Growing political interest powers CNN gains among key viewers
Speaking of debates:
Powered by a mounting national interest in the presidential races, CNN scored a rare ratings win over top-ranked Fox News in February among the key viewer democraphics of 25- to 54-year-old viewers during prime time for the first time in six years.
CNN drew an average of 614,000 viewers in that age group, a spike of 150% over February 2007, while Fox News earned 454,000 viewers, up 10%, according to Nielsen Media Research. MSNBC placed third with 326,000 viewers, an increase of 71%.
Fox News, however, still won a larger overall audience this month, with 1.87 million viewers in prime time, making it the third-most watched among all basic cable networks. CNN had 1.66 million and MSNBC drew 771,000.
The big audience gains for CNN were largely due to primary night specials and the three widely-watched debates the network hosted this month, including last week’s Democratic forum in Texas, which garnered more than 7.5 million viewers.
-- Matea Gold
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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CNN GAINS OBAMA'S FANATICS GAINS RATING
I am an avid fan of CNN;its been 15 years that I amhooked with cnn news. But, your slanted coverage of presidential candidates inclined to favor Barack Obama
have forced me to shut off my cnn channel. I am not tuning to cnn anymore. I am an independednt, and I will vote McCain. I can not entrust the presidential attache case with nuclear codes and buttons in case of nuclear threat from a novice like Barack Obama. Morseo, if the threat comes from terrorists-jihadists muslim countires in Somalia, Kenya, and Iran.
Furthermore, cnn as one of the pillars of the fouth estate
should be fair and balamced. Common, why not dissect his life, works, and philosophy, since he was a child, high school, college, baptism, birth certificate, and works in chicago neighborhood while boozing. You did this to Hillary too. Be fair.
Posted by: Francis Magno | February 27, 2008 at 12:42 PM
CNN GAINS OBAMA'S FANATICS GAINS RATING
I am an avid fan of CNN;its been 15 years that I amhooked with cnn news. But, your slanted coverage of presidential candidates inclined to favor Barack Obama
have forced me to shut off my cnn channel. I am not tuning to cnn anymore. I am an independednt, and I will vote McCain. I can not entrust the presidential attache case with nuclear codes and buttons in case of nuclear threat from a novice like Barack Obama. Morseo, if the threat comes from terrorists-jihadists muslim countires in Somalia, Kenya, and Iran.
Furthermore, cnn as one of the pillars of the fouth estate
should be fair and balamced. Common, why not dissect his life, works, and philosophy, since he was a child, high school, college, baptism, birth certificate, and works in chicago neighborhood while boozing. You did this to Hillary too. Be fair.
Posted by: Francis Magno | February 27, 2008 at 12:45 PM
I could not agree more with what Francis Magno says ...you have been one sided in the Democratic primaries favoring Obama. While you can find every sort of fault with Senator Clinton over big issues as well as the most petty things...you are incapable of asking Senator Obama a tough question as well as asking him to elaborate when he doesn't AND then report what his campagin managers spewed about him.
Tim Russett finally got tough a little with him during the Ohio debate, but oh my goodness Tim was more excited about congratulating himself after the debate about how he purposely tricked Hillary into answering a question first. I have got to tell you...this is the behavior of a high schooler who finally tricks his English teacher into inserting a comma where it doesn't belong and can't wait to get to the playground to make a name for himself. I was embarrassed watching Tim gush all over himself after the debate. Just play it back and watch it. Today he still doesn't realize the joke is on him.
Hillary did exactly what she set out to do...she reminded every hardworking, intelligent woman in America who
gets the job done that there are those who will be unfair to her simply because she is a woman. The moment Hillary said, "I notice I always get the first question" I iinstantaneously knew what she meant.
Posted by: vicki almeter | February 27, 2008 at 07:22 PM
cnn is for Obama every one know that..for that i want every one to know what CNN stand for
CNN= Communist News Network
Posted by: tuong huynh | October 06, 2008 at 11:40 PM
I am a viewer of CNN and I enjoy watching you. I get all the news and I get the truth about the election and it's candidates. I think McCain and Palin has done an injustice to this country and he should retire from politics period. Palin is another story. She acts like she is a basket case..ready to shoot anybody in her way. You should have been number one because I tell everyone to watch CNN for the news.
Posted by: Jay Gray | October 17, 2008 at 07:42 PM