Scott Galloway Sounds the Death Knell for Cable News: ‘This Business Is Not Coming Back’

Alex Griffing Sep 8th, 2025, 5:27 pm

Scott Galloway rejoined Kara Swisher on the latest episode of their podcast , after taking the month of August off, and returned with an in-depth analysis about the cable news business – concluding that “this business is not coming back.”

Galloway focused on CNN and noted how gets significantly more downloads from listeners who fall in the advertiser-coveted 25-54 age demographic than CNN gets viewers. Galloway flubbed his numbers a bit, claiming that CNN averages only 27,000 demo viewers, while it actually brought in 53,000 demo viewers in August.

“When you have still very profitable but declining businesses, which pretty accurately describes cable news

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