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UPDATED, with comment from plaintiffs: A federal judge in San Diego dismissed One America News Network’s defamation lawsuit against Rachel Maddow, MSNBC and Comcast, concluding that Maddow was stating her opinion when she said that the right-leaning channel "really, literally is paid Russian propaganda.” “Considering…

MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show drew 4.3 million viewers on Thursday, which featured the second part of her interview with Lev Parnas, the former associate of Rudy Giuliani. The Thursday viewership was the third highest in the show’s history. The first part of her interview, telecast on Wednesday, drew 4.5 million…

MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show drew its highest ever viewership on Wednesday when Maddow landed an exclusive interview with Lev Parnas, the former associate of Rudy Giuliani. The network said that 4.5 million viewers watched, according to Nielsen Media Research. That beat Hannity, which had 3.7 million viewers and…

UPDATED, 7:27 PM: Rachel Maddow’s interview with Lev Parnas, the former associate of Rudy Giuliani, basically confirmed what House Democrats have been saying all along as they pursued impeachment against Donald Trump: He was very much in the loop. In Parnas’s words, “President Trump knew exactly what was going on. He…

Turns out there is a point at which America hits political overload. Specifically, it looks like that was 9 PM ET last night, when the fifth debate among the 10 leading Democrats hoping to replace Donald Trump in the White House hit the stage in Atlanta. Snaring a total viewership of 6.5 million and 1.7 million in the…

Early on in tonight's fifth Democratic debate, Senator Bernie Sanders proclaimed that for all the incumbent's apparent sins, "we cannot simply be consumed by Donald Trump, because if we are we're going to lose the election." The sage from Vermont and his nine fellow contenders onstage in Atlanta may have wanted to…

Former Fox News staffers are clamoring for the same release from non-disclosure agreements that NBCUniversal has granted its staffers regarding sexual harassment settlements. Coming in the wake of Rachel Maddow’s announcement Friday on her MSNBC show that parent corp. NBCUniversal would allow former staffers to get…

Rachel Maddow said that she and her staff have “independently confirmed” that NBC News executives told Ronan Farrow to put a “pause in any new reporting” on Harvey Weinstein, backing up a claim he makes in his new book Catch and Kill. Maddow devoted her monologue on her MSNBC show on Friday to Farrow’s book, before he…

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow will provide the snarky voice of gossip maven Vesper Fairchild on the CW’s new drama Batwoman, which premieres at Sunday at 8 PM and stars Ruby Rose as Bruce Wayne’s cousin, Kate Kane, aka the fierce vigilante called Batwoman. Deadline has confirmed that Maddow will portray Fairchild, a media…

One America News Network, one of the rivals to Fox News for right-leaning viewers, filed a defamation claim against Comcast, MSNBC and Rachel Maddow on Monday, over Maddow’s claim that the conservative channel “really, literally is paid Russian propaganda.” The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in San Diego (read…

It would almost be old news that Fox News Channel has topped cable news for a 70th consecutive quarter and is again the most watched outlet on all of basic cable. However, with historic viewing highs for last week's two-night Democratic debate on MSNBC, the win for the Rupert Murdoch-owned outlet during the just-ended…

UPDATE, 12:01 PM: Looks like the viewership estimations for the second Democratic debate were as conservative as frontrunner Joe Biden. With 18.1 million tuning in to see Sen. Kamala Harris school the former VP, the simulcast across NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo is officially the most watched debate that the party of FDR…