MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow Show saw a huge ratings boost in the final week of January, surpassing Fox News’ Hannity and landing as the No. 1 program in the 9 p.m. ET hour for Monday night.
According to AdWeek, citing Nielsen big data + panel for the week of January 26, Maddow’s show drew 2.668 million total viewers and 345,000 viewers in the key Adults 25-54 demographic. This was just slightly ahead of Hannity in total viewers (2.654 million) and over 100,000 viewers more in the demo (244,000).
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