CNN moved Jake Tapper from his 4 pm slot to 9 pm in September, but his ratings have been awful, despite kicking off the new timeslot with an interview with President Joe Biden.
Now it looks like he will return at 4 pm.
The Hill reports:
CNN’s Jake Tapper to leave prime time following midtermsJake Tapper’s stint in CNN’s prime-time television slot is coming to a close.The network confirmed on Wednesday the anchor will return to his duties hosting “The Lead” at 4 p.m. after the midterm elections.Tapper was chosen in September by new President Chris Licht to host a show at 9 p.m., a slot that’s been occupied by a rotating cast of pundits in recent months since Chris Cuomo was fired by the network late last year.At the time, the network said the switch in Tapper’s time slot, and several others CNN made to its lineup for the midterm elections, were expected to run through the week of the Nov. 8.However, Tapper was widely speculated to be among the top talent at CNN in the running for a permanent gig hosting a show in prime time.
Tapper’s ratings were embarrassingly bad.
John Nolte of Breitbart News is a fierce and hilarious critic of Tapper. Two weeks ago, he noted Tapper’s crash:
Far-left CNN promoted election denier Jake Tapper to Chris Cuomo’s old time slot, and the results have been a total humiliation.Granted, Cuomo always landed in far-last place in the 9 p.m. slot, but he at least averaged around a million viewers. Looking at the number of viewers at 9 p.m. today, you would think Don Lemon was anchoring the hour. You know, the same Don Lemon whose ratings were so awful he was demoted from primetime to a failed morning show?Here’s the breakdown of total viewers for the most recent week of available 9 p.m. numbers:Friday, October 14FOX: Sean Hannity – 2.72 millionMSNBC: Alex Wagner – 1.4 millionCNNLOL: Jake Tapper – 633,000Monday, October 17FOX: Sean Hannity – 2.61 millionMSNBC: Rachel Maddow – 2.22 millionCNNLOL: Jake Tapper – 571,000Tuesday, October 18FOX: Sean Hannity – 2.99 millionMSNBC: Alex Wagner – 1.42 millionCNNLOL: Jake Tapper – 578,000
You get the idea.
Nolte calls Tapper an ‘election denier’ because he relentlessly pushed the Russia collusion hoax, and that’s perfectly fair.
This is the sort of dishonest approach from Tapper that annoys so many people.
New CNN chief Chris Licht claims he wants to reform CNN. That will never happen as long as Tapper and a few others remain at the network.
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