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In Trump era, Rachel Maddow starts beating Fox News
CNN ^ | 04/25/2017 | Brian Stelter

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: first100days; foxnews; foxnewsratings; liberalmedia; msnbc; rachelmaddow; ratings; trumpmedia
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To: SaveFerris

“I believe he intends to take over the world.”

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LOL, literally! One “My Pillow” at a time... ;)


101 posted on 04/26/2017 11:13:59 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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To: onkelosII
I hope the Murdoch sons’ liberal wives thanked them for ruining our only TV source of conservative viewpoints.

FOX is getting close to a tipping point... big mistake on their part.

102 posted on 04/27/2017 8:42:21 PM PDT by GOPJ (Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out... - - Horowitz)
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To: SeekAndFind

FOX is moving toward ‘all elites all the time’... and they’re as boring as their ‘liberal/lite blond bimbos...

Hannity, Watters and Tucker are fine... if they lose any of that group, FOX is finished.


103 posted on 04/27/2017 8:53:25 PM PDT by GOPJ (Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out... - - Horowitz)
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To: No Dems 2016; flaglady47; Maine Mariner; HarleyLady27; Jane Long; ExTexasRedhead; danamco; ...
Bob Beckel joined The Five in 2011 as a regular. In June, 2015, Fox announced Beckel had "left the program", ostensibly for back problems....but at some point it is known he was in rehab. A Fox spokesman said at the time, "We couldn't hold The Five hostage for one man's personal problems."

On a Five show in July, 2011, he had stated: "I'm a recovering drug and alcohol addict....cocaine was my drug of choice."

I have half a hunch that Fox is being loyal to Beckel and is giving him post-rehab moral and financial support by providing him with another gig on The Five.

(Source: Wikipedia).

Leni

104 posted on 04/27/2017 9:28:01 PM PDT by MinuteGal (GO TRUMP !!!.....GO PENCE !!!.....GO USA !!!)
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To: MinuteGal

Bob Beckel doesn’t belong on TV.


105 posted on 04/28/2017 1:34:14 PM PDT by No Dems 2016
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