Another cable news item in Washington Whispers:
Brit Hume is the #2 man on cable news. “Hume’s hourlong mix of news and debate now reaches 1.5 million nightly while dominating the key 25-to-54 age demographic. And it happened in a very un-Fox-like way: without fanfare, even though Hume has recently surged to the No. 2 spot among all cable news shows, after Bill O’Reilly.”
The order used to be clear: O’Reilly, H&C, Greta, Shep, Hume. Lately, though, Hume is beating the primetime shows. But that’s not good enough. “We’ve been having a series of meetings here about how we can beat Nickelodeon,” Hume says. “We just hope that they don’t put SpongeBob SquarePants up against us.”
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