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Fox News host Laura Ingraham is questioning the media’s focus on the royal baby’s race. The Ingraham Angle host did a “Seen and Unseen” segment earlier this week about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's newborn son. Ingraham introduced the segment as a look at “the media’s race obsession with the royal baby.” Fox…

The Duchess of Cambridge has given birth to a baby boy, fifth in line to the British throne, a move welcomed by U.S. and foreign media. Prince William and the Duchess Kate Middleton welcomed the boy at St. Mary's Hospital. International media was in a slight panic this morning after Middleton went into labor in the…

“It’s a princess!” U.S. and foreign media proclaimed this morning in breathless coverage of the arrival of the latest member of the British royal family. #RoyalBaby was top trender on Twitter as social media muscled into the scene. Prince William, the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton and their newborn daughter…

Coming off the George Zimmerman trial, the Asiana plane crash, and the birth of Kanye West's North heir, exhausted cable news viewers roused themselves only slightly yesterday to learn about the Royal Baby arrival. CNN gained the most at 3 PM ET when news of the birth erupted, handily winning the hour among 25-54 year…

UPDATED, 9 AM: The broadcast network that seemed to go the most ga-ga over the Royal Baby Birth in daytime yesterday enjoyed the biggest spike in its evening newscast crowd. ABC‘s evening news attracted nearly 650,000 more viewers than it had the previous Monday; NBC attracted an additional 545,000. And taking the…

There was an industry-wide delay in reporting overnight ratings in the UK after the mania surrounding yesterday’s Royal Baby coverage. In non-palace-related programming, BBC Four’s biopic Burton & Taylor, starring Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter, averaged 1.17M viewers for a 5.6% share. The well-reviewed movie…

ABC News, which blew out large chunks of ABC's daytime schedule today to cover the birth of Britain's Royal Baby, announced this afternoon that Babs Walters will anchor a special royal-baby edition of 20/20 tomorrow. The Royal Baby: Heir to the Throne is the name of Tuesday's 20/20, because Little Prince was already…