{"id":26739,"date":"2020-09-02T19:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T00:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=26739"},"modified":"2020-09-02T19:28:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T00:28:57","slug":"news-nation-premieres-modest-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2020\/09\/02\/news-nation-premieres-modest-ratings\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018News Nation\u2019 premieres to modest ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> \"News Nation\"<\/p><\/div>\n

Based on its opening night ratings, \u201cNews Nation\u201d <\/a>still has a long way to go if it\u2019s serious about taking on the big cable news networks.<\/p>\n

An average of 116,000 viewers nationwide tuned in to the three-hour debut of WGN America\u2019s \u201cNews Nation\u201d Tuesday night, according to Nielsen figures released today.<\/p>\n

By comparison, Fox News averaged 3.637 million viewers, MSNBC averaged 2.194 million viewers, and CNN averaged 1.685 million during primetime in August.<\/p>\n

Actual viewership for \u201cNews Nation,\u201d which peaked at 146,000 during the second hour, represented a tiny fraction of the 75 million households Nexstar claims it reaches with the Chicago-based network.<\/p>\n

Overall audience was down an average of 50 percent for the same three-hour time period one year ago on WGN America, which previously aired entertainment programming from 7 to 10 p.m. Central Time.<\/p>\n

Nexstar spent $20 million and hired more than 150 people for the startup, originating from newly built studios at WGN headquarters on the North Side. The company budgeted an additional $100 million in advertising and promotion for the newscast, which is billed as free of bias or opinion.<\/p>\n

The only other national TV network based in Chicago, Weigel Broadcasting\u2019s MeTV, averaged 713,000 viewers nationally from 7 to 10 p.m. Tuesday \u2014 up more than 20 percent over last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Based on its opening night ratings, \u201cNews Nation\u201d still has a long way to go if it\u2019s serious about taking on the big cable news networks. An average of 116,000 viewers nationwide tuned in to the three-hour debut of WGN America\u2019s \u201cNews Nation\u201d Tuesday night, according to Nielsen figures released today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26743,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26739\/revisions\/26743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}