Election Night 2009 Ratings: CNN Comes In 4th, Fox News Easily Wins
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...
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...
Roberto Lovato | Posted 10.30.2009 | Media
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.
Matt Osborne | Posted 10.30.2009 | Media
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.
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...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 09.16.2009 | Media
Giving an audience of millions to enraged extremists is too great a gift to qualify as "freedom of speech."
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media
Unless Democrats develop a clear and compelling message, they face a very tough time in the 2010 elections.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 09.19.2009 | Media
These ratings suggest that popular support for the health care bill is waning.
Ron Galloway | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media
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.
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-...
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....
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media
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.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Bill Mann | Posted 06.06.2009 | Media
How might CNN get more eyeballs? Dump the annoying people and they have quite a few of them, you may have noticed.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 01.09.2009 | Media
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"?
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...
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...
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...
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...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media