CNN PR Has Reason To Brag

From the Washington Post, on Obama’s big speech night:

CNN clocked more than 3.5 million viewers in prime time. That’s a 34 percent lead over MSNBC’s more than 2.5 million viewers. It’s also a 47 percent advantage over Fox News Channel’s prime-time crowd of 2.4 million viewers.

Over at the NY Times, Brian Stelter notes that CNN even beat ABC, the only network to air the Obama speech. Says Stelter, “It is extremely rare for a cable news channel to draw higher ratings than the broadcast networks, but CNN apparently managed to pull it off on Tuesday night…”

Of course, you can always hop over to our brother blog TVNewser, for complete coverage.

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