Christie’s Bridge-Gate Scandal Boosts Rachel Maddow To Ratings Victory Over Fox News

[babylonsister]

Sure, scandals are eaten up by the vast majority, but let's never sink to their level. Rachel's straight up reporting speaks for itself, and the fact she finds info no one else does speaks to her professionalism and perseverance.


Mon Jan 13, 2014 at 08:13 PM PST
Christie’s Bridge-Gate Scandal Boosts Rachel Maddow To Ratings Victory Over Fox News

by News Corpse


The dominance of Fox News in the Nielsen ratings for cable networks has not been seriously challenged for most of the past several years. There have been periods that looked promising for the competition, particularly the months between the Democratic National Convention and the presidential election in 2012. During that time MSNBC was beating Fox on a regular basis as President Obama was doing the same to Mitt Romney. That trend was still in effect as late as January of 2013 when Fox reported steep declines in the key 25-54 demographic, while MSNBC shot upward.

However, that state of affairs did not hold as the nation settled into a new year with the excitement of electioneering behind them. There would be little drama in the ratings race for the next few months. Eventually, Fox would enjoy a rebound as they ramped up their coverage of various scandals that they had been carefully crafting with their Republican allies. But even then they were suffering losses of the younger viewers that advertisers favor.

Last week, however, saw an unexpected bounce for MSNBC, and particularly Rachel Maddow. Her ratings in the demo thrust her into the number one spot for the whole week, ahead of Fox's newly minted prime time star Megyn Kelly. Chris Matthews also benefited by tying the week with Greta Van Susteren, and Lawrence O'Donnell scored clean victories over Sean Hannity on a couple of days. This turnaround was surprising during a post-holiday lull, but there is a possible reason for it.

Maddow and her colleagues may have Chris Christie to thank for their ratings success. Their rising fortunes began at the same time that Maddow broke the story of the George Washington Bridge tantrum thrown by the Christie camp as political payback to unsupportive Democrats.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/13/1269486/-Christie-s-Bridge-Gate-Scandal-Boosts-Rachel-Maddow-To-Ratings-Victory-Over-Fox-News

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'The Rachel Maddow Show' Ranks #1 in Key 25-54 Demo for Week of January 6
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/01/13/the-rachel-maddow-show-ranks-1-in-key-25-54-demo-for-week-of-january-6/228964/

[Berlum]

1. Americans are looking for honest reporting

...and they have learned through bitter experience that Fox (R) lies and spins.

A lot.

[libdem4life]

2. Dare we hope that "investigative journalism" is experiencing a badly needed revival? n/t

[groundloop]

3. That's great news. However (my gripe about MSNBC)

Rachel does a great job at getting to the facts.

The issue I have with MSNBC, though, is that I can watch it for two or three hours and just hear about the same stories. IMO they should have at least a handful of regular news programs (of course honest to goodness news based on facts, and not just the spin as from the other networks).

[Gothmog]

4. Rachel has been doing a great job on this issue

I am glad that the ratings are reflecting the job that she is doing

[Stuart G]

5. k & r thanks for posting..... nt

[hfojvt]

6. "Rachel's straight up reporting"

"professionalism and perseverance"

Oof, yes, we loves our celebrities.