New York Post

Show ratings soar minus Chris

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The anemic ratings for Chris Cuomo’s CNN show shot up — after he was pulled off the air on suspension.

The total number of “Cuomo Prime Time” viewers spiked to 897,000 Tuesday night when Anderson Cooper filled in for the missing host, according to Nielsen TV ratings data posted online by AdWeek’s TVNewser Web site.

That figure was up nearly 19 percent from Monday, and topped the show’s average of 774,00 viewers during November.

The network announced it had “indefinite­ly” benched Cuomo (inset) after documents surfaced from the sexual-harassment probe that forced his older brother, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to resign in August.

Meanwhile, Karen Hinton, a former aide who accused the ex-governor of groping her, said Wednesday that CNN should fire Chris.

Hinton worked with Andrew Cuomo when he was the federal HUD secretary under President Bill Clinton in the late 1990s. More recently, she served as Mayor de Blasio’s press secretary.

“Yes, I think he should lose his job,” she said of Chris Cuomo during an interview with The Post at the launch party for her book, “Penis Politics.”

“He enabled someone to harm and injure women who were working for him in the executive office. His office.”

Bruce Golding, Jon L evine, Carl Campanile

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