WHAT A DAMAGE: CNN’s Primetime Ratings Drop While Covering Trump Trial 24/7 | The Gateway expert

In recent weeks, CNN has shifted their Trump obsession to the sham Trump trial in New York. They even had presenters do an embarrassing “dramatic reading” of the trial transcripts filtered onto social media.

The bad news for the far-left network is that it is doing nothing to improve their already declining ratings. In fact, their primetime viewership is declining.

Most Americans are much more concerned about the economy, inflation and the invasion of the southern border, but CNN doesn’t care. They need their Trump-hating fix every day.

Fox news reports:

CNN’s primetime lineup hits a dismal low despite the New York-Trump trial

CNN’s long-struggling primetime lineup hit a significant low in a critical category last week, despite the historic New York-Trump trial dominating the news cycle.

CNN’s primetime lineup of “Anderson Cooper 360,” “The Source with Kaitlan Collins” and “CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip” generated just 83,000 viewers between May 13 and 19 in the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults 25 to 54. The dismal total tied the network’s 2023 Thanksgiving week with the smallest audience in the critical category since 1991.

By comparison, Fox News programs “Jesse Watters Primetime,” “Hannity” and “Gutfeld!” averaged 186,000 demo viewers, crushing CNN’s audience by more than 100,000 people between the ages of 25 and 54.

CNN’s primetime lineup had a smaller demo audience than 23 different basic cable options, including FXX, MTV, Hallmark Channel, Discovery, A&E, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, TLC, HGTV, Food Network. ESPN2 and Bravo, in addition to Fox News and MSNBC.

CNN’s primetime lineup was also not particularly successful among total viewers, averaging just 484,000 viewers, compared to two million for Fox News.

How can CNN ever lose viewers with compelling reporting like this?

CNN’s dramatic transcript reading has the atmosphere of a local parish on Good Friday, when random readers bluntly drone out text they don’t fully understand. “Didn’t I see you with the Galilean?” pic.twitter.com/zEzXONZL6R

— Raymond Arroyo (@RaymondArroyo) May 14, 2024

It would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic and sad.