{"id":72180,"date":"2023-02-24T14:20:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T14:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/24\/cnn-this-morning-sees-big-ratings-boost-with-don-lemons-return\/"},"modified":"2023-02-24T14:20:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T14:20:03","slug":"cnn-this-morning-sees-big-ratings-boost-with-don-lemons-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/24\/cnn-this-morning-sees-big-ratings-boost-with-don-lemons-return\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;CNN This Morning\u2019 Sees Big Ratings Boost with Don Lemon\u2019s Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The return of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/don-lemon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Don Lemon<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/cnn-this-morning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>CNN This Morning<\/em><\/a> following his controversial feedback a couple of \u201cwoman\u2019s prime\u201d noticed the information morning present double its viewership.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/cnn-this-morning-don-lemon-nikki-haley-ratings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Wrap<\/em><\/a>, Wednesday\u2019s (February 22) present, which noticed Lemon return to the desk after a short hiatus, noticed an 18.2% uptick in viewers, in accordance with Nielsen knowledge. The episode acquired 383,700 complete viewers and an 11.2% enhance within the cable key demographic amongst adults 25-54, with 75,300 viewers within the demo on common.<\/p>\n<p>This is up from final Wednesday\u2019s pre-controversy present, which drew 324,700 complete viewers and 67,300 viewers within the demo.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1082066\/poppy-harlow-don-lemon-cnn-set-nikki-haley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">final Thursday\u2019s (February 16) present<\/a>, Lemon and his co-anchors had been discussing remarks made by former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, the place she said that politicians over the age of 75 ought to should take a psychological competency take a look at. Lemon mentioned the 51 12 months previous Haley wanted to watch out as a result of she, too, is \u201cnot in her prime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNikki Haley isn\u2019t in her prime, sorry,\u201d he mentioned. \u201cA woman is considered to be in their prime in 20s and 30s and maybe 40s. If you Google \u2018when is a woman in her prime,\u2019 it\u2019ll say 20s, 30s and 40s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lemon acquired quick backlash for his feedback and later apologized on social media. He was absent from the present for the following three episodes, with pre-scheduled days off on Friday and Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of his return on Wednesday, CNN CEO Chris Licht despatched a memo to employees informing them that Lemon would bear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1082483\/don-lemon-return-to-cnn-formal-training-nikki-haley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">formal coaching<\/a>. \u201cI sat down with Don and had a frank and meaningful conversation,\u201d he mentioned. \u201cHe has agreed to participate in formal training, as well as continuing to listen and learn. We take this situation very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-block\">\n<p><strong><em>CNN This Morning,<\/em> Weekdays, CNN<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The return of Don Lemon to CNN This Morning following his controversial feedback a couple of \u201cwoman\u2019s prime\u201d noticed the information morning present double its viewership. As reported by The Wrap, Wednesday\u2019s (February 22) present, which noticed Lemon return to the desk after a short hiatus, noticed an 18.2% uptick in viewers, in accordance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}