MSNBC President Phil Griffin Wants ‘Investigation’ Into Fox News’ Great Ratings

Sour grapes alert!

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MSNBC’s demo win over Fox News on Monday night was short-lived — Fox News came roaring back the next day — and now MSNBC president Phil Griffin wants an investigation into how that’s even possible.

“Monday we had a really good day in the key demographic, on the night that Fox News debuted their three shows, we either tied or beat them in those hours,” TVNewser reported Griffin said.

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“Tuesday – you guys should be doing some investigations – I have never seen it in all my years of cable, same overnight, same everything, and they doubled their ratings in a day?” he added. “It is impossible. I have never seen it, they did election night numbers in the demo Tuesday. Wednesday it came back down. I complained, I was like, what?”

In Griffin’s indignation, he seems to have gotten his facts wrong. While “The Kelly File” managed to grab 620,000 viewers in the 25-54 demo on Tuesday’s show, Fox News’ election night numbers were far higher: 3.5 million average viewers in the demo from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. and 4.45 million during primetime hours.

MSNBC did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

 

 

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