox News at an average of 1.56 million viewers (up 21%), MSNBC down 33% with an average of 545,000 viewers, and CNN down 24% with 353,000 average viewers.

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MSNBC fired some prime time “talent” like Joy Reid, and like a rotten tree falling in the forest, people took notice when she was canned in February. Before she was shown the door (and subsequently and predictably claimed racism), she delivered this banger: "Joy Reid racistly calls a white person “mayonnaise sandwich on wonder bread.”

Scott Jennings is popular on CNN because he is a voice of reason in a sea of screaming harpies. But Jenning seems to be playing music on the deck of a sinking Titanic. Will ratings for June improve while CNN slots programming designed to celebrate pronouns and men pretending to be women? Nope.

1 posted on 05/29/2025 3:07:49 PM PDT by airdalechief
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To: airdalechief

HOw can we get CNN out of airports.


2 posted on 05/29/2025 3:08:57 PM PDT by rovenstinez (Wo)
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If it wasn’t for hospital rooms and nursing homes nobody would watch CNN at all.


3 posted on 05/29/2025 3:13:03 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: airdalechief

Rachel Madcow on 24/7 will fix this.


4 posted on 05/29/2025 3:15:37 PM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: airdalechief

” CNN raked in an average 426,000, down 18%.”

Poor CNN.


5 posted on 05/29/2025 3:16:40 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Texas Eagle

My reasonably smart friend watches CNN and PMSNBC.

A Democrat, she voted for Trump this time. She knew Kamalalala was horrible.


6 posted on 05/29/2025 3:17:30 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump Is Superman)
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To: rovenstinez

I just looked it up and CNN stopped playing in airports in 2021.


7 posted on 05/29/2025 3:17:39 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: rovenstinez
They haven't been in airports for years.
8 posted on 05/29/2025 3:18:09 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !!)
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To: airdalechief
In the coveted 25-54 demo, Fox News averaged 262,000 viewers in primetime, which was up 32%, while CNN averaged 76,000 (down 21%), and MSNBC averaged 73,000 (down 34%). For total day in that demo, Fox News was up 22% with 180,000 average viewers, but CNN was down 27% with 59,000 average viewers, and MSNBC averaged 49,000 viewers (down 41%)

These numbers are pathetic.

9 posted on 05/29/2025 3:18:29 PM PDT by FatherofFive (we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor)
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To: airdalechief

So are those DAILY viewers. 400,000 viewers for a whole month seems insanely low.


10 posted on 05/29/2025 3:34:54 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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>> “Joy Reid racistly calls a white person “mayonnaise sandwich on wonder bread.”

...says the crap sandwich on pumpernickle


11 posted on 05/29/2025 3:45:05 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: dynachrome

Ha.

She will appear in the newly developed Smirk-a-Scope.
Inventor of IMAX is using her as the test case.


12 posted on 05/29/2025 3:51:57 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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In the coveted 25-54 demo...

The girls stopped "coveting" me when I hit 35. Now the TV stations have abandoned me, too. Being in an uncovered cohort is killing me. At least the dog still likes me. I'm not sure about the cat, though.

13 posted on 05/29/2025 3:58:03 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: SmokingJoe

CNN? I remembered that name from cableTV decades ago. Now on satellite I haven’t seen it in years. Last night I went through my entire DirecTV schedule several times before I found it. Still won’t watch it.
I have not watched any news channels in years! With TRUMP back in I am back to watching FOX.


14 posted on 05/29/2025 3:58:27 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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To: airdalechief

Do we know who watches MSNBC and CNN?


15 posted on 05/29/2025 4:13:30 PM PDT by nwrep
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No one under 55 watches TV News.


16 posted on 05/29/2025 4:18:59 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: rovenstinez

HOw can we get CNN out of airports.

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They haven’t played in airports since 2021.

You’re welcome.


17 posted on 05/29/2025 4:55:55 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: airdalechief

GOOD!


18 posted on 05/29/2025 5:15:57 PM PDT by metmom ( He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.”)
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To: Texas Eagle

All the places that have captive audiences use CNN.

Imagine that......


19 posted on 05/29/2025 5:16:41 PM PDT by metmom ( He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.”)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

You’re on the right track. Look for Newsmax on your programming. I gave up on FNC back during the second Impeachment of President Trump. Never looked back.

Needless to say I gave up on the others many, many, years before that. I get Newsmax on my Dish Network package, and online. Glorious!

(don’t tell anyone else, but I did watch MSNBC/PMSNBC/MS-13DNC and CNN on last election night. It was for -ahem- schadenfreude research purposes)

I fear I will lose Mrs. Kit to Rob Finnerty. Or Carl Higbie. Grandma Kit, at age 91, is probably writing fan letters to Greg Kelly. That old farm girl is more MAGA than ten of us put together!

God Bless,
Kit


20 posted on 05/29/2025 6:05:06 PM PDT by KitJ (Shall not be infringed...)
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