From Friday’s NY Times. Excerpts:

And in 2007, for the first time, Fox News raised more advertising revenue than the combination of CNN and the sister network Headline News, according to the research firm SNL Kagan. It estimates that Fox earned $460 million in advertising last year, while CNN and Headline News netted $434 million and MSNBC earned $137 million.

That’s third place by a lot. And here’s why they’ve replaced Abrams with Maddow:

MSNBC hopes that more of Mr. Olbermann’s viewers between the ages of 25 and 54 — 334,000 on an average night in July — will stay tuned at 9 for the “The Rachel Maddow Show.” (The New York Times and NBC News, the parent of MSNBC, have a content-sharing arrangement for political coverage.)
In July more than half of Mr. Olbermann’s viewers in that demographic tuned out during Mr. Abrams’s show. By contrast, the 9 p.m. program on Fox News, “Hannity & Colmes,” is able to hold onto four-fifths of the 444,000 25- to 54-year-old viewers of the 8 p.m. “The O’Reilly Factor.” Talking to Mr. Olbermann on “Countdown” Tuesday, Ms. Maddow acknowledged the importance of the lead-in.