So well deserved! CNN's primetime ratings hit 30 year low!

[senseandsensibility]

This according to Ron Filipkowski on twitter, who also points out that one of the most common refrains on RW social media is "even CNN agrees with us!"

So this should put to bed the idea I hear expressed here and elsewhere that CNN is leaning right for ratings. Their ratings began tanking after they did their pep rally with a stacked audience for cheato and continue to sink. They've had time to adjust and they obviously aren't interested.

[unblock]

1. They are clearly in search of a compromise that pleases no one.

[bullimiami]

2. Unsurprised. I thought when they were looking to make a change.

They should have turned back toward hard news.
Start each hour with a news summary and list of in depth stories upcoming that hour.

Set aside time slots for opinion shows or news specials.

I think it would have stopped the bleeding and as people came to trust them again would increase and stabilize a reliable viewership.

But nope. They blew it.

[senseandsensibility]

4. Very good suggestions

I would watch a network like that.

[bullimiami]

9. I think a lot of people would. Sick of bullshit and tired of being treated like morons.

[Raven123]

16. Well said. I share your opinion

I suspect many of us actually want a NEWS program, and not politics 24x7. Other than polls, interviews with potential voters and opinionators, CNN offers little else.

[Shermann]

3. CNN used to be 24-hour news wallpaper for me

If I didn't feel like listening to music, I'd sometimes leave CNN on while piddling around with stuff around the house. But they ramped up the prescription drug commercials to where they got to be noise pollution.

The dancing Jardiance lady pushed it over the edge.

*CLICK*

The bad thing is that CNN is the only 24-hour news program on the Dish Network Flex Pack. Since I downgraded to that I lost MSNBC and even FXN. I have the local channels OTA so I mostly stick to the 1 hour of evening news.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. I used to like CNN, but gosh, over the last 5 or so years, they have gone downhill faster than my sled. No more.

Unfortunately, some of the announcers I still like, perhaps they'll get a decent offer to move elsewhere.

[senseandsensibility]

7. Just curious

Who do you like on CNN? I still like Jim Acosta.

[SWBTATTReg]

10. Acosta,

Christiane Amanpour, Anderson C., Jake Tapper (still determining, he has seemed to changed from what he used to be like). And plus there are a couple of more of them I can't recall at the moment.

[orange jar]

12. Amanpour is especially fantastic.

She deserves so much better than a Saturday block on CNN. News networks nowadays prefer the glitzy anchors over real, competent and actually professional journalists.

[SWBTATTReg]

15. I love her and her interviews too as well.

[Shermann]

32. Erin Burnette is respectable, but is more of a straight newsperson than an editorialist

She happens to be on when I sometimes tune in, and I remember her from "Street Signs" on CNBC.

Hell, I even liked Maria Bartiromo when she was on CNBC. I was more into money than politics back then. Who am I kidding, I still am.

[mwooldri]

26. No BBC News on your flex pack?

Programming is of course more of a world aspect, maybe focusing on the UK a bit more than I'd like. But if you want a relatively Trump free news zone....

[WarGamer]

5. For those who want the details...

CNN suffered its worst ratings among primetime viewers in the most coveted demographic by advertisers — dealing a gut punch to embattled new boss Mark Thompson.

The cable channel, which touts itself as “the most trusted name in news,” drew just 83,000 viewers aged 25 to 54 during the week of May 13-19 from 8 to 11 p.m. — its lowest-rated week since 1991, according to Nielsen.

By contrast, Fox News garnered more than the twice the audience in the key demo, with 186,000 viewers, according to Nielsen. Left-leaning MSNBC was a distant second with 111,000, the data showed.

[orange jar]

8. That many 25-54 yr olds are watching Fox?

Tf? Fox is boring as hell since Tucker left. He's undeniably a shitty person, but effective at being somewhat entertaining unlike the other hosts. My running theory is that liberals/Dems tend to watch less cable news & opinion shows because they're less likely to need their views reinforced by entertainers and show boaters. Not that we're 100% immune to it, but still.

[senseandsensibility]

11. What stands out from your post

is that slightly more key demographic voters watched either CNN or MSNBC than Faux. So slighty more than half are watching either moderate or progressive programming.

[WarGamer]

14. good catch... and that's not a bad thing.

[Sympthsical]

30. I honestly don't know how they're in business

I know and enjoy YouTube channels by small content creators with better numbers.

I guess pharmaceutical and reverse mortgage ads are a lucrative business.

It'll be interesting to see what these channels look like in 15 or so years. Their live audiences are literally dying off.

[Takket]

13. another 4 years of drumpf having everyone run to cable news to see what horrors he has wrought today

will help fix that..........

[senseandsensibility]

17. While I'm sure that if cheato wins (crossing myself and knocking on wood)

CNN's ratings would improve, I don't think they are playing the long game.

[DFW]

19. Though I don't get US TV here, I suspect the same thing.

Their sentiments tend to follow "the answer" and "the wind" in Bob Dylan's two most well-known songs.

[Boomerproud]

18. All the networks deserve to have their lowest ratings ever.

Can't stand any of them. They have failed us.

[Lonestarblue]

20. I haven't watched CNN in years because they got rid of hood people.

I liked Soledad O’Brian’s morning show and others that took facts seriously.

[Meadowoak]

21. I loved CNN when Ted Turner owned it. It hasn't been

Worth a shit since. I blocked CNN and FOX on my tvs.

[Haggard Celine]

34. I agree

Ted Turner wouldn't have put up with the state of that network today, I don't think. Wish he hadn't retired from public life.

[PortTack]

22. So will they "double down" with more conservative BS??!! Hummmmm

[Joinfortmill]

23. Left them in 2015.

They promoted The Traitor.

[Joinfortmill]

24. Deleted

[pwb]

25. They don't like that it will be easy to beat Trump again.

No need to spend all that election ad money on shit cable. That is what they're all squirming for, a smaller piece of the pie because they can't make the race. IMO.

[sop]

27. "CNN International is way better than the CNN we get domestically."

"The obvious difference is that there is a lot more coverage of the rest of the world, including extensive coverage of the Middle East, Asia and Africa. There is also extensive coverage of world financial markets."

"The biggest quality difference in my mind is that most of CNN International consists of actual reporting, whereas much of CNN domestic is shouting heads. Especially during the afternoon/evening hours, much of what you see hear is a bunch of people shouting at each other with little enlightenment. As a result, CNN International spends a lot more time on reporting actual news as opposed to speculation in fake 'strategy sessions' on what might happen in elections 4 years from now."

"CNN International also seems to have a lot less celebrity coverage."

"It's too bad that CNN International isn't available in the U.S. CNN clearly knows how to do quality journalism -- we just don't have access to it." - Rakesh Agrawal

[OneBlueDotS-Carolina]

31. CNN International is available in the US.

So much better than the other crap cable news. Available on Direct TV stream.

CBC (Canada), BBC (UK), France 24 & others are available as streaming apps or youtube.

[Kid Berwyn]

28. Censoring references to the "Big Lie" and going full-MAGA might have something to do with it.

Like others, I might've stayed a frequent viewer, had CNN stayed -- what's the expression, misappropriated by Roger Ailes and Rupert the Alien? -- Fair and Balanced."

[lpbk2713]

29. I cut the cord two years ago.

I didn't watch CNN much then. I don't watch it at all now.

[doc03]

33. I have been watching less of MSNBC and CNN, I am just sick of hearing

about Trump and I suppose there are a lot more like me. Every day it's the same bs, Trump violated his gag order
and we all know they aren't going to do anything about it. Everyone speculating on the results of the trial, why listen
it is up to the jury. We all know he won't go on trial for his other crimes until the election is over and if he wins nothing will happen/

[elocs]

35. When you try and play both ends against the middle, you lose both as well as their respect.

Hate FOX how you will but at least you know where they are coming from. They may brag that even CNN agrees with them them, but they don't respect CNN.