The presidential election was a boon for the news business, especially cable TV news<\/a>. All three players boosted their year-ago numbers, but it was not an equal opportunity affair.<\/p>\n
Network<\/strong><\/td>\n| Prev Week +\/-<\/strong><\/td>\n | Prev Year +\/-<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Fox<\/td>\n | -30<\/td>\n | +40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | CNN<\/td>\n | -58<\/td>\n | +36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | MSNBC<\/td>\n | +40<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n | +143<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n | Once again, MSNBC delivered far stronger growth numbers than any of its competitors. And once again, that growth was driven by Keith Olbermann’s Countdown and the Rachel Maddow Show. MSNBC was the only cable news net to close the post-election week with more viewers than the prior week.<\/p>\n It’s still hard for MSNBC to get any respect, though. The article linked above from Media Week sports the headline, “No Post-Election Slump for Fox News.”<\/em> Without closely reading the article, one might think that Fox was the big beneficiary of the campaign season. But the numbers show a completely different story. Which just goes to show you, even media reporting about the media can’t be trusted. My headline is far more accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The presidential election was a boon for the news business, especially cable TV news. All three players boosted their year-ago numbers, but it was not an equal opportunity affair. Network Prev Week +\/- Prev Year +\/- Fox -30 +40 CNN -58 +36 MSNBC +40 +143 Once again, MSNBC delivered far stronger growth numbers than any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[42,33,23,22,120],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-ratings","tag-cnn","tag-fox-news","tag-keith-olbermann","tag-msnbc","tag-rachel-maddow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-ih","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1121,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1121","url_meta":{"origin":1133,"position":0},"title":"And The Winner Is … Keith Olbermann’s Countdown","author":"Mark NC","date":"11\/4\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"It has been a long campaign, but the tally is finally in. 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