Cable News Winners, Losers From First Quarter 2022 – OutKick

Here are the highest 20 rated reveals in cable information for the primary quarter of 2022 (12/27//21-03/25/22):

1. The Five, Fox News: 3.67 million
2. Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News: 3.61 million
3. Jesse Watters Primetime, Fox News: 3.12 million
4. Hannity, Fox News: 3.05 million
5. Special Report, Fox News: 2.72 million
6. The Ingraham Angle, Fox News: 2.41 million
7. Outnumbered, Fox News: 1.99 million
8. Gutfeld, Fox News: 1.95 million
9. America’s Newsroom, Fox News: 1.92 million
10. The Faulkner Focus, Fox News: 1.90 million
11. Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC: 1.83 million
12. Your World with Neil Cavuto, Fox News: 1.79 million
13. The Story, Fox News: 1.77 million
14. America Reports, Fox News: 1.76 million
15. Fox & Friends, Fox News: 1.44 million
16. Last Word, MSNBC: 1.36 million
17. All in with Chris Hayes, MSNBC: 1.32 million
18. Deadline: White House, MSNBC: 1.26 million
19. The Beat With Ari Melber, MSNBC: 1.23 million
20. Fox News @ Night, Fox News: 1.19

CNN first enters the record at 22 total, with Anderson Cooper 360 averaging simply over 1 million viewers.

Overall, CNN’s primetime lineup is down 56% from a 12 months in the past. MSNBC is down 46%, whereas Fox News is up 3%.

The story for CNN and MSNBC is far the identical: each networks miss their prime star. CNN fired Chris Cuomo in December and is ready for brand spanking new administration beneath Chris Licht, former producer of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, to call a substitute for the 9 pm hour.

Cuomo was by no means Bill O’Reilly — nobody is — however he moved the needle. He was extra entertaining than Cooper and extra gifted than Don Lemon, for what that’s price. Cuomo all the time led CNN in viewership, averaging 1.3 million in 2021.

CNN ought to be doing higher. It employs sturdy journalists like Jake Tapper, Wolf Blitzer and Clarissa Ward — who’s the most effective on-scene reporter within the enterprise. Its downside is that hacks like Lemon, Oliver Darcy and that disagreeable girl on the morning present undermine all of it.

So if CNN goes to unwoke itself, as Licht hopes, the community has to fireplace these duds, together with Jemele Hill, the unbearable racist who will quickly have her personal present on CNN+.

Meanwhile, MSNBC wants Rachel Maddow, who has been on hiatus for many of 2022. Had Maddow remained on air, she would have ranked no decrease than 4th total, as she did in 2021.

Maddow could have lied about Trump and Russia for years, however she’s nonetheless a celebrity. Maddow is the only, most dear expertise in cable information.

How is that doable? Well, a community isn’t desirous about sincere reporting, strictly talking. Networks are desirous about viewership numbers. In order to find out a number’s price, community managers comply with a easy system: take the bottom common — the variety of viewers who tune in at a particular time slot, irrespective of the host — then measure whether or not she or he raises, drops or maintains that common.

In 2021, Maddow averaged one million extra viewers than the remainder of the MSNBC primetime lineup. That’s leverage, thus her $30 million a 12 months contract.

In truth, Maddow has a lot leverage at MSNBC that she personally vetoed Keith Olbermann’s return to the community. Good for her. No one likes Olbermann.

Finally, Jesse Watters was the largest winner of the quarter. FNC named Watters the everlasting host of the 7 pm hour in January, after attempting out a bevy of opinion hosts for over a 12 months.

In his first quarter, Watters led the 7 pm hour to 3rd total, despite the fact that 7 pm is just not historically a scorching spot for cable information. The hour conflicts with native information within the Central time zone and airs at 4 pm on the West Coast the place persons are nonetheless at work. So Watters has clearly exceeded expectations up to now.

Moreover, Watters additionally co-hosts The Five, the top-rated present on cable information.

Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity are FNC’s largest stars. Bret Baier is subsequent due to his significance to the FNC information division. After that, nobody else is above Watters. Not dangerous for a former producer.

Here’s a full record of winners and losers from the primary quarter of 2022 in cable information:

Winners:

• Jesse Watters — hosts two of the highest three reveals in cable information
• Clarissa Ward — ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox ought to line up at her door
• Rachel Maddow — reveals her worth even when she’s not working

Losers:

• Don Lemon — no expertise to talk of
• Joy Reid — an excessive amount of racism and an abysmal displaying at No. 21
• Keith Olbermann — begging for a job and never getting one