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What are they doing different now?Source: The Hill, by Joe Concha
MSNBC is on a ratings roll in August.
The Comcast-owned cable news network, beat CNN in both total viewers and in the key 25-54 demographic for the third straight week in the 6 a.m. to 9 am ET morning time-slot. MSNBC also beat CNN in the prime-time slot from 8 p.m to 11 p.m. for the week of Aug. 15-19, finishing second in the cable news ratings race, behind Fox News.
Over the first three weeks of August, MSNBC has topped CNN among total viewers with both its morning show Morning Joe and in prime-time via "All In with Chris Hayes," "The Rachel Maddow Show" and "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell."
The MSNBC victories over CNN are notable, given how well the Time Warner-owned outlet performed from a ratings perspective during the Democratic National Convention in the last week of July. During that coverage out of Philadelphia, CNN beat all broadcast (NBC, ABC, CBS) and cable news competition, including Fox News.
Read it at: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/292411-msnbc-on-ratings-roll-in-august
MattP
(3,304 posts)I wait until Chris Hayes comes on before I turn to the news
Little Star
(17,055 posts)Corey Lewandowski added to CNN it's now practically unwatchable. I would normally toggle between CNN & MSNBC but now I'm usually just a second or two on CNN before I go right back to MSNBC.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)MSNBC has become less offensive to the 'left'?
It will be interesting to watch how ratings impact political coverage.
Justice
(7,188 posts)Gets old.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)I know I don't want to hear half the people on the panel!
If everyone has a voice - all opinion and perspective is included - ratings go down.
I stopped watching MSNBC and the NBC "Family of Networks" - the Trump Network - when they ditched their "liberal" bent and went to promoting Trump and bashing Hillary all day and all night.
If former CNN audience is back with MSNBC, then MSNBC has veered off promoting Trump and bashing Hillary?