CNN’s interview with Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz drew slightly below 6M viewers on Thursday night time, in keeping with early Nielsen knowledge.
It marks CNN’s finest efficiency within the 9 p.m. hour in latest months, because the community hosted the Presidential Debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in June — which managed 9.7M within the hour.
Thursday’s unique interview acquired about one million viewers within the 25 to 54 demographic, which is the coveted age group for advertisers on the subject of cable information programming.
All of the cable information networks have seen a scores bump this summer time as a result of presidential election cycle, although CNN has struggled to maintain up with its rivals. In August, Fox Information has topped primetime, averaging 2.27 million viewers, up 12% from the identical interval in 2023. CNN grew by 49% to 1.08 million this month. In complete day, CNN has been up 13% with 615,000 viewers.
CNN has managed to maintain up, although, by positioning itself with a number of key applications, together with this unique interview with Harris and Walz. In June, the community additionally hosted the talk between Trump and Biden that may finally result in questions surrounding Biden’s health to serve one other time period and his subsequent step down from the race that opened the door for Harris’ nomination.
Whereas lower than 10M tuned into CNN itself, the talk drew greater than 51M viewers throughout 16 networks with ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC and Fox all carrying the talk — with CNN branding.
Nonetheless, earlier this month, MSNBC got here out on high in Democratic Nationwide Conference protection, whereas Fox Information dominated the RNC in July.
When all is alleged and completed, the networks have nonetheless been struggling in comparison with the 2020 election cycle.
