Ratings Collapse for Liberally Biased CNN Host Piers Morgan
On Tuesday, May 16, CNN did something that hadn't happened to the network since 1997: The 9 p.m. edition of Piers Morgan Tonight drew an audience of only 39,000 viewers in the important 25-54 age demographic.
These numbers come as a huge blow to the host, liberal, former tabloid editor Piers Morgan.
According to a story by Alex Weprin for the TVNewser,com Website, that day was “a typical boring Tuesday, with little earth-shattering news to drive TV viewers to cable news.”
It was also May sweeps, with the season finale of NCIS: Los Angeles on CBS, America's Got Talent on NBC and Dancing With the Stars on ABC, drawing an astonishing 39 million viewers between them at 9 p.m.
Morgan's hour-long program, during which he interviewed lesbian actress Jane Lynch and Ted Williams, “the man with the golden voice,” drew a total of approximately 284,000 viewers, which was down from a typical weekday but not a record-breaking low overall.
The program's lead-in and lead-out, Anderson Cooper 360, drew about 90,000 demo viewers at both 8 and 10 p.m., also down from a typical weekday this year.
It has been an interesting year so far for Morgan. As NewsBusters previously reported, conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg called Morgan “a niggling pedant” after the interviewer belittled him during the April 30 edition of Piers Morgan Tonight.
Goldberg returned to the program on May 8 and accused Morgan of having a double standard when interviewing Republicans as opposed to Democrats.
Also, during an interview with Tony Perkins soon after the overwhelming passage of Amendment 1 in North Carolina, Morgan asked the president of the Family Research Center why he is “so implacably opposed to two loving people getting married.”
Morgan began his program on CNN on January 17, 2011, following the retirement of long-time interviewer Larry King who was shoved aside ostensibly in pursuit of higher ratings among younger viewers. It doesn't seem to be working out.
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Take a hint, Piers....
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 10:49pm.
Go back to Britain's Got Talent.
A man's got to know his limitations. -Harry Callahan
The market place speaketh
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 8:25am.
Bad show -- bad ratings. CNN took a crazy chance like they did with Joy Behar, and it was a bad decision.
The ONLY correction I can make
Submitted by chiefpayne on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 9:54am.
on your comment is,
That's DIRTY Harry Callahan! :-)
CNN sees themselves as the
Submitted by okie-pastor on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 10:55pm.
CNN sees themselves as the persecuted because of their "hard-line, non- biased, strait-shooting" "journalism"
At least MSNBC is entertaining in their 'in your face, you're ALL Intolerant, Racists, Bigots, Sexist Homophobe, who want steal from Poor people, starve babies, and kill Old People" sort of way!
Don't forget Obama boot
Submitted by MightyMouth on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 8:55am.
Don't forget Obama boot lickers! MSNBC excels at that!
Mark Levine said...
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:02pm.
You have no ratings because you suck. Why do we have to import no-talents when we have plenty of no-talents here?
Pliers Moron, Such a sad little story....
Submitted by upcountrywater on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:06pm.
.
You Didn't Build That.
Couldn't happen to a more
Submitted by pilgrim4jc on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:12pm.
Couldn't happen to a more obnoxious guy! I guess the American people have decided he's not the next "star" and have pushed the big "X". :-)
Couldn't happen to a more
Submitted by pilgrim4jc on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:14pm.
The word jerk doesn't even begin to discribe this guy.
I'm wondering
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:20pm.
if more people eat at Denny's than watch Morgan.
Maybe
Submitted by grammajane on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 12:24am.
Current TV will hire him to boost their ratings when Spitzer bombs.
Wow! Not only YES!
Submitted by gailannr on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 12:32am.
BUT HELL YES!!!!! You go Pierce! Literally, just go home please?
I guess America has grown
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 12:36am.
I guess America has grown weary of gay news readers.
Can't stand 'em
Submitted by NotFondOfLibs on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 12:46am.
Based on my past experiences with the British, I don't watch Mr. Morgan's show and they couldn't pay me to watch it.
Americas got Talent
Submitted by shawn. on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 1:15am.
.......Is much better without him. Howard Stern is awesome.
Sorry buddy but Howard Stern
Submitted by MightyMouth on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 9:24am.
Sorry buddy but Howard Stern blows!
Finally!!!!!
Submitted by Bourbeau on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 2:11am.
At least one liberal gas bag gets his just due right where it hurts. The only thing that would have been better then this news would have been if CNN directed Piers Morgan to reveal this, himself, on his show. Gas bags like him deserve to eat crow on live TV; people should see them gulp when they find out their nonsense has no audience, no matter how righteiously progressive they think they are. Can MSNBC be that far behind; they have more then a couple of airheads that need their sails trimmed, including the Jeopardy hero, Chris Matthews (Sarah Palin must be laughing her %#^ off).
PMT
Submitted by LaVallette on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 3:44am.
With a show titled PMT what man would voluntarily watch it???
"Journalistic baffon"!
Submitted by Qtaug on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 4:31am.
Poetic Justice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, it's obvious why....
Submitted by c5then on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 7:37am.
The ratings system must be biased.
Maybe Piers can get one of his assistants to hack into it and see what's going on?
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
I can think of a number of
Submitted by John21 on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 7:51am.
I can think of a number of reasons that this show is such a miserable failure:
The host has the personality of an old paper bag
The host has to be the most boring person on television
The host has no concept of honesty
The host has proven rather rapidly that he has no integrity
The host is so liberal the progressives avoid him
The host cannot conceive of the idea that his show should be based on provable facts.
It is also painfully clear he is trying to run a English style smear show and that he does not understand that it is not an American tradition or even appreciated
He is just a clown looking for a circus
Drop Piers -
Submitted by Agnostic on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 8:16am.
bring back Benny Hill reruns
Now that's an idea.
Submitted by texastommy on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 9:32am.
Now that's an idea.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Submitted by NC Cop on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 9:39am.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
39,000 in the 25-54
Submitted by Bettendor on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 9:06am.
39,000 in the 25-54 demographic? Doesn't the test pattern on some stations get higher ratings?
I know there was a lot of competition that night, but wow...
The Sad Numbers
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 9:10am.
Sure, Morgan's show is biased and terrible and has very low viewership. The FOX news lineup on any given night is beating CNN by a factor of 4 or 5 to 1, and is beating MSNBC by 2 or 3 to one. But if O'Reilly or Hannity or FOX News with Brett Baier is getting 1.5 to 3 million viewers, where is the bulk of America getting it's news? It's getting it from the Culture Media. And we all know what political viewpoint has won the day at the Culture Media.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
If airports were human...
Submitted by P. Aaron on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 9:31am.
...they wouldn't watch CNN either.
LOL!
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 9:57am.
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Well, "everyone knows"
Submitted by KornKing on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 10:18am.
If Piers is having ratings trouble, it must be that the American people are a bunch of dolts who simply can't appreciate fine journalism.
Morgan
Submitted by sngnsgt on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 10:33am.
Arrogance like this does not appeal to most Americans. Try your show in Iran. See how it sells there.
CNN
Submitted by spallatial on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 12:36pm.
CNN can thank Campbell Brown for the beginning of the end of that network, as a serious news outlet. Her All Bias All Bull show in 2008 was it for me. Now CNN is just a sad joke that thinks it's still relevant.
cnn
Submitted by SChmidjohn123@c... on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 4:44pm.
maybe CNN can hire b maher, he will need a job.
Piers is sometimes not wrong
Submitted by jpwcpa on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 6:07pm.
Earlier this week, on Dancing With the Stars, a brief video package was aired shortly before the spectacularly hot Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins performed her dance routine. Piers was included in that video, and among other things said that Katherine had the voice of an angel. Although my usual reaction to his utterances varies from "mild disgust" to "complete revulsion", I can find no fault with the statements Piers made about Katherine.
By the way, more people in the 25-54 demographic saw his appearance in that video clip than have watched his CNN show over the last several weeks combined.