Rachel Maddow Enjoys Best Ratings Week Since 2008, Second Best Week Ever

Since the inauguration of Donald Trump, MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show has been on a roll when it comes to the ratings, and last week not only continued the strong performance for the program, but improved on previous weeks.

For the week beginning February 13th, Rachel Maddow’s 9 PM ET show averaged 2.5 million total viewers, giving the progressive host her best single week since just before the 2008 election, when the program pulled in an average of 2.6 million. This also gives the show its second best week ever.

Based largely on Maddow’s performance in the ratings, MSNBC found themselves third among all basic cable channels in primetime viewership. With Fox News sitting at #1 with an average of 2.8 million, MSNBC finished behind TNT and ahead of HGTV, grabbing an average total of 1.6 million viewers for the week in primetime viewership. CNN finished 10th in basic cable primetime.

As for total day viewership, the three main cable news networks finished in the top four for all of basic cable, with Fox leading the way and MSNBC and CNN coming in 3rd and 4th, respectively.

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