Chris Cuomo is struggling to duplicate the identical success he discovered on NCS along with his NewsNation sequence, Cuomo.
The rankings for Cuomo are reportedly down 90% total and 95% within the 25-54 age demographic in comparison with his time on NCS, in response to new Nielsen Ratings numbers shared by the New York Post on Friday, August 29.
The journalist’s self-titled sequence reportedly averages at round 164,000 whole viewers and 15,000 within the aforementioned demographic. In comparability, his former NCS sequence, Cuomo Prime Time, averaged round 1.4 million viewers and 374,000 in the important thing demographic all through its 2017-2021 run.
Per the outlet, Cuomo even drew in additional viewers throughout his remaining quarter on NCS than along with his NewsNation present, averaging 797,000 total viewers and 165,000 in the principle demographic. During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cuomo’s NCS present reportedly drew in 2.4 million whole viewers commonly.
Cuomo’s rankings wrestle on NewsNation might be as a result of present competing within the 8 p.m. ET weeknight time slot. Fox News’ Jesse Watters Primetime averages at 3.1 million viewers, per the report, whereas MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes and NCS’s Anderson Cooper 360° common 874,000 and 539,000 viewers, respectively. Newsmax’s Finnerty additionally beats out Cuomo with 319,000 whole viewers.
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Chris was fired from NCS in December 2021 following claims that he aided his brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, in battling sexual assault allegations. “This is not how I want my time at NCS to end but I have already told you why and how I helped my brother,” he wrote through X on the time. “So let me now say as disappointing as this is, I could not be more proud of the team at Cuomo Prime Time and the work we did as NCS’s #1 show in the most competitive time slot.”
He concluded, “I owe them all and will miss that group of special people who did really important work.”
News broke in June 2022 that Cuomo can be joining NewsNation’s primetime lineup that fall, and Cuomo premiered on the community that October.
“I make a lot of mistakes. Sometimes for good reasons, sometimes for bad reasons. I’m very flawed,” Cuomo stated of his previous controversies and NewsNation function on a February 2023 episode of Anthony Scaramucci‘s Open Book podcast. “There’s damage. There’s damage that’s relatable to people. There’s damage that’s unrelatable to people that I have to deal with. That I try to deal with. That I do the work on. I still fail.”
He added, “I have learned to accept it. I had to accept because I was gonna kill everybody, including myself. Things can consume you… I really had to fight against that because… I got too many people counting on me.”
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