Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Cable News Goes Awry: “Hannity” Falls by 300,000 on Friday While Kayleigh McEnany Kept Crashing, and CNN Lost to Newsmax Last Week

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The whole structure of cable news in prime time is changing.

You may have read that last week, CNN was beaten by Newsmax. After the debacle of the Trump town hall, half its audience exited. We don’t know if they’re coming back.

It’s not like Newsmax has such hot ratings. It’s just that CNN has collapsed.

Meantime, on Friday, Kayleigh McEnany’s Fox show at 8pm bottom out at 1.3 million. She dragged down Hannity at 9, who fell 300,000 viewers from Wednesday and Thursday, to 1.6 million. The moronic Jesse Watters at 7 also had 1.6 million.

Fox viewers are confused by Tucker Carlson’s ouster and the Dominion Voting scandal. They don’t know what to do. If they want real news on cable, they’ll have to get a jolt on MSNBC.

It’s getting interesting out there.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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