We keep hearing about this awesome CNN comeback. The truth, though is that if you cherry-pick certain numbers and use them to compare yourself to The MSNBC Titanic, you can probably fool a few willing dupes into championing your comeback
After a full-week spent lying about Indiana’s Religious Freedom law and relentlessly trashing Christians as bigots and Christianity as bigotry, CNN closed things out on Good Friday by being humiliated in the all-important 25-54 primetime demo by a marathon of
The only thing keeping Jon Stewart and Comedy Central relevant are carriage fees and a mainstream media that loves Stewart’s socialist ways. Ratings-wise, The Daily Show is a disaster. Last month only 1.25 million total viewers tuned in. In a
The inevitability of the streaming revolution has sideswiped cable giant Viacom in ways so massive no one would have expected them just three years ago. The first destructive phase of the revolution is not massive cord cutting but rather a
CNN’s week-long misinformation campaign that used the Indiana and Arkansas religious freedom bills to gin up hate against Christians by dishonestly portraying them as fiery bigots, did little to help the left-wing network in its ongoing death struggle with MSNBC
Alex Gibney’s HBO documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief is already a commercial hit for the network.
In the 25-54 age demo last week, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes might have delivered the worst ratings in a decade in his timeslot. Nevertheless, while he was sinking in that particular demographic, every day last week Hayes still beat CNN’s Anderson
Of all people, you would think I’d be the first to notice that a left-wing cable news channel is no longer a left-wing cable news channel. The problem is that when you are in the thick of a thing, you
The 25-54 news demo is king in cable news. That is the metric everyone looks at because that is where the money is. For whatever reason, advertisers believe that people in that particular age group are more easily duped into
“The View,” ABC’s increasingly troubled daytime all-female, left-wing gab-fest, might finally be on its last legs. After a series of personnel changes that would make the late-Billy Martin’s head spin, “The View” is now shedding viewers while similar shows on
Last week, in all of cable, Fox News not only smashed its direct left-wing competition at CNN and MSNBC, but in total primetime viewers, the newly crowned Most Trusted Name In News beat every other cable network out there, including
A series of credibility issues might be finally catching to CNN’s Brian Stelter. The left-wing media reporter’s weekly CNN media show “Reliable Sources” crash-landed Sunday with just 106,000 viewers in the coveted 25-54 viewer demo. That’s Stelter’s lowest rating of
The end is nigh for the Hollywood affirmative action racket known as bundled cable and satellite television. Customers aren’t yet cancelling their overpriced bundled TV packages by double digits. That reality, though, can’t be far behind. People inevitably figure out
Monday evening, an 11pm repeat of the 8pm “O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News beat every single first-run primetime offering on the left-wing CNN and the left-wing MSNBC. It was a slaughter in both total and demo viewers. At 8pm, Bill
NBC News has to be ecstatic with the two-fer they pulled off by suspending the disgraced Brian Williams for six months. The suspension killed the media fury around Williams’ serial lies and Williams’ replacement, Lester Holt, has managed to hold
After hitting a series low last week, Lena Dunham’s “Girls” hit yet another series low again Sunday in the all-important 18-49 youth demo (total viewers hasn’t yet been released). Incredibly, only 385,000 tuned in. That’s a catastrophic 0.17 rating, down
If suspended NBC News anchor Brian Williams thought he was invaluable to the success of the NBC Nightly News, the ratings for the first full week without him are bound to be a disappointment. Williams’ replacement Lester Holt held on
Although “Forensic Files” has been in reruns for nearly five years, a three-hour HLN block of the true-crime documentary series Thursday evening crushed MSNBC, and pretty much tied CNN in the all-important 25-54 viewing demo. At 5pm, “Forensic Files” drew
Over at Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight, Harry Enten took a look at the science, facts, and numbers surrounding The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart and confirmed what Breitbart News has been saying for years: that the elite media way over-hyped Stewart’s influence
Lena Dunham’s serial self-inflicted credibility wounds appear to have gravely eroded even the small but fervently loyal following the “Girls” star and creator has enjoyed for the last few years. This past Sunday, the ratings for Dunham’s HBO show “Girls”
Football’s biggest night of the year is unquestionably the Super Bowl. Preliminary ratings show that Sunday’s game hit a record high with 72% of televisions watching. That should add up to somewhere around 115 million viewers and an all-time record.
Ratings for January 2015 show that for the 13th year in a row Fox News beat its left-wing competition at CNN and MSNBC. Fox is the leader in all areas: total viewers and demo viewers. MSNBC had a terrible January,
Last week’s season 4 premiere of creator Lena Dunham’s “Girls” took a disastrous -40% nosedive over the previous season — the worst ever premiere for the series. This week, when compared to last season, the HBO show is still sinking.
Television ratings for President Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday are in and the news is that America just isn’t into this president anymore. Viewership appears to have plummeted to a 15 year low. Variety warns that these are
With its ratings at an all-time low and its journalistic ethics almost constantly under fire, left-wing CNN is once again conceding it can no longer compete as a serious news organization with the revelation Wednesday that the production of a
Despite the kind of publicity and hysteria usually reserved for big-budget summer films, Lena Dunham’s HBO dramedy “Girls” earned its worst premiere ratings to date with a paltry (even for “Girls”) 680,000 viewers. By comparison, season 3 debuted to 1.1
For three weeks running Jake Tapper has done what no other news program on CNN has managed to do in a very long time: beat Fox News. The Washington Examiner reports that Tapper’s ratings have jumped a remarkable 75% during
Al Jazeera America’s inevitable collapse has begun with the elimination of all of its morning programming. Instead of producing its own programming, the basement-rated cable news network will simply re-broadcast Al Jazeera programs from its parent studio in Qatar. Also
Another year, another blow-out. For the 13th consecutive year Fox News didn’t just beat its left-wing counterparts at CNN and MSNBC, Fox News actually grew its primetime news demo (viewers aged 25-54) by 3%. Meanwhile, CNN lost 1% of that
Playing “Twilight Zone” with a missing airliner and spreading lies to gin up riots in the predominantly black, working class city of Ferguson did absolutely nothing to stop CNN’s freefall in the ratings. Under Jeff Zucker, 2014 was nothing short
This Reuters headline makes it sound as though there is good news for the left-wing CNN: “CNN’s Original Series Help Network Draw Younger Primetime Audience In 2014.” The truth, however, as is the usually the case when the left-wing media
