{"id":116556,"date":"2021-02-03T11:45:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T16:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=116556"},"modified":"2021-02-03T12:42:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T17:42:07","slug":"tv-network-ratings-drop-during-bidens-first-full-week-in-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tv-network-ratings-drop-during-bidens-first-full-week-in-office\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Network Ratings Drop During Biden\u2019s First Full Week in Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftv-network-ratings-drop-during-bidens-first-full-week-in-office%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=116556&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Major news networks\u2019 ratings plummeted during the first full week of President Joe Biden\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVariety Intelligence Platform\u2019s analysis of the viewership data across two key metrics\u2014the target news demographic for people ages 25-54, and the total audience watching\u2014shows that CNN ended the final week of January with ratings dropping roughly 44 percent for total audience versus the prior week across all three hours of primetime,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/vip\/cnn-primetime-ratings-fall-post-trump-1234897869\/\">Variety<\/a> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Other than CNN, Fox News and MSNBC saw lower ratings overall as well in their 8 p.m., 9 p.m., and 10 p.m. slots during the week of Jan. 25 to Jan. 29. Biden took office on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s 8 p.m. time slot for the week of Jan. 4 to Jan. 8 had an average U.S. audience of 5.19 million, according to Variety. That dropped to just 2.04 million for the week of Jan. 25 to Jan. 29, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Fox, meanwhile, went from 4.18 million during the week of Jan. 4 to Jan. 8 to 3.5 million on the week of Jan. 25 to Jan. 29. MSNBC\u2019s ratings dropped from 4.6 million for the week of Jan. 4 to Jan. 8 to\u00a02.33 million the week of Jan. 25 to Jan. 29, the report found.<\/p>\n<p>The week of Jan. 4 to Jan. 8 saw the Georgia Senate runoff elections as well as the Jan. 6 Capitol storming during the Joint Session of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3520284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/biden-in-town-hall-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Audience members listen as Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participates in a CNN town hall event in Moosic, Penn., on Sept. 17, 2020. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The report noted that among viewers between the age of 25 and 54, the ratings decline appeared to hit CNN\u2019s 9 p.m. \u201cCuomo Prime Time\u201d the hardest.<\/p>\n<p>It also noted that Fox News\u2019 \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight\u201d was the \u201conly program that didn\u2019t see a downturn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Without former President Donald Trump\u2014who generated considerable attention and coverage from news networks over the past five years\u2014cable news networks may falter at least in the interim, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat said, it could well be that this decline is temporary, as Trump\u2019s second impeachment trial is set to begin on February 8, which could prompt audiences flock back,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News also saw a decline in ratings after the Nov. 3 election, as many conservatives expressed dissatisfaction with the network\u2019s calling of key states for Biden on Election Night. At the same time,\u00a0Newsmax, a smaller rival that was promoted by the former president on Twitter, said it saw record ratings last month.<\/p>\n<p>After the 2020 election, Trump called on supporters to watch alternatives such as Newsmax and One America News Network (OANN).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major news networks\u2019 ratings plummeted during the first full week of President Joe Biden\u2019s administration. \u201cVariety Intelligence Platform\u2019s analysis of the viewership data across two key metrics\u2014the target news demographic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3706,5053,4288,3852,5051,4882],"class_list":["post-116556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bidens","tag-drop","tag-during","tag-first","tag-network","tag-ratings"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}