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Rachel Maddow's MSNBC Show Beats Fox and CNN in Prime Time

Rachel Maddow's MSNBC Show Beats Fox and CNN in Prime Time

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The out anchor's show brought in 2.46 million total viewers on Monday evening.

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On Monday, Rachel Maddow helped MSNBC achieve more viewers during prime time than either Fox News or CNN, ratings show.

With an average of 1.86 million total viewers during the 8 to 11 p.m. slot, the network beat out Fox News and CNN's prime-time averages of 1.73 million and 529,000 viewers, respectively.

The Rachel Maddow Show, which airs Monday evenings at 9 p.m., brought in a whopping 2.46 million total viewers, making it the highest-rated prime-time show of the day.

Boosted by Maddow, MSNBC also won prime time in the key 25-54 age demographic with 170,000 average viewers. The out anchor's show received 220,000 viewers from this category.

In terms of full-day ratings, Fox News won for both total and demo viewer averages, due especially to their roundtable discussion program The Five, which was the highest-rated show of the day at 2.64 million total viewers.

MSNBC came in second place with a 1.01 million viewer average on the day, while CNN took a rather distant third at 460,000.

Maddow is currently on a hot streak. Earlier this week, she announced a new podcast project dubbed Rachel Maddow Presents: Déja News, which is set to premiere June 12. The podcast will be co-hosted by MSNBC producer Isaac-Davy Aronson, who Maddow has worked with for 20 years.

In May, her other podcast, Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra, won the prestigious Hillman Prize for broadcast journalism — the first time the award has gone to a podcast.

Maddow resettled her eponymous MSNBC show from nightly to only Mondays in 2021 so that she could pursue other ventures with NBCUniversal, MSNBC’s parent company.

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