CNN saw a ratings boost Thursday with its town hall special on gun violence, featuring President Obama, but the network still didn’t get as many viewers as competitor Fox News.
The program, which only received promotion since Monday, averaged 2.4 million total viewers, according to a CNN release. That put it behind Fox, which aired an episode of “The O’Reilly Factor” that averaged 3 million total viewers.
MSNBC came in a distant third, averaging less than 1 million viewers.
In the CNN release, the network touted that it beat the competition in the coveted 25-54 age demographic. CNN averaged 845,000 viewers in the demographic. Fox got 463,000 and MSNBC had 227,000.
The hour-long townhall was organized to follow Obama’s announcement this week that he was taking executive action on guns, including broadening required background checks on gun buyers.
