CNN Ratings Disaster: Primetime Audience Tumbles Below 500,000

CNN�s primetime ratings on Wednesday dipped below 500,000 viewers, with less
than 100,000 of those coming from the 25-54-year-old demographic.

CNN�s ratings dipped below 500,000 after 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday evening
during �The Source with Kaitlan Collins,� according to AdWeek. Collins pulled
464,000 total viewers while �NewsNight with Abby Phillip� in the 10 p.m. hour
followed with 459,000. �Laura Coates Live� finished off primetime�s 11 p.m.
hour for CNN with 269,000.

�Anderson Cooper 360� was the only primetime CNN performance with over half-
a-million viewers, pulling in 535,000.

All the network�s primetime shows failed to break 100,000 viewers for the
coveted 25-54 demographic. Cooper had the best showing with 93,000, then
Phillip with 90,000, then Collins with 76,000, and Coates ended the night
with just 46,000 viewers in the age group.

 The new numbers are a troubling sign for the network.

�CNN�s full-scale collapse continues rapidly. It reaches a remarkable new low
led by @kaitlancollins and @abbydphillip: fewer than 500,000 viewers total in
prime-time! That�s almost impossible to do even if you wanted it,�
independent journalist Glenn Greenwald noted. �Also, they�re well below 100k
for viewers under 55.�

CNN's full-scale collapse continues rapidly. It reaches a remarkable
new low led by @kaitlancollins and @abbydphillip: fewer than 500,000
viewers total in prime-time! That's almost impossible to do even if
you wanted it.

Also, they're well below 100k for viewers under 55.
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� Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 27, 2025

The best hour on CNN was still behind MSNBC�s worst hour and far below the
worst hour on Fox News. �The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle� at 11 p.m. on
MSNBC brought in 799,000 total viewers with 99,000 in the 25-54 demographic.
Fox News� �FOX News @ Night� with Trace Gallagher brought in over 1.5 million
total viewers with 194,000 in the key demographic.

CNN has struggled with ratings for years. One week in November saw the
network mark its lowest-rated week since June 2001, bringing in an average of
just 268,000 viewers. During the same week, Fox News averaged 1.4 million
viewers.

In 2022, the failure of CNN+, the network�s shot at an online streaming
service, rocked the outlet. Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN�s parent company,
invested roughly $300 million into launching the online platform and brought
on big names such as Chris Wallace to sustain it, only for it to collapse
shortly after launch.

Several years before that collapse of CNN+, the outlet settled a $275 million
lawsuit brought against it by Nicholas Sandmann, who was maligned by many in
the media as a student of Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky when he
was filmed in an incident with a Native American activist.

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