The third and final season of HBO’s “The Newsroom” got off to a very poor start.<\/p>\n
Sunday’s episode, which was the first of the show’s premieres to air head-to-head with Sunday Night Football, drew a series low viewership average of 1.21 million. Also disappointing, its adults 18-49 rating clocked in at a paltry 0.5 (since HBO is subscriber-based, adults 18-49 performance is not as relevant as it is for ad-supported programmers; the rating still carries weight for benchmarking purposes<\/em>).<\/p>\n The performance paled in comparison to those of the season two premiere (0.9, 2.22 million) and season two finale (0.7, 1.67 million).<\/p>\n — HBO followed “The Newsroom” with the premiere of revived “The Comeback.” A flop, the episode drew a mere 0.1 adults 18-49 rating with 300,000 viewers. The season premiere of lead-out “Getting On” performed about as poorly–it drew a 0.1 rating with 309,000 viewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1048,437],"tags":[3186,78,3185,746],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n