The bottom has fallen out on CNN’s ratings, according to the latest viewership numbers.
Nielsen Media Research released its April ratings for the cable news network and CNN’s ratings fell 26% from the same month a year ago. This month is CNN’s worst ratings since October 2015.
CNN also lost views in the key advertising demographic of 25-54 year olds. CNN finished the month with an average of 767,000 viewers during their prime-time lineup. It had only 198,000 viewers in the key 25-54 year old demographic down from 336,000 a year ago.
Fox News finished first in the news race with 2.4 million viewers, the same number of viewers they had a year ago.
The five most-watched shows in cable news were Fox’s “Hannity” with an average of 3.086 million viewers, “Tucker Carlson Tonight” with 2.834 million, MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show” with 2.630 million, Fox’s “The Ingraham Angle” with 2.455 million viewers, and Fox’s “The Five” with 2.4 million.
CNN’s best-viewed show was “Chris Cuomo Primetime,” which averaged 917,000 viewers and was 26th overall in total viewers among the cable news networks.
