CNN finishes year with smallest audience in network's history

CNN is wrapping up 2024 with its smallest audience in its history, despite the historic political year it ended up being.

From Dec. 26, 2023, through Dec. 15, 2024, CNN only garnered 93,000 viewers in the key age demographic of 25 to 54-year-olds. Across all viewers, the network netted 488,000 viewers, trailing rival network Fox News, which got 1.46 million viewers, according to data from Nielsen Media Research.