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Fox News Channel was the most-watched basic cable channel in primetime during the month of November, with its best primetime numbers since 2012 and its best total-day crowd in its history. CNN, meanwhile, had its most watched month in total-day news demo viewers in eight years. Its strong showing includes coming in at…

The walk-up to and aftermath of Donald Trump’s stunning White House win brought Fox News Channel its biggest five-day work-week audience ever both in primetime (6 million viewers) and total day (3.4M). FNC surpassed all basic-cable networks in total day, in total viewers and with adults 25-54 (1M). CNN was the…

As has become the norm this week, mountains of digital ink are being spilled in service of working out intense disappointment in the wake of the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States. The latest addition to the fray: The Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence. The Oscar winner has written a fiery…

Hillary Clinton’s concession speech yesterday showered cable news networks with record ratings. Fox News Channel clocked the largest crowd in its history for the 11 AM-noon ET time slot when Clinton told America of the man she previously advised was dangerous for the country: "We must accept this result and then look…

UPDATE, THURSDAY AM with statement from Los Angeles mayor: Thousands of protestors took to the streets in multiple American cities into the night Wednesday to protest the election of Donald Trump as president. Demonstrations broke out in Los Angeles, New York City — where crowds blocked the entrance to Trump Tower for…

George RR Martin has invented his fair share of political intrigue in his Song Of Ice And Fire book series, of course the basis for HBO’s Emmy juggernaut Game Of Thrones. But apparently he can’t conceive Donald Trump being elected the next U.S. President. He sounded off last night on LiveJournal.com with an attention…

Jimmy Kimmel joined the job of late-night show hosts who tackled Donald Trump’s election the next day, with varying degrees of finesse. Kimmel decided to walk viewers through the White House race’s Five Stages of Grief, noting that in California, where his show is based, a lot of voters are extremely upset. “There is…

UPDATE with video: No matter how many times Trevor Noah heard “President-Elect Trump” today, “it still doesn’t seem real,” he said the evening after Trump was declared the next POTUS. “It’s like Trump’s hair. I know it’s real, but I can’t accept it,” The Daily Show host said. Though Noah and his “correspondents” had…

UPDATE with video: Taking one last stab at talking Donald Trump out of a move into the White House, Seth Meyers upped NBC's offer to star the real estate developer in a POTUS drama called Chicago President. NBC, via Meyers and without the network’s sanction, has increased the order to 22 episodes and promised the…

UPDATED with video: Late Show host Stephen Colbert, now back on CBS but only partially recovered from his live Election Night Showtime special trauma, noted that while he’s having to periodically put on bedazzled kitten ears to cope with Trump’s election, Hillary Clinton is taking it like, well, a leader. “You know…

“Don’t even think of writing something stupid like ‘What a lucky break a Trump presidency is for comedians, the jokes just write themselves’,” Samantha Bee warned journalists and bloggers on Full Frontal’s special post-Election Night show.  (Too late – though, to be fair, some of her late-night colleagues already had…

Conan O’Brien, like some of his other late night colleagues, opened his first program following Donald Trump’s stunning Election Night win, with a mix of pathos and humor usually reserved for first broadcasts following a terror attack or some other massive catastrophe: “Two things happened last night – Donald Trump…