Posted on 01/15/2025 1:01:18 AM PST by Libloather
Rachel Maddow is returning to her nightly perch on MSNBC — at least for the first few months of the second Trump administration.
The network announced on Monday that Maddow will lead its coverage of Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20 and, starting that night, begin airing her prime-time show five nights a week at 9 p.m. Eastern.
Maddow’s new schedule will last until April 30, at which time she’ll revert to her current Monday-only routine with Alex Wagner occupying the time slot on Tuesdays through Fridays. Wagner will go on the road for various reporting assignments during the first 100 days of the new administration.
Maddow stepped back from her five-night-a-week television schedule in 2022 under a new contract that has allowed her more flexibility to pursue other projects. She has launched a successful round of podcasts.
Yet even with her more limited television schedule, she remains MSNBC’s signature personality and most popular host. Last year Maddow’s show averaged 2.5 million viewers on Mondays, that audience swelling by 866,000 through the week when time-shifted viewers are figured in, the Nielsen company said.
Maddow will also be the lead anchor for the network’s coverage of Trump’s inauguration, starting at 10 a.m. Eastern next Monday.
The left-leaning network’s viewership sunk dramatically following Trump’s victory in November’s election, and MSNBC is waiting to see whether it will become a leading destination for the Trump opposition.
MSNBC argues that a post-election slump is typical for a network with an audience dominated by supporters of the losing candidate, and that viewers are slowly starting to return.
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moo.
Nobody cares.
No, it’s their way of saying (thinking) she’s no long effective enough to do the job. It’s actually a pay cut if she has to work more, IMO. Als, been on my mind lately......is she supposed to be a man now or something?
As long as there are no lawsuits, it’s easy money for that network when all it has to do is stoke its guaranteed, base, crazy TDS audience instead of actually gathering and reporting real news. Same for ABC and The View.
Joy Behar questions how Carrie Underwood could ‘love’ country if she’s performing at Trump inauguration
Her house musta burnt down. Since she’s such a celebrity, she’ll probably go to the head of the line to rebuild. Sucks to be a peon.
They never learn. Why not try to appeal to a wider audience instead?
Joy berhar is a reprobate, and anyone not a reprobate baffles her.
They are going full Madcow, you never go full Madcow.
Monitor every one of her appearances and if she lies, sue the heck out of her and the network.
The re-election broke the TDS crowd. Their whole premise was that Trump was hugely unpopular. “Everybody hates him”. Most of my TDS friends went radio silent when he won.
Leftists doubling down on the stupid that cost them votes and viewers.
I’ll give them credit, they are consistent and never give up on failed ideas.
Communism, wokeism, failed programs no one watches. It doesn’t matter. Their complete ability to realize they are wrong and what they are doing doesn’t work is amazing.
The purported Einstein quote on insanity about repeating failed actions, rings particularly true with them.
“It’s not the show. It’s the stupid audience”
“It’s not communism, it’s the people.”
“We must save the plants by letting them all get destroyed by fire.”
Whatever.
Ability = inability
Maddow is such a hypocrite.
From 2008...
https://pagesix.com/2008/09/02/way-to-skirt-the-issue/
And she’s still willing for the shilling.
As the high priestess of “Russia! Russia! Russia!, Maddow should be hiding in shame for the rest of her life. Instead, she is rewarded with a $20 million annual salary.
best saying I’ve heard in years is “nothing has more lives than a bad idea” and the left has a corner on the market of bad ideas. a personal long time fave...”The only way to make a bad idea seem like a good idea is to silence the good idea that shows just how bad the bad idea really is” L.Star
How is he worth 40 million a year?
Not a perch, a lair.
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