Sour Ratings For Cooper, Maddow

Fri, 05/15/2009 - 3:22pm | posted by Michael Orion Powell

Bad news for CNN and MSNBC’s primetime hosts:

Two cable news personalities — CNN’s Anderson Cooper and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow — have hit ratings lows within a week of each other.

Tuesday night’s Rachel Maddow was seen by only 789,000 viewers, a series-low performance since her show debuted last summer.

Friday’s Anderson Cooper 360 was the anchor’s least-watched show since Barack Obama’s inauguration, with 622,000 viewers.

That’s in contrast with Glenn Beck, who has been climbing up in ratings since joining Fox News earlier this year. Agree with him or not, Glenn Beck is far more entertaining than Maddow and Cooper, both of whom are a little on the dull (Cooper) and elite (Maddow) side.