{"id":591426,"date":"2021-07-14T18:06:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T22:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=591426"},"modified":"2021-07-14T18:06:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T22:06:24","slug":"one-in-five-viewers-stopped-watching-cnns-top-hosts-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-in-five-viewers-stopped-watching-cnns-top-hosts-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"One In Five Viewers Stopped Watching CNN\u2019s Top Hosts Last Week"},"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%2Fone-in-five-viewers-stopped-watching-cnns-top-hosts-last-week%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=591426&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-492475086.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As summer heats up, CNN\u2019s ratings have cooled down. The third-place cable news network saw its ratings erode even further, while also losing its grip on viewers in TV\u2019s most valued demographic.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s prime time ratings plummeted by 19% last week, both in overall viewers and with those aged 25-54.<\/p>\n<p>That means nearly one in every five people who watched CNN\u2019s prime time lineup the previous week turned off the network during the week of July 5.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s prime time lineup attracted a meager 833,000 total viewers and 184,000 in the coveted 25-54 demographic. That ranks behind both Fox News (with 2.05 million total prime time viewers and 309,000 in the demographic) <em>and <\/em>its competitor among left-of-center viewers, MSNBC (which won 1.3 million total viewers and 156,000 in the demographic).<\/p>\n<p>CNN is now the sixth-rated cable network in prime time, behind Fox News, MSNBC, HGTV, the Hallmark Channel, and the History Channel.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s ratings collapse has trickled down from the top, where the network\u2019s morning show \u201cNew Day\u201d won its smallest audience in more than seven years. \u201c\u2018New Day\u2019 managed only 76,000 viewers among the key demo of adults age 25-54 for the week of July 5-11, its smallest audience in the crucial category since the week of June 23, 2014,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/cnn-new-day-new-low-demo\">reported<\/a> Fox News. Overall, \u201cNew Day\u201d attracted 433,000 total viewers, as compared to 1.1 million for \u201cFox and Friends\u201d \u2014 or about 40% of Fox\u2019s morning audience. \u201cThe recently revamped \u201cNew Day\u201d has now failed to reach 500,000 average viewers for 11 straight weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s particularly discrediting for Jeffrey Zucker, who became president of CNN after a successful run as producer of NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show.<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC, which lost 12% of its total day viewership last week, became the second most-watched network on cable.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News marked its 21st consecutive week as the most-watched cable news network, a reign which was only briefly interrupted in January. It was also the top network on cable television, period.<\/p>\n<p>While Fox News earned modestly lower viewership over the holiday week than the week before, its top-rated show \u2014 \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight\u201d \u2014 saw its audience increase by 100,000 viewers, possibly fueled by allegations that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/huge-problem-tucker-carlson-alleges-nsa-not-only-spied-on-him-but-leaked-his-emails-to-press\">NSA spied<\/a> on his private emails and text messages.<\/p>\n<p>The Fox News Channel had four of the top five shows in cable news: \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight,\u201d \u201cHannity,\u201d \u201cThe Five\u201d (which airs outside prime time), and \u201cThe Ingraham Angle.\u201d MSNBC\u2019s \u201cRachel Maddow Show\u201d rated fourth for the week.<\/p>\n<p>FNC\u2019s weekend programming continues to hold <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/dan-bongino-and-jesse-waters-dominate-primetime-as-cnn-continues-to-falter?utm_campaign=64469\">strong<\/a>, with Dan Bongino and Jesse Waters <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dbongino\/status\/1415284343988174860?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1415284343988174860%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthepostmillennial.com%2Fdan-bongino-and-jesse-waters-dominate-primetime-as-cnn-continues-to-falter\">winning<\/a> their respective time slots handily.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Takeaway<\/strong>: CNN and MSNBC saw tremendous audience growth in the two previous weeks, because they <em>returned to covering hard news<\/em>: The networks dedicated round-the-clock coverage to the tragic Surfside condominium collapse and Britney Spears\u2019 legal battle to win independence from her father\u2019s conservatorship. Every show on both networks heavily featured these two apolitical stories, while occasionally devoting a segment to their standard fare (the D.C. riot, the legal woes of Allen Weisselberg, etc.). Shockingly, the networks even featured positive interviews with local priests, pastors, and rabbis tending to the victims of Surfside.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, CNN saw its ratings jump by 14% the week of the collapse and 4% the following week; MSNBC grew by 6% and 7%, respectively. As all cable news outlets carried the same press conferences from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, at times viewers may not have even known which network they were watching.<\/p>\n<p>That is also the reason CNN and MSNBC experienced their most successful ratings week during the January 6 riots: The American people sought all the information they could get about that day\u2019s top story. Unfortunately, it appears that CNN brass believes that viewers rewarded the network for its narrative, rather than its news. That miscalculation has cost them the patronage, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/americans-have-worlds-lowest-trust-in-media-survey\">the trust<\/a>, of Americans ever since.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\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<\/div>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As summer heats up, CNN\u2019s ratings have cooled down. The third-place cable news network saw its ratings erode even further, while also losing its grip on viewers in TV\u2019s most &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591426","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=591426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}