I'm sure if the Cable News outlets keep trying they may SOMEDAY come close to the Broadcast News Numbers. However, for Fox, MSNBC. CNN. etc to come close to the Broadcast Ratings, they should really start broadcasting NEWS... NOT OPINION.
(Week ending August 28, Average Nightly Viewers) NBC-7,230,000 ABC-6,590,000 CBS-4,890,000
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
CNN sends SOS By CLAIRE ATKINSON Last Updated: 3:51 PM, September 25, 2010 Posted: 12:40 AM, September 25, 2010
Amid the worst ratings slump in its history, CNN tossed Jonathan Klein, the chief of its US network, as part of a massive management shakeup at the beleaguered cable news network.
CNN said yesterday that it's replacing Klein with Ken Jautz, a CNN veteran who's turned sister network HLN into a cable news destination on the back of crime and celebrity talk shows.
CNN Worldwide President Jim Walton told Klein, who didn't show up at the office yesterday, that he was out on Wednesday, according to reports.
Klein told industry trade the Hollywood Reporter that he was surprised by the firing, saying, "I got shot."
While Walton gave no reason for Klein's departure, CNN is clearly losing the ratings war with cable rivals Fox News, the most watched cable news network, and MSNBC. (News Corp. owns Fox News and The Post.)
Nielsen says CNN's average primetime audience among viewers ages 25 to 54 -- the key category for news advertisers -- is 175,000 season to date, down from a high of 455,000 in 2008, an election year. Fox News' audience in the same category is nearly triple that.
Moreover, CNN's most important primetime shows, including "Anderson Cooper 360" and "Larry King Live," are down more than 30 percent year-over-year, Nielsen figures show.....................>>>>...................>>>>......................http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/cnn_sends_sos_KCTUW7cktbbwMe7CL01OQP
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