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Home Front: Culture Wars

CNN Loses 63% Of Audience Over Inauguration 2001

2005-01-22

Fri Jan 21 2005 23:52:24 2005

CNN hemorrhaged more than half their audience from the 2001 Inauguration, overnights show. The troubled news network only averaged 779,000 viewers during yesterday's Inauguration coverage from 10am-4pm with just 168,000 of those viewers landing in the coveted 25-54 demo.

Like CNN, MSNBC also suffered major losses, only averaging 438,000 viewers throughout yesterday's coverage (141,000 in 25-54), down a whopping 68% over 2001 and faring even worse in primetime with just 385,000 viewers.

In contrast, Fox News averaged 2,581,000 viewers from 10a-4p (up 30% over 2001) and their 25-54 demo average of 705,000 came close to CNN's total coverage ratings yesterday.

PRIMETIME:

FNC -- 2,439,000 (up 57% OVER '01)
CNN -- 1,353,000 (down 14% over '01)
MSNBC -- 385,000 (down 47% over '01)

Posted by:anonymous2u

#4 BTW, you can drop by and let Peggy know what you think at, duh, PeggyNoonan.com, as I did.

Posted by: .com 2005-01-22 7:09:10 PM

#3 a nice cup of hubris for Peggy

Posted by: Frank G 2005-01-22 6:46:46 PM

#2 If anyone has watched many of the talking head shows,, you will note that Peggy Noonan's brain fart of yesterday is now being memed as a refutation of Bush and his entire second term agenda of priorities among the Kool Aid crowd. I've heard it at least 15 times today.

The half-wits keep giving the fuck-wits stupid statments which are immediately turned 180 deg and used as more meme ammo. If Peggy Noonan is 1/10th the American patriot she played for all those years, basking in the reflected glow of Reagan, she'd apoligize profusely on every network and fall on her sword. Aid and comfort to the no-shit internal and external enemies of progress. Reagan, were he alive, would bitch slap the bitch. Thanks, Peggy. Thank you so much for your malignant ego. Here, have some Kool Aid.

Posted by: .com 2005-01-22 6:42:39 PM

#1 The numbers are worse than shown since FNC isn't in nearly the same number of homes as CNN. FNC is often in a higher priced cable/satellite package than CNN.

Posted by: ed 2005-01-22 12:42:13 PM

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