Rachel Maddow Is Blowing Out Sean Hannity Among Younger Viewers Age 18-49

[applegrove]

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 Hannity’s show to boost its ratings at 9 PM, viewers age 18-49 are powering MSNBC’s 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 Hannity’s 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 aren’t Sean Hannity’s audience, even though they may have a key role if they decide to follow Trump’s 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]

1. The average age of a Fox viewer is in their nineties

[Mopar151]

2. Mentally, at least.

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]

3. Neither show really has that many people watching if you think about it.

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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]

4. You said it! They are couch sponges

Moist people are watching the kardashians or dancing with the stars or some other crap.

I hate to think of the people who get "moist" watching Hannity.

[mucifer]

6. ha ha! oops ok I corrected my post . Thanks!

[Kaleva]

5. Both Rachel and Hannity would be cancelled if they were on network tv.

[Ccarmona]

7. Ummm No

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.

[Kaleva]

12. The Inhumans may not last long because of the low ratings

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]

8. Why is Hannity even competitive?

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]

9. I'm not in that age group but I watch Rachel faithfully. Fox makes me physically ill.

[Wounded Bear]

11. Perhaps there is hope...

if we can hold on to as many of the things progressives have accomplished the last century as we can.