Latest Ratings Report Released For Some Cable Networks

Oh, baby, it’s happening — and not a moment too soon. The slow, painful collapse of the corporate media establishment is kicking into high gear, and this week? It’s CNN and MSNBC bleeding out like it’s a ratings battlefield in 2003 Baghdad. Viewer numbers are in, and let me tell you, it’s not just a bad quarter — it’s an implosion.

Let’s start with the scoreboard. Compared to this same week last year — a presidential election year, mind you — Fox News is down 16% in primetime. Not great, but let’s be real, that’s a tap on the brakes after a media Super Bowl.

Meanwhile, MSNBC and CNN? They didn’t just lose ground — they fell off a cliff. MSNBC lost 40% of its primetime viewership. CNN? A brutal 44%. Forty. Four. Percent. You could turn the lights off in their studios and nobody would notice.

But wait, it gets juicier. In the all-important demo — the 25-54 age group that advertisers actually care about — things are worse. CNN lost 54% of its demo in primetime. That’s right, over half their target audience has vanished like a Biden press conference. MSNBC? Down 58% in the demo. The only thing keeping them afloat right now is the boomer crowd who lost the remote.

Meanwhile, over at Fox News, they’re still pulling in more than double the viewers of MSNBC and five times what CNN’s scraping together. And in the demo? Even though Fox is down 41%, they’re still dominating both competitors combined. That’s not just winning. That’s burying the opposition and dancing on their dusty grave.

And don’t miss the real story here: Without cable carriage fees — those sneaky little slices of your monthly bill that fund these flailing networks whether you watch them or not — CNN and MSNBC would already be dead in the water. They survive not because people love them, but because you’re forced to subsidize them. You don’t even have to watch — just having cable means they get paid. It’s like paying rent to a ghost.

So if you’re still wondering why CNN is still on the air despite having fewer viewers than a rerun of “Pawn Stars,” there’s your answer: cable bundles. Corporate affirmative action for woke news. It’s like giving participation trophies to the networks who spent the last decade yelling “RUSSIA!” and lecturing you about gender pronouns.

Want to end it? Pull the plug. Seriously. Cut the cord. Ditch cable. Say goodbye to satellite. These networks are living on borrowed time and borrowed dollars. Take away the subsidies — and the pharma ads (looking at you, Big Zyrtec) — and these propaganda machines crumble fast.

It’s not just about ratings. It’s about momentum. It’s about a cultural shift. The resistance grift is done. The orange-man-bad business model is bankrupt. Colbert’s late-night smirk can’t save them. Howard Stern’s 2016-era screeds don’t sell. And the public? They’ve moved on. They’re tired, they’re smarter, and they’re not buying it anymore.