Hats off to the folks at CNN and CNN International for their continued excellent coverage of news coming out of Japan over the weekend. Since the tragic news of the earthquake/tsunami broke very early Friday morning, CNN has been all over this story. On Friday and Saturday nights while Fox News for the most part played their unusual 'Politics' and MSNBC went to its weekly 'Lock-up' series, CNN and CNN International teamed up together to give its World-Wide viewers continuous coverage of the events unfolding from the stricken country.
The ratings for the Network on Friday was also very impressive. CNN beat Fox News in total viewers for the day (3AM Friday to 3AM Saturday) with a average of 2.27 million viewers compared to 2.09 million for Fox News (CNN numbers do not include viewers on CNNI) while MSNBC had a average of 588,000 viewers at any given time. CNN’s Friday coverage peaked during the 11AM hour of CNN Newsroom with over 3.6 million viewers looking on. As you well know on most days Fox News beats out CNN and MSNBC combined.
Without doubt, CNN is still the 'GO TO' network for Breaking News.
Update - CNN's impressive ratings for Saturday and Sunday can be found here. During primetime on Saturday night, CNN viewers (2.1 million) - Fox News (1.3million) - MSNBC (450,000)
On Monday, Fox News regained their ratings hold on CNN and MSNBC averaging 1.4 million for the day compared to just over 1.0 million for CNN and 500, 000 for MSNBC. However, Anderson Cooper's '360' did extremely well on Monday night beating Greta's 'On The Record' by over 300,000 viewers in the key DEMO age group.
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