Megyn Kelly Singlehandedly Had Over 30 Million More Views on YouTube in July Than NBC or CBS News
Screenshot via Megyn Kelly YouTube
Megyn Kelly is enjoying immense success in her post-television career. SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show got over 30 million more views on YouTube in July than either the NBC and CBS News channels, which include all of those networks’ respective programming.
According to Semafor’s Max Tani, the YouTube Channel for the former Fox News and NBC personality has 2.3 million subscribers to her show and attracted 116.8 million views last month, easily outstripping NBC (78 million) as well as CBS (83 million). Fox and MSNBC still outpace Kelly on the platform.
Kelly left Fox, where her show was the second highest-rated in cable news behind only The O’Reilly Factor, for NBC in 2017 after an enormously successful run at the conservative cable giant. Her inaugural show at NBC, Megyn Kelly Today, was canceled in October 2018 amid controversy over her commentary on blackface and whiteface worn by children on Halloween. She was fired by NBC just a few months later.
The Megyn Kelly Show launched in September 2020 and moved to SiriusXM less than a year later.
Kelly told Tani that “On-camera is how people are used to getting their news from me, so it likely feels familiar.”
“I am also half Italian, half Irish, so if you choose to watch the show, you will definitely glean something from the hand gestures and facial expressions that you might not always pick up on from listening alone. With the news what it is these days, sometimes an eye-roll, forehead slap, or pen-throw is absolutely required,” she continued.
The podcast and radio host has indicated that she will support Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in the upcoming election, but has also been unsparing in some of her criticism of him. In two separate instances just this month, Kelly has slammed Trump over his “stupid” obsession with crowd sizes and expressed her boredom with Trump’s “rambling.”
“He goes on too long — at his rallies and in these exchanges and at his presser the other day — to where you get kind of bored, you lose the thread, you lose interest,” she argued. “Which is not something you’re used to with Trump.”
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