Despite a full page ad in the New York times and thousands of promos that ran across Nexstar stations coast to coast, Chris Cuomo’s debut show on News Nation was underwhelming at best.

Fredo’s debut pulled in just 147,000 total viewers and a measly 8,000 in the 25-54 demo.

Get this, News Nation’s 7P hour beat Cuomo in the demo (averaging 11k in 25-54). The demo was also last place in cable news, behind CNBC, FOX Business, HLN, and even Newsmax.

Newsmax?!

What else beat Cuomo’s premiere you ask?

The 3P and 4P repeats of Blue Bloods on News Nation also topped Cuomo’s premiere in total viewers and the demo – as did Paw Patrol, SpongeBob, Seinfeld, Cocomelon, The Office, and Bobs Burgers to name a few.

I can assure you, the suits at Nexstar were expecting bigger numbers after spending a ton of money promoting Cuomo.

They can spin it all they want, this was not a good debut, not at all…