CNN Wins Michael Jackson Memorial Service Cable News Ratings Race

CNN drew the most viewers for Michael Jackson's memorial service Tuesday, averaging more than Fox News and MSNBC combined in both total viewers and the news demographic, according to Nielsen Media Research.

CNN averaged 5.300 million total viewers from 1-4PM Tuesday, while Fox News averaged 2.230 million and MSNBC' averaged 1.393 million. Sister network HLN came in second with 377,000 total viewers.

In the A25-54 demo, CNN averaged 2.258 million total viewers to Fox News' 673,000 and MSNBC's 550,000. HLN averaged 190,000 A25-54 viewers for second place in the demo, as well.

In primetime Tuesday night, Fox News edged out CNN in total viewers — 2.437 million to 2.283 million — but CNN won in the news demo, averaging 927,000 A25-54 viewers to Fox News' 683,000.

MSNBC averaged 1.013 million total viewers and 353,000 A25-54 viewers, while HLN averaged 754,000 total viewers and 355,000 A25-54 viewers.

CNN.com also had an impressive day, recording its second largest live video streaming day in history (behind Obama's Inauguration Day). CNN.com streamed 10.5 million live streams Tuesday, and 4.4 million live video streams during the hours of the memorial (1-4PM ET).

Comments

[lionzion]

Eat that fake news!!.. Billo could suck it too!!

[TainoBoy]

Congratulation to CNN; they did such a great job. I stopped watching MSNBC because of their ha.tred for the Jackson family. I am happy CNN did so well.

MSNBC= BS No Black & Colored.

[Tanyars5]

Pass the word
Boycott MSNBC
They don't like Black people!!!!!

[k6007]

No wonder faux is griping about the coverage.

[KLordsha]

CNN had the cleanest look of all of them. They also did the most important thing and actually showed who was speaking and performing... Not everyone knows who Smokey Robinson is.

[nini516]

This is why Bill O's fruit of the looms are in a bunch. ROTFLMAO

[Reito Hikari]

CNN has become a joke. Their coverage is becoming more and more tabloid news. Their website has also been slow in posting news. I see a lot of stuff on HuffPost before CNN.

[readandpostrosie]

i am a CNN fan, but was VERY disappointed with their coverage of the MJ funeral!

they continually interupted with their "own" live feeds, taking half and sometimes total screen space.
and what is with the LOGO on the lower third of the right side of the screen.
WAS ADVERTIZING ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY?

give us a break CNN!

[yankees]

And this is something to brag about when there are more important issues this country is dealing with?

[swan1]

Faux was beat because the people that watch them, didn't care so much about MJ.

[trinidadgirl]

Having closed off CNN for the last few months, I will say that they did a good job of the memorial service. They were respectful and attempted to give a good account of themselves, without pushing a controversiaL AGENDA ON THAT DAY! So kudos for the MJ coverage.
Now to get the station back to some semblance of 'want to tune in again'. With innovation and creativity I am sure they can at least try!

[goodnews7]

Ditto that twice. I have noticed after the campaign MSNBC is just choosing to have white loud mouth boors in there lineup. Keith is still excellent, Rachael is ok too, but the morning lineup is just a bunch of white loud mouths. CNN has now started to reach out to minorities with respect, unlike MSNBC now which has Fox News like programing in the morning a no programing that is helpful for people who are in economic distress. I have chosen to now watch CNN and HLN now only because at least the station is at least trying to reach out to everyone with helpful information. As for MJ memorial MSNBC had Chris Jenson an others who just don't know or care about MJ or the AA community. I just don't bother with MSNBC anymore accept for Keith, Are you listening MSMBC !!! Your morning programing just plain stinks now.

[dillydawg]

Totally agree with your comment. And if only they would listen.

[Tanyars5]

the whole day is crap.........

[blaqntelligence]

And God help us all on the weekends.
Back-to-back showings of Lockup?
Really MSNBC?
Wall-to-wall coverage inmate/prison reality shows?

[ishok]

MSNBC seemed unable to discern the difference between a news event and a funeral/memorial. It also appears as if CNN has benefited as a result of their "Black in America" series. They seemed to get it.

[dillydawg]

...and the ratings reward that.

[toggan]

I did watch CNN and enjoyed the coverage. Don Lemon, you have a new fan.

[ishok]

CNN was best in my opinion. I turned MSNBC off after they aired Dan Abram's and Gloria Allred's live hit jobs on the deceased.
It's as if they didn't know that you don't do that on funeral day. We all are flawed, some of us more than others but funeral day is always respected as a day to reflect on the best that an individual had to offer in this world.
MSNBC was totally classless.

I don't watch FOX.

[GenRom]

Campbell Brown? How did she get a job on CNN or any network for that matter?