Tom Hanks Mocks MS NOW's 800 Viewers at Obama Center Opening
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Updated · Fox News · Jun 18
Tom Hanks Mocks MS NOW's 800 Viewers at Obama Center Opening
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 18
Summary
Tom Hanks cracked that he was speaking to “the 800 people watching MS NOW” during a live interview at the Obama Presidential Center opening in Chicago, then joked the network could “add a zero.”
Jacob Soboroff laughed off the jab and said the audience was now in the millions because Hanks was on air, while anchor Katy Tur later joked Hanks had at least once been supportive of the press.
MS NOW, rebranded from MSNBC after its split from NBC News, declined to comment on the exchange.
The joke undershot the channel’s actual audience: MS NOW averaged 691,000 total-day viewers and 1.1 million in prime time in Q1 2026, still behind Fox News at 1.7 million and 2.6 million.