tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540471114822045290.post5560782793889332289..comments2023-08-19T05:57:04.215-04:00Comments on All Things CNN: Vladimir Duthiers takes on Nigeria post for CNNUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540471114822045290.post-78191860974970917692012-04-26T16:52:16.523-04:002012-04-26T16:52:16.523-04:00360 was awful last night. The 1st thing Anderson
...360 was awful last night. The 1st thing Anderson<br />did was to bring on the pundits. The ratings will<br />be low again, just watch. The content was just bad.<br />Both 360 & TRMS lead with immigration but 360<br />missed a big detail that was in the Washington <br />Post. One of the authors admits they are designed<br />to keep America a majority white nation. 360<br />failed to ask Bay Buchanan about this, she never<br />answers any questions. Republicans are afraid of<br />Rachel Maddow and won't come on their show.<br />Frankly, I think they know they can pull one over<br />on 360. Rachel beats them up with facts that is<br />why they are afraid of her.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540471114822045290.post-49473030893501153882012-04-26T16:14:44.455-04:002012-04-26T16:14:44.455-04:00I don't think CNN will change.CNN thinks Repub...I don't think CNN will change.CNN thinks Repubs<br />complaining about the president traveling is a<br />legit news story. It is not a controversy. THe <br />Repubs do this all of the time. It amazes me how<br />CNN always tries to call Obama controversial.<br /><br />TEA NN is just like the tea party irrelevant. It is <br />amazing the control the right wing has over CNN.<br />CNN doesn't even select their own stories. CNN<br />is not an independent news organization. Heck,<br />you can't even call them a news channel. CNN<br />is the pundit network. CNN only cares about<br />not offending conservatives and they is why<br />they are behind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540471114822045290.post-4759298629294295582012-04-26T13:04:32.977-04:002012-04-26T13:04:32.977-04:00Can somebody please tell CNN that people
between ...Can somebody please tell CNN that people <br />between the ages of 40-50 are not baby <br />boomers. They have been renamed and <br />are nothing like baby bombers. They are<br />like their kids, highly educated and likely<br />never worn a suit to work. Jeans people,<br />who are very much like their kids. Do some<br />research. This is also a group CNN should<br />be taking aim for.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540471114822045290.post-54087109656273234532012-04-26T12:55:52.619-04:002012-04-26T12:55:52.619-04:00That 's why I don't get CNN. Why would the...That 's why I don't get CNN. Why would they do<br />more bickering and highlight this all of the time.<br />CNN should give us freedom from this sort of <br />thing. There is no alternative. People expect and<br />want better from CNN. Piers Morgan is no match<br />for Rachel Maddow. I'm glad she is whipping his<br />behind for the comments he made about her.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540471114822045290.post-84100775213928333352012-04-26T11:17:22.095-04:002012-04-26T11:17:22.095-04:00I started watching MSNBC and Fox regularly this we...I started watching MSNBC and Fox regularly this week just to see why they get better ratings than CNN. I have to say I can't take all the hatred that is expressed on these two channels for people who think differently. This week has really made me appreciate CNN.<br />AC 360 is the best show.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540471114822045290.post-62449845750682806422012-04-26T10:05:40.108-04:002012-04-26T10:05:40.108-04:00CNN calls itself the worldwide leader in news.
How...CNN calls itself the worldwide leader in news.<br />How did they miss the story about how the<br />austerity measures in the UK have lead to an<br />economic disaster. CNN touted David Cameron<br />as being right on economics. Well it turns out<br />he is wrong and President Obama got it right.<br />Our economy did not double dip. UK & Europe<br />did what the GOP is proposing. They don't work<br />so why is CNN giving them a pass. There is now<br />concrete evidence that won't work. Our economy<br />is not the greatest but we are slowly adding jobs.<br />It will have to be a combo of the government &<br />private sector. Neither can carry an economy<br />alone. You can never fully take the government<br />out of the economy. The spending helps create<br />jobs. Europe is now saying wow did Obama get<br />it right. Spending has to gradually be bought <br />down. You can't just start slashing and cutting.<br />That can lead to a double dip just like the UK.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540471114822045290.post-48847739850903322372012-04-26T09:49:30.566-04:002012-04-26T09:49:30.566-04:00In regards to the ratings, I gotta agree that JKUS...In regards to the ratings, I gotta agree that JKUSA, OutFront, and Starting Point are all in the biggest trouble. Piers is also a problem but he has his good days and has the capacity to create buzz every once a while that brings some people to CNN primetime. I love John King, but his days of having his own weekday show are numbered. He has been in a ratings hole for a while and that is not good in an election year. King is good, smart and well-regarded so I still think he has a lot to offer CNN regarding political coverage. Send him on the road again, and give him branded segments in TSR and AC360. OutFront is a brand killer - CNBC audience is fundamentally different from CNN. What made her popular on CNBC is a complete turnoff on CNN. Kill this show and Burnett's contract before she is seared in the minds of viewers as the most moronic new show idea CNN execs have had to date. Finally, I am sad to say that Soledad's show is a complete failure. As an anchor and reporter, Soledad has some real skills but the morning show is a round table of the most annoying pundits ever assembled. I really looked forward to CNN challenging Morning Joe but Starting Point so far has not shown a willingness to change what isn't working. Why do I care what Will Cain and some washed up liberal comedian think about the news? I DON'T!!! In defense of Starting Point, it was never given any publicity whatsoever. I was rolled out in the dead of night with barely a peep. To give it less marketing and less airtime than the marketing juggernaut that was OutFront seems very unfair to me. Outfront has had 7 months and a mammoth publicity campaign that I have never seen the likes of and it can't improve the timeslot's ratings?! I never see commercials or web ads for Starting Point yet many times, Soledad's interviews show up on other websites and cable shows because she asks the tough questions. She also has the anchor skills to mediate big election night coverage and she could even moderate a debate. I know she can be a lightning rod due to her coverage of racial issues but I think she fits the CNN brand of news first, tough journalism, and delivering information that matters to the broader public. Can they at least try to fix Starting Point? Dump the pundits, add real guests, launch a marketing campaign.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540471114822045290.post-78212248083107388282012-04-26T08:53:01.345-04:002012-04-26T08:53:01.345-04:00You have about 1 minute to connect with viewers
ri...You have about 1 minute to connect with viewers<br />right from the start. The open/greeting sets the<br />tone of the show.<br /><br />Diversity is also an issue for CNN. A multi ethnic<br />female anchored news show could fix that. There<br />is a reason why The View/Talk have a mix of nationalities. Neither show has a permanent<br />Latina host. I can see Isha Sesay, Betty Nguyen,<br />Ashleigh Banfield or Robin Meade. Hire a female<br />anchor from Univsion or Galavision. I love<br />Despierta America.<br /><br />Cool idea about hanging out with your girls and<br />getting your news on. A show like this done right<br />could do wonders for CNN There would be no<br />shortage of music for the show. You could have<br />Destiny's Child Girl to Bob Dylan's Lay Lady Lay<br />or Takes Like A Woman. Set up a Pinterest like<br />companion blog for viewers to share news ,<br />ideas about recipes,music shoes, you name it.<br />Avoid politics . None on the show. Just a fun<br />hour. 7 o'clock would be a great time.It is past<br />time for CNN to step into the 21st century.<br /><br />Let the ladies handle everything. Even sports.<br />You could always invite Hannah Storm or <br />Sage Steele at ESPN to talk about the NFL Draft.<br /><br />CNN has got to change for the better. It is getting<br />harder to even like CNN these days. For years TV<br />had programing aimed at males not women. Now<br />TV has a ratings drop. The American demos are<br />changing and TV better figure this out. CNN can<br />start a evolution in cable news Zero, the number<br />of cable news shows aimed at women.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540471114822045290.post-65078327408706176582012-04-26T00:54:37.695-04:002012-04-26T00:54:37.695-04:00CNN has got nowhere to go. They have no bench.
The...CNN has got nowhere to go. They have no bench.<br />They have been hiring pundits. CNN forgot about<br />the medium that is television. It is visual.TV has to<br />communicate and connect with viewers. Fighting <br />pundits leave the viewers out. The graphics, the<br />presentation & delivery are just plain bad. MSNBC<br />is getting the best of CNN because they work at<br />it. CNN has become complacent and lazy doing <br />the same tired old formulas over and over again.<br />CNN shows don't even have a decent welcome<br />for viewers. Who the heck creates a game show<br />for pundits in 2012 ? Or claims a bogus question<br />is what everyone is talking about. CNN's product<br />stinks and no one is buying. You know it is all<br />manufactured news. Wake up CNN. Your brand<br />is not selling. All of the bickering pundits are<br />taking a toll on CNN. Viewers are shopping <br />elsewhere. Don't diss your costumers who are<br />viewers you need to get out of the mess that<br />is self- created. CNN better find a way to get<br />viewers to return.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540471114822045290.post-2469450901153783162012-04-25T18:45:24.013-04:002012-04-25T18:45:24.013-04:00I love when you guys post analysis of the ratings ...I love when you guys post analysis of the ratings of all the CNN shows! Its great to see how the cable shows really stack up instead of BS spin in the ratings press releases. Good job guys!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540471114822045290.post-21545927104100665712012-04-25T13:02:45.576-04:002012-04-25T13:02:45.576-04:00The Conclusion :
Starting Point is averaging 232,...The Conclusion :<br /><br />Starting Point is averaging 232,000/93,000<br /><br />Morning Joe 420,000/157,00<br /><br />F & F 1,084,000/301,000<br /><br />Staring Point is likely increasing the ratings for<br />MJ. Whatever CNN does to replace it will have<br />to put up some good numbers to just get back<br />into the game. A different show with new faces<br />and no pundits and a scaled back role for<br />Soledad might work. There is no other way to<br />say it : this is a disaster. CNN has to pull back<br />from the pundits. They do look like the want to<br />be elsewhere on Starting Point.It is like Soledad<br />is not that much into the show either. In many<br />ways CNN set her up for failure. A women's <br />show in the AM or 7. Where do you go ? Do<br />both ? Women viewers are ignored by cable<br />news. 7 PM hanging out with your girls doing<br />the news could catch on. The big question :<br />who does the mornings and evenings ? You<br />would likely need 2 ensembles.<br /><br />CNN is averaging 522,000/157,000 in PT<br /><br />MSNBC is at 757,000/248,000<br /><br />FNC is at 1,862,000/397,000<br /><br />CNN is averaging 376,000/115 for Day<br /><br />MSNBC is at 441,000/144,000<br /><br />FNC is at 1,119,000/280,000<br /><br />We have been collecting more data so that<br />is why the posting is later than usual.<br /><br />Synopsis :<br /><br />CNN will have to come of with several new shows.<br />The bad thing is that CNN has a lousy track<br />record creating shows. Changes are coming.<br />They will have to be done gradually. We think<br />one of the reasons why CNN is in trouble in the<br />dayside ratings is that it was too many changes<br />at once. It was Early Start/ Starting Point and a<br />dayside lineup changes.<br /><br />May is a very crucial month in the TV biz..<br />It won't be easy to rebuild, relaunch, revamp<br />CNN. It will be an ongoing process. There are<br />no easy answers. It is a lot tougher to run a<br />network than you think. Soul Searching is likely<br />going on at CNN. Trust us there are meetings<br />and there will likely be fallout. Will there be<br />a new management team ?<br /><br />Please don't use the date to personally attack<br />people. The analysis is meant for discussion.<br /><br />Stay TunedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540471114822045290.post-77817397036329861822012-04-25T12:34:47.054-04:002012-04-25T12:34:47.054-04:00Back with Part 2.
TSR is averaging 564,000/136,0...Back with Part 2.<br /><br />TSR is averaging 564,000/136,000<br /><br />Hardball is averaging 716,000/139,000<br /><br />The 5 is averaging 1,668,000/367,000<br /><br />There has been much talk on this blog about a<br />possible TSR move to 7 PM. If this happens,<br />it will likely be temporarily until a new show<br />comes along. Wolf stacks up well opposite<br />Hardball but the demo could be higher. The<br />goal is to make it easy for the 8 PM hour to<br />get over 200,000 to top ED. You give 360<br />some numbers to grow on. The 6 & 7 PM hrs <br />are big problems for CNN. 120 minutes of<br />drop offs hurt. It can put a drag on prime<br />time if the numbers keep going lower. Also,<br />if there is breaking news Wolf would be a<br />better choice up against Shep Smith. Hate to<br />say it but Jk, USA, Out Front & Staring Point<br />are being bluntly told : if those ratings don't<br />go up in May you are done.<br /><br />JK, USA is averaging 457,000/114,000. It is<br />doing a little better.<br /><br />Sharpton is averaging 714,000/166,000<br /><br />Special Rpt is at 1,796,000/361,000<br /><br />Our Front is averaging 402,000/120,000<br /><br />Hardball is averaging 746,000/169,000<br /><br />Fox Report is at 1,707,000/374,000<br /><br />Ironically, 2 of Tom Foreman anchoring brought<br />in the highest ratings for the show. Game Over<br />Trust us CNN is trying to figure a way out of<br />this and Staring Point.<br /><br />This will end this section. The final details<br />will follow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540471114822045290.post-74962481992381929852012-04-25T12:12:02.737-04:002012-04-25T12:12:02.737-04:00Greetings all. We are back with the latest ratings...Greetings all. We are back with the latest ratings<br />for the month of April 2012 for CNN. The May<br />ratings start tomorrow, so get ready for some<br />spin. All 3 will point to numbers that make them<br />look good, for CNN they have 99 problems but no<br />solutions for 1. The press releases will come out<br />later today.<br /><br />360 is averaging 527,000/154,000<br /><br />ED is at 866,000/214,000<br /><br />BOR is averaging 2,851,000/560,000<br /><br />CNN will take that. 360 improves over the<br />previous 2 hours and it is only a demo deficit<br />of 60,000. It will be interesting to see if 360<br />ever gets to the 600,000's . ED has a solid<br />advantage in viewers but the demo has to <br />concern MSNBC. They can't seem to find the<br />show that can get Countdown demos. ED<br />gets the bump form TRMS. 360 needs to get<br />those totals up. AC was off for 1 week with<br />Wolf Blitzer subbing. Is CNN testing ? More<br />on that later.<br /><br />360 is averaging 540,000/180,000 at 10 PM<br /><br />TLW is at 914,000/257,000<br /><br />OTR is averaging 1,753,000/410,000<br /><br />It pays to have Rachel Maddow as a lead in.<br />She holds the MSNBC prime time lineup together.<br />She lifts her colleagues with her. 360 at 10 is<br />the top demo for CNN. 360 stays put at 10. <br />The demo is how all networks make money.<br /><br />PMT is averaging 596,000/169.000<br /><br />TRMS is averaging 984,000/287,000<br /><br />Hannity is averaging 2,026,000/468,000<br /><br />CNN has a problem. With Rachel topping<br />Piers by more than 100,000 in the demo,<br />the 360 bookends can't prop up PMT. CNN<br />got rid of Larry King when the gap was less.<br />360 is giving a boost to PMT because the<br />demo goes up at 10 not down.<br /><br /><br />We will end this portion now. More to come.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540471114822045290.post-34757492539068126402012-04-25T09:23:30.900-04:002012-04-25T09:23:30.900-04:00CNN should hire Aisha Tyler for a 7 PM. All
mornin...CNN should hire Aisha Tyler for a 7 PM. All<br />morning long the video of Obama slow jams<br />the news has been going viral. Aisha can do<br />Fallon, she sings. She can do Stewart and she<br />handles the news items & top talkers on Talk.<br /><br />Someone directed me to You Tube for a show<br />called Laugh In with clips of President Richard<br />Nixon. He says sock it to me. What does that<br />mean ? Now I am watching Laugh In on You<br />Tube. Great political satire. It is not unusual <br />for the President to make appearances on a<br />show like this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540471114822045290.post-88167642274536135362012-04-25T08:57:31.471-04:002012-04-25T08:57:31.471-04:00I think I know what the problem is with Starting
...I think I know what the problem is with Starting<br />Point. The show is boring and everybody looks<br />totally bored to death. Folks are trying to wake <br />up and get things done not take a nap. Aisha <br />Tyler would at least offer some humor in the<br />morning. She definitely saved The Talk.. She has<br />made Julie and Sarah more relaxed. You guys<br />might be on to something about have 4 or 5 who<br />are regulars. Would love to see Betty back on CNN.<br />Bring in Betty has the leader and move Soledad<br />to the Mrs O role. CNN could hire back Maria<br />Hinojosa too. Asleigh Banfield could work.. <br />CNN management dealt Soledad a bad hand .<br />Do something to help your talent for once CNN.<br />That why you bring Betty Nguyen in as the one<br />who guides the show. For months viewers have<br />Soledad at the helm. Let her still have support<br />role. You can't leave Soledad at the helm. CNN<br />needs a show that can get at least 500,000<br />to top Morning Joe. 300,000 won't cut it. Come<br />of up a brand new name for the show and make<br />changes that we will notice. With 4 or 5 hosts<br />you don't have a news reader someone at the<br />table does it. I agree about how CNN gets the<br />music all wrong. Why isn't there a song at the<br />beginning of Starting Point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com