SOTU: Not A Good Night For CNN

By Brian 

Between 9 and 11pm, Fox News Channel averaged 5,075,000 total viewers, while CNN averaged 1,015,000 viewers and MSNBC averaged 716,000. CNN lost 48% of their audience from last year, an insider said, calling it “yet another one of Jon Klein’s signature news events gone bad.”
Meanwhile, FNC’s 5 million viewers is on par with the broadcast networks. Last night was FNC’s highest-rated SOTU address ever, averaging 5,965,000 viewers during the speech. (2003’s address averaged 5.8 million viewers for FNC.)

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