Originally Posted at Free Market Shooter – Authored by Jon Hall
Last week, CNN debuted Cuomo Prime Time – a show hosted by Fake News flunky and network “superstar”, Chris Cuomo. Despite the show being labeled as nonpartisan – it’s, of course, anything but.
CNN head, Jeff Zucker said of Cuomo’s new show and their competitors:
One of them has already convicted Donald Trump and one of them has already exonerated Donald Trump. We are looking for the truth.
Although the new show was heavily promoted and advertised, it still finished behind MSNBC programming in its first week. Compared to the same week last year, CNN’s viewership is down by 9%. By the end of Cuomo Prime Time’s first week, 23% of viewers who tuned in for the show’s premiere on Monday had already tuned out by Friday.
Numbers don’t lie – in its premiere week, Cuomo Prime Time averaged 1.1 million viewers while MSNBC’s Maddow averaged 2.6 million and Fox News’ Hannity averaged 3.2 million.
As Fox News details, Cuomo’s new show didn’t exactly draw in the younger crowd. In the demographic of adults aged 25-54, Cuomo averaged 377,000 viewers in his first week – whilst Maddow averaged 519,000 demographic viewers comparatively.
Cuomo told the Associated Press:
The independent thinker, the open-minded person doesn’t have anywhere to go. So we are building a home for them.
The irony of CNN and Chris Cuomo to suggest that they’re attempting to build a prime-time show that’s “nonpartisan” and “independent” should not be lost on anyone. Cuomo, known for his anti-Trump nature and chaotic, messy outbursts – isn’t exactly the anchor that should be hosting an “open-minded” show, seeing as how his political positions have been revealed time and time again.
Case in point…
.@ChrisCuomo: “President Trump’s attack on the AT&T-Time Warner merger was never about keeping power from the few. It was about reinforcing the power of one. President Donald J. Trump"
What happened here was wrong on the facts and rotten in its inception. https://t.co/KU7fPPbstH pic.twitter.com/i5UCcCwgNd
— Cuomo Prime Time (@CuomoPrimeTime) June 13, 2018
On last night’s show, Cuomo aired a totally nonpartisan idea: that the AT&T/Time Warner merger is needed because the alternative, an antitrust, would “reinforce the power of one” – President Trump. Of course, Cuomo makes sure to omit the fact that CNN is owned by Time Warner in his “independent” report – as well as the fact that an AT&T/Time Warner merger would grant far more power and reach to his prime-time programming.
It’s even more of an affront to consider that Chris Cuomo – a left-leaning Democrat, the party supposedly against big business – is all for a massive business merger opposed by President Trump. It seems as if Cuomo is absent of any platform or real issues to rally his viewers on – instead simply deciding to go against anything and everything Trump is for.
Heading into this year’s midterm elections, that’s a dangerous stance to take. A repeat of 2016 could be on tap, but this time, with Cuomo leading a prime-time program in which anti-Trump media is forced to self-reflect on where it all went wrong.
On Monday, Cuomo knocked the President for daring to tweet from Singapore ahead of the historic summit between the U.S. and North Korea, saying:
I can’t believe he’s tweeting from Singapore… He’s distracted at a time he needs to be focused.
Is that why he’s President of the United States and accomplished something never before done in the history of U.S. politics – a face-to-face meeting with North Korea? It would be beneficial for Cuomo to remember where he’s at, hosting a prime-time show on a failing network that came dead last in ratings and was even beat by re-runs of cartoons last year.
Cuomo is the one that needs to focus and let go of distractions – if he wants a shot at getting CNN’s ratings out of the toilet. Since it is unlikely that Cuomo or CNN will deliver the “nonpartisan” and “independent” news they advertise, a continuation of CNN’s downward spiral is all but certain.
Good ,I detest that liberal and his father.
That face.
Very punchable….
What kind of person hired CBS anchor man Otis Livingston if he hease bad views over CNN Jeff Zucker calling him white garbage, sick, looser in business and even homo. Jeff Zucker must becareful of maniac Otis Livingston!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hear hear!
Fakest of fake news, even caught actually faking the news. Yet they claim the high moral ground. Fascinating.
Sad but combined the 3.7 million MSNBC and CNN is 600,000 more than FOX and I certainly don’t see much of FOX as seriously right.
As long as Andrew is the power Barron of New York State, Cris will always have a some cute at CNN.
Yeh. I dont watch Fox either. They are all a bunch of lying cuntz. Nor msnbc. Local for weather and internetz for news.
Who’s Chris Cuhomo?
I think he was the first transvestite to have the lead float at the pride parade in NYC.
He is Chris Homo – they misspelled his name.
<——- This is my shocked face
Chris Cuomo is retarded.
Just like his Progressive clown brother “Loser “
Yes, you can tell both are unintelligent just by watching them speak. Took the governor 4 or so tries to pass the BAR; Chris is worse.
If you pay for cable television you still support these stations. Where do you think all that money comes from. Ratings stopped mattering when cable television was invented. There’s a reason you can’t pick and choose your stations.
The TOTAL number of viewer for ALL cable news is somewhere around ONE PERCENT of the U.S. population.
1. How in the fuck do they stay in business?
2. At the end of the day their OPINIONS (opinion, no news, is the vast majority of the programming) don’t mean jack shit. They are irrelevant.
Fuck em, hang em, and forget em.
“How in the fuck do they stay in business?”
Two-fold actually, cable subscriptions alone contribute probably 5+ billion (53 million subscribers at $100 a pop, which is probably a conservative estimate) add to that the 70+ billion in television ad revenue, and there you have it. That’s not counting the subsidies provided by GovCo in order to ‘control the narrative’.
BTW, I’m keeping an eye on the ad revenues for companies. That’s where I think the next recession will rear it’s ugly head first. Lots of ad revenue running around out there, like internet ad’s etc. For instance YouTube is projected to reach 3.96 Billion in ad revenue this year. That’s where all the money printed by the Fed is being laundered.
Love Chris Cuomo’s new prime time. He has great delivery and is extremely knowledgeable. Hard to believe his ratings are better than pathetic Fox News and MSNBC!!