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The bad ratings news for CNN keeps rolling in.
May 2012* was CNN’s lowest month in primetime for total viewers in over 20 years (since October 1991). It was also CNN’s second lowest-rated month in over 20 years in the news target adults 25-54 demographic.
The hour by hour ratings situation was also grim. CNN’s 9pm show, Piers Morgan Tonight, delivered CNN's lowest-rated hour in more than 20 years in both P2+ and in A25-54. Erin Burnett OutFront drew CNN's worst adults 25-54 demo in the 7pm timeslot in over 20 years.
Compared to May, 2011, CNN lost more than half of its audience in both primetime and total day in both total viewers and in the adults 25-54 demographic. The majority of CNN’s programs lost more than half of their viewership compared to the same time period last month.
Here is more courtesy of Politicususa:
CNN’s problems started when the network bosses got the bright idea that they should try to copy Fox News, and move to the right. After climbing into bed with the Tea Party Express and hiring far right wingers Erick Erickson and Dana Loesch led to the current ratings disaster, what would you expect CNN to do?
If you said hire more right wingers and conservatives, congratulations, you are qualified for an upper management position at CNN. The network’s latest hire, Fox News castoff Margaret Hoover, let the cat out the bag, “Executives at CNN have been looking for fresh faces and new talent with conservative perspectives, and in the end, offered me an opportunity that was too good to pass up. Indeed, competition, that sturdy pillar of capitalism, is alive and well in the cable news industry.”
Good strategy, IF you are working to help MSNBC rise to the top of the cable news market that is.
Oh CNN! Did you REALLY think those low information viewers were going to leave the Fox News pablum, for YOUR Wolf Blitzer spiced infotainment? What could you possibly have been thinking?
Besides even IF you had managed to lure a few viewers away, you DO realize that the majority of Fox viewers are elderly and just barely clinging to life right? Not to mention the fact that Fox News is itself also losing viewers at an amazing rate, most likely due to attrition.
Personally I have a theory that most of the viewers of Fox News are stuck in waiting rooms, living in old folks homes, or committed to state run mental institutions where they don't have access to the TV remote control. Because if they did, HELLO Rachel Maddow!
Oh Gee! I feel another "balloon boy" story coming! Gotta get those ratings up...right CNN? Can you tell that's the last time I watched CNN! LOL!!
ReplyDeleteNow, while I wish Rachel Maddow looked more like Erin Burnett, and had a less screechy voice, its a small price to pay, to see the most insightful, damn the torpedos newscast on television.
ReplyDeleteI keep worrying that the powers that have a stranglehold on everything media but the internet, will silence her sooner or later.
If so, I'll still be a fan and simply get her message from a blog or whatever.
I personally think Rachel Maddow is perfect as a news person.
DeleteMaddow's voice "screechy?"
DeleteMan, you need your ears checked. There is only one truly screechy-voiced woman in the news and that is Sarah Palin.
Glad you like Maddow, but really, you need to rethink that opinion.
Even if she did sound like that, none of us would be willing to turn down the volume. She rules!
Rachel Maddow's looks have nothing to do with her extraordinary skill, intelligence, and ability to convey a message. I'm so glad she has a forum.
DeleteI'm a 60-something straight (happily married) woman, and I think Rachel Maddow's looks are just fine, thank you. I actually love the difference between the natural Rachel in some of her public service ads and the perfectly-made-up Rachel sitting at her MSNBC desk. Funny how all her freckles and moles disappear.
@KaJo
DeleteI agree, I think Rachel looks great, and in fact, I have had a girl crush on her since the first time I saw her on MSNBC. As a straight women, I might be swayed to the other team if Rachel was the one asking.
I find Rachel's voice to be the opposite of "screechy". I think you need a new TV.
DeleteI enjoy Rachel's show not only because I'm a progressive, but because she adds non-political news to it almost nightly. She's well-educated, intelligent, and appears to have a great staff assisting her.
As for her appearance -- perfect for what she does. Not as distracting as some of the female hosts on FOX news. Very professional.
Anonymous 4:18
Delete"Even if she did sound like that, none of us would be willing to turn down the volume."
Seriously?
Anon 2:54
I have a problem with Rachel's voice, too. Thank God I have power over the remote control. I can't tolerate high pitch or anything loud so Ed also gets the volume control treatment. Also Jessica Lopez.
TeaNN?
ReplyDeleteI cannot recall the last time I watched a whole show on CNN. 2009?
I'll view an occasional Anderson-Cooper clip. Otherwise, I'll skip CNN video clips online.
I got tired of CNN when they became Fox Two.
I'm sitting here giggling.
ReplyDeleteHello Rachel!!
LOL!
I was getting an oil change at a car dealership recently and went to the waiting area where a guy was reading a magazine and Fox news was on. I asked the guy if he minded if I changed the channel, he said sure, no problem. As I changed it to MSNBC, I said to the guy "sorry but I hate Fox" and he said "I do too", which surprised me.
ReplyDeleteThen one of the salesmen came over, started watching MSNBC and said in a low voice "I've gotta catch some real news, a couple of the guys here turn that stupid Fox on and let it blast nonsense all day until a brave, intelligent person comes in and changes the channel". He then went on to tell me about his wife who was a teacher and how they've been affected by the WI Govenor eliminating Collective Bargaining, quite a bonding moment.
The waiting rooms at Les Schwab refused to change the channel from Fox while I was the only one sitting in the TV area. I asked how far my tire installation had proceeded and was told I was next. I then canceled my 4 tire sale and went to Costco. If they must stand on their principles, so must customers.
Delete@dz
DeleteGood for you!
The only thing that talks is money. I try to shop with my principles in mind.
I've heard that there is some deal that offices with waiting rooms get that requires the use of FOX News, some part of the package they get. I just know that my blood pressure soars when I see it on.
DeleteAfter spending several hours forced to watch Fox at a Chrysler dealer, my husband told the service rep that they might want to think about changing the channel, since we had been watching Fox attack the auto bailout. The shocked look on the service rep's face was precious!
DeleteHey, nice job of cherry picking that two month old article by politicsusa.com Your readers are too brain dead to know any better.
ReplyDeleteThe greatest thing Maddow has ever done was when she refused to interview McGinnis.
Remember that ?
Hi, little troll. Having a nice day are you?
DeleteSo sorry, dumbass, but that article on Politicususa was posted last night. Speaking of being brain dead, take a look in the mirror. "Dumbass."
DeleteIf you're going to be a bridge troll nipping at Gryphen's heels (a fave expression of Chris Matthews), at least *try* to express yourself from the perspective of the real world (aka facts, aka reality).
DeleteThe article Gryph linked to was posted yesterday.
Also, Gryph is spot on in saying that CNN is emulating Fox, as their recent hiring decisions prove. Tweeted by NYT's @BrianStelter today:
The producer of that anti-Obama video on "Fox & Friends?" He had a job offer from CNN. But not anymore. http://nyti.ms/LMxWpi
URL:
http://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/208305852430553089
The reason Rachel "refused" to have McGinnis on her show is that she rarely has ANY news regarding Palin, as Palin is not a very significant force in politics. If you watched her show, you would note that she tends to stay away from "Tabloid Journalism", and pretty much anything involving the Palins is Tabloid fodder.
Delete"most of the viewers of Fox News are stuck in waiting rooms, living in old folks homes, or committed to state run mental institutions where they don't have access to the TV remote control."
ReplyDeleteThey're also on the Lido deck of the new Carnival Breeze cruise-ship.
You know, maybe research shows that the majority of Faux New's viewers are into the senior category, but for good freaking grief, everyone one needs to rethink casting a wide net.
DeleteYou must remember that a huge percentage of seniors (over 60) were flower children and hippies, or at least became progressives!
I am so very, very tired of people taking a look at our silver hair and thinking we are one of those Limbaugh or Fox people. We hate them with a passion and have always been in the progressive camp - quite actively. Many people are like us - not the stereotype.
I would certainly appreciate if a distinction could be made: "those seniors" who watch Faux News or "that percentage of seniors who listen to Limbaugh."
BTW, I run into many young men who spout nonsense like Palin, Limbaugh and the like. If I am my car, they often give me the finger because of my progressive bumper stickers.
So please show some intelligent restraint and stop pushing us all into the same category. End of rant.
I'm with you! I was not a flower child/hippy in my youth, but am now at the age of 65. I definitely am a progressive and appreciate the kindness, intelligence, "wily-ness" of our wonderful President Obama.
DeleteNot all "old" people are Fox or CNN listeners. Some of us actually think about our current world and the one we are leaving for our children and grandchildren, along with the few politicians that think the same way - and there a few young ones who are on the right path also.
Thank you.
DeleteI know of one 83 year old who isn't a Fox non-news viewer nor votes for the GOP/tea.
My Mom is that 83 year old person.
A few years ago I had the pleasure of introducing my very progressive 84 year old aunt to MSNBC. She had never ventured that far up the dial of her cable channels (or mastered her remote for that matter). She fell in +love+ with Rachel and Keith and has been a daily viewer ever since.
DeleteFox viewers are old and crazy.
DeleteThat is NOT the same thing as saying ALL OLD people watch FOX.
For 4:24 pm: Right on. I wasn't a flower child or a hippie but I've always been a liberal Democrat, product of Roosevelt Democrats. And I will never turn FOX News on. It's all lies, all the time.
DeleteBeaglemom
Bristol aka nancy has posted pics- camping with her son and maybe with er new boyfriend. Clse to her tv gig air time she seems to be trying for attention.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous 3:45 PM
DeleteUm, so Bristol's still doing that "camping" thing, huh? We know that's her code word for putting her son to bed early, getting drunk, and then practicing what the Palin skanks refer to as "abstinence".
The great thing about having Nancy write her blog--- if Bristol gets so hammered that she doesn't remember having her feet being on the ceiling of the tent all night, when she wakes up, according to her ghostwriter, Beefy's STILL a virgin, whether she can find her panties from the night before or not.
Is she still screwing the same guy, or did he dump her yet like everybody else does after crossing Beefy off his cumbucket list?
DeleteI used to watch CNN for its "middle of the road-ness." While I am a lefty, I found MSNBC was preaching to the choir, and Fox was just....well...BIZARRE. I noticed CNN getting much more "Fox-like" in programming lately. Not surprising that smart people are moving on.
ReplyDeleteI used to watch CNN because they were truly "fair and balanced." They used to show both sides of a story. But now all it seems they do is criticize our President. And that's OK with me if he really needs constructive criticism but that hasn't been the case. Fox News Lite, indeed.
ReplyDeleteI'm one of the viewers they lost.
Us,too.
DeleteMe too. I watched CNN throughout the 2008 election campaign from the DNC and RNC on, but stopped about halfway through 2009 when John King began to show his true (right wing) colors.
DeleteI hated it when he and Wolf Blitzer would be interviewing a Dem, and when the interviewee was about to make an important point or finish his thought, they'd say "Well, we'll have to leave it there", then conveniently go to break.
Even after that I'd tune in on Anderson Cooper's show, but lately since he started his daytime show, I think even he has become unbearable.
I'm pretty much going to cable MSNBC and a variety online news sites for my news. And I sometimes go to the RW sites, just to see what they're talking about (I do my jeering on Twitter).
You're much more brave than I, Kajo! I've tried to go to the RW sites but the outright lies and misinformation make my blood boil. Let me just say I appreciate people like you that take one for the team and report back. Because many times, I want to puke before I give those sites clicks (ad revenue).
DeleteHowever, I know I need to get both sides of a story so I'll temporarily venture out to do so. It just makes me sick when I see so many believing such garbage.
Poor Ted Turner, seeing this disaster emanate from the wondrous thing he created.
ReplyDeleteNever watch CNN anymore, but did try Cooper a few nights ago. It's insulting enough when they play the same loops over and over when a guest is talking, but it was WITH THE SOUND. So, the person in the clip was almost as loud as the guest.
I lasted about three minutes. Bye-bye.
“Besides even IF you had managed to lure a few viewers away, you DO realize that the majority of Fox viewers are elderly and just barely clinging to life right? No to mention the fact that Fox News is itself also losing viewers at an amazing rate, most likely due to attrition.
ReplyDelete“Personally I have a theory that most of the viewers of Fox News are stuck in waiting rooms, living in old folks homes, or committed to state run mental institutions where they don't have access to the TV remote control…”
A lot of truth here; my folks are gone, but my husband has one last parent. The guy wasn’t a good father, as evidenced by his daughter fleeing the family home (the wife was already gone). He’s into religion for the first time in his life. I kind of like the old guy… as he is… now.
If Fox gets no young converts in the next few years, they’re toast. How can we make that happen?
I know it sounds crazy, but if CNN would just report news (hey it's a big world with lot's going on), I would watch them more. I have zero interest is Piers Morgan, or any 'hip' technology for displaying voter demographics. Show us some CNN International, sprinkle in some Dan Rather Reports, make a deal with PBS, - in short, show us news, not some right wing media spin!!
ReplyDeleteI stopped watching FOX in 2003, this may be the year I ditch CNN.
i travel alot and you would be surprised to know how many big hotel chains play FOX news on the TV in the breakfast room....and many of the hotel chains subscribe to a limited number of TV stations where FOX is the only news channel. THAT is how they get their ratings -- forced viewership.
ReplyDeletei just don't use the hotel tv anymore - bring my ipad and am good to go and can choose several news sources, including theimmoralminority !!!
I find CNN has declined in terms of actual news presentation. I would love to find what CNN used to be, fair and accurate reporting.
ReplyDelete"...Fox News is itself also losing viewers at an amazing rate, most likely due to attrition."
ReplyDeleteDue to attrition...Now that's funny!
Maybe 5 years is all that network has left, hopefully.
I am 75 years old and also tired of the references made about we who are over 60. I'm an MSNBC news fan. I have them on the whole time I'm home, I too used to watch CNN but no longer have any use for them.
ReplyDeleteEllen in Canada
Ellen,
DeleteYeah, gets under my skin sometimes, too, but I think of it from my own observations:
Not all older folks are low-info types, but the ones who happen to be low-info types and have cable are more likely Fox viewers.
Not all young people are dumb, either, but if they're dumb and have cable, a few will watch Fox and the rest just play video games.
Median age of Fox News viewer is 65. Nothing wrong with that by itself, except that number is also pretty close to their audience's median IQ as well.
Back in the 80's I always watched CNN also, because you didn't have to be in front of the TV at 5pm/6pm or 10pm to find out what happened in the world that day. Also CNN had more international news and more sports coverage that the networks couldn't cover because their time window was so tight. Today, I'll watch CNN during election coverage as I channel surf, that's about it.
Here's a couple of links that should tell us what we both already know--- that "old" isn't referring to you and me. Hell, everybody hopes they live long enough to be advanced in years like us, because in my opinion it sure as hell beats the alternative.
"Old" in the Fox News sense is only derogatory because those are seniors that are too narrow-minded to listen to REAL news that gives a different viewpoint. In other words, if it ain't on Fox, they don't know about it.
I might not know everything, but at least I don'y think that I do. But I do know a lot because I listen to opposing views and think critically.
But Fox News viewers don't know, and they don't know what it is that they don't know.
Here's a couple of links that'll explain better than I did. Besides, it's past my bedtime-you know, since I'm so old and all... ;^O
http://tinyurl.com/Fox-News-Old-AND-Dumb
http://tinyurl.com/Fox-News-Makes-Em-Stupid
CNN absolutely sucks. Current's got some great programming for progressives and MSNBC, especially Rachael, is my go to channel. Their weekend programming keeps getting better and better, though I have to tape Chris Hayes. Who gets up at 8 A.M. on the weekends?
ReplyDeleteI just hope Anderson Cooper (and maybe Soledad O'Brien) jump ship before the ss CNN totally sinks.
CNN has the biggest collection of annoying on air people of any cable channel. Honestly. I could watch the Fox idiots if they weren't saying their horrible things that they say before I could sit and watch most of the CNN crew. Anderson Cooper is the only exception. All the rest - John King, Candy Crowley, Peirs Morgan, Wolf Blitzer, I can't stand a single one of them. And the very worst is the girlie with the British accent who does the new bits during Anderson Coopers' show. I have to turn the channel as soon as she speaks. Ugh, ick, bleack.
ReplyDeleteYes, I do feel better now. ;)
I have a friend here in Missouri that sends me Tru TV videos which if you look up you get Turner Network.
ReplyDeleteI have begun my own campaign to straighten this friend out by doing alot of questioning..... I like to provide articles that dispute! I think my points are beginning to make sense but we all need to grab a friend and educate them.
When you lay down with dogs, you get fleas.
ReplyDeleteHow much of Fox's demographic is just 24/7 background drone in retirement homes and tire stores?
ReplyDeleteAdmittedly, I usually always watch MSNBC, however, my son surfs between the two channels. I happened to see a few shows this weekend and noted how right biased they were and I did not remember this about CNN. I actually googled is CNN moving right and found the answer! It is bizarre that an infrequent viewer such as myself can so easily recognize the shift in so short a time. CNN has sealed their doom. Faux Noise is for a deluded and demented populace and they serve their message of division and hate well, misinforming and providing soft interviews for the Teapublicans, there is no audience for a clone. Bye, Bye CNN.
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