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Tuned In: This Was CNN: Where Have Its Viewers Gone?
mediabistro.com: TVNewser: Early Reports: CNN Last in October Prime
The Feed: Does it matter that cable newschannels allowed pundits to host Tuesday election coverage?
| @jacaldwell Well CNN dropped to #4 in Oct - http://bit.ly/4AJaYd just quoting the NY Times brother 6 days ago |
| Watch commenter number 1 completely miss the point of this article about CNN's poor ratings. http://bit.ly/1gphZ5 25 days ago |
| CNN hits new competitive low. http://bit.ly/2IRz42 26 days ago |
This Was CNN: Where Have Its Viewers Gone?
Tuned In —
CNN is a sister company to TIME within Time Warner, so let me be unambiguous and without corporate favor when I say that its latest round of primetime ratings are in the dumpster . Bill Carter of the New York Times reports that, for the first time, CNN will finish October in fourth place among cable-news networks in the advertiser-followed demographic. The network even lost to itself, in that sister net HLN beat it out. Whenever you write anything unflattering about any cable network's ratings, its people manage to massage the numbers in some exculpatory manner to show that, ...
Early Reports: CNN Last in October Prime
mediabistro.com: TVNewser —
... The New York Times' Bill Carter reports that CNN will be last in prime time, placing behind Fox News, MSNBC, and HLN, and writes: ...
Does it matter that cable newschannels allowed pundits to host Tuesday election coverage?
The Feed —
... And given ratings figures which seems to show the ideological focus of Fox News and MSNBC earning prime time viewership ahead of CNN in October, its a development to be expected. But it doesn't offer viewers much perspective or context. ...



