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Megyn Kelly’s Departure Immediately Boosts ‘Today’ At 9 and 10 AM

Source: Deadline
November 13, 2018 at 17:55
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Megyn Kelly has been gone as host of Today show’s 9 AM hour for two full weeks.

Viewers are expressing approval with ratings.

Kathie Lee and Hoda could not be happier.

Megyn Kelly Today was canceled on October 26, though NBC News had pulled the former Fox News star off its air two days earlier when she seemed to say Halloween costume blackface used to be okay when she was growing up and wonder why it was not okay now.

That week, Megyn Kelly Today clocked 2.522 million viewers, including 675K in the news demographic.

The following week, Today’s Megyn-free 9 AM hour averaged 2.649M viewers, including 752K in the news demographic – jumping 5% and 11%, respectively.

Last week, NBC’s second of the post-Kelly era at 9 AM, the hours ratings settled down somewhat, as rubberneckers moved on. Today

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