Cnn Ratings

Election Night 2009 Ratings: CNN Comes In 4th, Fox News Easily Wins

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media


Election 2009 didn't prove nearly as successful as Election 2008 for CNN. Whereas big news nights like Election Night were CNN's bread and butter dur...

Questions Surrounding Dobbs' Gunfire Incident Cast Doubt on CNN's Credibility

Roberto Lovato | Posted 10.30.2009 | Media


Roberto Lovato

Conflicting reports about a bullet that hit the top of Lou Dobbs' house in Sussex, New Jersey, are raising new and serious questions about the credibility of Lou Dobbs.

Campbell Brown Smears MSNBC

Matt Osborne | Posted 10.30.2009 | Media


Matt Osborne

Fox News is all slant, all the time, while MSNBC is absolutely not a liberal mirror-image. The slant is not equal, nor do the two channels offset like penalties in a football game.

CNN Falls To Last Place In Primetime Demo

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 10.26.2009 | Media


The October 2009 cable news ratings are in with a major milestone: CNN has fallen to last place in the primetime demographic, the category advertisers...

CNN Has Lost Its Way

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 09.16.2009 | Media


Reese Schonfeld

Giving an audience of millions to enraged extremists is too great a gift to qualify as "freedom of speech."

Cable News Ratings--Liberals Jump Ship

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media


Reese Schonfeld

Unless Democrats develop a clear and compelling message, they face a very tough time in the 2010 elections.

Health care and the Ratings

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 09.19.2009 | Media


Reese Schonfeld

These ratings suggest that popular support for the health care bill is waning.

Free Lou Dobbs

Ron Galloway | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media


Ron Galloway

Lou Dobbs went way out of his way to make sure that he presented both sides of the story. He didn't have to (or want to), but his professional code insisted he should.

CNN Beats MSNBC In July, Fox News Still On Top

Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media


CNN had its best July ever this month, and reclaimed second place in the cable news ratings, topping MSNBC. CNN, which may have been aided by its in-...

MSNBC Calls CNN Commercial "Fiction"

Los Angeles Times | Posted 08.17.2009 | Media


In a new television spot aimed at getting advertisers to spend more on the network, CNN proclaims it is "No. 1, with more viewers than Fox and MSNBC....

CNN Ratings: The Exception Proves the Rule

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media


Reese Schonfeld

Cable ratings for the first week in July have just been released, and CNN has done far better than anyone had any right to expect.

HLN, CNN Post Record Junes

Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media


HLN has been in the news much this past month, making headlines with morning anchor Robin Meade's skydive with President George H.W. Bush and with the...

Campbell Brown Ratings Hit 2009 Low

Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media


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...

May Ratings Mayhem! Fox News Tops; MSNBC Beats CNN; Cooper, Olbermann Down; HLN Way Up

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media


Nielsen's May 2009 ratings are in, with Fox News again leading the cable news race by wide margins. Fox News Wins Ratings Race (Again) Fox News re...

Anderson Cooper's Rating Woes "Most Troubling" To CNN Staffers: Politico

Politico | MICHAEL CALDERONE | | Posted 07.02.2009 | Media


It's Cooper's ratings that are the most troubling, say staffers, given the resources and heavy promotion for his show, and persona. For years, Klein ...

CNN's Five Most Annoying "Personalities"

Bill Mann | Posted 06.06.2009 | Media


Bill Mann

How might CNN get more eyeballs? Dump the annoying people and they have quite a few of them, you may have noticed.

CNN, Taking Middle Path, Gets Squeezed By Rivals

New York Times | BILL CARTER | Posted 05.27.2009 | Media


The election of Barack Obama does not seem to have ushered in a kinder, less-polarized environment in politics -- or television. And that's not a goo...

CNN: Primetime Doesn't Matter As Much Anymore

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.17.2009 | Media


Much has been made of CNN's problems in primetime — in March, the network finished third for the first time ever, and it's currently running fou...

CNN In Third Place In Prime Time For First Time

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 04.27.2009 | Media


NEW YORK — CNN is poised to finish March third in the prime-time weeknight ratings behind Fox News Channel and MSNBC, the first time this has ev...

CNN's Rough Ratings March: Trailing Even MSNBC, HLN In Prime Demo

Portfolio | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 04.20.2009 | Media


More evidence that CNN is going to have to find a new strategy fast or risk becoming a cable news also-ran: In the month of March so far, the Time War...

The Left is Not Abandoning Barack Obama

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 01.09.2009 | Media


Stephen C. Rose

I would like to stop our jail society, save our dysfunctional schools, rein in the Pentagon and turn the "war on terror" into a police action. Am I on the "left"?

Fox News Wins Election Week, #1 Network In All Of Cable

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 12.12.2008 | Media


CNN may have won election night, but Fox News retained the most viewers, winning Election Week and taking the #1 spot in primetime among all cable net...

Election Night 2008 Ratings: 71.5 Million Watch Obama Victory, ABC, CNN Tops

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 12.06.2008 | Media


Over 71 million people watched the Election Night coverage, making it the most viewed event of the political season and the most watched television ev...

MSNBC Tops CNN For October

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.28.2008 | Media


MSNBC beat CNN in prime time for the month of October, led by the breakout success of "The Rachel Maddow Show," which brought MSNBC its first-ever vic...

Cable News Ratings Return To Normalcy: Fox News Wins Wednesday

Huffington Post | Posted 11.23.2008 | Media


After MSNBC's surprise win in the demo Tuesday night, cable news ratings underwent a return to normalcy Wednesday night, to some extent, with Fox News...