MSNBC contributor Noah Rothman didn’t get his Castros straight in an interview today on Morning Joe. On live TV, Rothman asked Rep. Joaquin Castro about a Fox News town hall statement. “Congressman, I wanted to ask you briefly — you had said on a Fox News town hall that it is your impression that this administration…

Fox News Channel dominated last night's special coverage of President Donald Trump's launch of his 2020 re-election campaign, drawing nearly five million total viewers and nearly one million in the 25-54 demo, according to Nielsen Media Research. From 8:15-9:30 PM/ET, FNC ranked number one in both categories…

CNN started to air tonight’s Donald Trump re-election campaign kickoff rally but cut away when  the crowd starting chanting, “CNN sucks.” and the president invoked the “fake news” slur. This came at roughly the 8-minute mark as POTUS was playing up America’s bright future — albeit briefly. Trump made a showbiz…

Former press secretary turned Celebrity Big Brother faux houseguest Anthony Scaramucci is at war with E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren. Scaramucci appeared earlier on MSNBC to talk about Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her departure as White House press secretary. Scaramucci briefly served as White House Director of…

White House adviser Kellyanne Conway is, apparently, in no mood to discuss her alleged violations of the Hatch Act. MSNBC White House reporter Eamon Javers added this terrific little insider’s tidbit to the latest Conway controversy. “I was just standing in an office in the WH press office when Kellyanne Conway came…

As MSNBC’s ratings soften post-Mueller Report, the NBCUniversal news outlet has revamped its executive lineup for daytime. Deadline has confirmed that SVP Programming and Development Jonathan Wald and MSNBC executive editor Dan Arnall will run the daypart, while its former chief, NBC News SVP Janelle Rodriguez, will…

Democrats are furious that the John Dean hearing before the House Judiciary Committee was not covered live today by cable networks. In breaking news mode, CNN, MSNBC and Fox spent much of the afternoon covering the helicopter crash in New York City that left one person dead. Only C-SPAN covered the Dean hearing…

With the gravestones of fallen WWII heroes visible over his shoulder and gathered veterans waiting for today’s D-Day commemoration ceremony in Normandy to begin, President Donald Trump sat for a live Fox News interview with Laura Ingraham, 15 minutes after the ceremony was supposed to begin. “French television cameras…

MSNBC’s town hall with Sen. Kamala Harris becomes the second most watched of this election cycle, behind only Sen. Bernie Sanders on Fox News Channel, in April. Delivering 2.209 million total viewers including 307K in the 25-54 “news demo,”  Tuesday’s Lawrence O’Donnell-moderated town hall, bests all 21 of CNN’s town…

May wraps with Fox News Channel celebrating its 35th month as basic cable's most watched network for total day, with 1.137 million viewers. MSNBC (829K) ranked No. 2, and CNN (495K)came in eighth. Basketball-laden TNT topped FNC's primetme opinionators in May. TNT clocked 2.506M primetime viewers to FNC's…

Jeff Daniels went on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House in a pre-Tonys roundtable today and basically took the Republican Party to the woodshed. The star of Broadway’s To Kill a Mockingbird harkened back to a previous role — that of cable news anchor Will McAvoy from HBO’s The Newsroom, for which he won an Emmy — as he…

Attorney General Bill Barr goosed cable news numbers Wednesday, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee about Robert Mueller’s report. Fox News Channel dominated, clocking 2.157M viewers, including 304K in the news demo from 10 AM until 4 PM ET. MSNBC logged 1.687M viewers including 193K in that key 25-54 age…