Tag: chris cuomo

Gov. Cuomo refuses to come on State of the Union with Jake Tapper

by Allan, posted in CNN

CNN anchor Jake Tapper said on Sunday’s State of the Union program that he has requested an interview with embattled New York Governor Andrew Cuomo dozens of times over the past year, in addition to this week — all of which the Governor has refused.

Janice Dean, a Fox News meteorologist whose in-laws died as a result of Gov. Cuomo’s executive order, praised Tapper. “While it’s easy to get angry at other networks for not taking [Cuomo] to task early on during the nursing home tragedy, there are some that DID report on his deadly executive order and his incredible arrogance. [Tapper] is one of them.”

Dean added, “While I cannot say the same for many of his other colleagues, [Tapper] has reported fairly and without fear or fluff when it comes to covering [Cuomo].”

The Cuomo administration withheld the information from state lawmakers over the summer because it was worried federal prosecutors would “use it against us,” according to a top aide for Gov. Cuomo, the New York Post reported this week.

As I repeatedly documented at the time, Gov. Cuomo preferred the safe space on CNN — his brother Chris Cuomo’s nightly program, Cuomo Prime Time.

Trump isn’t done with Cuomo yet: Move him back to New Day

by Allan, posted in CNN

chris-cuomojpgOn Wednesday, President Donald Trump suggested CNN cut Chris Cuomo’s pay check due to CNN’s low ratings. (Despite the fact CNN just celebrated its highest ratings in 40 years, and Cuomo Prime Time is currently CNN’s number one-rated news program).

Thursday evening, however, the president has another idea for Cuomo: send him back to New Day. “Give him another shot in the morning – He would easily beat Morning Joe’s poorly rated show,” the president suggested.

“CNN should move Fredo back to the morning slot. He was rewarded for bad ratings with a much better time slot – and again got really bad ratings. Getting totally trounced by Fox News,” Trump analyzed.

CNN’s chief comms man, Matt Dornic, swooped in with a dunk, saying, “CNN is not seeking a new head of programming. But there is a job opening up at the White House.”

Although, if CNN president Jeff Zucker runs for mayor in 2021, CNN may be needing a new programming chief . . .
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1278833085522509824?xnl

President Trump lobbies for Chris Cuomo to get a paycut

by Allan, posted in CNN, Ratings

chris-cuomo-skeptical-face-1280x720-1With perfect timing as usual, President Donald Trump weighed in on CNN’s 40-year ratings high news: by saying he can’t “believe how badly” CNN performed last quarter.

CNN had its biggest audience in the network’s 40-year history in the second quarter, averaging 1,824,000 viewers in prime time and 1,124,00 in Total Day, which runs from 6 am to 6 am.

In its press release, CNN touted Cuomo Prime Time‘s success, noting it had its “highest 9p time period quarterly delivery on record.” Furthermore, Cuomo Prime Time delivered CNN’s highest viewership in the second quarter among total viewers, 2,210,000, and among adults 25-54 635,000.

But Trump thinks Cuomo deserves a paycut. “Fredo should be given a big pay cut!”

CNN’s press team noted it was “exhausting” to explain this to the president, but since his White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said “you can read and also consume intelligence verbally,” the press team included a link to the release detailing CNN’s ratings. Or, if he couldn’t read it, CNN suggested he ask “one of your staffers to read it aloud to you: Q2 of 2020 was the Most-Watched Quarter in CNN’s 40 Year History.”

For his part, Cuomo didn’t reply.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1278280574801784833?xnl

Chris Cuomo concludes interview by noting he can’t keep having his brother on his show

by Allan, posted in CNN, Video

jygfoizmkfc6fphdvv3awkgmcyIn the conclusion to a bizarre segment, Chris Cuomo admitted a few things while chatting it up with his brother, Gov. Andrew Cuomo: one, that he couldn’t continue interviewing his brother on Cuomo Prime Time much longer, and two, that he couldn’t be objective.

“Me having you on the show is an unusual thing,” Cuomo noted. “I won’t always be able to keep having you on the show, it’ll never be seen as fair in people’s eyes, we both get that, and that’s okay. You’ve got plenty of people to talk to.”

“Not everyone likes you, not everyone likes me,” he acknowledged. “I’m wowed by what you did, but more importantly, I’m wowed by how you did it . . . Obviously, I’ll never be objective, obviously I think you’re the best politician in the country.”

In March, CNN president Jeff Zucker lifted the ban on Cuomo interviewing Gov. Cuomo on his show, citing the “authenticity and relatability and vulnerability” brought by the duo. That decision was almost immediately widely-criticized.

CNN was first place in the demo for a week straight

by Allan, posted in CNN, Ratings

cnn-anchors primetimeAfter celebrating CNN’s best May ever, CNN had another reason to celebrate. For the first time in 19 years, CNN achieved a remarkable ratings victory: for 7 days in a row, the network was first in the coveted 25-54 demographic across both total day and primetime viewers. According to Nielsen, CNN placed first with 475,000 daytime viewers in the demo and 837,000 in the demo in primetime. (In comparison, Fox News’ daytime ratings in the demo came in a distant second with 278,000, beating out MSNBC’s 245,000. In primetime, Fox News made the ratings race much closer, posting 760,000 viewers, while MSNBC came in far behind with 426,000, reports Mediaite).

“The last time this happened for CNN was October 2001, during the post-9/11 news cycle,” TheWrap notes of CNN’s high ratings. Furthermore, on Monday, “CNN hit its primetime demo high for the week, as did the other two cable news channels. CNN reported 1,560,000 average viewers.”

On Thursday, Cuomo Prime Time, which has consistently been CNN’s number one program overall, “took the cable news nightly title with 908,000 viewers in the demo, beating Fox News’ Hannity by 113,000 viewers,” Mediaite notes (despite President Trump attacking Cuomo’s show and saying how poor its ratings are). The program airing after his, CNN Tonight, also scored a ratings win Thursday with 832,000 viewers, defeating Fox’s The Ingraham Angle‘s 711,000. Although CNN still continued its primetime ratings win averaged, Anderson Cooper’s 8pm program AC360 came in second place to Tucker Carlson Tonight 773,000 viewers to Cooper’s 769,000.

Perhaps President Trump is wrong — maybe CNN isn’t, as he claimed, “DYING”, after all . . .

President Trump takes some time out of his morning to hit the Cuomos: “Fredo’s ratings are down 50%!”

by Allan, posted in CNN, Ratings

cuomoPresident Donald Trump weighed in this morning not on last night’s protests over the death of George Floyd, nor the reaction to him making his way to St. John’s church, but instead on Gov. Cuomo and his younger brother, CNN primetime anchor Chris Cuomo.

“Yesterday was a bad day for the Cuomo Brothers. New York was lost to the looters, thugs, Radical Left, and all others forms of Lowlife & Scum. The Governor [Andrew Cuomo] refuses to accept my offer of a dominating National Guard. NYC was ripped to pieces,” the president wrote on Twitter.

Turning his attention then to the CNN anchor, Trump concluded, “Likewise, Fredo’s ratings are down 50%!”

This is a reference to the Daily Mail report from last week, noting the 49% fall in Cuomo’s Prime Time ratings since March when he was diagnosed with coronavirus. At the time, “source close to the anchor pointed out that cable news ratings rise and fall dramatically depending on what’s happening in the news cycle. The person argued that weekly averages don’t provide an accurate picture of viewership,” according to the Daily Mail. The day after he announced he tested positive, Cuomo Prime Time scored a first place victory. Cuomo’s ratings have dropped 49 percent in the demo and 35 percent overall, while Maddow is down 17 percent in the demo and 7 percent overall. Hannity has dropped 38 percent in the demo and 12 percent overall.

In response to the president’s tweet, CNN said, “Surely you have more important issues than TV ratings to address. But since you’ve made it a priority, we’ll correct the record. Chris Cuomo has had his highest ratings in history for the past two months.”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1267811637811187712?xnl

Chris Cuomo continues to waste CNN viewers’ time with obnoxious segments with Gov. Cuomo

by Allan, posted in CNN

For almost two months now, CNN has allowed Chris Cuomo to commit journalistic malpractice by bringing on his older brother, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), and the network shows no sign of stopping this obnoxious display.

At the beginning, perhaps CNN could make the excuse it was relevant to humanize both the Prime Time host and for Gov. Cuomo to provide updates on his battles with coronavirus in the state of New York. However, as I long advocated, any CNN reporter/anchor could have interviewed Gov. Cuomo and aired it on Cuomo Prime Time — just not his younger brother.

As I wrote just last week, “’Big Brother, good to see you.’ Can someone on Chris and Andrew Cuomo’s staff book time for them to see each other . . . outside of TV?”

Presented without further comment, a portion of last night’s broadcast, with the CNN anchor holding a swab:

White House’s Kayleigh McEnany accuses Chris Cuomo of taking “less safe version” of Hydroxychloroquine for Covid as Cuomo criticizes Trump for taking it

by Allan, posted in CNN

On Tuesday’s Cuomo Prime Time, anchor Chris Cuomo argued that President Trump saying he was taking anti-malarial drug Hydroxychloroquine was a “distraction,” arguing not to focus on that, but instead focus on how to safely reopen the country.

But at Wednesday’s White House press briefing, Kayleigh McEnany addressed the remarks the anchor made Tuesday night, and she blasted him, given that he took what she described as a “less safe form,” by taking quinine to combat his coronavirus weeks prior.

McEnany began, “Well, Cuomo mocked the president for [taking this]. Hydroxychloroquine of course is an FDA approved medication with a long proven track record for safety, and it turns out that Chris Cuomo took a less safe version of it called quinine which the FDA removed from the market in 2006 because of its serious side effects including death. So really interesting to have that criticism of the president.”

Deadline reported CNN didn’t have a response to McEnany’s statement.

Although quinine was one of the supplements that Cristina Cuomo, the anchor’s wife, wrote that he had taken, it has not been proven to combat covid-19, either, much like Hydroxychloroquine.