Posted on 04/25/2017 12:41:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Fox News normally ranks #1 among cable news channels. But lately MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has been challenging Fox at 9 p.m., the centerpiece of the prime time schedule.
"The Rachel Maddow Show" surpassed "Tucker Carlson Tonight" in March among 25- to 54-year-old viewers, the demographic that determines advertising rates. Maddow was on track to win again in April. But on Monday night the cable news ratings race changed dramatically. Carlson moved from 9 p.m. to 8, replacing Bill O'Reilly, and Fox's 5 p.m. talk show "The Five" moved to 9.
Maddow may or may not benefit from the change. Regardless, executives all across television news have already taken notice of her recent wins. According to Nielsen data, Maddow also narrowly topped Fox's 8 p.m. hour last week, when Dana Perino and Greg Gutfeld filled in for O'Reilly.
Maddow's surge is being fueled partly by her day-in, day-out criticism of the Trump administration. There is an increased appetite for the liberal arguments she has been making for years.
"There's a reason Rachel is beating Fox and CNN," MSNBC president Phil Griffin told CNNMoney in an email. "She's a talented storyteller who's helping her audience cut through all the confusion coming out of Washington. She's connecting dots in ways no one else is."
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Fox is becoming another MSNBC. so who cares.
It’s temporary.
Her Schtick is lame and for the uninformed...
Though I confess, I watch her occasionally.
James Murdock era, not Trump era.
MadCow is a leading purveyor of Loony Left conspiracies, so it makes sense the Socialists would flock to her show to assuage their butthurt and TDS.
They should move it to midnight..........
She is like a real campy late night horror movie the kind that use to come on right before high flight sign off
My BS flag is flying high.
Yeah... and Glen Beck dominated the ratings at the beginning of Obama’s presidency.
And... we see where he ended up... right where Madcow will.
[”The Rachel Maddow Show” surpassed “Tucker Carlson Tonight” in March among 25- to 54-year-old viewers]
Wow. That’s a pretty sad statement on 25-54-year-old viewers.
Stupidity: The main by-product of the Obama era (and the cause of it). It is both cause and effect as it self-perpetuates.
Was Maddow indicted for revealing a private citizen’s tax return to hundreds of viewers?
5.56mm
I think Maddow’s success has less to do with Trump and more to do with changes at Fox News.
How about “The Five” at 5 a.m.? Then they only have to compete against Mike Lindell and My Pillow; the commercial that runs 10,000 times per late night.
The Five won’t survive with the idiot Bob Beckel on there.
I heard him the other day while listening on radio, he said.
“I hate Donald Trump.”
I heard it pure as day
He does not prepare for the shows. He’s constantly going to give the negative narrative on Trump.
I liked Elvira better, but good point.
In other news Smith and Wesson stock has gone down. Wait, that may be caused by the same thing.
I think it gives the liberals some form of self-righteousness to listen to and watch the ramblings of a liberal lesbian.
As for CNN, note how everything in the headline is meant to be negative to President Trump ‘In Trump era ...’
Bob Beckel would screw up an all-you-can- eat lobster dinner. I won’t watch him for any reason. Bad, dumb-azz move with beckel, Fox.
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