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Fox News topped the June viewership figures as well as the second quarter ratings, but all of the news networks continued to show steep declines in a post-election, post Donald Trump presidency news environment. In primetime, Fox News topped with an average of 2.13 million viewers, compared to 1.31 million for MSNBC and 798,000 for CNN. Compared to the same month a year earlier, Fox News was off 42%, MSNBC was down 36% and CNN dropped 57%. In the 25-54 demo, Fox News drew an average of 329,000, down 50%; compared to 179,000 for CNN, falling 68%; and 166,000 for...

TIMBER. CNN’s ratings continue to drop as their total day viewership is down 70%. Nielsen Media Research reports CNN’s primetime viewers at the beginning of the year was roughly around 798,000 people and 530,000 total day viewers. Now the network is seeing no more than 229,000 primetime viewers with 152,000 total day viewers. Translation: That’s pretty awful. -snip- FOX ratings, though significantly higher, also continue to feel the blow of lower viewership after they hurt themselves during the election. With more outlets from Newsmax to Nextstar’s new partnership with NewsNation Now the competition for national cable news outlets is growing

CNN has seen ratings plummet since former President Donald Trump left the White House, according to a Fox News report on Nielsen Media Research data. The network averaged 2.5 million primetime viewers between the day after the election— November 4, 2020 — and Inauguration Day on January 20, 2021, Fox News reported. Since President Joe Biden was sworn in, however, those numbers have dropped dramatically. An average of 1.6 million viewers tuned in during primetime hours between January 21 and March 15, Fox News said. That's a downturn of 36% since Biden took office. Primetime viewers also ditched CNN in...

Former President Trump's exit from the White House coincided with a slump in ratings for cable news channels and digital news sites, according to a Washington Post analysis. Data from media tracking firm ComScore as well as the Nielsen company indicated drops in traffic across websites for the Post, which lost roughly one-fourth of its monthly web traffic, as well as The New York Times, which lost roughly 17 percent of its traffic over January and February. In the cable news ratings wars, CNN lost nearly 50 percent of its prime-time audience over the first few months of 2021, according...

CNN is losing around a million viewers on average each night since President Donald Trump left office - and is down nearly 50% in the key 24-54 age group, a report said on Thursday. The cable news channel had averaged 2.5 million prime-time viewers each night from November 4 through Inauguration Day on January 20, according to a Fox News analysis of Nielsen data. But data shows the network averaged only 1.6 million total prime-time viewers from January 21, the day after the inauguration of President Joe Biden, through March 15, according to the report. CNN's overall prime-time viewership, from...

CNN ratings have collapsed by almost 60% since President Trump left the White House almost 2 months ago. Here are the CNN post-inauguration ratings drops as of Monday 3/15/2021 compared to Monday 1/18/2021 according to Nielsen: Lemon -60% Tapper -59% Cuomo -58% Blitzer -57% Burnett -56% Cooper -55% For comparison purposes, here are some other ratings drops for the same time period: Mad Cow -26% Tucker Carlson -8% Laura Ingraham -6% Sean Hannity -5%

CNN ratings have collapsed by nearly 50% since President Trump left the White House almost a month ago. Here are the CNN post-inauguration ratings drops as of Monday 2/15/2021 compared to Monday 1/18/2021 according to Nielsen: Tapper -53% Cooper -50% Blitzer -50% Baldwin -50% Lemon -48% Burnett -48% Cuomo -44%