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CNN’s ratings seem to be going down now that former President Donald Trump is out of office, essentially depriving the news network of their main subject, according to The Daily Wire.
CNN’s ratings fell by roughly 44% the first full week after Trump was out of office.
MSNBC, suffered a similar fate although the channel’s plunge was not quite as bad as CNN’s.
In the first week of the Biden administration, CNN’s audiences dropped comparatively speaking in regard to recent weeks leading up to the inauguration.
Under President Joe Biden, CNN and MSNBC have pivoted, taking a much less adversarial stance to the administration that many of their left-wing viewers agree with and would disapprove of the networks bashing.
Fox News’ rating took a dip last month bringing the network to the bottom of the rating chart.
For the first time since 2000, MSNBC and CNN topped Fox in viewership.
CNN “topped cable networks” with roughly 2.8 million viewers per day between January 4th and January 10th, with 4.2 million viewers in primetime. During that same time period, MSNBC had approximately 2.3 million viewers per day and 3.8 million in prime time. Fox News, however, had just 1.7 million per day and 3.2 million in primetime. Yahoo Finance reported that “Newsmax, a smaller rival that has been promoted by President Trump, said it saw record ratings in primetime of 443,000 for the week. Its total day ratings averaged 294,000.”
From The Daily Wire:
After years of dominating cable news, Fox News has found itself in an unfamiliar spot: the bottom of the rating charts. Last week, for the first time since 2000, MSNBC and CNN topped Fox in viewership, capitalizing on huge numbers after the Georgia runoff and riots in DC.
Despite its hit, however, Fox News is set up to potentially recover some of its lost ground in the years to come as it runs programming critical of the Biden administration.
