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Wake Up Call: CNN’s Election Coverage Finishes Fourth
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Posted on 11/04/2009 4:25:43 PM PST by Typical_Whitey

Highlighting even further the ratings erosion at CNN in prime time, the “Most Trusted Name in News” finished in fourth place among cable news outlets during election coverage last night.

Fox News was #1 by a mile, followed by MSNBC, then CNN sister network HLN and CNN in 4th place. They were fourth in both total viewers and the A25-54 demographic.

CNN’s 4th place finish last night was only made more glaring because last year’s election coverage on the network was their best night of all time. They didn’t just have more viewers than every other cable news network last year – it was the most of all time.

Here’s the ratings breakdown in prime time last night:

FNC: 4,043,000 in total viewers (1,130,000 in A25-54)

MSNBC: 974,000 in total viewers (308,000 in A25-54)

HLN: 842,000 in total viewers (341,000 in A25-54)

CNN: 826,000 in total viewers (227,000 in A25-54)

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cnn; election; fnc; foxnews; foxnewsratings; hln; media; msnbc; nj2009; va2009
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To: bustinchops

That’s Jack Cafferty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM3iWlTiEGc


41 posted on 11/04/2009 6:54:00 PM PST by eaglestar
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To: Typical_Whitey

How many wake up calls can CNN get?

It’s not like their constant position at the bottom of the cable news standings is a surprise to anyone. The ratings come out every weak.

The bottom line is: They don’t give a damn that they are at the bottom. They have an agenda and they are going to stick to it come hell or high water, ratings be damned.

They’ll change whenever they run out of money or are bought out. No other way.


42 posted on 11/04/2009 7:00:01 PM PST by CriticalJ
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush
I thought Switzerland was stuck to France , Germany and Italy

It is - that's Austria.

43 posted on 11/04/2009 7:07:58 PM PST by nina0113
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

Ooh - major face-palm - it’s the Czech Republic.


44 posted on 11/04/2009 7:10:17 PM PST by nina0113
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To: My Favorite Headache
My bet is they get a conservative talk show host to have a show over there at 10 pm to fight Greta.

They WOULD be smart if they did that. But they're not. They're collectivists, remember? In fact, they're recently made a rule prohibiting talk show hosts from even appearing as guests! Now, that's WAY BEYOND stupid. It's evil.

45 posted on 11/04/2009 7:27:24 PM PST by FreeKeys (Hey, Blue Dogs! Are YOUR constituents like the Canucks in New York's 23rd district?)
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To: Bushbacker1
with Rush as guest. Nearly doubled the other three combined

With recorded on-line views of the Rush interview, I imagine the real number is probably at least "tripled."

HF

46 posted on 11/04/2009 7:35:18 PM PST by holden
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To: Bushbacker1
...with Rush as guest. Nearly doubled the other three combined. Good day for Wallace’s show.

Wallace did a great job with that interview.

47 posted on 11/04/2009 7:44:36 PM PST by GOPJ (CNN analysts would have called it a "referendum on Obama" IF dems had won...)
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To: StarFan
No surprise that fox is beating their competitors but I’d rather see MSNBC in 4th place with a promise to cancel them altogether.

I agree. MSNBC needs to be the Air Amerika of television.

Wow, look at those numbers above... Fox News absolutely blew away the competition! Incredible.

48 posted on 11/04/2009 8:14:35 PM PST by nutmeg (Obamunism is destroying America)
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To: jester221
...but Shepard Smith on Fox was pretty hard to stomach.

"Oh Sheepie... that was great."

49 posted on 11/04/2009 8:14:44 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: SkyPilot

Cooper’s puerile teabagger remarks should send his gay lame smirky butt packing


50 posted on 11/04/2009 8:36:16 PM PST by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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To: Typical_Whitey
HolyO {cue angelic chorus} is the best free publicity FOX could ever have asked for, LOL! :-)
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51 posted on 11/04/2009 8:39:45 PM PST by pillut48 (CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
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To: rdl6989

“I flipped through the news channels to see what the others were saying and MSNBC had Rachel Maddow on. No thanks. CNN’s panel was yipping about how the results meant nothing in the long run. I turned it back to Shepard.”

LOL - I went through exactly the same “lesser of evils” process.


52 posted on 11/04/2009 8:57:17 PM PST by Magic Fingers
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To: Magic Fingers

Best coverage was Neil Cavuto’s on Fox Business. Had it on until I fell asleep around 1.


53 posted on 11/04/2009 8:59:03 PM PST by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Jabba the Nutt

You want to stand by that statement with regards to Larry King? He is awful...horrid...terrible.


54 posted on 11/04/2009 10:14:57 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
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To: Indy Pendance
Sorry...what is labeled as Switzerland is the map of the Czech Republic. One needs to go to the Southwest of that location, past Austria (where we ALL know they speak Austrian) and find that little country that borders Germany, France, Austria AND Italy.

55 posted on 11/04/2009 10:30:52 PM PST by Stand Watch Listen ("All that's necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.")
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To: Stand Watch Listen

Wasn’t that the point? It’s CNN.


56 posted on 11/04/2009 10:58:57 PM PST by GnuHere
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To: Califreak

Election night blood was shooting out of my eyes.

Is that black madman Roland Martin? Evil personified.

Gergen, hopeless whore.

Blitzed........pathetic.


57 posted on 11/05/2009 1:42:36 AM PST by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: Jabba the Nutt

You cock-eyed optimist, you! Why would they give up their “religion” for the sake of the truth?

They look at what happened to John Stossel when he revealed things that are “uncomfortable” for the left’s religion on various leftie issues, and they lose their nerve. It takes guts to report the truth about the left, and most of them don’t have that kind of guts.

But I hear ya.


58 posted on 11/05/2009 4:07:07 AM PST by alwaysconservative (Happiness isn't about having what you want, but about wanting what you have.)
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To: Typical_Whitey

BTT


59 posted on 11/05/2009 4:16:06 AM PST by Starstruck
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To: My Favorite Headache

I can’t stand to watch Campbell Brown. That woman is just WEIRD looking. The shape of her mouth is so strange and distracting that I can’t follow what she’s saying.


60 posted on 11/05/2009 4:43:22 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Maureen Dowd is right. I DON'T like our President's color. He's a Red.)
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