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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“I believe he intends to take over the world.”
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LOL, literally! One “My Pillow” at a time... ;)
FOX is getting close to a tipping point... big mistake on their part.
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.
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
Bob Beckel doesn’t belong on TV.
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