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Rosario T. Calabria on April 6, 2009 at 1:31 pm
MSNBC has announced that they will begin telecasting in 1080i High Definition beginning on June 29, 2009. The announcement came via MSNBC president Phil Griffin last Thursday at the Cable Show in Washington, D.C.:
“MSNBC is in the best competitive place its ever been, beating CNN in prime time last month and continuing incredible [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on April 2, 2009 at 4:08 am
Ed Schultz, host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show The Ed Shultz Show, has been selected by MSNBC to host a new show on the network. The Ed Show will debut Monday in the 6:00pm ET time slot, taking over for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
The host of that show, David Shuster, will be moving earlier [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on January 21, 2009 at 6:18 pm
UPDATED ON 1/22/2009
Nielsen reports that from 10am to 5pm ET, an average 37,793,008 tuned into the ceremony, swearing in, speech and coverage of the Inauguration. That’s the second-most ever, slightly below the 41,800,260 who watched Reagan’s nomination in January 1981.
Keep in mind that the number does not include any online viewers or radio listeners and [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on May 7, 2008 at 6:42 pm
CNN’s coverage of the Indiana and North Carolina primaries last night topped Fox News and MSNBC, drawing an average audience of 2.65 million viewers from 8 p.m.-11 p.m. ET, 19% stronger than its nearest competitor Fox News. Among the key news demo adults 25-54, the results were even better for CNN. The network drew 1.04 [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on February 27, 2008 at 9:47 pm
This has been quite a season for cable TV records. MSNBC’s telecast of the Democratic Debate on Tuesday (Feb. 26) between Senator’s Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton drew a total audience of 7.78 million viewers, making it the second most-watched debate of all-time (on Cable), and the most-watched program in the history of MSNBC.
Posted by
Rosario T. Calabria on May 4, 2007 at 9:00 pm
The first debate of the presidential season between the GOP candidates drew a total audience of 1.76M viewers, 500,000 viewers less than what the Democratic debate drew.
Posted by
Rosario T. Calabria on April 28, 2007 at 1:43 am
An impressive 2.26M viewers tuned into MSNBC’s coverage of the first 2008 presidential debate.
Posted by
Rosario T. Calabria on April 12, 2007 at 12:19 am
MSNBC today announced they will be ending their relationship with radio talk show host, Don Imus, effective immediately over his racially inflammatory remarks he used to describe the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.
