CNN rules on historic primary night; Fox falls to third place behind MSNBC

WP: CNN Wave Crests On Decisive Primary Night
By Lisa de Moraes
Thursday, June 5, 2008; Page C07

CNN ruled cable news the historic night of the Montana and South Dakota primaries, which wrapped up the Democratic presidential nomination derby in favor of Sen. Barack Obama.

CNN clocked more than 3.5 million viewers in prime time. That's a 34 percent lead over MSNBC's more than 2.5 million viewers. It's also a 47 percent advantage over Fox News Channel's prime-time crowd of 2.4 million viewers.

Yes, it appears MSNBC edged out FNC in prime time Tuesday.

Among CNN's prime-time audience, 1.4 million fell into the 25-to-54 age bracket that is the target audience of news operations. MSNBC's prime-time crowd included just over 1 million 25-to-54-year-olds. CNN logged a whopping 91 percent lead over FNC among 25-to-54-year-olds; FNC's prime-time audience included 739,000 in the age bracket.

CNN also wants you to know Anderson Cooper's 10 p.m. program snared more than 4.5 million viewers and was the only cable news program to top 4 mil for an hour Tuesday night....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/04/AR2008060404241.html

needed for hours, CNN had it at "4". MSNBC was very lax in this, constant analysis, BSing. CNN was current and Jeff Toobin was fabulous. Called McCain's speech "pathetic" and lots of other stuff, Gergen almost exploded with a head spin at him. Couldn't believe Toobin said that. It was soooo good.