CNN had its lowest weekly audience since the Obama administration on June 14 as its rating problems continue to plague the distressed network. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts3-7mP2ZbI After being purchased by Warner Bros. Discovery early this year in a $43 billion deal, CNN averaged just about 393,000 total viewers on June 14. The network additionally experienced its least viewed weekday, excluding Thanksgiving, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. when the daytime programming on CNN managed only to attract an average of 489,000 viewers. This was the worst performance for CNN in this category since November 3, 2015. CNN has developed a history of…
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The show “Reliable Sources” on CNN with the left-leaning host Brian Stelter suffered its lowest-rated episode since at least September 2019 on the 12th of June, when a mere 580,000 viewers sat down to watch the struggling program. Ratings were also doing bad five months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts3-7mP2ZbI “Reliable Sources” also had trouble with the advertiser segment of adults aged 25-54, averaging only 73,000 viewers in the critical category. The program of Stelter has lost around 13% of the audience that viewed the program that precedes it, “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” and has lost about 25% of Zakaria’s viewers among that demographic.…
The price of gasoline has gotten so high that one Michigan police department said it has “blown its fuel budget” and cannot respond to all the 9-1-1 calls in person, ABC News reported. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClhUFZId3vs The Isabella County Sheriff’s Office reported that rising gas prices forced them to return some “non-emergency” 9-1-1 calls over the phone rather than in person. “Isabella County Sheriff’s Office is feeling the pain at the pump as well,” Sheriff Michael Main declared in a statement. “We have exhausted what funds were budgeted for fuel with several months to go before the budget reset.” “I have instructed the…
A “suspicious person” was shot and killed by police after he attempted to enter a school in Alabama, law enforcement confirmed. An individual, identified by police as Robert Tyler White, 32, of Bunnlevel, in North Carolina, showed up at Walnut Park Elementary in Gadsden at about 9:30 a.m., authorities said, and was trying to enter some vehicles and buildings there, Etowah County Sheriff Jonathan Horton said. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5X3sJmm3g4 A school resource officer who is also employed by Rainbow City police responded and called for help from additional law enforcement. As a result, a physical altercation ensued, police said, and the suspect…
Inflation in May accelerated again, with prices rising another 8.6 percent from a year earlier, the most rapid increase since December 1981, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. The Consumer Price Index, a broad measure of prices for goods and services, increased more than the estimate of 8.3 percent by the Dow Jones. When excluding volatile food and energy prices, the so-called core CPI rose 6 percent, up slightly from the estimate of 5.9 percent. The total CPI rose 1 percent on a monthly basis, while the core CPI increased 0.6 percent, as opposed to estimates of 0.7 percent…
CNN’s numbers have now dropped to just over half a million average prime-time viewers, while Fox News still dominates, according to new ratings figures released Wednesday. The liberal network which bills itself as “facts first” has consistently struggled with ratings. In April, the highly publicized CNN + streaming service was shut down just weeks after its launch following its inability to attract new viewers. The total number of viewers watching CNN on its primetime programming averages 517,000, according to a Mediaite report. Fox News, a more conservative competitor, drew nearly five times CNN’s numbers, with an average of 2.57 million…
Something that was literally straight out of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” happened. Two workers working at a Mars Wrigley plant in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, in Pennsylvania, were saved by local firefighters after they had fallen into a vat of chocolate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-U-2Ct1MO8 Unfortunately, no one was available from the Mars Wrigley confectionery site where the incident occurred or form the Elizabethtown Fire Department to comment on the accident. But a spokesperson for Lancaster County 911 confirmed to TODAY Food that a phone call about the incident was received by the department around 10:51 a.m. ET. “The incident currently is being…
Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and tens of other women claiming to have been sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar are seeking over $1 billion from the FBI for not apprehending the sports doctor once allegations against him were received by the agency, lawyers announced Wednesday. There is no doubt that FBI agents in 2015 were aware that Nassar was being accused of assaulting gymnasts, but they never acted, allowing him to continue targeting young women and girls for over a year. He is serving decades in prison after pleading guilty in 2017. A government agency is given six months under…