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By Jason Easley at Politicus USA
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/10/24/rachel-maddow-blowing-sean-hannity-younger-viewers-age-18-49.html
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Even though Fox News has been loading up Sean Hannitys show to boost its ratings at 9 PM, viewers age 18-49 are powering MSNBCs The Rachel Maddow Show.
According to a statement from MSNBC provided to PoliticusUSA, The Rachel Maddow Show was the top cable news show in A25-54 for the week of Oct. 16th. Maddow was also #1 in the time period in A18-49. Maddow beat FOX News Hannity in A25-54 (587,000 vs. FOX News 554,000) and A18-49 (424,000 vs. FOX News 355,000).
Fox has been pulling out all the stops to boost Sean Hannitys viewership totals and take back the top spot at 9 PM. For example, the Hannity show has become a nearly nightly Trump family showcase, as Hannity is using his close connections with the Trumps to boost his ratings, but it is Maddow who is pulling in the critical audience that has gotten engaged and is watching cable news in bigger numbers than at any time outside of a presidential election.
The people who will decide which party controls Congress in 2018 arent Sean Hannitys audience, even though they may have a key role if they decide to follow Trumps lead and reject Republican incumbents. The voters who will swing seats to Democrats are those younger people who have gotten a wake-up call after sleeping through the 2016 election. Younger voters who are tuned in to Rachel Maddow are the ones who are likely to get out and vote. They hold the key to swinging Republican-held House seats in states California, New York, and Illinois.
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Gothmog
(145,487 posts)Mopar151
(9,992 posts)A lot of the younger ones in chronological age have a genetic family condition which causes them to identify as old reactionaries, and conflate decency and weakness.
mucifer
(23,559 posts)Last edited Tue Oct 24, 2017, 09:40 PM - Edit history (1)
I remember Rachel herself made that point on air when she started out. Really 600,000 people in the entire country isn't that much. Most people are watching the kardashians or dancing with the stars or some other crap.
That said it's good her ratings are better than hannity's
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I hate to think of the people who get "moist" watching Hannity.
mucifer
(23,559 posts)Kaleva
(36,327 posts)Friday 10/20 9p Millions of Viewrs
Hawaii Five-0 (CBS) 8.53.
Dateline (NBC) (9-11 p.m.) 4.21
Inhumans (ABC) 1.98
The Exorcist (FOX). 1.28
Jane the Virgin (The CW) 0.61
Maddow MSNBC. 2.38
Hannity FNC. 1.55
Cooper CNN. 0.77
Maddow had more viewers than three Prime Time Network shows last Friday.
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Kaleva
(36,327 posts)And the same for The Exorcist. For Maddow, Hannity and Cooper to survive on network tv, they'd have to pull in numbers at least like like Dateline. 60 Minutes had 14.58 million viewers on 10/22/17.
flotsam
(3,268 posts)Quite simply Trump has finally lost the networks and CNN. All the bitter enders have run to Fox and Hannity for words of comfort. This is their Stalingrad and it's a siege they cannot win...
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,693 posts)if we can hold on to as many of the things progressives have accomplished the last century as we can.