CNN has wrappedย up the first quarter of 2016 with its most-watched quarter in total daytime viewers since 2009, and its best primetime viewership since 2008.
The cable news networkย finished behind Fox News but dominated MSNBC, and showed the most primetime growth among the three rivals. CNN averaged 1.42 million primetime viewers, while MSNBC averaged 888,000. This marks CNN’s biggest quarterly total viewer advantage over MSNBC in prime time in eight years.
CNN was the fastest growing Top 70 cable network in primetime and finished up 165 percent compared to the first quarter of 2015. “Erin Burnett Outfront,” “Anderson Cooper 360” and “CNN Tonight with Don Lemon” make up the successful primetime lineup which was accompanied byย 12 debates and town halls.