Posted on 08/13/2021 8:13:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow may be on her way out.
Her show, the aptly named “The Rachel Maddow Show,” has been the top-rated show on MSNBC for a while and, as of April 2021, was in fourth place for all cable news shows behind Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” which came in at number one, “Hannity,” which was number two and “The Five” at number three, Ad Week reported.
But now, the 48-year-old Maddow, whose net worth was estimated by Yahoo at $25 million, is strongly considering leaving MSNBC, The Daily Beast reported.
According to six people familiar with the situation, Maddow, 48, is seriously considering leaving the network when her contract ends early next year as negotiations drag on and the temptation to take her brand elsewhere or start her own lucrative media company has grown.
Insiders who spoke with The Daily Beast said while the star host has occasionally entertained other offers in the past, she has in recent months increasingly expressed openness to exiting when her deal ends, citing a desire to spend more time with her family and the toll of hosting a nightly program since 2008.
Maddow seems unlikely to jump to a rival television news network. Instead, she has been intrigued by opportunities in the streaming and podcasting space, which would allow her more freedom, time for her personal life, and for other projects, people familiar with her thinking said.
The high-profile TV host has gotten aggressive in exploring her next career moves: In recent months, she left her longtime agents at Napoli Management Group, linking up with powerful talent agency Endeavor and its CEO Ari Emanuel and president Mark Shapiro, who are representing her in contract negotiations with NBCUniversal.
“Nothing has been decided. We are deep into it with NBCUniversal and Rachel has an excellent relationship with them,” her agent said to The Daily Beast.
“We don’t comment on employee matters,” Lorie Acio, an MSNBC spokesperson, said to Axios.
Maddow has spoken previously about the toll doing a nightly show has taken on her. Earlier this year she took a two-week vacation which was the longest vacation she has had in her life, she said to her viewers.
And in 2019 in an interview with The New York Times, she hinted at wanting to take a break.
“I’m realizing now—10, 11 years into this—that it’s fine to work long days,” she said. “But it’s not good for you to work incessant long days, five days a week, 50 weeks a year for 10 years.”
She talked about bumping into Fox News host Tucker Carlson early in the presidency of Donald Trump and how the two were both dealing with the weight of their careers.
“It turned out we had both thrown our backs out within one week of each other, with neither of us having ever had a back problem ever before in our entire lives,” she said to The Times. “I had the gift of a very human-to-human, eye-contact moment with him, like: ‘We’re both doing this thing that’s killing us, and killing us at the same pace.’ ”
Sources informed The Daily Beast that the network is prepared to make a push to keep Maddow, including a lucrative contract extension and a lighter schedule.
Viewership for all of the three major cable networks has fallen since Trump left the White House, with Fox News down 42 percent, MSNBC down 36 percent, and CNN down a whopping 57 percent, Deadline reported.
Is she threatening to take both her viewers with her?
Allows her time to eat more mussels.
She should have a show with Hannity. Twins.
Rapinoe’s replacement on the ladies’ kickball team.
She knows that without Trump, or a GOP POTUS she can freely bash and lie about, she is up Sh*t Creek in a sinking canoe.
Rachael may also be sort of burnt out. If I recall, Jon Stewart reached a certain point to where he simply had enough of it, the pace and the propaganda.
“I’m realizing now—10, 11 years into this—that it’s fine to work long days,” she said. “But it’s not good for you to work incessant long days, five days a week, 50 weeks a year for 10 years.”
welcome to a man’s world snowflake
Call the show "Hannity and Herman"
Or, call it....
Vannity’s of the Bonfire
I hope she leaves, makes haste for the closest bridge and throws herself over the side.
For a flaming liberal I thought it was odd that she would go out of her way to sport a Ronald Reagan hairdo.
Try it on rotating 12 hour shifts you hag on mood enhancing pharmaceuticals.
Her facial expressions and posture seem to indicate that whatever is stuck in her butt hole has an edge on it.
Without Trump to bash, a job such as hers isn’t so much fun to her. Instead she has to play defense and cover for the inept Biden.
Surprised Maddow is only 48. Looks much older.
So, The Queen of Taint ain’t, no more?
Don’t go away mad, just go away. MadCow disease will surface again on some two bit show,
Maddow does not exist in a political or cultural vacuum. Sadly there is a large market for her brand of deviant personal and political pathology in modern day America.
Wouldn’t doubt Faux News will hire her along side Juan Williams
All those years of advancing the fake Russian collusion narrative only to see Trump still standing has simply demoralized Maddow’s viewers. That’s basically it in a nutshell. A lot of them have quietly stopped watching Maddow and other liberal shows. I’m hoping that they come to the logical conclusion that the media is corrupt and is nothing more than the propaganda arm of the DNC but I doubt it. They’ll only become interested in politics again when a Republican is back in the WH.
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