How Dobbs’ Primetime Specials Rate

Maybe CNN is grooming Lou Dobbs for 8pm. But he may not be the answer to their time slot problem.

Dobbs hosted three primetime specials this week. On Tuesday, he had 234,000 demo viewers and 847,000 total viewers, better than Paula Zahn‘s usual viewership.

On Wednesday, though, he had 193,000 demo viewers, losing some of Wolf Blitzer‘s lead-in, and just 579,000 total viewers…

> Also: “CNN cancelled its live in-studio audience broadcast of the ‘War on the Middle Class’ Thursday afternoon,” the GWU Daily Colonial notes…

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