Ratings Slump Continues As No CNN Program Able to Draw One Million Viewers on Thursday

It was reported yesterday that CNN’s rating slump continued as no program was able to draw one million viewers on Thurday.

According to Fox News, “Anderson Cooper 360” came the closest, averaging 992,000, but the scandal-plagued “Cuomo Prime Time” lost 40,000 viewers and “Don Lemon Tonight” managed only 635,000 to drag down CNN’s primetime average.

“Cuomo Prime Time” was CNN’s most highly-viewed show in 2020 and averaged 2.2 million viewers from March 20 to June 24 last year when Gov. Andrew Cuomo regularly appeared on his brother’s program to prop up his Coronavirus response.

As of March of this year however, the show has averaged just 1.6 million viewers each night since CNN introduced the Cuomo news ban in February, a staggering 28 percent drop from the three-month period in 2020.

Fox News has continued to find success, however by averaging 2.08 million during the primetime hours of 8-11 p.m. ET while CNN averaged only 719,000 viewers.

In total, CNN has failed to reach more than 1 million total viewers on 16 different days from June 9 through July 8.

CNN struggled to attract viewers throughout the day, starting with “New Day” attracting an audience of merely 421,000. The liberal network failed to reach even 800,000 viewers until “Erin Burnett OutFront” managed 849,000 at 7 p.m. ET. 

Meanwhile, every Fox News program from 7 a.m. ET through the conclusion of “Gutfeld!” at midnight ET averaged more than 1 million viewers. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” led the way, averaging 3.2 million viewers to outdraw all of CNN’s primetime programming combined. 

CNN continues to search for a way to attract viewers post-Trump, but it appears that things are not running smooth at the network and during the second quarter of 2021, CNN averaged only 654,000 viewers compared to 1.2 million for Fox News. 

Fox News averaged 2.17 million over second quarter of 2021, while the primetime lineup of Cooper, Cuomo and Lemon averaged only 914,000.

Conservatives mocked the news on Twitter, including one user, “Kelly,” who shared the Fox News article about the ratings report and declared, “Keeps declining. Wonderful.”

Keeps declining. Wonderful.

CNN continues to struggle as entire lineup fails to crack one million viewers | Fox News https://t.co/ros71bk3Ji

— 🇺🇸✝️ Kelly ✝️🇺🇸 (@kellytx2) July 10, 2021