MSNBC Reaches No. 1 for First Time in Weekly Primetime Ratings, Fox News Drops to Third

[2MuchMark]

Congrats Rachel!

For the first time in its history, MSNBC ranked number one in both total viewers and the key adults 25-54 demographic during primetime for a full week among the big three cable news networks, according to Nielsen data.

For the week of May 15, MSNBC averaged 2.44 million viewers with 611,000 in the key demo from 8 p.m.-11 p.m., beating out CNN and Fox News in both measures. In total day viewership for the week, CNN has ranked number one in cable news among adults 25-54 for six straight days (May 14-19), marking the network?s longest winning streak in that measure in six years. Fox News finished first in total viewers with 1.5 million and second in the demo with 321,000. MSNBC was second in total viewers with 1.2 million total viewers and third in the demo with 281,000. CNN finished third in total viewers with 1.05 million but first in the demo with 353,000.

More at : MSNBC Reaches Number One For First Time in Primetime Ratings | Variety

[Bladewire]

Icing on the cake more great news

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

Icing on the cake more great news

[Axeman]

Reminds me when Olberman dominated the ratings at MSNBC when Bush was President. Opposition President is good for cable news business.

[oppoten]

[Rochard]

The people who voted for Trump are tired of the Trump news.....

[nico-t]

They're both shitty propaganda channels. Why do you hate 1 and love the other?

[Bladewire]

Trump is a confirmed Zionist now and bowed down to muslims, these images are forever burned into their fragile psyche! Stormfront has lost their shit over Trump licking the western wall in Jerusalem

The Trumpsters are in a complete and total meltdown of epic proportions, most likely in varying degrees of drunken states and drug consumption, hence the crash and burn ratings of Faux News and turning to the motherland of Rachael Maddow for solace and forgiveness of their wrongs.

[nico-t]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

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are you ok? i think it might be time to start worrying about your mental well being

[AndyA]

FOX is done....

[robwod]

I find all of the cable news networks very patronizing. Certainly, it is obvious they've traded journalistic integrity for sensationalism. It's apparent they are driven by ratings -- which has become the key factor dictating their narrative.

I can only take Rachel Maddow in small doses. She has a real biased, smarmy way about her that makes her no better than any other of the sensationalists disguised as journalists.

I think PBS, who does have some bias themselves, offers better news and political coverage than any of the big cable networks.

[Bladewire]

[onwebcam]

Congrats to the wieners.

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by robwod

I find all of the cable news networks very patronizing. Certainly it is obvious they've traded sensationalism for journalism. It's apparent they are driven by ratings -- which has become the key factor dictating their narrative.

I agree 100% CNN with their constant "breaking news" is bullshit and they are bias and a lot of their talking heads are always trying to do the gotcha a little too much on interviews. The only things I can watch are Chris Cuomo in the morning on New Day and Anderson Cooper, pretty much everything else is mediocre.

Originally Posted by robwod

I can only take Rachel Maddow in small doses. She has a real biased, smarmy way about her that makes her no better than any other of the sensationalists disguised as journalists.

I agree 100% Maddows voice gets to be like a siren drill in my head after 10 minutes or so when she's wound up and yap yap yap yap and she's over dramatic. I don't think I've ever watched her show completely beginning to end nonstop. I truly admire her investigative skills though and laying out the intricacies and connections of the story and I feel she has integrity, that is why I watch her. The only other thing on MSNBC I watch is Morning Joe.

Originally Posted by robwod

I think PBS, who does have some bias themselves, offers better news and political coverage than any of the big cable networks.

I haven't watched PBS in forever I'll have to check it out thanks

[robwod]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

I haven't watched PBS in forever I'll have to check it out thanks

Charlie Rose often has very good interviews with a variety of guests, including prominent political figures. It's not sensationalized or anything, no setting up for gotchas and other immature nonsense the mainstream news networks provide. It's also not glitzy with fancy studios. It's just an actual interview/conversation, by an actual journalist (who still has integrity), that is handled respectfully.

Basically it's for grown ups who have an attention span longer than a soundbite, and who want to actually be informed.

[Rochard]

Originally Posted by nico-t

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are you ok? i think it might be time to start worrying about your mental well being

It's called having fun with fonts.

[SmutHammer]

People are pissed at Fox for bowing down to Liberals... They should really pay attention to who their base is.

[Acepimp]

What you guys fail to realize is that InfoWars News has 10 times the audience of the cable tv networks, and they have a reporter with White House press passes.

But keep listening to Rachel Maddow and Don Lemon

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by Rochard

It's called having fun with fonts.

[nico-t]

Originally Posted by Rochard

It's called having fun with fonts.

Yes because you bitter libs are having so much fun right? The fun literally oozes from all of you guys obsessed bitter posts!

[C H R I S]

Fox was never really "News", it was a propaganda machine to make sure Hillary lost .. their mission is complete

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by robwod

I find all of the cable news networks very patronizing.

How?

Originally Posted by robwod

I can only take Rachel Maddow in small doses. She has a real biased, smarmy way about her

That's weird that you say that. I find that she seems to really take the time to explain an issue. I find her show really educational sometimes.

Originally Posted by robwod

I think PBS, who does have some bias themselves, offers better news and political coverage than any of the big cable networks.

I haven't watched PBS, but I find that here in Canada, CTV and CBC present the news without bias at all. (BBC is also excellent). Unfortunately they don't always dig into detail the way RM does.

Originally Posted by Acepimp

What you guys fail to realize is that InfoWars News has 10 times the audience of the cable tv networks, and they have a reporter with White House press passes.

But keep listening to Rachel Maddow and Don Lemon

...Except that Infowars contains zero info, and is not news in any stretch of the imagination. It's nothing more than a loud-mouth attention whore spewing conspiracy theories to idiots. Nothing more.

[Acepimp]

Originally Posted by 2MuchMark

...Except that Infowars contains zero info, and is not news in any stretch of the imagination. It's nothing more than a loud-mouth attention whore spewing conspiracy theories to idiots. Nothing more.

Mark, is that what Stephen Colbert told you? Infowars Nightly News has many reporters.

They do in fact break big stories, like this one:

EXCLUSIVE: OBAMA ILLEGALLY ROBBED FANNIE, FREDDIE TO FUND OBAMACARE

TREASURY SECRETARY CONFIRMS INFOWARS.COM REPORTING ON OBAMACARE LOOTING SCHEME

Sorry if anyone here is offended by facts. (I'm really not)

[Robbie]

I guess taking OReilly out of the picture for Fox did the trick.
Of course NONE of the primetime programming on FNC or MSNBC is news. It's all opinion talk shows.
Congrats to Maddow With OReilly gone she is doing good.

[Robbie]

Originally Posted by nico-t

Yes because you bitter libs are having so much fun right? The fun literally oozes from all of you guys obsessed bitter posts!

Quoted for truth

[AndyA]

INFOWARS hahahahahhahhahahahahahhahahaahahhhhahhhahahahhhha haahahhahahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahhahaahhahahah hahahahhahahahahahahahahha

try watching old Godzilla movies.... both are equally credible and do a good job at scaring the old and stupid

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by SmutHammer

People are pissed at Fox for bowing down to Liberals... They should really pay attention to who their base is.

The base is tired of hearing current events from people at work, and friends and family, it makes them look stupid. They've been forced to turn to MSM for accurate up to date news.

[Joshua G]

Originally Posted by Robbie

I guess taking OReilly out of the picture for Fox did the trick.
Of course NONE of the primetime programming on FNC or MSNBC is news. It's all opinion talk shows.
Congrats to Maddow With OReilly gone she is doing good.

this. ^^^

not 1 dumb lib mentioned o'reilly. at least robbie has enough brains to see the ONLY reason for the shift was o'reilly's firing.

maddow was getting her clock cleaned until o'reilly moved.

dumb libs.

[AndyA]

Originally Posted by nico-t

Yes because you bitter libs are having so much fun right? The fun literally oozes from all of you guys obsessed bitter posts!

OMG I don't think anyone here is bitter... this is going EXACTLY as expected for all of us except you dummies

we ALL knew this would happen. It's you morons that keep voting it fuckheads

George W Bush... I remember when I thought it COULDN'T get worse than him..

you did it guys!!! you found a bigger more fucked up moron than Bush... congrats

every 8 years Americans need to be reminded just how bad it can be if they take their eye off the ball

the losers of this country want everyone to be as miserable as they are ... that's why the most disgusting fucked up States vote republican.. the bigger the loser the State is the more Republicans there are

poor education and being a Republican are now hand in hand

[Joshua G]

Originally Posted by Rochard

The people who voted for Trump are tired of the Trump news.....

Originally Posted by Bladewire

The base is tired of hearing current events from people at work, and friends and family, it makes them look stupid. They've been forced to turn to MSM for accurate up to date news.

you dim-witted media dupes have NO CLUE what trump supporters are thinking. so fucking stupid.

you dumb shits thought hilary was gonna win by 11 points. so much for predicting the thoughts of trump supporters.

dumb libs.

[AndyA]

West Virginia, Mississippi, North Dakota...

this is where the inbreds are allowed to vote

arguably the smartest people in the Country live where? If your going by wealth as a sign of smarts and I know you Republicans do... you have to say California (especially Northern) NYC, South Florida...... all overwhelmingly Democratic

when you get outside of Tampa/Orlando and Miami/Palm Beach it's like Deliverance in Florida

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by AndyA

INFOWARS hahahahahhahhahahahahahhahahaahahhhhahhhahahahhhha haahahhahahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahhahaahhahahah hahahahhahahahahahahahahha

try watching old Godzilla movies.... both are equally credible and do a good job at scaring the old and stupid

Look at who they were turning to before.

Just watch the first 20 seconds of each if you want but this is one of their leaders for "news", which is Russian backed propoganda paid for by RT

This is who Nico-T & Joshua G follow as leaders

[AndyA]

Originally Posted by Joshua G

you dim-witted media dupes have NO CLUE what trump supporters are thinking. so fucking stupid.

you dumb shits thought hilary was gonna win by 11 points. so much for predicting the thoughts of trump supporters.

dumb libs.

Joshua you must own a huge energy company or international conglomerate because if you don't and you voted for Trump.... bend over cause you about to get fucked

[AndyA]

OMG those Infowars clips are crazy

you understand that Alex Jones and Glen Beck are both old Morning Zoo guys... they couldn't make it as DJ's so what do they do

they make a living by scaring old people and stupid people.. sort of like the Catholic Church except they don't help ANYONE but themselves

[Joshua G]

Originally Posted by AndyA

Joshua you must own a huge energy company or international conglomerate because if you don't and you voted for Trump.... bend over cause you about to get fucked

you're the basket case that said 1) trump is hitler, then in the same post, 2) all trump supporters should be murdered.

you're a fucking idiot. no surprise you're a liberal to boot.

[crockett]

Originally Posted by nico-t

Yes because you bitter libs are having so much fun right? The fun literally oozes from all of you guys obsessed bitter posts!

You seem very very bitter Dutch Boy.. I'm thinking you ate too much lead paint..

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by Acepimp

Mark, is that what Stephen Colbert told you? Infowars Nightly News has many reporters.

They do in fact break big stories, like this one:

EXCLUSIVE: OBAMA ILLEGALLY ROBBED FANNIE, FREDDIE TO FUND OBAMACARE

TREASURY SECRETARY CONFIRMS INFOWARS.COM REPORTING ON OBAMACARE LOOTING SCHEME

Sorry if anyone here is offended by facts. (I'm really not)

LOL! Yeah, um, those are facts alright... !

Originally Posted by Joshua G

you dim-witted media dupes have NO CLUE what trump supporters are thinking. so fucking stupid.

you dumb shits thought hilary was gonna win by 11 points. so much for predicting the thoughts of trump supporters.

dumb libs.

[Robbie]

Reading that Variety story...the one thing that isn't being talked about here is Fox News is still number one in total viewers.
"Fox News finished first in total viewers with 1.5 million and second in the demo with 321,000. MSNBC was second in total viewers with 1.2 million total viewers and third in the demo with 281,000. CNN finished third in total viewers with 1.05 million but first in the demo with 353,000."

"demo" is the demographic of adults aged 25 to 54 years old.
Which shows what has always been true about most people of working age...they don't watch the news on television. They come home from work and just want to relax a bit.

But for the ones that do...CNN is number one. And yet still in last place among total viewers.

Anyway, MSNBC is still in second place. These ratings definitely reflect the takedown of O'Reilly by the New York Times starting a boycott on his advertisers.

Word today is that Sean Hannity is next on the "hit list" to silence Fox opinion show hosts. Lot of money at stake. MSNBC is reaping the rewards of O'Reilly going down. Maybe they will profit again if they can pressure Hannity's sponsors next.

Silencing dissenting opinion...very "liberal" thing in 2017?
No.
It's all about power and greed. Fox News has the power and greed. MSNBC wants it back. lol

[Robbie]

Despite Weekday Prime Time Decline, Fox News is No. 1 in Total Day For 20th Straight Week | TVNewser

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by Robbie

Despite Weekday Prime Time Decline, Fox News is No. 1 in Total Day For 20th Straight Week | TVNewser

Fox News Slips to 3rd Place in Primetime for First Time in 17 Years | Breitbart.com