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Maddow Is Most-Watched Cable News Host

April 5, 2018 at 8:12 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Forbes: “In March, The Rachel Maddow Show finished as the highest-rated show in cable news, with an average total audience of 3.058 million viewers–the show’s best-ever performance in the 9 p.m. ET hour. FNC’s Hannity was second, with 3.000 million viewers. Maddow also won among viewers 25-54, the demographic most valued by advertisers, finishing March with an average audience of 671,000 compared to Hannity’s 616,000. CNN finished a distant third in the hour, with 382,000 viewers 25-54.”

Filed Under: Media Buzz Tagged With: Rachel Maddow

Maddow Doesn’t See Sanders Winning

February 5, 2016 at 8:26 am EST By Taegan Goddard 9 Comments

Rachel Maddow told Playboy that the thought of Bernie Sanders’ winning the Democratic nomination is “hard to imagine.”

Said Maddow: “My prediction for Bernie: populist hero forever but hard to imagine him still being there at the convention.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Rachel Maddow

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Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

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