Ratings CRASH: CNN and Fox News Feel The Pain Post Trump Town Hall And Tucker’s Ouster
CNN and Fox News both shed viewers year over year in May, seeing particularly steep declines in prime time – while MSNBC was the only network to see gains. Despite those pains, Fox News remained the most watched network in all of cable news.
Fox News, in the first full month since firing Tucker Carlson, brought in 1.42 million viewers in primetime – a 37% drop year over year. CNN’s total prime time viewership sank to 494,000 viewers, a 25% year-over-year decrease. MSNBC, on the other hand, averaged 1.16 million prime time viewers for a 14% percent gain compared to last year. For comparison, Fox averaged 2.09 million total prime time viewers in the first quarter of the year, while CNN averaged 568,000 viewers and MSNBC had 1.11 million average viewers.
The prime time demo numbers were even more bleak for Fox and CNN. Fox averaged 135,000 demo viewers between 8 and 11 p.m. for the month – a whopping 62% year-over-year drop. MSNBC averaged 120,000 demo viewers to come in second, which was a steady 14% increase and CNN saw 113,000 demo viewers – a 25% drop from last May.
Fox News still swept the competition, marking its 27th straight month beating both MSNBC and CNN in total day and prime time viewers. Fox’s The Five remained the highest rated show on cable news with 2.6 million average total viewers and 267,000 average demo viewers. Jesse Watters landed second on cable news and cracked the two million viewer mark, while Sean Hannity was the third most watched host on cable.
MSNBC’s gains and CNN’s losses led to MSNBC scoring its largest total day viewer advantage over CNN in its 27 years on air. MSNBC additionally was the closest its been to Fox News in the ratings in two years and was the only top 20 cable network to post double-digit year-over-year gains.
What is even more funny is that only around 2% of the total American population believes the State-run propagandist garbage aired on TV these days, let alone watches it.
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