4 Million People Watched Rachel Maddow's Trump Taxes Episode

About an hour and a half before The Rachel Maddow Show aired on Tuesday night, host Rachel Maddow sent out a tweet.BREAKING: We've got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm ET. MSNBC.(Seriously). Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 14, 2017 The tax returns mentioned in the tweet were actually anonymously sent to tax expert and Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston, but that didnt stop people from tuning into Maddows show.All told, 4.1 million people watchedThe Rachel Maddow Show on Tuesday night, including 1 million in the advertiser-friendly 18-to-49-year-old demographic, according to Vultures Joe Adalian.BOOM! @maddow Trump Taxes show scored 4.1M viewers and a 1.0 A18-49. Beat everything on cable Tuesday, and ABC/Fox B'casting from 9-10 p.m. Joe Adalian (@TVMoJoe) March 16, 2017 Thats nothing compared to theroughly 33 million people who watched the Academy Awards last month, nor does it best entertainment juggernauts like Game of Thrones, which pulled in an average of 6.73 million people per episode last year.But for a cable news show, its quite good. In fact, according to Adalian, it beat out everything else on cable on Tuesday.Maddow is currently enjoying the most successful period of her career. She pulled inthe highest ratings of her nine-year stintat MSNBC last month, averaging 2.3 million viewers per episode. Maddow has credited her recent success on the decision to start covering only what [people in the Trump administration]do rather than what they say.The MSNBC host faced some blowback after the episode for burying the lede with her typical 20-minute opening monologue, and then only producing two pages of a 2005 federal tax return when she did reveal the documents, which the Trump administration said were accurate even before the show aired.Maddowlater told The Associated Pressthat if anyone was disappointed with the episode, it was because they overhyped it, not her.Because I have information about the president doesnt mean that its necessarily a scandal, she said. It doesnt mean that its damning information. If other people leapt to that conclusion without me indicating that it was, that hype is external to what we did. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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