March Maddow-ness.
MSNBC’ s Rachel Maddow dismissed Fox News ’ Sean Hannity last month to take the title of most-watched cable television news host.
According to figures from Forbes , The Rachel Maddow Show kipped down its best-ever efficiency with approximately 3.058 million audiences, compared with Hannity’ s 3 milione.
She likewise beat him amongst those aged 25-to-54 the group marketers most yearn for with a typical viewership from that group of 671,000 compared to 616,000 for Hannity.
Those are undoubtedly tight margins, however offered Hannity’ s long streak atop the charts simply a month previously Forbes hailed him as “ the unequaled King of Cable News ” esso ’ s a considerable success for Maddow.
Nielsen scores supplied to HuffPost differ a little from the Forbes figures, however report the very same outcomes Maddow ’ s March viewership edged out Hannity general and amongst the essential market.
According to Adweek ’ s TELEVISION Newser, Maddow ’ s viewership numbers have actually been strong throughout the year ’ s very first quarter. For the duration from Jan. 1 through March 31, she pulled a bigger typical audience than Hannity amongst the 25-to 54 year-olds.
Hannity, however, had the bigger total viewership throughout the quarter (the Fox News audience typically alters older than competitors like CNN).
CNN ’ s top-ranked host, Anderson Cooper, ranked a remote 10th amongst the 25-to-54 age, and lower still for total viewership, inning accordance with the Adweek quarterly figures.
MSNBC has actually delighted in a scores rise of late thanks to its position as a progressive foil to President Donald Trump . Its leading 3 primetime hosts Maddow, Chris Hayes, and Lawrence O ’ Donnell have actually jointly branded themselves “ The Resistance. ”
Overall, nevertheless, Fox News stays the country ’ s go-to cable television news network. Fox hosts owned 6 of the leading 10 most-watched cable television news programs in 2018 ′ s very first quarter, per Adweek . And the network has actually owned the title of most-watched for all its programs for 65 successive quarters because 2002.
