NEW YORK, NY – MSNBC’S The Rachel Maddow Show is ending on a high note as 2016 comes to a close. According to Nielsen, the show enjoyed its highest ratings ever– in both the key A2554 demo and total viewers – and grew an impressive 115% in A2554 and 72% in total viewers marking the highest growth among the cable news networks as compared to 2015.
The show also secured the best ratings ever in MSNBC’s entire 20-year history for the 9 PM time slot in total viewers and, for the 7th straight year, The Rachel Maddow Show topped CNN in total viewers among regularly scheduled shows.
In a statement released by NBC, the network said,
2016 was an extraordinary year in political news, and The Rachel Maddow Show was an integral part of the story. In February, Rachel Maddow co-moderated the MSNBC Democratic Candidates Debate between Sec. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, and co-anchored all of MSNBC’s primary, convention, debate, and election night coverage. On her namesake show, she has consistently conducted in-depth, news-generating conversations with top government officials, lawmakers and newsmakers from all sides of the political spectrum – most recently being exclusive interviews with Sec. of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and with Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. Additionally, Maddow’s proclivity for bringing important stories that are often below the media spotlight to national attention was demonstrated in 2016 by the show’s analysis of the Flint, MI water crisis. The show’s investigation into the situation led to a January 2016 nationally televised Town Hall moderated by Maddow. The program’s thorough coverage of the crisis sparked a national conversation on the conditions in Flint.
Rachel Maddie brings the best in depth show in the news! CNN pales in comparison and I now only get my news from MSNB after being a CNN junkie for years. Rachel has a way of getting to the nitty gritty in layman’s terms, yet her brilliance shines through to the viewer. Thank you Rachel for unveiling the true and often horrific part of politics!
Rachel Maddow is politicized media at its worst. Smug and as hypocritical as they come. There are two sides to every story and somewhere in the middle is the truth and she is the mirror image of what she hates on the right. TRUTH IN MEDIA!!!!!
I agree. But I am also not sure what they could be talking about. Maddow is actually hitting some lows right now. She managed to beat the Kelly File after the election, but only because the Kelly file lost so many viewers. other thent hat, the show is slowly leaking viewers. Possibly because people are tired of the format, and can pretty much guess what she is going to say. Maybe if she actually tried to be somewhat unbiased it would help her.
I now get my news starting with Rachael
Rachel has been my life line to sanity after this terrible bizarre election! Thank you so much Rachel and Joy, Chris H, Laurence, Brian, and Chris M and anyone else I have failed to mention! Thank you for calling out what clearly needs to be called out.
As we enter 2017 PLEASE call out Trump on his lies..also want to hear what our beloved dems are doing about this bozo. Also need to know what else is going on in the world besides you know who!
I love Rachel maddow,and Chris Matthews.I don’t like the last word,and Chris hays a little bit.Rachel brings many of trump lies to the light,without Rachel Maddow,msnb is nothing without her.