President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth is his pick to run the Department of Defense. As a result of this nomination, Hegseth will depart his Fox News role immediately. “Pete Hegseth has been an exceptional host on Fox & Friends and Fox Nation and a best-selling author for…
America went to the polls one week ago today and while experts initially predicted a deadlocked race, a clear winner emerged by the early morning hours. President-elect Donald Trump declared victory at 2:24 a.m. ET on Nov. 7 buoyed by news outlets like NewsNation and Fox News calling the race in his favor. Other outlets…
NBC News’ Today remained America’s No. 1 morning show in total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo for the second week in a row. This particular feat occurred during the week of the presidential election, which resulted in President-elect Donald Trump defeating Vice President Kamala Harris. Not including the Paris 2024 Olympics, Today saw its…
Tuesday, November 5 Fox News was the go-to network on Election Night in both total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo. The network peaked with over 10 million viewers between 9 p.m. and 12 a.m. ET. CNN still held its own in the demo, finishing in second place, but it fell behind MSNBC in total…
While U.S. citizens process Tuesday night’s election results, brands their agencies are on the brink of a cultural shift that will impact how they speak to consumers and broach societal issues. Many agency folks ADWEEK contacted declined to comment on how a second Trump presidency might impact their business, while some expressed disbelief and sadness…
Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav is not the only CEO anticipating that a new president will be “positive” for the industry. With President-elect Donald Trump heading back to the White House, investment, merger, and acquisition activity across media, tech, and agencies is poised for growth, but for reasons beyond Trump himself. While it’s likely…
Election Night ratings are in and Fox News was viewers’ network of choice on Tuesday. FNC attracted 10.3 million total viewers and 3.1 million viewers in the advertiser-rich Adults 25-54 demo during the 8-11 p.m. hours (All times Eastern). But it’s worth noting that the 2024 presidential election wasn’t a particularly big ratings driver overall….
Democrats spent $460 million more on traditional advertising promoting Vice President Kamala Harris than Republicans spent bolstering former President Donald J. Trump. The fact that they still lost indicates a change in what type of content nudges people in one direction or another. Rather than relying on standard paid media, the strategy behind Trump’s campaign…
Wednesday afternoon saw Vice President Kamala Harris delivering her concession speech to end the 2024 presidential cycle. President Joe Biden offered a short postscript on Thursday morning, addressing the nation from the White House Rose Garden at 11:25 a.m. ET. “Campaigns are a contest of competing visions–the country chooses one or the other,” Biden remarked…
An election-pegged commercial from Calm that didn’t have a single line of spoken dialogue quickly became a major talking point in the hours following Donald Trump’s win of the White House. Both within the advertising industry and outside of it, fans have been discussing the merits of the ad’s 30 seconds of pure silence, a…
Donald Trump made a political comeback, but the ratings didn’t. On Tuesday, 42.3 million viewers tuned in to watch presidential election coverage across 18 networks, according to Nielsen Media Research. That’s a 25% decline in viewership compared to 2020, which drew 56.9 million viewers in primetime. During the evening, which showcased the Republican presidential candidate,…
It wasn’t the speech that Vice President Kamala Harris hoped to give. The Democratic presidential candidate addressed supporters outside of Howard University at 4:26 p.m. ET on Wednesday and conceded the election to her Republican rival, President-elect Donald Trump. “The outcome of this election is not what we wanted, not what we fought for, not…
This is TVNewser’s basic cable network ranker and cable news report for the week of October 28, 2024. The final week of the 2024 presidential election was all about 2024 presidential campaign. The three major cable news networks covered every move that Vice President Kamala Harris and President-elect Donald Trump made as they criss-crossed the…
After a marathon Election Night, former President Donald Trump has become President-elect Donald Trump for the second time in eight years. The Republican candidate declared victory in the early morning hours of Nov. 6 and a majority of news networks have also called the race in his favor over Vice President Kamala Harris. Anchors, correspondents,…
The news networks have made their call: Donald Trump is once again the President-elect of the United States. The former president’s return to the White House did not follow the drama-filled route of the 2020 presidential cycle, where the outcome was not known until the weekend following Election Night. This time around, Trump has won…
Former President Donald Trump declared victory in the 2024 presidential race in the early morning hours on Wednesday, Nov. 6. Trump took the stage at 2:24 a.m. ET and addressed the crowd gathered at his campaign headquarters in Florida. At the time of his speech, only Fox News and NewsNation had called the presidential race…
With voting across the U.S. in the election officially done, seven states will play a crucial role in determining who becomes the next U.S. president. Those battleground states include Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, where polls are deadlocked between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Because of their…
It’s the most wonderful time of the (election) year. Steve Kornacki is bringing his much-loved state-by-state breakdown prowess to Election Night coverage on MSNBC and NBC News. And if you somehow still doubt Kornacki’s popularity with news junkies, TVNewser saw his rock star status cemented at an MSNBC Live event in Brooklyn in early September….
Primetime coverage of 2024’s political Super Bowl is now underway. Key talent from the various news outlets in position to cover one of the most costly contended presidential elections in American history, with a deadlocked race Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Marathon coverage of this consequential election opened with snazzy sports-esque…
Brian Williams didn’t travel over the rainbow to return to the anchor’s chair–just to Culver City, California. The former face of NBC Nightly News ushered Amazon into the brave new world of news programming on Tuesday when Election Night Live with Brian Williams debuted on Prime Video at 5 p.m. ET. And Williams was well-aware…
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