But he was always kicking around the business and has always been talented. Conservative media and the conservative movement are very effective. Maddow was a panelist on Carlson's MSNBC show in 2005 called "The Situation with Tucker Carlson.". Here's a look-back into their time together on-air where they regularly quipped and exchanged laughs amid their fiercest debates. The Rachel Maddow Show, another frequent ratings winner, came in at 3.38 million viewers, just under Carlson and Hannity, but beat the latter in the 25-54 demo with 623,000 viewers. Grossberg also said that Carlsons staff frequently made sexist and antisemitic jokes. Tucker and I agree on just about nothing, but he has always been kind to me, and a fun person to fight with. Total Day: FNC: 253 | CNN: 180 | MSNBC: 153 The remark came in response to an interviewers point that MSNBC lacked an obvious successor for Maddows time slot after she recently stepped back from nightly hosting duties in primetime. Read our editorial standards. "It's a contested social issue. Even Tucker Carlson Finds Rachel Maddow's Show Compelling It has been atop the cable news ratings for an unprecedented 20 years. In total average viewers, he netted 3.081 million viewers and in the demo, he secured 483,000. The 3.25 million viewers it averaged in the first three months of 2023 is leagues ahead of rivals All In With Chris Hayes on MSNBC (1.33 million) and Anderson Cooper 360 (703,000). "I'm saying he's criticizing Bush in exactly the same ways, with exactly the same terminologyit's literally like he got the blast facts from (Democratic) HQ," Carlson said during a January 2006 segment. Fox announced Monday that Carlson was no longer with the network and that for the time being, rotating hosts will fill his spot. They said it!, @dpakman I saw you cover Tucker Carlson's conspiracy theory that Jan 6 organizers were actually FBI agents. "The first show I worked on was his 11 o'clock show on MSNBC that nobody remembers. Email us. MSNBC was second, with 2.55 million total viewers and 365,000 in the demo. Nathan Congleton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. In her lawsuit, in which shealso accuses the networkof setting her up to take the fall in its defamation case against Dominion Voting Systems, Grossberg said that as a producer on Carlsons show she witnessed sexist jokes and was asked about host Maria Bartiromos sex life after moving over from Bartiromos show in 2022. ", "A lot of people don't support gay rights," Carlson said during a May 2006 segment about a class of high schoolers learning about sexual orientation in public school. The ratings challenge the narrative that says polarized Americans huddle in information silos and echo chambers that only reflect views similar to their own. Chris Hayes, the host of the nightly 8 p.m. show "All In," managed just 1.58 million viewers while his rival on Fox News, Tucker Carlson, more than doubled that number, attracting an audience . But the question remains: Why are Democrats tuning into Fox, which is so frequently derided by those on the left? And why do younger Democrats choose Carlson over Maddow? It averaged about 3.25 million viewers per night over the first four months of this year. Investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald cited Bashants ruling while juxtaposing the medias divergent treatment of the two talk show hosts in a Substack column. Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day, Inside the business of TV with breaking news, expert analysis and showrunner interviews.