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CNN Struggles to Replace Chris Cuomo as Ratings Sink Under Guest Hosts Brianna Keilar, Jim Acosta
Lindsey Ellefson - Yesterday 1:29 PM
>CNN Struggles to Replace Chris Cuomo as Ratings Sink Under Guest Hosts Brianna Keilar, Jim Acosta
CNN launched a new show, "Democracy in Peril," two weeks ago in the 9 p.m. ET slot, which was previously occupied by ousted anchor Chris Cuomo. Ratings are in for the first two hosts, Brianna Keilar and Jim Acosta, and so far, thenew program has not stopped the viewership decline.
Keilar was up first last week, helming the show at its outset. From Monday of last week to Monday of this week, CNN's 9 p.m. hour averaged 556,000 total viewers, of whom just 139,000 were in the advertiser-coveted age demographic of 25 to 54. Compare that to Fox News' Sean Hannity, whose competing program averaged 2.985 million total viewers Monday to Monday, with 426,000 in the demo, on average. CNN's average total viewership number was closer to what Fox News pulled in the demo alone than it was to competing with Hannity's total viewership. Rachel Maddow's 9 p.m. show on MSNBC pulled in an average of 2.118 million total viewers, with 259,000 of them in the demo.
Notably, that average is skewed by last Thursday's ratings. On the one-year anniversary of President Joe Biden's inauguration, the 9 p.m. hour was hosted by Anderson Cooper, which led to a total average viewership of 607,000 with 170,000 in the demo.