Update: The CNN town hall was the most-watched program of the evening among all the cable networks with 3.334 million total viewers, and finished second in the Adults 25-54 demo, behind NBA on ESPN, with 744,000 viewers between 9 – 10:11 p.m. ET. Within that same time period, Fox News and MSNBC had 3.229 million…
Despite its best efforts, Fox News didn’t score a much-coveted presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. But Jimmy Failla didn’t throw away his shot at taking part in his own debate. The conservative comedian and Fox News Saturday Night host matched wits with liberal comic Pete Dominick at Manhattan’s famed Comedy Cellar last…
Top of the Ticker: CNN’s chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward and her crew were briefly detained by a rebel militia in the Darfur region of Sudan earlier this month. Ward wrote about her harrowing 48-hour experience in a post on CNN’s website recounting why they were in that area, how they were captured, and how…
A former general counsel for the Florida Department of Health said he resigned rather than “complying with the directives” of DeSantis’s executive staff to send more cease-and-desist letters to TV stations running the ad. The Washington Post reports that the letters that threatened Florida TV stations with criminal penalties, if they aired a political ad…
Live from Pennsylvania… it’s Alex Wagner Tonight! TVNewser can exclusively reveal that the MSNBC host is embedded in the battleground East Coast state for a special live episode of her primetime show, premiering Tuesday night at 9 p.m. ET. With Pennsylvania polling currently showing a deadlock between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald…
A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order against Florida’s surgeon general after the state health department threatened to bring criminal charges against broadcasters airing an ad supporting Florida’s Right to an Abortion Amendment. “To keep it simple for the State of Florida: it’s the First Amendment, stupid,” said Chief U.S. District Judge Mark…
With only a couple of weeks left before the U.S. election, it’s crunch time for making sure that young American voters like Gen Z and millennials get to the polls. A new nonpartisan campaign from organization Civic Wisdom Foundation and agency David&Goliath called #SpeakYourVote aims to register 50,000 new voters while educating and encouraging young…
Opportunities to reach the undecided become fewer and fewer for the presidential candidates and their running mates to deliver their closing messages as the days leading to election day grow shorter and shorter. With early voting already underway in some of the battleground states, TVNewser has a round-up of where you can watch interviews of…
Opportunities to reach the undecided become fewer and fewer for the presidential candidates and their running mates to deliver their closing messages as the days leading to election day grow shorter and shorter. With early voting already underway in some of the battleground states, TVNewser has a round-up of where you can watch interviews of…
The gamble paid off for Vice President Kamala Harris. The Democratic presidential candidate’s contentious Wednesday evening interview on Fox News returned nice dividends from a ratings perspective. According to final numbers from Nielsen Media Research, 7.8 million total viewers and 1.126 million views in the advertiser-coveted Adults 25-54 demo viewers tuned in to see Harris…
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump took to the stage to hear from Latino voters during Univision’s town hall on Wednesday night. The town hall aired nearly a week after one featuring Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Trump’s town hall was pushed back a week due to coverage of Hurricane Milton on Wednesday, Oct….
Top of the Ticker: For nearly an hour on Tuesday evening, CNN and MSNBC carried Vice President Kamala Harris’ buzzy interview with popular radio personality Charlamagne tha God. Since it was an audio-only conversation, both networks resorted to creatively displaying an on-air graphic while the interview was rebroadcast on their respective airwaves. The interview took…
Fox News announced on Monday that Vice President Kamala Harris would sit down for an interview with its chief political anchor, Bret Baier, on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 6 p.m. ET. This will be the Democratic presidential candidate’s first formal interview on the network and will be conducted in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. The…
With another presidential debate looking increasingly unlikely, the cable news networks have pivoted to another format they know well–town halls. On Friday, CNN and Fox News both announced separate town halls with the candidates. Vice President Kamala Harris will appear on CNN, while former President Donald Trump will be on Fox. CNN’s live town hall…
As the clock runs out on the 2024 election cycle, Fox News still hopes to have a chance to host a presidential debate. The network sent letters to both the Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigns on Wednesday inviting them to participate in a Pennsylvania-held debate on either Oct. 24 or Oct. 27 and moderated…
With less than a month to go until the election, Democrats continue to invest more in presidential advertising than Republicans. Since Joe Biden dropped out of the race in late July, the Harris campaign and outside Democratic groups have spent $820.4 million on paid media, according to a new report from advertising intelligence and analytics…
With Election Day getting closer and closer, both presidential campaigns are stepping up their media game. Here’s TVNewser’s round-up of where you can expect to see former President Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance sitting for interviews this week. (All times ET.) Click here to see the TV schedules for their Democratic rivals…
It’s media blitz time for Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Gov. Tim Walz. The Democratic duo are making multiple appearances on a variety of outlets this week as Election Day draws ever closer. Here’s TVNewser’s round-up of where you can expect to see former President Donald Trump and his running mate J.D….
Ron DeSantis’s administration is threatening Tampa NBC affiliate WFLA with legal action for airing an abortion rights campaign ad. The ad features a woman named Caroline who needed an abortion and cancer treatments after a brain tumor diagnosis in 2022, which would be illegal because of Florida’s six-week abortion ban. Orlando Sentinel investigative journalist Jason…
Below are the cable news ratings for the third quarter of 2024. The period from July to the end of September was busy for news. Calls for President Joe Biden to step down as the Democratic nominee grew louder after his disastrous performance during CNN’s presidential debate between him and former President Donald Trump. Plus,…
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