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CNN and MSNBC Lose Almost Half Their Viewers in One Year
2013-11-28
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] It's been a tough year for the liberal cable news outlets.

Data released Tuesday show CNN shedding 48 percent of total viewers since last November and MSNBC dropping 45 percent.

The numbers were even worse in the all important demographic of people aged 25 to 54 as CNN's ratings dropped 59 percent and MSNBC's 52 percent.

In an off-election year, and with last November's numbers skewed higher as a result of the presidential election, it should be expected for ratings to decline.

However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
 Fox News didn't see close to these losses. In total day, FNC is only down 18 percent since last November and 30 percent in the demo.

As you might imagine, prime time numbers were also down.

CNN was off 54 percent in total viewers and 62 percent in the demo. MSNBC declined 50 percent in total prime time viewers and 57 percent in the demo.

By contrast, FNC was second in all of cable in prime time this November averaging over 2 million viewers. This represented a decline of 21 percent in total viewers and 41 percent in the demo.

As such, no matter how you slice it, the liberal cable networks fared much worse in the past twelve months than their far more centrist competitor.
Posted by:Fred

#23  shipman, you sound like one of the low info people we hear. Learn something, hug a dictionary.
Posted by: Fat Bob Thraiting5901   2013-11-28 23:42  

#22  Bob Dylan, is that you?
Posted by: Secret Asian Man   2013-11-28 23:08  

#21  Lots of good stuff, this one is Gold.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2013-11-28 21:41  

#20  #18 /A reverend down yo strt.

Someone say reverend? [opens editor, flips back a few weeks]

Hey Muse, has Reverend Al forsaken
Reverend ham and reverend bacon?
His uninvited midnight snack,
A scrawny, mouthy bird of black,
Can never sate the appetite
That used to gorge on chicken, white
And dark, and fries, and all the sides
Black Jesus for his pals provides.
What self-respecting storefront preacher
Would dine on such a wretched creature?
If Al had stuck to fatter fowls
He might be sporting sleeker jowls.

I think his self-esteem has shrunk
From all the years of brawl and bunk:
The race's Falstaff, Santa Clause
And Robin Hood has finally paused
To ponder all the stuff he's done
Invoking heaven's murdered son.
In public, he's still brash and glib
But not so much, back at his crib.

Tawana's unlaid ghost now stalks
Up to his bedroom door, and knocks
And hollers "Damn, I shoulda knew!
The one who kidnapped me was you!
You said that I'd be getting paid...
When this shit's done I'll be a maid,
And if I can't work as a nurse,
I'll whip you with this empty purse!"

blah blah blah blah

blah blah blah blah blah chamber door,
As circling crows caw, "Revermore!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2013-11-28 21:39  

#19  There is more real news on CCTV-9 (ChiCom) and on RU and AlJiz than on any of the US channels that just have idiots jabbering about Washington idiots/crooks/morons.

Posted by: 3dc   2013-11-28 21:16  

#18   niggling - Petty, especially in a nagging or annoying way; trifling

See Ship, I'm right there with you so let us not niggle over the verbiage. ;

AlanC with all due respect, it is very likely you are using a dictionary compiled by the establishment for the establishment, just a friendly warning.

/A reverend down yo strt.
Posted by: Shipman   2013-11-28 19:06  

#17  Actually, I get most of my news from Rantburg. I believe I am better informed than the average TV news watcher. Bet they don't know anything about the nuggets from the Urdu press, for example. On the other hand, I may miss stories about things like the latest health scare. (Killer Bacteria in your Kitchen Sponge!!!)

Plus I get the collected wisdom of the commenters here. And an occasional troll to bat around.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2013-11-28 16:52  

#16  CNN and MSNBC down? Another reason to be thankful!
Posted by: Bobby   2013-11-28 15:55  

#15  Our universities have been preaching the extreme left ideal and no morals in journalism for years. These students that believe its ok to slant news and spin it to their ideological leaning are now leading the newscasts. Once integrity is lost in real news stations people look elsewhere. Sadly the most honest news on TV is the satirists.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2013-11-28 12:43  

#14  the daily show w jon steward has been averaging about 2M viewers the past few years

over half the viewers are 18-49
Posted by: lord garth   2013-11-28 12:05  

#13  I'd suspect the numbers are actually worse. If asked if I had watched 3letter for news this weeks I would have to say yes. If asked why, I would have to respond that if my visit was 30 minutes later than my appointment it would never have happened.

Something the administration policy scouts like and the democrat I Ching throwers don't, is people do not like listening to bad news.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2013-11-28 11:53  

#12  ItÂ’s not just a narrow political viewpoint thatÂ’s at play. ItÂ’s simply a bad product. After a certain level of exposure even the gullible tire of “DonÂ’t listen to those peopleÂ…theyÂ’re all selfish and irrational”.
Posted by: DepotGuy   2013-11-28 10:54  

#11  Where are they getting their info?

Intertubes?

And it indeed is "info" and not "news." Then again, the media hasn't really reported news in a very long time.
Posted by: Pappy   2013-11-28 10:44  

#10  niggling - Petty, especially in a nagging or annoying way; trifling

See Ship, I'm right there with you so let us not niggle over the verbiage. ;^)
Posted by: AlanC   2013-11-28 10:22  

#9  CNN shedding 48 percent of total viewers since last November and MSNBC dropping 45 percent.

People are waking up - A New Dawn in America ?

Posted by: Black Charlie the Infinitesmal   2013-11-28 10:18  

#8  I'm feeling little to no sympathy for the water bearers for Champ (a total incompetent) who they helped elect and are were keeping in power.
Posted by: JohnQC   2013-11-28 09:50  

#7  Minor concern AlanC, minor concern. Take heed, MODS monitor this stuff.
Posted by: Shipman   2013-11-28 09:00  

#6  The time has come. NSA Government cable and satellite provider exchanges, a kool website, subsidies. If you like your dish, cable, and kliker, you can keep them.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-11-28 08:56  

#5  Even unintelligent people do not like being lied to. Eventually viewers catch on to the antics.

Unfortunately a lot of young people think John Stewart is the news.
Posted by: Airandee   2013-11-28 08:55  

#4  Breaking up the arrangement of cable and satellite providers to bundle programming, and thus force these venues into an open market, will kill them.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-11-28 08:47  

#3  One niggling concern is that the huge drop over all of the demo is that it means that the demo is not watching TV at all.

Where are they getting their info? I fear that they're becoming even lower information which is not a good thing.
Posted by: AlanC   2013-11-28 07:38  

#2  The numbers were even worse in the all important demographic of people aged 25 to 54 as CNN's ratings dropped 59 percent and MSNBC's 52 percent.

Indeed worrisome (in my best Steven Hawking mind-voice), the 25-54 group represent the non-basement dwellers, the earners. Numbers matter.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-11-28 06:39  

#1  No doubt they'll decide that they need to pivot more to the left...
Posted by: PBMcL   2013-11-28 00:13  

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