When Megyn Kelly’s contract was expiring at Fox News, the network made an offer to keep her, but she was wooed away by NBC to become perhaps the highest-paid anchor on television.
Her Fox salary was pegged at around $12 million, but television insiders believe she is getting $20 million or more at the Peacock network.
As the ratings for her new show, Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly, roll in, network executives are shaking their heads in disbelief as she keeps reaching new lows in the key demographic and total viewer numbers.
The news from last Sunday’s program was particularly distressing.
[It] averaged a 0.4 rating in adults 18-49 and 3.4 million viewers, according to Nielsen data. That is down from a 0.5 and 3.6 million viewers [for] last week’s episode.”
The Kelly program continues to lag behind its time-slot competitors, reruns of CBS’ 60 Minutes and reruns of America’s Funniest Home Videos.
60 Minutes had 7.2 million viewers while the rerun of America’s Funniest Home Videos got 3.9 million.”
Yikes! The prime-time diva is getting skunked by reruns of amateur videos shot by people Kelly would think are “deplorables.”
Her debut show featured an exclusive interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who ran circles around Kelly and made her look completely out of her depth.
The ratings fiasco confirms what some critics had already surmised: Kelly’s marketability and competence may be suspect. Her confrontational approach to candidate Donald Trump in the debate showed a side of her that is very unlikeable.
Some media covering the television industry report that Kelly may have already worn out her welcome at NBC, having alienated many of her colleagues there.
Her ratings have been so terrible a New York radio host said NBC may be looking to unload Kelly and even ask Fox News to take her back.”
It’s evident she pretty well burned her bridges at Fox.
But a high-ranking Fox News official told Breitbart News last week that there would be “no way” Kelly could crawl back to the network if such a scenario occurred and emphasized that Kelly simply would “not be welcomed back.”
Given her dismal performance at NBC and the manner in which she departed, the odds of her rejoining her old network are probably lower than her ratings, if that’s possible.
Source: Breitbart
Watching her fail gives me a really warm fuzzy feeling.
Yep it does doesn’t it…!!