Alex Wagner's debut MSNBC present beat CNN with 2M viewers.
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Alex Wagner’s MSNBC debut racked up 2 million complete viewers on Tuesday evening, thumping CNN’s 9 p.m. present however nonetheless falling in need of surpassing Fox Information’ Sean Hannity.
The brand new primetime host Wagner, who's Rachel Maddow’s four-day-a-week substitute, additionally reeled in about 183,000 viewers in the important thing cable information 25-54 demographic.
That’s in comparison with “CNN Tonight,” which drew a complete viewers of about 866,000 and 176,000 in the important thing demo, in line with Nielsen rankings knowledge.
Fox Information held its dominant place within the 9 p.m. slot with “Hannity” reeling in about 3.1 million complete viewers, of these, 404,000 had been within the demo. Hannity’s program beat each MSNBC and CNN mixed in each complete viewers and demo viewers.
However Wagner’s debut present — which featured company Mark Leibovich, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois) and Joyce Vance — was by all accounts successful, regardless of some preliminary technical difficulties with the teleprompter.
Though the “Alex Wagner Tonight” didn’t match Maddow’s 2.75 million viewers on Monday, she did leapfrog CNN and preserve a lot of Maddow’s momentum.
CNN’s rankings have suffered within the primetime slot, largely as a result of the community has but to call a substitute for Chris Cuomo, who hosted the 9 p.m. hour earlier than being fired final yr.
Cuomo was axed after it got here to gentle that he secretly aided the protection of his embattled older brother, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The anchor is at present tied up in a authorized battle with CNN, by which he's demanding $125 million for alleged wrongful termination.
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