Sunday, June 14, 2026

CNN: Chris Licht Ousted as Nikki Haley Town Hall Scored Just Half Million Viewers — Embattled Network Tries in Vain for Fox News Audience

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UPDATED: Chris Licht fired by CNN.

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Today: CNN is in turmoil, we know that.

Today they announced Anderson Cooper will soon host a Town Hall with bloviating liar Chris Christie, the man who shut down a major bridge at rush hour in the world’s biggest city to get back at his enemies.

What will they derive from this? On Sunday night, a Town Hall with Nikki Haley of South Carolina brought in just 562,000 viewers. Over on TLC at the same time, “90 Day Fiancee” scored 1.2 million viewers. Just FYI.

This charade to get Fox viewers garnered the same number of viewers CNN has for almost all its prime time shows. I guess it was better than showing shadow figures on a wall, but it clearly was not popular with anyone.

Tonight, CNN hosts Mike Pence, a parody candidate for the Republican nomination, who will speak of motherhood, family values, and apple pie. He will also forget that Donald Trump tried to have him killed on January 6th. No one will be watching.

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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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