CNNs New Years Eve Coverage Outstrips MSNBC, Fox News Channel
CNNs New Years Eve Special, in which Anderson Cooper tequila shots on the hour and Andy Cohen melted..
CNNs New Years Eve Special, in which Anderson Cooper tequila shots on the hour and Andy Cohen melted down when de-umbrella-d by Times Square security, thumped specials on MSNBC and Fox News Channel.
Cohens second year co-hosting CNNs New Years Eve Live with Anderson Cooper clocked 1.82M viewers from 8 PM until 12:30 AM. MSNBC logged 1.075M and Fox averaged 1.383M.
In the news demo, CNN was tops with 786K viewers aged 25-54, topping the combined FNC (262K) and MSNBC (154K).
In the immediate walk up and aftermath of the Times Square crystal-ball drop, from 11-12:30 AM ET, CNN topped cable news networks with 2.797M viewers (1.197M in the news demo), to FNCs 1.840M viewers (358K in news demo) and MSNBCs 691K viewers (113K in news demo).
CNNs audience in that 90-minute period marked the only one with a median age within that target demo. Median age of CNNs audience: 52 years. Median age of MSNBCs crowd: 68 years. FNCs: 64 years.
