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Jeff Zucker’s ‘Anderson Cooper 360′ Experiment Ends In 4th Place For Week

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday May 3, 2013 @ 4:47pm PDTTags: Anderson Cooper 360, CNN, Jeff Zucker, TV Ratings

Anderson Cooper 360 may have had a new format at 10 PM on CNN this week, but it didn’t have many viewers. The new panel-style show that ran Monday-Thursday was the least-watched broadcast on cable news in the time slot and the second-lowest in the adults 25-54 demographic. The show had a coatless Cooper debating with permanent panelists Amy Holmes of The Blaze, CNN’s Jeffery Tobin and Christiane Amanpour, plus Andrew Sullivan, Anthony Bourdain, former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleisher, and ex-Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria joining on separate days. On average over the week, the revamped AC 360 garnered 503,000 viewers, and 167,000 in the demo. In terms of viewership, the latest experiment of the Jeff Zucker regime was behind Fox News’ On The Record (1.436 million viewers/206,000 in demo), MSNBC’s Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell (654,000 viewers/146,000 in demo) and CNN sister station HLN’s After Dark (588,000 viewers/194,000 in demo), according to Nielsen. The temporary new AC 360 had one win — beating Last Word in adults 25-54 — but that pales when compared to the double-digit drop the show saw compared with the week before: From Monday-Thursday, AC 360 down 32% in viewership and 34% in the demo from the 10 PM edition of AC 360’s performance April 22-25. READ MORE »

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CNN Hits 20-Year Weekday Primetime Low

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday May 22, 2012 @ 9:56am PDTTags: Anderson Cooper 360, CNN, Piers Morgan Tonight, Ratings

CNN Ratings Drop 2012The only ratings news CNN is getting lately is bad news. Last week, the cable news network had its lowest-rated weekday primetime in 20 years in terms of total viewers. From May 14-18, CNN averaged 395,000 viewers … Read More »

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CNN Slumps To 15-Year Primetime Low

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday May 16, 2012 @ 6:02pm PDTTags: Anderson Cooper 360, Cable News Ratings, CNN, Piers Morgan Tonight, Rachel Maddow Show, Sean Hannity, TV Ratings

CNN fell to a 15 year primetime low last night in a key demo and limboed down to its second worse weekday primetime since March 1997. A new episode of Piers Morgan Tonight at 9 PM drew in … Read More »

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CNN’s Anderson Cooper Hits Primetime Low

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday December 20, 2010 @ 4:09pm PSTTags: Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360, Anderson Cooper Ratings, Cable TV, CNN Ratings, TV
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As he is getting ready to take on daytime with his new syndicated talk show next fall, Anderson Cooper’s primetime fortunes are falling. His CNN show Anderson Cooper 360 is wrapping 2010 as its lowest rated year ever in primetime among … Read More »

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It’s Official: Anderson Cooper To Host Warner Bros TV-Syndicated Daily Daytime Strip But Also His CNN News Show

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday September 30, 2010 @ 8:14am PDTTags: Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360, Anderson Cooper CNN, Anderson Cooper Syndicated Daytime Strip, Anderson Cooper Warner Bros TV, Daytime Talk Shows, Daytime TV, TV, TV Deals

Anderson Cooper has signed a deal to host a new one-hour NYC-based daily daytime strip for Warner Bros Domestic Television Distribution, set for national syndication launch in Fall 2011. This should be very successful: one week, I caught Cooper co-hosting with Kelly Ripa — and he was a natural. Cooper will continue to anchor CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360″ airing weeknights at 10 PM ET. And, geez, is troubled CNN relieved he’s staying even though his ratings have plummeted. Luckily, both CNN and Warner Bros TV syndication sit under the same Time Warner banner. Said Jim Walton, the president of CNN Worldwide, “I am pleased that Anderson Cooper has extended his relationship with CNN and will be with us for years to come. I am also pleased to congratulate Anderson on his new relationship with Telepictures. We think it will be good for Anderson, good for CNN and good for Time Warner.”  And Cooper had this to say, “I remain as committed as ever to my program on CNN, and will be with CNN for years to come.” Here’s the news release: Read More »

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