Grace: HLN’s “Highest-Rated Show Ever”

Nancy Grace is establishing herself as the “first break-out personality” of CNN Headline News, Variety’s Michael Learmonth says. “The combination of Grace’s made-for-cable persona and a recent spate of made-for-cable court dramas have given Headline News its highest-rated show ever and is helping CNN’s smaller sibling move ahead of MSNBC into third place in the cable news wars behind CNN and the undisputed front-runner, Fox News.”

> Grace is creating “a potentially awkward scenario,” occassionally beating Paula Zahn and almost beating the 11pm rebroadcast of Lou Dobbs Tonight. “We don’t believe it’s cannibalizing CNN,” Ken Jautz says…

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