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CNBC’s Daytime Viewership Nearly Doubles During 2008 Recession

CNBC sees their daytime ratings nearly double as viewers tune in for news about the 2008 recession and the volatile US stock market.

October 29, 2008 by Melissa Kondak
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CNBC sees their daytime ratings nearly double as viewers tune in for news about the 2008 recession and the volatile US stock market.

The economic meltdown has been a bear for Wall Street but it’s proving bullish for business news network CNBC.

The NBC Universal property’s business day audience, measured from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m., rose to an all-time best in October 2008, and it saw huge gains in primetime too as worried investors clicked over to track the volatile market.

CNBC averaged a best-ever 502,000 viewers this month during its business day, when investors tune in at work and while the markets are open. That was up 92% from 262,000 last year. Among adults 25-54, it averaged 150,000, its best month since March 2001 and up 97 percent from last year’s 76,000.

A New CNBC Primetime Strategy During The 2008 Recession

The network, which usually segues into reruns or pretaped programming in primetime, introduced live segments during the worst of the crisis, when the Dow Jones was plummeting by hundreds of points per day and the federal bailout was being pushed through Congress. It debuted a new primetime personal finance show, “On the Money,” which helped lead to more gains.

CNBC had its best primetime, which it defines as Monday to Friday from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m., since October 2003, averaging 248,000 total viewers. Among 25-54s, it averaged 73,000, its best primetime since April 2003.

CNBC Mornings

The network says all programs from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. had their best month ever in total viewers in their time periods. All numbers are measured by Nielsen and do not include the out-of-home audience, which the network has long maintained makes up a large and untapped portion of its viewership at work, during business travel, in hotels, in health clubs, etc.

CNBC vs Fox Business

The big gains come a year after News Corp.‘s competing Fox Business Network launched amid much bravado and media attention. But during the worst financial crisis the country has seen in decades, CNBC remained the dominant destination for financial news.

That’s in part because FBN’s distribution remains tiny, available in only about a third of the 95 million homes that receive CNBC. Though both networks saw their ratings spike during the 2008 recession and financial crisis, CNBC’s audience still dwarfs that of FBN, whose ratings remain too small to be reliably measured by Nielsen.

But another part of CNBC’s success during the 2008 recession and this period of financial distress has been the network’s success in branding itself as the business expert. Its correspondents, most notably Maria Bartiromo, have made frequent appearances on the top-rated “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams,” exposing them to new potential viewers and further establishing the network as the go-to place for financial news.

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