May Ratings Are In! MSNBC and CNN Are About As Popular As the Black Plague
By Jim Thompson | 12:25 PM on May 29, 2025The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com.
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You gotta admire the effort. MSNBC and CNN both deserve trophies. While the competition at Fox has stomped on their collective necks, the two alternate-reality left-wing networks have persisted. CNN and MSNBC are like youth soccer teams who went 0 for forever in May. They deserve our attention, if only for the collective lack of attention by the viewing public. Give them both pats on their heads and a slice of orange and tell them they tried their best – there's always next month. Pride Month is next up and, heck, it can’t get worse... right?
With a couple of days left in May, ratings are in, and the results are both predictable and ugly.
In primetime programming for the month of May 2025, Fox News was up 23% with an average of 2.46 million viewers. Meanwhile, MSNBC had an average 877,000 viewers, which was down 24%, and CNN raked in an average 426,000, down 18%. Total day programming saw Fox News at an average of 1.56 million viewers (up 21%), MSNBC down 33% with an average of 545,000 viewers, and CNN down 24% with 353,000 average viewers.
Overall, the most-viewed cable news show of the month was The Five on Fox News, which brought in an average of 3.77 million viewers. Fox News’ Jesse Watters Primetime followed close behind with 3.23 million, along with some of the network’s other standouts, Gutfeld! (2.92 million), Special Report With Bret Baier (2.81 million), and Hannity (2.73 million).
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