THE DAILY NEWSLETTER - TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Cable News Ratings

MONDAY: Maddow tops 2 million wiewers to lead MSNBC ... read our full Monday cable news ratings analysis here.

Total Viewers (thousands)

ET FNC CNN MSNBC NEWSMAX NEWSNATION
6a FOX AND FRIENDS:
827		 CNN THIS MORNING:
245		 MORNING JOE:
900		 WENDY BELL COMMON SENSE:
19		 EARLY MORNING:
9
7a FOX AND FRIENDS:
1139		 CNN THIS MORNING:
362		 -- WAKE UP AMERICA:
73		 MORNING IN AMERICA:
35
8a FOX AND FRIENDS:
1473		 CNN THIS MORNING:
427		 -- -- --
9a AMERICAS NEWSROOM:
1611		 CNN NEWSROOM:
484		 MORNING JOE:
916		 NATIONAL REPORT:
132		 --
10a AMERICAS NEWSROOM:
1631		 CNN NEWSROOM:
592		 MSNBC REPORTS- LIVE:
643		 -- NWSN LIVE W/ MARNI HUGHES:
22
11a FAULKNER FOCUS, THE:
1564		 AT THIS HOUR:
609		 JOSE DIAZ-BALART REPORTS:
584		 -- --
12p OUTNUMBERED:
1700		 INSIDE POLITICS:
594		 ANDREA MITCHELL REPORTS:
566		 JOHN BACHMAN NOW:
112		 BLUE BLOODS:
127
1p AMERICA REPORTS:
1390		 CNN NEWSROOM:
533		 CHRIS JANSING REPORTS:
629		 -- BLUE BLOODS:
198
2p AMERICA REPORTS:
1447		 CNN NEWSROOM:
566		 -- AMERICAN AGENDA:
106		 BLUE BLOODS:
315
3p STORY, THE:
1421		 CNN NEWSROOM:
565		 KATY TUR REPORTS:
712		 -- BLUE BLOODS:
379
4p YOUR WORLD W/NEIL CAVUTO:
1413		 LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER:
610		 DEADLINE:WHITE HOUSE:
1445		 CHRIS SALCEDO SHOW, THE:
150		 BLUE BLOODS:
386
5p FIVE, THE:
3313		 LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER:
590		 -- SPICER & CO:
114		 NEWSNATION: RUSH HOUR:
155
6p SPECIAL RPT W/BRET BAIER:
2394		 SITUATION ROOM:
595		 BEAT W/ARI MELBER:
1399		 RECORD WITH GRETA VAN SUS:
126		 NEWSNATION: RUSH HOUR:
66
7p JESSE WATTERS PRIMETIME:
2755		 ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT:
692		 REIDOUT:
1158		 ROB SCHMITT TONIGHT:
182		 ON BALANCE W/ VITTERT:
56
8p TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT:
3076		 ANDERSON COOPER 360:
673		 ALL IN W/ CHRIS HAYES:
1423		 ERIC BOLLING THE BALANCE:
136		 CUOMO:
131
9p HANNITY:
2460		 SITUATION ROOM:
498		 RACHEL MADDOW SHOW:
2383		 PRIME NEWS:
98		 DAN ABRAMS LIVE:
117
10p INGRAHAM ANGLE, THE:
2022		 CNN TONIGHT:
449		 LAST WORD W/ L. ODONNELL:
1742		 GREG KELLY REPORTS:
115		 BANFIELD:
108
11p GUTFELD!:
1894		 CNN TONIGHT:
264		 11TH HOUR W/ S. RUHLE:
1035		 ROB SCHMITT TONIGHT:
57		 CUOMO:
74

25-54 Demo (thousands)

ET FNC CNN MSNBC NEWSMAX NEWSNATION
6a FOX AND FRIENDS:
119		 CNN THIS MORNING:
73		 MORNING JOE:
99		 WENDY BELL COMMON SENSE:
1		 EARLY MORNING:
1
7a FOX AND FRIENDS:
161		 CNN THIS MORNING:
86		 -- WAKE UP AMERICA:
11		 MORNING IN AMERICA:
5
8a FOX AND FRIENDS:
215		 CNN THIS MORNING:
90		 -- -- --
9a AMERICAS NEWSROOM:
194		 CNN NEWSROOM:
108		 MORNING JOE:
95		 NATIONAL REPORT:
14		 --
10a AMERICAS NEWSROOM:
179		 CNN NEWSROOM:
122		 MSNBC REPORTS- LIVE:
73		 -- NWSN LIVE W/ MARNI HUGHES:
2
11a FAULKNER FOCUS, THE:
176		 AT THIS HOUR:
102		 JOSE DIAZ-BALART REPORTS:
78		 -- --
12p OUTNUMBERED:
204		 INSIDE POLITICS:
73		 ANDREA MITCHELL REPORTS:
62		 JOHN BACHMAN NOW:
5		 BLUE BLOODS:
21
1p AMERICA REPORTS:
181		 CNN NEWSROOM:
63		 CHRIS JANSING REPORTS:
93		 -- BLUE BLOODS:
41
2p AMERICA REPORTS:
219		 CNN NEWSROOM:
87		 -- AMERICAN AGENDA:
16		 BLUE BLOODS:
52
3p STORY, THE:
213		 CNN NEWSROOM:
74		 KATY TUR REPORTS:
101		 -- BLUE BLOODS:
47
4p YOUR WORLD W/NEIL CAVUTO:
185		 LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER:
78		 DEADLINE:WHITE HOUSE:
154		 CHRIS SALCEDO SHOW, THE:
11		 BLUE BLOODS:
53
5p FIVE, THE:
351		 LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER:
102		 -- SPICER & CO:
5		 NEWSNATION: RUSH HOUR:
19
6p SPECIAL RPT W/BRET BAIER:
288		 SITUATION ROOM:
143		 BEAT W/ARI MELBER:
150		 RECORD WITH GRETA VAN SUS:
6		 NEWSNATION: RUSH HOUR:
14
7p JESSE WATTERS PRIMETIME:
359		 ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT:
129		 REIDOUT:
148		 ROB SCHMITT TONIGHT:
19		 ON BALANCE W/ VITTERT:
16
8p TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT:
417		 ANDERSON COOPER 360:
114		 ALL IN W/ CHRIS HAYES:
153		 ERIC BOLLING THE BALANCE:
20		 CUOMO:
29
9p HANNITY:
304		 SITUATION ROOM:
89		 RACHEL MADDOW SHOW:
263		 PRIME NEWS:
16		 DAN ABRAMS LIVE:
27
10p INGRAHAM ANGLE, THE:
227		 CNN TONIGHT:
81		 LAST WORD W/ L. ODONNELL:
129		 GREG KELLY REPORTS:
19		 BANFIELD:
15
11p GUTFELD!:
315		 CNN TONIGHT:
58		 11TH HOUR W/ S. RUHLE:
115		 ROB SCHMITT TONIGHT:
6		 CUOMO:
4

Media Winners & Losers
MEDIA WINNER:
Lester Holt

For the first time in nearly three years, NBC News' Nightly News with Lester Holt topped ABC News in the key demo for two consecutive broadcasts.

The show, anchored by Lester Holt, is the only newscast to increase both total viewership and ratings in the key 25-54 age demographic in week-over-week measurements.

Holt's show is specifically up 12,000 total viewers and 9,000 demo viewers.

The week of Feb. 20, Nightly News ranked second in total viewers for the week with 7.204 million total viewers, excluding specials, sports & syndication.

The ratings were enough to top CBS News by 43 percent -- marking the largest advantage over the network since December.

The show also averaged 1.164 million demo viewers a night that week, beating CBS News by 51 percent, and generating the smallest gap between the NBC and ABCs' total viewership since 2022.

NBC's demo gap between ABC is also the smallest its been since 2021.

The impressive ratings from Holt were enough -- at least for now -- to unseat ABC News anchor David Muir, who has maintained a stranglehold on the top spot in the nightly news ratings for years.

Kudos on these numbers, which let NBC top ABC in the demo twice in a row last week, despite Muir's interview with President Joe Biden.

MEDIA LOSER:
Rupert Murdoch

A new court filing from Dominion Voting Systems as part of the company’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News revealed a new trove of shocking evidence indicting Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corporation, and his stewardship of Fox News.

In under-oath testimony, he admitted that Fox News hosts “were endorsing” lies about the 2020 presidential election.  He also emailed former House Speaker and Fox Corp. board member Paul Ryan confirming veteran host Sean Hannity “has been privately disgusted" by former President Donald Trump and his election lies "for weeks.” 

The filing noted that Murdoch and Suzanne Scott, the CEO of Fox News, discussed the day before the Jan. 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, having Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham issuing a joint statement declaringBiden had won.

Monday's filing comes after a previous filing by Dominion, which included a trove of emails and text messages exchanged among Fox News executives and on-air personalities, expressing dismay over the “crazy” election misinformation, and fearing losing viewers to competitors on the right like Newsmax and OAN.

The suit has already prompted copious doomsaying by a spectrum of pundits, including Mediaite Editor-in-Chief Aidan McLaughlin and famed First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, and this filing is only making things look worse for Murdoch as his media empire.

In Media News
Nate Silver and Mehdi Hasan Throw Down Over Media Coverage of Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory

Legal Expert on CNN Downplays Significance of Murdoch Testimony in Fox Defamation Case: ‘It’s Not a Smoking Gun’

Jon Stewart Recalls Hysterical Backlash to His Lab Leak Bit: I Was Labeled ‘Racist’ and ‘Alt-Right’

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