The right Media leader Fox has seen it’s once completely dominating position eclipsed by a lefty over at NBC….
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MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” scored the highest ratings in cable news in March, beating out Fox News’s “Hannity.”
Forbes reported Wednesday that Maddow’s show came in with an average total audience of 3.058 million. The numbers mark the show’s second best performance to date at the 9 p.m. hour.
Sean Hannity‘s show came in second, garnering an average total audience of 3 million viewers, Forbes reported.
Maddow also topped in the number of viewers ages 25–54, the demographic most valued by advertisers, coming in with an average audience of 671,000 viewers. Hannity finished the month with an average of 616,000 viewers in the coveted category.
MSNBC is the only cable news network to have seen a year-over-year growth in ratings in the first quarter of 2018 compared to the first quarter of 2017. By comparison, both CNN and Fox News saw ratings decline in that period.
Nevertheless, Fox News still came in as the top-rated cable news network overall….
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Democratic strategists are seeing a new reason for optimism about the midterms: soaring ratings for liberal-leaning MSNBC.
Fox News and CNN both lost viewers from the first quarter of 2017 to the first quarter of 2018 — dropping 16 percent and 13 percent, respectively — as did pretty much every major cable network, according to Nielsen. MSNBC, on the other hand, surged to a 30 percent gain in the same period.
While Fox News held its standing as cable TV’s No. 1 network both for total day and prime time, MSNBC finished second in both categories, enthusing Democrats who see the rise of the network — powered by the liberal commentary of star host Rachel Maddow — not just as a reflection of energy within their base, but as a tool to help candidates in the coming elections…..
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