MSNBC on brink as ratings slump even further after Trump election win

MSNBC has suffered a large slump successful ratings aft Donald Trump won the 2024 statesmanlike predetermination arsenic blimpish Fox News continues to summation viewers. 

The wide quality web saw its assemblage numbers descend 47 percent successful November, arsenic CNN saw a 33 percent drop. 

Competitor Fox News Channel was the lone cablegram quality web to spot maturation aft Trump's win, holding 62 percent of full time audiences, according to the network, which cited Nielsen Media Research numbers. 

MSNBC lone pulled successful 644,000 primetime viewers, compared to its counterpart, which pulled successful 3.2million. 

In the cardinal property demographic of those aged 25 to 54, Fox saw a 147 percent increase, with 467,000 viewers betwixt 8pm and 11pm. 

Fox boasted that 'more Independents and Democrats proceed to tune in' its network, portion the rivals proceed to struggle. 

Since the election, Fox bushed ABC, CBS, NBC, and MSNBC with much than 4million viewers, according to Nielsen. 

MSNBC is down 52 percent year-to-date successful primetime audiences. CNN is besides down 39 percent, portion Fox saw a 73 percent boost. 

Since the predetermination Fox's primetime assemblage commands 3million viewers, portion MSNBC picks up 644,000 and CNN has 453,000. 

MSNBC's Morning Joe amusement received backlash after its hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski visited Trump's Mar-a-Lago, contempt spending years blasting the president-elect and his clip successful office. 

The View's Ana Navarro unleashed a blistering on-air tirade connected the joined hosts, calling their sojourn to Trump 'opportunistic.' 

Of the progressive pair, she asked whether the 2 had 'change[d] their stripes' due to the fact that of 'who's successful power.' 

The Morning Joe hosts revealed that they had traveled 'personally' to conscionable Trump connected Friday, aft openly criticizing him successful the weeks, months, and years prior.

The crushed for the visit, they said, was to 'restart communications' with the Trump medication earlier the president-elect retakes office.

The 2 besides touted a 'new approach' to sum surrounding Trump's 2nd term, eliciting a fiery effect from not lone Navarro, but her co-host, Sunny Hostin.

Both women said they disapproved of the visit, with Navarro starring the charge.

The MSNBC hosts dismissed the criticism saying it conscionable proves determination is simply a 'massive disconnect' betwixt 'social media and the existent world.' 

'Yesterday, I saw for the archetypal clip what a monolithic disconnect determination was betwixt societal media and the existent satellite due to the fact that we were flooded with telephone calls from radical each day, virtually astir the world, each precise positive, precise supportive: "I recognize what you did…"' Scarborough said connected Tuesday.

'But erstwhile successful a portion I would get a substance oregon telephone from idiosyncratic going: "Oh, man, I anticipation you're doing okay." I would telephone them back... I'd go: "Are you connected Twitter?" And helium goes: "I am." I'd go: "Well I'm not truthful we've had a bully day." 

'All of america volition bash the champion we tin bash and we're each moving towards a amended America.'

In different stroke to the network, Anchor Rachel Maddow was mocked for her hysterical monologue after Trump's win. 

The MSNBC prima claimed that the elector turnout for the Republican president-elect was grounds Americans had 'let ideology go' and opted for, a 'strongman, authoritarian system.'

Maddow, who's astir to motion a caller $125 million, 5 twelvemonth deal, likened the result to those seen successful countries specified arsenic North Korea, Russia and China arsenic she urged Democrats not to become, 'despondent.'

'Now we tin enactment connected being fricking pirates. We tin enactment connected being a thorn successful the broadside to anyone who tries to crook this state into immoderate tin-pot tyranny.

However, she was instantly derided online with galore viewers calling retired her 'hyperbole.'

The Wall Street Journal reported Comcast volition merchandise a swathe of its NBCUniversal cablegram TV networks, including MSNBC. 

Comcast's determination to rotation disconnected its NBCUniversal networks would person been a staggering determination years ago, with its fleet of channels antecedently among the company's astir profitable assets.

But the determination would spot channels including MSNBC, USA, Oxygen, E!, and Golf Channel branched disconnected onto a abstracted entity with a abstracted equilibrium sheet.

Comcast executives said that they volition not rotation disconnected each channels, with Bravo, the Peacock streaming work and the NBC broadcast web remaining nether the genitor company.

By shedding its costly networks, Comcast is hedging its bets that it tin grow its movie workplace and taxable parkland industries without being dragged down by the struggles of accepted tv news.

According to the WSJ's reporting, which broke the story, the caller cablegram task volition person an 'ownership operation that mirrors Comcast's', but 'would apt request greater standard to thrive.'

Maddow is finalizing a five-year woody to enactment connected for $25million per year, which is little than her $30million erstwhile contract, according to Puck News.

Maddow lone works erstwhile a week, and contempt standing drops, is considered invaluable to the network. 

The network's information to support connected their costly anchor mightiness beryllium to promote advertisers to put successful the spinoff company, according to Puck News.   

Meanwhile, Fox's biggest moneymaker The Five is pulling successful 4.4million viewers, Jesse Watters Primetime has 3.9million, and The Ingraham Angle has 3.3million.