Ten Things That Are Now More Popular than Pitiful CNN #BreakingNews #RedPillPharma
Since even before Donald Trump’s presidency began, CNN’s “news” programming has consisted of hammering him with virtually wall-to-wall negative coverage. Now, the ratings are in — and they’re downright pitiful.
As NewsBusters noted earlier this week, the Fox News Channel’s primetime line-up in April had more than three times as many viewers as CNN, 2.4 million vs. 767,000. CNN is down 237,000 viewers since April 2018, and nearly 40 percent from its 2016 peak of 1.25 million primetime viewers.
Fox News has beaten CNN for an embarrassing 208 consecutive months. The last time CNN won a ratings battle, their best primetime show was Larry King Live at 9pm ET, book-ended by the long-forgotten The Point with Greta van Susteren at 8:00 and NewsNight with Aaron Brown at 10:00.
Across all cable networks, CNN now ranks 15th, behind Home and Garden TV (4th), the Hallmark Channel (9th) and the Food Network (14th).
Here are just a few ways to look at these numbers:
■ The 237,000 viewers CNN has shed over just the last year is more than the populations of Richmond, Virginia (227,032), Baton Rouge, Louisiana (225,374) or Des Moines, Iowa (217,521).
■ Their remaining 767,000 viewers could all comfortably fit in Jefferson County, Kentucky (current population 771,158).
■ Their current ratings are lower than those for failed TV shows such as TBS’s Wrecked (846,000), cancelled after three seasons. The bottom-rated show on broadcast TV this week, CW’s The 100, had 901,000 viewers, which was 134,000 more than CNN.
■ More people tuned in for the 2018 Little League Baseball World Series (an average of 1.02 million per game; more than 3 million for the championship) than watch CNN these days.
■ There are more real-estate agents in the United States (1.3 million) than there are CNN viewers. And many more people work at Walmart (1.5 million) than watch CNN.
■ According to Wikipedia, the population of prostitutes in the U.S. (approximately one million) is larger than the population of CNN viewers.
■ One survey suggests there could be twice as many witches and pagans in the United States (1 to 1.5 million) than there are CNN viewers.
■ Americans are more likely to ride a bicycle to work than to watch CNN. According to a new report from the Census Bureau, 836,569 Americans over the age of 16 say they ride a bike to work.
■ More households keep chickens and other poultry birds as pets (1,020,000) than tune in to CNN’s primetime shows, according to a survey from the American Veterinary Medical Association.
■ It’s far more common to have a huge pile of money than to watch CNN. The number of households with assets in excess of $5 million (not even counting their primary residence) reached 1,570,000 in 2018.
■ On the bright side, CNN’s viewership still edges those who gave money to Bernie Sanders this year (525,000), as well as the estimated number of homeless people in the United States (552,830). But the gap is closing.
At this point in 2010, CNN’s Larry King Live was still averaging about 759,000 viewers a night, (down from a high of 1.6 million in 1998). Just a few months later, the show was cancelled.
If CNN would pull the plug on Larry King for poor ratings, what must they do when their entire prime-time line-up has ratings that are just as bad?
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