Campbell Brown Ratings Hit 2009 Low

CNN's "Campbell Brown" hit a new ratings low for 2009 on Friday, June 19, when she averaged just 516,000 total viewers.

Brown's previous 2009 low had come Monday, June 15, when a total of 548,000 viewers tuned in to her 8PM show. On Friday, June 12, Brown recorded an all-time low with an average of 69,000 viewers in the adults 25-54 demographic, while averaging 591,000 total viewers.

Brown's show has recently undergone a rebrand in the wake of her return from maternity leave earlier this month. The show had previously been called "Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull." In spite of the name change, CNN maintained that Brown's show would "continue to stand for no nonsense, hard-hitting interviews and lively debate from all points of view."

Brown, who despite her ratings woes was recently named a potential breakout star by Forbes, is not alone. Both ABC's and CBS' evening news programs suffered all-time ratings lows last week.

Ratings for the month of June and the second quarter of 2009 are due out next week.

Comments

[Karin Dicker]

she is married to Dan Senor the dude from Iraq that lied and lied to all of us. I can't stand watching her. Rightie hag.

[deeppeace]

She's still working? Fancy that. Who knew.

[ckfan]

She is awful. She sneers and turns her nose up... and it ain't pretty in HD. She's gotta go.

[murphysgirl]

Roalnd Martin used to be a frequent panel guest on the show, and since Campbell's return he's nowhere to be found. I think he's waiting in the wings until Campbell gets the axe. Her show is horrible!! There's nothing special she adds to the show.

[ashb]

His ratings weren't good either.

[123dee]

Bye Campbell

[buggey]

Roland, Roland, Roland. Roland Martin has paid his dues. Get rid of Campbel, bring back Roland. PLEASE CNN.

[Iamawinelover]

Thank you Buggey!!!!!!!!!! YES ROLAND, ROLAND, ROLAND!!
I am so glad this came out so all of the pity folks that complained about Roland Martin and swearing that Campbell's ratings were high once she came back. HA! What a slap in the face for all you that...."Just Don't Get It". LOL...Roland was simply fantastic and he did a way better job than Campbell ever could. Bye-bye Cambell....!!!

[MyThought]

CNN - perhaps you should make each show a little different - they ALL talk about the exact same thing so if you watch one then you don't need to see the rest.

Also, Campbell Brown should give up this "over" tough stuff - it looks pathetic.

[Kelly Laraia]

Odd because I thought Roland Martin was more a moderate or right-center than Campbell Brown who is a solid but not far left liberal. I don't care who she married. Perhaps Martin was trying to be "fair and balanced" when he did the show during Brown's maternity leave. But she is in a very tough time spot going up against O'Reilly and Olbermann. She definitely lacks their showmanship.

[Premonitus]

Can you give me an example of someone you consider "far left liberal" in the television news media? I'm not sure there are any markers per se that would give anyone an idea of what constitutes the meaning of "far left". What do you mean when you use this term?

[John Horner]

CNN could probably get more viewers by running a Best of Larry King rerun series. They have years and years worth of tapes from which to find his best stuff.

[saldunn]

Please bring back Roland and his crew, they were up to date and they all had different points of view. The show was fun with the music and news. Roland was fun to watch . erica, ali and the other lady were all great.

[truthglow]

Good!!! Everyone knows she is ALL "Bias & Bull!" In fact, I saw her NEOCON husband criticizing Obama over the weekend, and she is SO right-wing biased that it is infuriating. The people who would watch her are already watching Faux News!

[alexa07]

Campbell lost me during the war on Gaza. She spent too much time depicting the Palestinians with all the usual bias & b--- to report actually what events were taking place. Married to a neocon? Well.

[SoccerNana]

Good; now she can go join her husband on Faux Noise.

I never watch her nor Lou Dobbs.

[saldunn]

whose her husband, I always thought she should be on faux news , never thought she should have a show she is so bias

[Banji81]

Roland Martin and the gang, please!

[Horus45]

CNN is beginning to realize what a bad decision it was to move further to the Right and become FOX News Lite!

[zepfan81]

further Right? Are you talking about her show or Lou Dobbs?

[Bulbul]

Both..

[zepfan81]

Well what does she expect? She was delayed staring her show, then she went on maternity leave almost immediately. Then she worked for another six months and was on maternity leave again. Sometimes on has to make choices....

[mikeHAWKhertz]

Campbell who? I thought it was a soup.