The entrepreneur-turned-presidential candidate has spent the better part of a week accusing the network of “systematic bias” against his campaign after he had the least amount of speaking time at last week’s debate. And he kept up the drumbeat Monday. “MSNBC is trying to suppress and minimize my campaign because there are certain other candidates that they might favor,” Yang said, declining to elaborate.
Wednesday’s Democratic debate drops 31% in the key demo from CNN’s last month, attracting 6.5 million viewers.
Exclusives
The Washington Post and MSNBC will kick off special coverage in Atlanta for the fifth Democratic presidential primary debate beginning Monday, Nov. 18. The two-hour live event, sanctioned by the Democratic […]
Primetime lineups on Fox News, MSNBC and CNN have all improved by double digits since the proceedings were announced.
The suit by the family-owned conservative cable network alleges that Rachel Maddow’s comments on her July 22 show calling it “paid Russian propaganda” were retaliation after OAN’s president accused Comcast of censorship for refusing to carry the channel. The suit also names MSNBC, its parent and Comcast.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell said Wednesday he made an “error in judgment” in reporting about supposed Russian ties to President Donald Trump’s finances without verifying the story.
Donald Trump is ratcheting up his war with the media, as if such thing was conceivable. On Wednesday, his personal attorney Charles Harder threatened NBCUniversal with a defamation suit over what was broadcast the previous night on MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell. A missive sent to NBCU headquarters, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, also addresses a related tweet.
President Trump on Sunday lashed out at MSNBC host Donny Deutsch, who has recently launched his own politics-themed show on the cable network. Trump criticized Deutsch, while bragging that the MSNBC host would ask to be on “The Apprentice” back when the president hosted the reality game show.
NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace has apologized for falsely saying on her show that President Donald Trump was “talking about exterminating Latinos.” She apologized Tuesday on Twitter […]
Cable TV news networks’ viewership slowdown continues in July — with Fox News Channel maintaining its overall lead. Though Fox News posted virtually flat total viewership in daytime and programming programming, it sank in key adults 25-54 viewers that advertisers value.
A skirmish involving President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Washington Post and MSNBC has escalated into unusual personal bitterness this week, with election security legislation and Trump’s attacks on U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings as the triggers.
CNN is inviting Democratic presidential candidates to debate issues surrounding climate change in New York on Sept. 4. Meanwhile, in a separate initiative, rival MSNBC is inviting candidates from both parties to come to Washington on Sept. 19-20 to tackle climate change.
The two news organizations will move from their current spaces near O&O WRC on Nebraska Avenue in upper northwest quadrant on the city to Capitol Hill, NBC News Chairman Andy Lack told staffers at town hall today. Some 350 employees will be in their new offices by March 3, the company said. This story was first reported by Politico.
The 7 1/2 hours of hearings, from 8:15 a.m.-3:45 p.m. ET, drew an average of just under 13 million viewers (12.98 million) spread across ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. Fox News led the field for Wednesday’s coverage with an average of just over 3 million viewers. MSNBC placed with 2.41 million.
NEW YORK (AP) — An MSNBC contributor apologized and deleted a tweet that appeared to confuse readers about Fox News Channel’s plans to cover special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s testimony before […]
Lester Holt, the anchor of NBC Nightly News, is the glue that holds the evenings together. He will be onstage for all four hours, joined by NBC’s Savannah Guthrie and Telemundo’s José Díaz-Balart for the first hour. In the second hour, Meet the Press host Chuck Todd and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow will join him.
The president has booked an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday and has done an interview with Telemundo — two of the three networks that will simulcast next week’s first debate among Democratic presidential contenders. (The other is MSNBC.)
State Party Chairman Trav Robertson granted MSNBC exclusive live rights to this weekend’s party convention and other media organizations are not pleased. C-SPAN says it shuts them out of a previously open political event it has covered live for many years. Journalist Roland Martin, former host at TV One, said the “terrible” decision hurts black-owned media outlets. Fox News Channel lodged a complaint.
MSNBC implemented a big shakeup in programming this week, appointing SVP of Programming and Development Jonathan Wald and MSNBC Executive Editor Dan Arnall to lead dayside. The former head of dayside, NBC News SVP Janelle Rodriguez, will take control of NBC News Now, the network’s streaming service.
Five female anchors now deliver most of the daytime news programming at MSNBC: Nicolle Wallace, Andrea Mitchell, Hallie Jackson, Stephanie Ruhle and Katy Tur.
While cable TV news networks have seen stable or rising overall viewership in recent months, advertisers are seeing declines in a key TV news demo. In the first quarter of this year, viewers 25-54 were down between 14% and 17% for the three major news channels: Fox News Channel lost 15% in primetime to 421,000 Nielsen-measured viewers, while MSNBC was down 18% to 333,000; and CNN was off 10% to 308,000.
