Howard Kurtz achieved an important profession milestone this previous weekend, achieving greater than 1 million whole viewers for the primary time ever on a non-breaking information day, due to his new show MediaBuzz on Fox Information. MediaBuzz introduced in 1.024M total viewers on Sunday, November seventeenth, something Kurtz managed to do with his previous exhibit Reliable Sources on CNN on only two occasions: March thirteenth, 2011 when the Eastern Earthquake hit and December 16th, 2012 when the Newtown services and products had been held.

As for Reliable Sources, which competes right away with MediaBuzz, the CNN show brought in 281K complete viewers Sunday for less than a third of Kurtz’s whole. Whereas the presentations got here so much nearer in the 25-fifty four demo, MediaBuzz’s 181K viewers nonetheless bested Reliable Sources’ 109K.

Remaining week, CNN announced that New York Occasions media reporter Brian Stelter will quickly via taking up as host of Reliable Sources, although this earlier Sunday it was once hosted through CNN’s Frank Sesno.

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