
Ratings-challenged Don Lemon ‘not the answer,’ to CNN’s morning show issues, critics say
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Don Lemon was pulled from CNN primetime and will move to a morning program later this year, but critics don’t expect him to fix the network’s ratings woes.
Brian Flood is a media reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to brian.flood@fox.com and on Twitter: @briansflood.
Lemon has never particularly been a ratings draw, with his primetime program peaking at an average audience of 1.6 million in 2020, an election year that saw Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle" average 3.5 million viewers and MSNBC’s "Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell" attract 2.4 million. The election-year spike was Lemon’s largest yearly audience since he landed the primetime gig, and he never averaged more than 1.1 million viewers during the show’s roughly nine-year run.