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CNN's great 8PM hope, Parker Spitzer, garnered lackluster ratings in its debut Monday night, trailing Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and CNN's own sister network HLN. Television critics, meanwhile, savaged the program.
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper is set to get his own syndicated daytime talk show, a program that will address "social issues, trends and events, pop culture and celebrity, human interest stories and populist news," whatever that means.
CNN is sick of being the punching bag of the cable news world. Explaining why the network replaced the head of CNN U.S., CNN Worldwide President Jim Walton cited what he described as unfair press coverage focusing on CNN's declining ratings, while ignoring its growing profitability.
CNN president Jonathan Klein has been hard at work this year remaking the network's primetime lineup, its most important programming block. But whether or not his effort proves successful, he won't be around to find out.
President Obama is exhorting Americans to break the cable news habit. And he's right, because cable news emphasizes unimportant and visually sensational "news" instead of information with actual news value.
When the left needed a forceful voice to rally around, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann became so popular that MSNBC reoriented its primetime lineup around it. But today, creeping indications suggest that viewers might have lost some patience with Olbermann's shenanigans.
You might think spending five hours a week taping the daily hen party that is The View would be enough to scratch anyone's itch to gab. Joy Behar wants more. Starting Tuesday at 9 p.m., the actress/comedian will be hosting her own one-hour nightly talk show on HLN, the CNN sister channel formerly...
For the last couple years, CNN has been looking increasingly out of step with the cable news audience, offering up middle-of-the-road, milquetoast news in prime time as its competitors stocked their schedules with ever more strident political commentary. The result: a fall to fourth place behind...
What's the No. 1 brand in cable news? That depends, in part, on how many screens you're counting. With the second-quarter drawing to a close, Fox News Channel is running up the score on the competition, posting its highest ratings ever and boasting of an evening audience equal to those of CNN,...

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