{"id":1826320,"date":"2023-01-27T13:04:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T18:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1826320"},"modified":"2023-01-27T13:04:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T18:04:50","slug":"nobodys-watching-cnn-ratings-plunge-even-further-for-good-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nobodys-watching-cnn-ratings-plunge-even-further-for-good-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody\u2019s Watching: CNN Ratings Plunge Even Further \u2014 For Good Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fnobodys-watching-cnn-ratings-plunge-even-further-for-good-reason%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=1826320&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-->\n<p>News, news, and all things news!<\/p>\n<p>The new year \u2014 2023 \u2014 is chockablock full of news: The war in Ukraine threatens to spread, the U.S. House of Representatives is ramping up investigations into the Biden administration, the president has been found to have reams of classified documents, Democrats are moving on gun control.<\/p>\n<p>So you\u2019d think that a news service, say, one that beams into nearly every house in America, would be rolling in ratings.<\/p>\n<p>CNN is a different story.<\/p>\n<p>The liberal news network\u2019s average primetime viewership plunged to just 444,000 viewers, <a href=\"https:\/\/12ft.io\/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fthe-media%2F2023%2F01%2F26%2Fnolte-cnn-primetime-viewers-crater-to-444000-don-lemon-hits-record-low%2F\">according<\/a> TV Newser. That&#8217;s terrible. Fox News pulled in just over two million primetime viewers that week. And even more liberal MSNBC more than doubled CNN\u2019s ratings, with 943,000 average primetime viewers.<\/p>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s daytime ratings are even worse. CNN averaged 417,000 viewers per day, while Fox News pulled down 1,387,000,000 million viewers and MSNBC averaged 6299,000 viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there\u2019s a good reason CNN\u2019s ratings are pathetic: They\u2019re so biased that viewers are tuning out in droves.<\/p>\n<p>All primetime cable TV networks rated ESPN first, Fox News second and MSNBC third in ratings. CNN? Eighteenth! The network was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/621686307\/Week-of-Jan-16-Sorted-by-Total-Viewers#download&#038;from_embed\">wedged<\/a> There are two TVLands: the Lifetime Network and TVLand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Adults 25-54, CNN placed 29th in primetime with 93,000 on average, and 15th in total day with 80,000 on average,\u201d TV Newser reported. \u201cThe 80,000 A25-54 average in total day represents the network\u2019s smallest delivery since 2014.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, compared to the previous week, CNN\u2019s primetime viewers dropped 14%, was down 18% in primetime demo viewers, and fell 7% in total day viewers. CNN&#8217;s total primetime viewers dropped 23%, primetime demo viewers fell by 28%, and total day viewers fell by 12% compared to the previous week.<\/p>\n<p>Don Lemon, the one-time primetime wonder boy, got crushed after moving to CNN\u2019s failing morning show, \u201cNew Day.\u201d This was the beginning. \u201cCNN This Morning,\u201d but the name change didn\u2019t matter \u2014 the show averaged just 331,000 viewers.<\/p>\n<p>This is all after it was reported that Chris Licht, the new CNN president, wanted to move the network in a more centrist manner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are truth-tellers, focused on informing, not alarming our viewers,\u201d Licht wrote one his earliest memos to CNN employees last June. \u201cYou\u2019ve already seen far less of the \u2018Breaking News\u2019 banner across our programming. The tenor of our voice holistically has to reflect that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These reports were later rejected by Licht.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the biggest misconceptions about my vision is that I want to be vanilla, that I want to be centrist. That is bulls***,\u201d Licht said that Licht was speaking to The Hill and the Financial Times in November. <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/3746452-new-cnn-boss-licht-idea-i-want-network-to-be-centrist-is-bulls-t\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to be compelling. You have to have edge. In many cases you take a side. Sometimes you just point out uncomfortable questions. But either way you don\u2019t see it through a lens of left or right,\u201d He said.<\/p>\n<p>This sounds about right for Licht, who was a former showrunner. \u201cThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN can also expect its ratings to stay in the basement with this philosophy.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl is a 35-year veteran of politics, having served 12 years as White House correspondent in a national newspaper. For four years, he was the Drudge Report&#8217;s a.m. editor. Send tips <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"ec86839f899c848f999e80ac888d8580959b859e89c28f8381\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a> Follow him @josephcurl on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News, news, news everywhere! 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So you\u2019d think &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1292127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[541],"tags":[9373,16732,4889,4882,5982,3618,14140],"class_list":["post-1826320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-cnn","tag-nobodys","tag-plunge","tag-ratings","tag-reason","tag-riot","tag-watching"],"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\/1826320","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1292127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}