{"id":1972499,"date":"2023-07-13T19:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T23:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kaitlan-collins-big-cnn-debut-spongebob-squarepants-got-bigger-ratings\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T19:55:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T23:55:57","slug":"kaitlan-collins-big-cnn-debut-spongebob-squarepants-got-bigger-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kaitlan-collins-big-cnn-debut-spongebob-squarepants-got-bigger-ratings\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaitlan Collins&#8217; CNN debut falls short of Spongebob Squarepants&#8217; ratings."},"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\">20<\/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%2Fkaitlan-collins-big-cnn-debut-spongebob-squarepants-got-bigger-ratings%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=1972499&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--><h2>Kaitlan Collins&#8217;s Debut Show on CNN Falls Flat<\/h2>\n<p>Kaitlan Collins, known for her confrontational style during the Trump administration, didn&#8217;t quite hit the mark with her own show on CNN.<\/p>\n<p>According to Radar Online, Collins&#8217; primetime show, &#8220;The Source With Kaitlan Collins,&#8221; garnered fewer viewers than reruns of sitcoms and animated shows. With only 540,000 viewers, it ranked last among its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-fox-news-is-ok-but-its-competitors-are-heading-south-in-4-5-years\/\" title=\"Joe Biden: Fox News Is OK, But Its Competitors \u2018Are Heading South\u2019 In 4-5 Years\">cable news competitors<\/a> and even came in second on CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The Nielsen ratings revealed that Collins&#8217; show trailed behind repeats of popular shows like &#8220;Golden Girls,&#8221; &#8220;South Park,&#8221; &#8220;Seinfeld,&#8221; &#8220;Friends,&#8221; and &#8220;Modern Family.&#8221; It even fell short of &#8220;SpongeBob Squarepants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Competition within CNN<\/h3>\n<p>Within CNN&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/barbara-boxer-mugged-in-oakland\/\" title=\"Barbara Boxer Mugged In Oakland\">primetime lineup<\/a>, Wolf Blitzer had 639,000 viewers, Erin Burnett had 576,000, and Anderson Cooper had 600,000. In comparison, Fox News&#8217; Sean Hannity, airing at the same time, attracted 1.95 million viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Collins was given the slot by former network head Chris Licht, who praised her &#8220;masterful performance&#8221; while moderating a town hall with Trump.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Collins: Don&#8217;t you think it would have had an effect if you had come out in mid December and publicly conceded the election? <\/p>\n<p>Pence: We had about 60 lawsuits that were working<\/p>\n<p>Collins: A lot of them were thrown out by then. <\/p>\n<p>Pence: A lot of them were not <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9miiJvAktB\">pic.twitter.com\/9miiJvAktB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1678938168526077952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During her debut, Collins interviewed former Vice President Mike Pence, engaging in a heated exchange. Collins questioned why Pence didn&#8217;t publicly concede the election in mid-December when it was clear that Biden had won. Pence explained that they had ongoing lawsuits, some of which were still in the courts.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to be a gadfly when you&#8217;re a reporter with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-will-not-answer-press-questions-and-its-shocking-world-leaders-and-the-media\/\" title=\"Biden Will Not Answer Press Questions And It\u2019s Shocking World Leaders \u2014 And The Media\">liberal news network<\/a> during a Republican administration. However, covering a Democrat proves to be more challenging. If Collins can only attract Pence, who has minimal support for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, for her debut, it seems her show may <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kaitlan-collins-big-cnn-debut-spongebob-squarepants-got-bigger-ratings\/\" title=\"Kaitlan Collins' CNN debut falls short of Spongebob Squarepants' ratings.\">struggle moving forward<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author&#8217;s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaitlan Collins, known for challenging Donald Trump, struggled with her own CNN show. &#8220;The Source With Kaitlan Collins&#8221; premiered at 9 p.m. in CNN primetime but had lower viewership than sitcom and animated reruns, according to Radar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1972500,"comment_status":"open","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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1972499","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=1972499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1972500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}