Chris Cuomo debuted his new prime time hour, Cuomo, on NewsNation Monday night, and the overnight ratings suggest he’s got a hill to climb if he hopes to bring in the kind of numbers he once did at CNN.
Forbes reports his first night in the 8 p.m. ET time slot drew just 147,000 viewers—and, for his new bosses, a worrying 8,000 viewers in the key demographic group of adults 25-54.
That put Cuomo dead last among the cable news competition in the 8 p.m. hour, which was won by Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight with 2.875 million viewers—an audience roughly 20 times larger than Cuomo’s. MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes finished second with 1.403 million viewers, and CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 was third with a total audience of 814,000 viewers. On Newsmax, Eric Bolling The Balance drew 151,000 viewers, followed by Cuomo with 147,000.
In the key demo, Tucker Carlson Tonight led the hour with 445,000 viewers, followed by Anderson Cooper 360 with 184,000 viewers, All In with Chris Hayes with 130,000 viewers, Eric Bolling The Balance with 16,000 viewers, and Cuomo with 8,000.
Cuomo of course expected this would be an uphill battle, not just to beat the competition, but to deliver an audience anything close to what he drew nightly with CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time, which was CNN’s highest-rated show at the time of Cuomo’s firing and often the network’s only prime time hour to deliver a total audience in excess of one million viewers.
Meanwhile, Megyn Kelly was having none of Chris Cuomo’s claims that he has been “humbled” by his ouster from CNN. The NY Post reports the former Fox News star said on her podcast “The Megyn Kelly Show” on Tuesday that she wasn’t convinced by Cuomo’s “mea culpa” that he offered up during his Monday debut on NewsNation.
“Chris Cuomo goes on his show on NewsNation and says that he’s been humbled. Bulls–t!” Kelly told her guests — standup comedian Adam Carolla and high-powered attorney Mark Geragos.
“I don’t believe that for one second. He has not been humbled at all.”
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