In March, 2018, The Rachel Maddow Show was America's highest-rated cable news show, besting Fox News' Hannity. "Maddow averaged 3.058 million viewers for the month, narrowly topping Hannity's 3.00 million."
ABC News' World News Tonight with David Muir topped all the networks in evening news viewership for the season that ended last week, and also won the key 25-54 and 18-49 demographic.
A Rating is a percentage of the group. It is basically calculated at RTG = HUT x SHARE where HUT (or PUT when measuring demos) is Homes Using Television and share is the percentage of TV sets that are being used which are tuned to a particular show. Share is NOT the percentage of television sets in use.
Previous versions of this fact sheet included audience data stretching back to 2008. That data is available in the archived 2017 fact sheet. Average audience for morning news programs from ABC, CBS and NBC declined over the past year, down 4% in 2018, to about 3.2 million from 3.3 million.
GMA, Today and CTM averaged a combined 10.33 million during 2019-2020, which is -5% from what they drew in the 2018-2019 season (10.91 million). Compared to 2018-2019, GMA was -5% in total viewers and -7% among adults 25-54. Today was -6% in total viewers and -9% among adults 25-54.
On Thursday, CNN averaged 6.34 million total viewers and a leading 2.87M in the adults 25-54 news demo from 8-11 p.m. ET, according to Nielsen Live+Same Day data. FNC was second at 5.56 million and 1.51M in adults 25-54, and MSNBC (4.89M, 1.28M) was third. ABC (2.72M, 819,000) was the top broadcaster.
Who owns CNN?
Turner Broadcasting System
Who Owns CNN? The CNN parent company is Warner Media LLC, which also owns HBO, Otter Media, Warner Brothers, and Turner Broadcasting System. Warner Media is then owned by parent company AT&T.
Turner, also a noted philanthropist, founded CNN in 1980 as the first 24 hour all-news cable network. He went on to become vice chairman of media conglomerate Time Warner but quit in 2003 and is no longer involved in running the company.
Alternative Titles: Cable News Network, Cable News Network, Inc. CNN, in full Cable News Network, Inc., television's first 24-hour all-news service, a subsidiary of WarnerMedia.
- CNN.
- CNN International.
- HLN.
- TBS.
- TNT.
- TruTV.
- Turner Classic Movies.
- Cartoon Network.
Call CNN at 1 (404) 827-1500.The CNN corporate office phone number is 404-827-1700 or you can fax them at 404-827-2600. The customer service number for CNN's Washington D.C. bureau is 202-898-7900.
