16 Facts About Rachel Maddow Show

1. In 2016, The Observer reported that Rachel Maddow Show is paid $7 million a year, the same amount David Muir earns for anchoring ABC World News Tonight.

2. Rachel Maddow Show has an estimated net worth of $20 million, Celebrity Net Worth notes.

3. Rachel Maddow Show participated in three sports in high school�softball, soccer and cross-country.

4. Rachel Maddow Show met her partner�in 1999 when Mikula hired her to do some yard work.

5. Rachel Maddow Show came out about her homosexuality when she was a 17-year-old freshman at Stanford.

6. In 2006, Rachel Maddow Show managed to parlay her radio career to cable television when she became a regular on the MSNBC show The Situation with Tucker Carlson.

7. Rachel Maddow Show applied her scholarship toward attending Oxford University, where she obtained her doctorate in political science.

8. Rachel Maddow Show devoted the opening in her schedule to volunteering at a local AIDS clinic, though she opted not to tell her conservative parents, who had recently learned she was gay.

9. Rachel Maddow Show has a height of 5 feet 11 inches and weighs 68 kg.

10. Rachel Maddow Show earned a degree in public policy at Stanford in 1994.

11. Rachel Maddow Show was a competitive athlete and participated in high school volleyball basketball and swimming.

12. Rachel Maddow Show became the first openly gay anchor to host a major prime-time news program in the United States.

13. Rachel Maddow Show was about to do something that few in cable news would dare attempt: devoting the next 27 minutes—-an eternity in television news—-to slowly and methodically tying together thread after thread in the messy, confusing and complicated story of Donald Trump and Russia.

14. In March 2018, The Rachel Maddow Show was the highest rated cable news show, besting Fox News's Hannity: "Maddow averaged 3.058 million viewers for the month, narrowly topping Hannity's 3.00 million.

15. On March 14, 2017, Rachel Maddow Show revealed the first two pages of Donald Trump's 2005 federal tax return on her show.

16. Rachel Maddow Show debuted on September 8, 2008, with 1,543,000 viewers.