CNN Nears Fox News in Ratings Amid Presidential Race

Wall Street Journal: Since the start of the year, when the U.S. primary season began in earnest, CNN’s prime-time audience has more than doubled to 435,000 viewers a night in its target demo of 25- to 54-year-olds. After years of weak ratings, the network is nipping at the heels of Fox News, the longtime ratings leader in cable news, whose prime-time audience has grown to 450,000 viewers. Competing networks say CNN’s ratings rebound looks so significant mostly because the network started from such a low base. “That speaks volumes about Time Warner’s low expectations.”