Sunday, July 5, 2026

Monday Night Cable Wars: Sean Hannity Falls Below 2 Million Viewers, Beaten by Rachel Maddow (3 Million)

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I had to doublecheck Sean Hannity was on his show last night. He scored just 1,965,000 viewers between 9 and 10pm on  Fox News.

Rachel Maddow killed it, bringing  in just over 3 million on MSBC at the same hour.

Maddow has been cleaning Hannity’s clock for several weeks. But this is the first time I can recall her opening a lead of 1 million viewers.

Maddow’s large lead into Lawrence O’Donnell means he’s trouncing Laura Ingraham at 10pm. Plus those Fox News anchor are losing ads. Trouble in River City!

My guess is Maddow will repeat tonight.

Meantime, Hannity got into it last night with Geraldo over immigration. Slowly Rivera is losing the company mandate at Fox News and showing his humanity. Hannity has none.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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