Michael Sandberg
Aug 30, 2023 23:22 EST
Wonderful to have news as opposed to ideology. Hope it lasts and grows.
NewsNation (formerly known as WGN America until March 1, 2021) is a television channel in the United States launched on November 9, 1978 as WGN-TV. NewsNation is currently the 83rd most popular channel on TV, watched by a total number of 80,000 people (up +4% from last week) during primetime, as of the average weekly audience measurement for the period ending .
Demographic breakdown of the most recent historical ratings of NewsNation as of Sunday, September 17, 2023.
| NewsNation Weekly Ratings | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Daypart | Demo | Audience | Rating |
| 2023-Sep-17 | HH | 54,000 | 0.04 | |
| P2+ | 61,000 | 0.02 | ||
| P25-54 | 12,000 | 0.01 | ||
| PT | HH | 68,000 | 0.05 | |
| P2+ | 80,000 | 0.03 | ||
| P25-54 | 19,000 | 0.02 | ||
| 2023-Sep-10 | HH | 47,000 | 0.04 | |
| P2+ | 53,000 | 0.02 | ||
| P25-54 | 11,000 | 0.01 | ||
| PT | HH | 66,000 | 0.05 | |
| P2+ | 77,000 | 0.02 | ||
| P25-54 | 17,000 | 0.01 | ||
| 2023-Sep-03 | HH | 49,000 | 0.04 | |
| P2+ | 54,000 | 0.02 | ||
| P25-54 | 9,000 | 0.01 | ||
| PT | HH | 76,000 | 0.06 | |
| P2+ | 87,000 | 0.03 | ||
| P25-54 | 18,000 | 0.01 | ||
| 2023-Aug-27 | HH | 46,000 | 0.04 | |
| P2+ | 51,000 | 0.02 | ||
| P25-54 | 9,000 | 0.01 | ||
| PT | HH | 70,000 | 0.06 | |
| P2+ | 78,000 | 0.03 | ||
| P25-54 | 11,000 | 0.01 | ||
| 2023-Aug-20 | HH | 49,000 | 0.04 | |
| P2+ | 55,000 | 0.02 | ||
| P25-54 | 9,000 | 0.01 | ||
| PT | HH | 81,000 | 0.07 | |
| P2+ | 94,000 | 0.03 | ||
| P25-54 | 16,000 | 0.01 | ||
| 2023-Aug-13 | P2+ | 52,000 | 0.02 | |
| P25-54 | 10,000 | 0.01 | ||
| PT | P2+ | 86,000 | 0.03 | |
| P25-54 | 14,000 | 0.01 | ||
| 2023-Aug-06 | HH | 46,000 | 0.04 | |
| P2+ | 53,000 | 0.02 | ||
| P25-54 | 9,000 | 0.01 | ||
| PT | HH | 71,000 | 0.06 | |
| P2+ | 83,000 | 0.03 | ||
| P25-54 | 11,000 | 0.01 | ||
| 2023-Jul-30 | HH | 54,000 | 0.04 | |
| P2+ | 64,000 | 0.02 | ||
| P25-54 | 13,000 | 0.01 | ||
| PT | HH | 84,000 | 0.07 | |
| P2+ | 100,000 | 0.03 | ||
| P25-54 | 24,000 | 0.02 | ||
| NewsNation Monthly Ratings | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Daypart | Demo | Audience | Rating |
| 2023-Aug | HH | 46,000 | 0.04 | |
| P2+ | 52,000 | 0.02 | ||
| P25-54 | 9,000 | 0.01 | ||
| PT | HH | 73,000 | 0.06 | |
| P2+ | 85,000 | 0.03 | ||
| P25-54 | 13,000 | 0.01 | ||
| 2023-Jul | HH | 49,000 | 0.04 | |
| P2+ | 56,000 | 0.02 | ||
| P25-54 | 11,000 | 0.01 | ||
| PT | HH | 79,000 | 0.06 | |
| P2+ | 92,000 | 0.03 | ||
| P25-54 | 18,000 | 0.01 | ||
| 2023-Jun | HH | 54,000 | 0.04 | |
| P2+ | 61,000 | 0.02 | ||
| P25-54 | 10,000 | 0.01 | ||
| PT | HH | 93,000 | 0.08 | |
| P2+ | 108,000 | 0.03 | ||
| P25-54 | 19,000 | 0.02 | ||
| 2023-May | HH | 52,000 | 0.04 | |
| P2+ | 59,000 | 0.02 | ||
| P25-54 | 11,000 | 0.01 | ||
| PT | HH | 81,000 | 0.07 | |
| P2+ | 94,000 | 0.03 | ||
| P25-54 | 18,000 | 0.01 | ||
| NewsNation Quarterly Ratings | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Daypart | Demo | Audience | Rating |
| 2023-Q2 | HH | 58,000 | 0.05 | |
| P2+ | 67,000 | 0.02 | ||
| P25-54 | 11,000 | 0.01 | ||
| PT | HH | 86,000 | 0.07 | |
| P2+ | 101,000 | 0.03 | ||
| P25-54 | 18,000 | 0.01 | ||
| 2023-Q1 | HH | 87,000 | 0.07 | |
| P2+ | 102,000 | 0.03 | ||
| P25-54 | 16,000 | 0.01 | ||
| PT | HH | 83,000 | 0.07 | |
| P2+ | 98,000 | 0.03 | ||
| P25-54 | 17,000 | 0.01 | ||
| 2022-Q4 | HH | 79,000 | 0.06 | |
| P2+ | 92,000 | 0.03 | ||
| P25-54 | 14,000 | 0.01 | ||
| PT | HH | 70,000 | 0.06 | |
| P2+ | 83,000 | 0.03 | ||
| P25-54 | 13,000 | 0.01 | ||
| 2022-Q3 | HH | 75,000 | 0.06 | |
| P2+ | 87,000 | 0.03 | ||
| P25-54 | 14,000 | 0.01 | ||
| PT | HH | 44,000 | 0.04 | |
| P2+ | 51,000 | 0.02 | ||
| P25-54 | 7,000 | 0.01 | ||
The highest-rated scheduled program on NewsNation by total viewership audience as of Sunday, September 17, 2023. See more NewsNation shows.
| Rank | Program | Audience | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NewsNation Prime | 91,000 | -2% |
Wonderful to have news as opposed to ideology. Hope it lasts and grows.
I have a few suggestions that Nextstar can try to get it out of its dismal ratings slump (avg 78,000 viewers as of Aug 27, 2023) . Ok...#1 is SIMULCAST one hour of News Nation on its Nextstar O&O stations in the 7pm-8pm timeslot. With my protest... the local Nextstar station CBS17 Raleigh-Durham is replacing Judge Judy with "local news"... boo hiss! A better option would be to run Newsnation for an hour "to promote" itself and what's coming up tonight AND tomorrow on NN. And frankly ...running a 15 sec promo for Chris Cuomo just doesn't seem to cut it. Ok...#2 is BRING Charlie Rose back to TV.....etc etc etc and I have more :-)
Most people haven't heard of NN. I have made 5 people aware of it and now 3 ate regular viewers. The more people see this isn't a station for the right wing or left wing crazies the more I think will watch once they know that News Nation exist.
I've suggested NN to two friends and now they too are daily viewers. Here in NYC NN is on Spectrum ch 126 with no news channels anywhere nearby. If they moved NN into the low 200's near the other news channels I'm confident they pick up tens of thousands of new viewers in NY. I don't know where NN is located on other systems. But if it's badly located as it is in NYC that would have a lot to do with it's inability to break out of low ratings..
I live in NYC area code 10022 and I get MSNBC on Spectrum ch 14 and CNN on ch 78...i don't look for News in the 200+ channels and prefer watching CNN ch 78 over Newsnation ch 126. I might point out that Dan Abrams ON PATROL LIVE is on REELZ ch 128...2 channels above Newsnation ch 126, but that hasn't helped his 9pm NN program. He averages less than 100,000 viewers on NN while his ON PATROL LIVE program averages 800,000 viewers. In fact it his ON PATROL LIVE shows Friday and Saturday night that helps carry REELZ to a weekly Top 30 ranking each week. So channel location isn't gonna do it
Uhhh...if so many people are becoming aware of NN and like it...why are their numbers trending downward? 78,000 avg viewers as of Aug 27th and ranked 82nd! Compare to Newsmax with 340,000 avg viewers and ranked 29th! I mean...come on!
The fact is (and the numbers show) Newsnation has not caught fire with viewers
Another competitor for Newsnation to consider is Sinclair's "The National Desk" 7am-10am and 10pm -midnight weekdays. I watched it for a few months but I found the news to be biased pro Trump pro Republican anti Democratic...which I'm not. Sinclair CLAIMS they have over 3 million viewers, but I don't believe it since they do not subscribe to Nielson Ratings for verification.
Considering the $$$ spent on Newsnation, it's been a ratings flop
According to Variety Magazine Nextstar is going to combine Newsnation's dismal Nielson numbers with the dismal Nielson ratings of Nextstar's recent purchase of The CW...together with Nextstar's 200 TV stations numbers...in a "unique" package thats "sellable" and "in friendly terms" for advertisers across the board. Uh...huh?
Newsnation is on TWO Spectrum Cable channels...one is Channel 21. That's upfront and center PRIME TV REAL ESTATE when you consider the thousands of channels available...so there's no excuse for Newsnation's poor performance on Spectrum. CNN is Channel 29, Fox News is 58, and Newsmax is 232. They all trounce Newsnation in viewership. Personally I think the Spectrum News Channel is much more relatable and more enjoyable to watch. I just don't understand what NN's parent company is trying to accomplish. Instead, why doesn't Nextstar take their Antenna TV over-the-air TV channel and put it on cable as well to compete with Paramount's TV Land or Weigel's ME TV. ME TV is already a top 25 channel with over 1,000,000 viewers nationally compared to Newsnation's 96,000 viewership. Makes $$$ sense Nextstar?
I lost my NewsNation channel and need my Cuomo fix!!! I too would be watching local news if it weren’t for Chris Cuomo. I need him back. Work it out Nexstar/NewsNation and DIRECTV!!
I’ve been watching News Nation almost daily. It’s a relief to finally find a network that is not totally bonkers and gives smart commentary. It is extremely balanced and appeals to the sane people. There aren’t a lot of us left tho. I hope Dan Abrams keeps at it bc he has something here with this network. CNN and Fox are wholly unwatchable. If not for this new network, I’d just stick to my local news at 11pm.
Well I find Newsnation wholly unwatchable...especially weekends. Amateur performances...small market talent. 73,000 viewers speaks for itself. Even Newsmax scrapes by with 300,000 viewers though they are too far out there for me to watch. Frankly i'll stick to CNN BBC ABC CBS and NBC. Yes I do trust them...period.
Nice to hear something positive in the reviews for a change. I agree, they aren't many of us left.
Why would I advertise on a news station with such HORRIBLE numbers...76,000 viewers ???