Rachel Maddow is returning to her late-night put up on MSNBC, at the very least for the primary few months of the second Trump administration.
The community introduced Monday that Maddow will host protection of Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20 and, beginning that night time, will start airing her primetime present 5 nights every week at 9 p.m. Eastern.
Maddow’s new schedule will run till April 30, at which level she is going to return to her present routine on Monday solely with Alex Wagner taking on the Tuesday via Friday time slot. Wagner will probably be touring on numerous reporting assignments throughout the first 100 days of the brand new administration.
Maddow retired from her five-nights-a-week TV present in 2022 with a brand new contract that allowed her extra flexibility to pursue different initiatives. He launched a profitable podcast sequence.
Yet even together with her extra restricted tv schedule, she stays MSNBC’s defining persona and hottest host. Maddow’s present averaged 2.5 million viewers on Mondays final 12 months, an viewers that will increase by 866,000 throughout the week when time-shifted viewers are factored in, the Nielsen firm stated.
Maddow may even be the lead anchor of the community’s protection of Trump’s inauguration, beginning at 10 a.m. jap subsequent Monday.
The left-leaning community’s viewers plummeted following Trump’s victory in November’s election, and MSNBC is ready to see whether or not it’ll turn into a serious vacation spot for Trump’s opposition. MSNBC says a post-election hunch is typical for a community with an viewers dominated by supporters of the shedding candidate, and that viewers are slowly beginning to return.
Maddow’s viewers final Monday was 1.6 million, up 20% from the November and December common, the community stated.
