As the month of August concludes, CNN has reason to celebrate as it was their best month to date in 2024.
During the month, the network saw its highest total day audience in more than two years as it averaged 620,000 viewers. It is the first time since the beginning of the war in Ukraine in March 2022 that the network has risen to that level.
For the 15th consecutive month, CNN was a top-five network in all of cable television. The network finished August as the third most-watched cable network.
During the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the network took virtually its entire daytime and primetime lineups to the convention. As a result, it featured an average of 893,000 viewers in the Persons 25-54 demographic in primetime. That performance was its strongest since the week of President Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021.
Finally, CNN saw the youngest total day median age of cable news viewers. It’s average was 67 years old, compared to 70 for MSNBC and 69 for Fox News.
