'Chicagoland' Debut More Bad News for CNN

It seems like it was just yesterday we were discussing CNN Chief Jeff Zucker Experimenting With CNN's 10 PM Hour.  Looks like the heavily promoted "Chicagoland" debut, an 8 part series, came in third behind Fox and MSNBC. Perhaps future episode will pull more viewers. See Deadline.Com's post below.





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