How can words convey just how pathetic CNN’s numbers are? You’re talking about a national network, with anchors earning millions annually, supported by a vast staff of reporters, producers, editors and technicians. And at 8 a.m. ET, Camerota and Berman are viewed by an audience of 567,000. By comparison, Olivia Jade Giannulli, the vapid airhead whose mother cheated to get her into college, has 1.9 million YouTube subscribers.
I’m sure similar comments can be made about the specialty news channels here in Canada. For example, the airports in Edmonton and Calgary carry CBC, both of which are hard to avoid as they’re on every TV screen in those locations.
Similarly, other establishments where TVs serve as a diversion for waiting clientele, such as banks, contribute to viewership numbers, though not necessarily those channels. The bank branch in the town where my parents used to live used to carry the CTV news feed but now it has Global, for some reason.
I’m surprised anyone watches CNN. Each hour is one minute of half-baked factoid, usually erroneous or at best, incomplete, followed by fifty-nine minutes of air-headed “analysis” by “experts” who’ve never made a useable prediction in their entire careers. Since Teletubbies has never had to retract eight stories in seven days it probably provides more useable information.
So, it appears Zucker really can destroy anything… Socialism is the most powerful doomsday device ever created.
CNN is nothing more than a propaganda machine now and is entirely operated as such.
Hardcore campaigning for the Democrats and all their pet ideologies all day long, year round, every year, and not a penny of it considered campaign spending. What a gig, they must be laughing their asses off at Dinesh D’Souza.
The 12 year old mentally stunted CNN Audience gets bored easy… Advertisers can only sell so much Milk & Cookies. Same old guest list of Communist flunkeys like Van Jones & Bernstein… The fruit loops have had their day. Throw the switch & run before the lawyers find you
They all brag about having 2-3 million viewers….
…do they realize what a small percentage of the population that is?
..no one would run a business model on those numbers
My wife and I have to add one or two cable channels to our Rogers subscription (e.g., the History 2 channel so I can watch Ancient Aliens, etc.). Rogers dropped our FOX News channel when we switched our plan a number of months ago, and we want that news channel back too.
I might have posted this before, but I do want to cancel CNN. People have said that this is next to impossible to do, since it is part of the basic package. I think it is important to have FOX News in, CNN News out, as a tv package. As I have posted before, the conservative movement is not well-organized. Example: there are few boycott movments, and no boycott-CNN organization that I know about. We all complain about the hideous corruption at CNN, but few do anything about it. If people still carry CNN on their cable channels, their are still paying for the bloated multi-million-dollar salaries of on-the-take, Democratic Party broadcast hosts.
Btw, CNN head Jeff Zuckerberg made a conscious effort to replicate the ESPN model, to transform his network into one promulgating left-wing propaganda. He did this as ESPN’s ratings were tanking. A real head-scratcher that. One guesses his love of Democratic Party corruption is more important than the business viability of CNN.
Yeah, the only thing you can do, to cut the money lifeline to CBC, CNN, ESPN, … IS CUT TEH CORD.
Although I can see a “TV tax” coming to Canada, like in the United Sharia Socialist Kingdom (ie. the UK) has to keep the BBC going…
Do not doubt that very quickly after that, you will see the idea starting to be pushed in the USA. Why should PBS and NPR have to beg for donations, when the boot of the state can be placed on your face, and the sword of the state pressed to your neck to keep them going?
And after that, Disney, ESPN, CNN, will line up for TV taxes, and every Democrat in the country will push it…
Actually, it has already started in Canada; that government support for news casters is TV tax, stage one.
I think an observant poster, on this site a year ago, mentioned that the most revolutionary act a conservative can do is to cut the cord. But my wife and I, now mostly retired, have our TV addictions. One of mine is BNN-Bloomberg, during the “Canadian content” hours between 7 am to 7 pm Eastern time. I get your comment about the proposed TV tax. There is also the corruption of channel-packaging, the CRTC and the big cable companies. Corrupt.
Oof, David, BNNB? This channel has devolved from what it once was, not that it was that great in the first place.
Yes, there are a few moments of the odd bit of real information, but they are few and far between, BERMAN being one of the highlights to look for as well as the odd appearance by Jarislowsky, of fund fame.
Otherwise, its CTV politically correct, lightweight, pot-centered fanfare.
CNBC during business hours has much more informed viewing, BNN is an embarassment.
As to the rest, in my neck of the woods, CNN is optional, in the News sub-package, but it would mean giving up other channels too, FOX is in that package. I just customize my guide so that it is never chosen by mistake, no clicks to add tot he count for them, or PMSNBC, or CBC for that matter. Those channels are psychotic in their TDS and outright hatred of conservative values. CTV isnt much better, thought their recent critique of Trugroper with SNC was surprising, but Im not buying their feigned outrage
So called Canadian conservatives are very compliant and accept the absence of conservative news outlets. Harper let SUN TV wither away rather than support a vision of what it could become. FOX in its own way has fought to survive. Tucker Carlson’s recent smear campaign is an example of what the left will do to isolate and destroy popular conservative voices.
Back when Youtube, Facebook, etc. used to publish real numbers even Alex Jones used to beat the crap out of CNN. I wonder why advertisers haven’t sued about paying for ads based on faked numbers.
i watch fox news alot, enjoy the morning show, sunday morn show, hannity and laura ingraham.
flip to cnn to see what current trump bash is, this is during fox commercials and normaly only last 30sec had enough and back to fox i go. iam in ontario( not tarrrana) so do flip to ctv, cbc weekday mornings that last a few min. unless its on the trudeau scandal.
i agree with david wish rogers would make cnn optional. whenever i hear someone at work or club i belong to bashing
trump i say your watching to much cnn, cbc, ctv. try fox and hannity or ingraham or morning shows for both sides of the coin.
All you people who won’t cut the cord, guarantee that CNN has a money supply forever. Doesn’t matter that you don’t watch it; YOU ARE PAYING FOR IT EVERY MONTH WITH YOUR MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION FEE.
Until you cut the cord, you are the problem. You are paying CNN directly, every month you keep that cord attached and keep paying for it.
As long as there are 45 million people on the continent paying for satellite or cable, that is 45 million, times what, 90 cents per month in basic cable fees, that is going directly to pay millionaires at CNN to keep doing what they are doing.
DOESN’T MATTER THAT THEY HAVE ZERO VIEWERS, YOU KEEP PAYING THEM WITH YOUR FIFTH COLUMN TV PACKAGE ENEMY ACTION.
Yes, Trudeau’s next step is to implement a “TV licensing” scheme to support Liberal party organs financially. So by this time next year, there will be jackbooted thugs, driving personal Humvees (yes, a crew of 5 people will require 5 humvees), kicking down your door, to collect $100 per month, per TV, in TV license fees for the CBC, and whatever carbon tax that they need to keep their private jets flying.
Kevin, I like, on BNN-Bloomberg: Larry Berman, Andrew McCreath and David Prince. I don’t think the Canadian business reporting is that biased. I find CTV News utterly unwatchable (Lisa Laflamme and Joy Malbon? torture to watch). I need to watch BNN, as an economist and as someone, as a small retail investor, who has to foĺlow Canadian markets.
As an example of BNN’s lack of bias, the network has given Alberta’s energy sector a good hearing, over the past two years, as the Trudeau Liberals work to destroy the industry. The Canadia media cartel, in contrast, ignores Alberta-Saskatchewan grievances. Example: the Toronto corporate-media cartel are starting to attack Jason Kenny’s UCP party, in the runup to the spring provincial election.