CNN Has Worst Ratings Week in 9 Years as Fox News Continues to Dominate – But There’s Even Worse News on Horizon

According to the latest numbers, CNN is in dire trouble. The struggling cable news network had a particularly terrible week between Jan. 16-22, scoring embarrassingly low ratings that even set records, but not the kind…

IJR SyndicatedJan 31, 20233 min read

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And it’s not as if people are turning away from cable news programming. That’s easily proven by looking at Fox News, which continues to go scorched earth on every other cable news network, hauling in massive numbers in every single category, including the 25-54 demographic.

Fox News crushed the ratings in the same time period once again. The powerhouse network captured an impressive 2 million primetime viewers and 256,000 in the 25-54 demo.

If that happened only occasionally, one might be able to argue that CNN is simply having an off week here and there. The issue is that CNN continues to be demolished in the ratings race week after week. Even its rival left-leaning network, MSNBC, manages to nearly double CNN’s numbers.

It’s almost as if people have grown sick and tired of CNN’s divisive narrative pushing or something. Imagine that?

CNN has either lost or fired most of its former top-tier talent, and one of the few remaining A-listers for the network, Don Lemon, doesn’t seem to be able to capture the viewers that CNN’s brass had hoped for when they moved him to the morning lineup to helm “CNN This Morning.”

In the same Jan. 16-22 time period, Lemon’s morning show was humiliated in the ratings, especially compared to rival morning program “Fox & Friends.” Lemon’s morning program only drew 331,000 viewers, while “Fox & Friends” mustered nearly 1 million viewers.

Morning or night, Americans clearly aren’t interested in hearing the toxic narratives constantly pushed by Lemon and CNN in general.

Lemon and CNN brass also have another controversy brewing. It was reported recently by celebrity gossip site Radar Online that Lemon reportedly, according to one source, called co-hosts Kaitlan Collins and Poppy Harlow “backup dancers.” They were reportedly not thrilled with the demeaning terminology.

“Don went into this thinking of himself as Beyoncé and his co-hosts as his backup dancers,” the source reportedly said.

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Between sinking ratings and what appears to be growing turmoil behind the curtains, it feels like CNN might be on its last leg before it either crashes and burns or is scooped up by another entity.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.