CNN's Political Ratings Dropping

[stewert]

CNN's political coverage scratched in the 25-54 demo and its numbers hovered at MSNBC levels on Tuesday, a cable news source said. Inside Politics averaged 432,000 viewers and 43,000 in the demo. Crossfire averaged 390,000 viewers, 43,000 of whom are in the demo. Wolf Blitzer Reports earned 364,000 viewers, with 44,000 aged 25-54.

Scratched means they got a 0.0 rating.

On monday CNN only averaged 387,000 viewers in total day numbers.

Miller & McEnroe Both Scratch on Monday

Dennis Miller scratched with 103,000 viewers, and at 10pm, McEnroe scratched with only 67,000.

http://mediabistro.com/tvnewser/

[GalleryGod]

1. Now! If we can only get Air America TELEVISION!

CNN would be toast!:puke: :argh:

[whistle]

10. AAT would also give Fox News some serious competition

[GreenPartyVoter]

25. watch free speech tv & cspan

[Born Free]

36. That would be an achievement...

I would start watching TV news again. As it is I get all my news from reading print papers on line, only watch a few political shows such as the Daily Show and Real Time because they are informative and entertaining. I found Air America and Sirius Left to be a far better way to keep up on what is going on politically. I prefer Air America, but when it's a rerun I will switch to Sirius Left, they have some good shows as well such as Ed Shultz and The Young Turks. I only wish they would drop Alan Colmes from FOX and pick up one of the guys from LA.

[bryant69]

2. I don't know if this is good news or not

Cause i'll bet that Fox's numbers are up.

Bryant
check it out--> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[movonne]

9. That is because freepers totality watch Faux news and of course

a smattering of DU'ers. The other cables has to get all of the liberal watchers. (which I don't think that there is as many liberals as freepers that watch the cable news)

[movonne]

3. Does my heart good....we only need one Faux news.

[goclark]

4. W o n d e r f u l...what else can

we do to really scratch them out of the picture all together!

I have been telling all of my friends not to watch CNN. Many didn't even know how CNN changed. Now they watch MSNBC.

[Eurobabe]

40. Don't watch it anymore

Gave it up last year with their chestbeating, warmongering Iraq coverage. That coupled with vapid, inane anchors that do nothing but shill for NEOCONS...buh-bye Cesspool Network News!

[DeepModem Mom]

5. From yesterday: MSNBC Beats CNN Total-Day, "CNN has to be embarrassed"!

This is going on, and CNN keeps running full-speed to the right? Are they idiots??? Their viewers,like many of us here, are moving to MSNBC in droves.

Monday Ratings: MSNBC Beats CNN Total-Day
MSNBC and CNN dueled again on Monday. In total day, MSNBC averaged 398,000 viewers to CNN's 387,000. (FNC had 943,000.) "Olympics or no Olympics, CNN has to be pretty embarrassed getting beat by MSNBC in 24 hours of coverage," a source said. In primetime, it was still no race -- FNC had 1,911,000 viewers to CNN's 852,000 and MSNBC's 370,000.

> The 7 and 8pm hours were competitive: Hardball averaged 534,000 viewers, while 360 had 410,000; Zahn averaged 422,000, while Countdown had 410,000. (That's a statistical tie -- the demo was only 2,000 viewers apart.)

> Other show #'s: O'Reilly: 2,442,000; H&C: 1,792,000; Greta: 1,498,000; Larry King: 1,396,000; NewsNight: 679,000; Norville: 237,000; Scarborough: 369,000

# 8/24/2004 07:41:40 PM

Thanks for posting, stewert!

[faithnotgreed]

26. glad to see hardball #s up. better email chris another thank you

ill get to it

[Shopaholic]

54. Countdown's ratings are also much improved from earlier in the year

Keith Olbermann's still got the #3 cable news show at 8pm, but he has tied with Zahn on occasion recently. :bounce: Day-in, day-out Countdown is the best news show on TV. And it's funny too!

CNN's got to be run by the biggest bunch of idiots that I've ever seen. They lose their market share to Fox so what do they decide to do? Move to the right! Uhm--yeah, that makes sense. The conservatives have long-departed for Fox so CNN thinks that they're going to come back to CNN once Fox has served them up the Kool-Aid just the way they like it?????

All CNN has succeeded in doing (besides losing all credibility they may once have had) is pissing off the left by moving right. Now the lefties have left them too and their ratings are going down even more. I'm having a real hard time working up sympathy for them though. How many e-mails, faxes, letters, and phone calls have we deluged them with and how many times have they ignored us? It wasn't like we didn't warn them. I think the execs were so smug that they really believed we'd watch them no matter what. Can't you hear them now? "Sure, they're complaining, but they're still watching". Well, the ratings prove we're not anymore!

[PROGRESSIVE1]

32. CNN is sinking like the Titanic!

:bounce:

[SOS]

52. And fast!

Total day: CNN: 478,000 August 9, 2004
Total day: CNN: 387,000 August 25, 2004

91,000 viewers gone in two weeks! This is great.

[Renew Deal]

45. Mathews is still better than anyone on CNN.

No matter what Mathews says, he has a beter show than any political show on CNN. Dobbs and Aaron Brown are pretty good, but they are stuck with a bunch of lunatics. CNN is otherwise unwatchable. MSNBC's other big star is Olberman. And Scarborough is an ass, but at least he doesn't hide it.

[Leilani]

6. Thanks for that link...

It also has a blurb about MSNBC doing better...

Dems, we can make a difference.

Boycott CNN, except for Aaron Brown(Newsnight) & Lou Dobbs.

Last night Brown played the tape with O Neill lying. He has been there constantly, telling the truth.

[R3dD0g]

7. CNN gave up on the news business years ago.

When they saw Fox eating their lunch they figured they'd go more Foxy. The bigs at CNN thought the Fox watchers just wanted more criticism of the Dems with their news. CNN never realized that Fox viewers didn't want news at all, just propaganda to reinforce their warped world view. CNN will never draw Fox viewers.

I predict that with their current programming model, they'll be out of business in 4 yrs.

[Lone_Wolf]

33. Some people might say that Faux's formula for success is to

make up stories and pass them off as news. It is much cheaper than actually having journalists do real research.

[SoCalDem]

8. They ought to try an "experiment" for a month

run CNN-I in place of the drivel we see here.. They would see the ratings climb...

and they could still "use" some of their "stars"..just invite one guest at a time, and let them TALK...

lots of shows on CNN-I do not have "defined" lenghths.. If an impostant subject is deing covered, they will continue with it..

The "show" format has KILLED CNN's credibility..


Q:.. "....... is the most important and dangerous..... to world security....millions of people are at risk of losing their lives....What do you have to say about that??? TEN SECONDS..WE'RE OUTTA TIME..WE'LL HAVE YOU BACK..."..

IN OTHER NEWS........KOBE/LACI/SCOTT/MARTHA/FLYBOY

[Halliburton]

11. Great News

Hopefully the network will get the message that getting Foxy only alienates its once loyal viewers.

[marlakay]

12. Isn't Al Franken doing a show soon on tv?

[Shae]

46. part of Franken's radio show

Broadcast on Sundance channel beginning September 7.

[Kahuna]

13. Good! Now let's rub salt into the wounds... Though....

I doubt it will do any good. I believe that CNN has an agenda. Period. They don't care about ratings or they wouldn't do the things they do to that intentionally turn off liberal viewers.

[AP]

14. Lord. If Miller and McEnroe were on cable access in the Chicago suburbs...

...those would still be terrible numbers.

[Carni]

15. Aside from Lou Dobbs and Crossfire

CNN is just a waste.

It's as bad if not worse than FOX in my opinion (at least at this point everyone KNOWS Fox is partisan)

[JitterbugPerfume]

17. McEnroe has

a pretty decent show actually

[Still_Loves_John]

16. That's really not that unusual...

I mean, I usually watch CNN, but since the olympics started, that's basically all that I've been watching. Viewership on all the news networks (except MSNBC) should be going down right now.

[AmerDem]

18. Wait give it a bit more time...

They will have scratched in all categories and what a celebration it will be!

[Cleita]

19. Well, ever since we got AAR,

my viewing of CNN has dropped 80%. I'm sure this is happening everywhere that people are able to get AAR. Instead of a lot of spin, lies, ommissions and scandalous murder story distractions, to try to sift the truth out of, it's refreshing to get the news items and commentary on AAR that CNN and the other channels refuse to carry.

[Hidebo]

47. there is a rumor

that AAR will be canceled by the end of this year......

[Pax Argent]

51. Which is buttressed by the fact that

they just picked up three more stations on Monday? Oh, wait, that doesn't support that rumor, does it? Oh well, you should probably watch "Outfoxed" to learn the danger of believing what "some people are saying".

[snowbear]

20. poltical ratings CNN, etc..

The CNN ratings don't surprise me either. :thumbsdown: Maybe it's just me, but it sure seems that they let the Bushies ramble on endessly and just as it's time for the Dem to respond, they never fail to say..

..."We're going to have to leave it at that, we'll have you both back to debate this again at another time"

As far as MSNBC, Chris Mathews of Hardball is for the most part ok.. but he has his days when you love him, and days when he really ticks you off..

As far as MSNBC, I have a lot of respect for Keith Olbermann on Countdown.. Now he, I can handle! :headbang:

And Dennis Miller... LOL!! Too funny to hear that once again another of his shows is doing crappy. How many does this make now? :thumbsdown:

[K-W]

21. Is this good news? Wont this make them want to be even more life Fox?

There is the off chance that they realize that Fox has the conservative audience and imitating Fox is a recipe for nothing, and if they were smart, they would reach for other demographics...

but television executives arent exactly known for thier smarts.

[Guaranteed]

42. They should be seeing a correlation between their behavior

and their viewership dropping.

[in_cog_ni_to]

22. I keep emailing them

to tell them they are making a HUGE mistake by alienating a MAJORITY party (we Democrats) out here. Do they listen to me? Noooooooooooooooo!

GOOD! I'm glad they're in the toilet! They deserve it!

[carolinayellowdog]

23. Sad human cost of CNN decline

Hey,

I've come to hate the CNN pundits as much as any of y'all, and feel terribly betrayed by a news source I once trusted. But cannot cheer at news of the network's decline, after reading Bonnie Anderson's new book News Flash. There are so many good professionals trying to do their jobs despite the "stars" and pundits and corrupt leadership. They are the ones to suffer while the rightwingers run the network into the ground.

CYD

[snowbear]

24. carolinayellow dog & in_cog:

Carolina: You're so right *sigh.....* about CNN... what a drag.. When we win and when we REALLY have a true Commader in Chief, do you think they'll be any better... in time I mean? ...Or will they still stay the same?

In_c0g_nito ~ you have such incredible pictures on your page!! Awesome! x0x0x0!!!

[carolinayellowdog]

28. I wonder daily how President Kerry will

be treated by the news media and how he will handle them. Fox will be all anti-Kerry all the time, the broadcast networks will be more positive about Kerry than they have been about Bush lately (unless he screws up as badly which is impossible) and CNN will stand with its finger to the wind. They will do any damn awful anti-Democratic and anti-democratic thing they think will help their market share.

But then if they think fairness rather than rightwing bias might make them a dollar more a week, there's hope.

CYD

[PROGRESSIVE1]

30. I expect objective coverage from the Big Three and PBS!

I wonder if the NYT will keep up the good work they have been doing lately.

[in_cog_ni_to]

48. Thanks, larissa!

Wes Clark is my "dream president"......the one we were promised as children. ;) I LOVE the man. :loveya: That's ONE of my favorite pics...there's just so many to choose from because the man is so damn GOOD LOOKING!

The "Hamsters for Kerry" was made by a DUer, slinkerwink. She did a great job, didn't she? Too cute for words and the story behind it is just precious. She was kind enough to let me steal a copy. Thanks, slink!

Welcome to DU, BTW! :hi:

[johnfunk]

27. CNN should move Crossfire back to prime time...

... and sack that useless pseudojournalist Paula Zahn (or replace the even more useless Larry King with Paula so she can cover Laci, OJ, Michael, psychics and celebs).

[PROGRESSIVE1]

29. DOWN WITH CABLE "NEWS"!!! It's all right wing and has ruined....

our country with it's right wing hate! :grr:

:puke:

I hope that CNN is destroyed along with Faux, MSGOP, Right Wing Nazi Hate Radio, and the GD punditry that has given * a four year blow job!


Down with them all!!!

[Carolina]

50. totally agree

I turned off the TV (NBC,CNN,MSNBC ... never watched FOX) long ago when it comes to "news." DU, other websites and alternative periodicals are sooooooo much better. I watch TV ONLY for entertainment (Animal Planet's Breed All About It and Law & Order reruns).

I'll tell you too, banning the TV news/infotainment spin is so good for the blood pressure. And with the TV off, you get so much more done.


I agree, down with them all!

[goforit]

31. Well....CNN royally sucks!!

[Razoor]

34. about time. CNN is worthless nowadays

only thing on CNN thats worth watching is Lou dobbs and Crossfire and newsnight. I wish they would can paula zahn and put crossfire back to a full hour and probably get rid of larry king he has some good guests sometimes but mostly they are just fluff like having nancy grace on there alll the time.

[DeepModem Mom]

35. kick

[dbt]

37. CNN's move to the right (Reich) = tanking ratings. What to do?

Watch them move even further to the right. The groupthink at the highest levels will go something like this:

"We need to focus more on our core product. The consultants say we need to pay more attention to the basics and minimize the tuneouts. Folks, we've got a product to sell here and we've got to work even harder!"

Nobody will dare mention that the product itself might be a dud. CNN will try harder than ever to fling their feces at the wall and make it stick. It will ultimately benefit Fochs.

:argh:
dbt

[Tight_rope]

38. This is great news....The boycotting is working..Kick Fox#2

[depakid]

39. Gee, do ya think?

CNN hitched their wagon to the far right, and they're hemorrhaging viewers. Meanwhile, Air America is skyrocketing.

Oh, and this little blurb from the link is telling:

MSNBC Increases Political Coverage For GOP Conv.

None of us expected that little development, did we....

[JI7]

41. good

[lil-petunia]

43. Now's the time for the second call in/write in to CNN

A repeat of our past performance, plus their failing, falling NUMBers will get their attention.

who wants to start it up again?

[Rockholm]

44. Good. I have been CNN Free for months now.

And also free from drudge. It feels so good!

[SCDem]

49. The only thing I'll watch on CNN is Lou Dobbs

I think what he is doing is good.... all else is crap.

[otohara]

53. Ha, Ha, Serves Them Right

they suck - Quit watching weeks ago