Maddow also hosts a nightly television show, The Rachel Maddow Show, on MSNBC; she is a former guest host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann and other MSNBC shows. Maddow is the first openly gay anchor to be hired to host a prime-time news program in the United States.
Early life and education
Maddow was born in Castro Valley, California to Robert B.
"Bob" Maddow, a former Air Force captain and an attorney for the East Bay Municipal Utility District, and Elaine Maddow (née Gosse), a school program administrator from Newfoundland, Canada. She has one older brother, David. Maddow was raised a strict Roman Catholic in a community that her mother has described as "very conservative." Maddow always excelled in academics and athletics.
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Referencing John Hughes films, she describes herself in high school as "a cross between the jock and the antisocial girl."
A graduate of Castro Valley High School in Castro Valley, California, Maddow earned a degree in public policy from Stanford University in 1994. At graduation she was awarded the John Gardner Fellowship. She was also the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship and began her postgraduate study in 1995 at Lincoln College, Oxford.
In 2001, she completed her Doctor of Philosophy degree (styled a DPhil) in politics from the University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis is titled HIV/AIDS and Health Care Reform in British and American Prisons. She was the first openly gay American to win a Rhodes scholarship.
Radio career
Maddow's first radio hosting job was at WRNX (100.9 FM) in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
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The station held a contest for a new on-air personality and Maddow won. She was hired to co-host WRNX's then premier morning show, The Dave in the Morning Show. She later went on to host Big Breakfast on WRSI, in Northampton, Massachusetts, for two years.
She left the show to join the newly-created Air America in March 2004. There she hosted Unfiltered along with Chuck D and Lizz Winstead until its cancellation in March 2005. Two weeks later, in April 2005, her own two-hour-long program, The Rachel Maddow Show, began airing; it was expanded to three hours in March 2008. ET on weekdays, with David Bender filling in the third hour for the call-in section when Maddow was on TV assignment.
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morning slot.
Television career
In June 2005 Maddow became a regular panelist on MSNBC's Tucker. During and after the November 2006 election, she was a frequent guest on CNN's Paula Zahn Now. In January 2008, Maddow was given the position of MSNBC political analyst and was a regular panelist on MSNBC's Race for the White House with David Gregory and MSNBC's election coverage, as well as a frequent contributor on Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
In April 2008, Maddow was the substitute host for Countdown with Keith Olbermann, her first time hosting a program on MSNBC.
Maddow described herself on air as "nervous." Keith Olbermann complimented her work and she was brought back to host "Countdown" in May 2008. The day she hosted was the highest rated news program in the key 25–54 year old demographic. For her success, Olbermann awarded Maddow the 3rd ranking in his regular segment, "World's Best Persons" on the following Monday, calling her "World's Best Pinch-Hitter." Maddow filled in again on Countdown for eight-and-a-half broadcasts while Olbermann was on vacation in July 2008 (including the latter half of the July 21 show). Maddow has also filled in for David Gregory as host of Race for the White House.
MSNBC announced in August 2008 that The Rachel Maddow Show would replace Verdict with Dan Abrams in the channel's 9PM ET time slot beginning September 2008. Since its debut the show has topped Countdown as the highest rated show on MSNBC on several occasions. After being on air for a little over a month, Maddow's program doubled the audience for MSNBC's 9PM hour. Associated Press columnist David Bauder calls her " Olbermann's political soul mate" and refers to the Olbermann/Maddow shows as a "liberal two-hour block". Maddow describes herself as more nuanced, saying in one interview that she is a "national security liberal" and in another that she is not "a partisan" and objects to being typecast. The New York Times called her a "defense policy wonk" who is currently writing a book on the role of the military in postwar American politics. During the 2008 presidential election Maddow did not formally support any candidate.
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