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workinclasszero

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Wed May 17, 2017, 10:03 AM May 2017

Ratings: MSNBC beat Fox as top choice for Comey news

Ratings: MSNBC beat Fox as top choice for Comey news
By Joe Concha - 05/10/17 06:13 PM EDT

The bombshell news that President Trump fired now former FBI Director James Comey agitated cable news ratings on Tuesday night, catapulting MSNBC into top place for coverage. The last time Fox trailed MSNBC and CNN occurred during the Democratic National Convention in July.


According to Nielsen Media Research ratings released Wednesday, Fox News finished in third place behind MSNBC and CNN in the 25 to 54 age primetime demographic, with Fox still taking the top spot in total viewers. MSNBC finished first in primetime from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET in the key demographic advertisers covet most, with 738,000 viewers in that category. CNN was second with 719,000 viewers and Fox third with 700,000 tuning in.

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/332849-ratings-msnbc-beat-fox-as-top-choice-for-comey-news
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Ratings: MSNBC beat Fox as top choice for Comey news (Original Post) workinclasszero May 2017 OP
Go Rachel! Go Joy! Go Lawrence! Madam45for2923 May 2017 #1
Those 3 workinclasszero May 2017 #2
Has Faux even mentioned it? central scrutinizer May 2017 #3
No doubt they are! workinclasszero May 2017 #4
Which is rather like saying that HGTV beats out ESPN for gardening news . . . hatrack May 2017 #5

hatrack

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5. Which is rather like saying that HGTV beats out ESPN for gardening news . . .
Wed May 17, 2017, 10:40 AM
May 2017

But it does confirm Fox viewership as a handy first-pass metric for whether someone is a brainwashed dumbass.

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