Posted on 10/10/21
| News Source: FOX News
The news cycle has hardly slowed down since President Joe Biden took office, but CNN doesn’t appear to be reaping the benefits.
CNN had a dismal September, failing to reach 1 million viewers on any of its programs for 23 out of the 30 days in the month, equating to a staggering 77% of the time according to Nielsen data.
Last September, in the final weeks of the 2020 election, CNN averaged 950,000 total day viewers. This September, the network averaged just 557,000, a 41% drop. Primetime viewership was virtually cut in half during the same time period from a 1.5 million average to just 770,000.
“Anderson Cooper: 360” performed the strongest of CNN’s weak primetime shows last month. The program reached 1 million viewers six times in September, averaging 916,000 viewers, a 41% decrease from his 1.55-million average in September 2020.
By comparison, Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” averaged a whopping 3.3 million viewers and MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes” averaged 1.3 million in the 8 p.m. ET timeslot. Neither show ever fell under 1 million viewers during the same time period.