{"id":712859,"date":"2026-06-19T04:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/712859\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T04:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:14:14","slug":"tom-hanks-roasts-ms-nows-ratings-while-appearing-live-on-air-with-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/712859\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hanks roasts MS NOW&#8217;s ratings while appearing live on-air with reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar-winning actor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/06\/entertainment\/tom-hanks-makes-surprise-visit-to-to-bay-area-typerwriter-store\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Hanks<\/a>\u00a0took a swing out of left field Thursday to poke fun at MS NOW while appearing live on the network.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/21\/media\/trump-tears-into-msnbcs-rebrand-to-ms-now-failure-by-any-name\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MS NOW<\/a> correspondent Jacob Soboroff was reporting live from the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, where some of the biggest names in politics and entertainment gathered to launch the opening of former President\u00a0Barack Obama\u2019s library and museum.<\/p>\n<p>Soboroff eyed the \u201cForrest Gump\u201d star, who was busy hobnobbing with other attendees but eventually offered his time to the reporter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat can I do for the 800 people watching MSNOW?\u201d Hanks asked Soboroff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlright, add a zero if you need to,\u201d Hanks then quipped.<\/p>\n<p>Soboroff took the joke in stride, responding, \u201cI would say millions now that you\u2019re on our air.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39725884\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/actor-tom-hanks-attends-dedication-131436172.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Hanks at the dedication ceremony for the opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.\" class=\"wp-image-39725884\"  \/>Oscar-winning actor\u00a0Tom Hanks roasted MS NOW\u2019s ratings while appearing in a live interview with a reporter from the network. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>After the two discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/18\/us-news\/obama-and-michelle-take-digs-at-trump-in-3-hour-presidential-center-opening-ceremony-with-a-listers-and-ex-presidents\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Obama Presidential Center<\/a>, Soboroff thanked Hanks for \u201cadding the zero to our ratings today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gotta tell ya, I can hear the clicks happening before my very eyes,\u201d Hanks joked before walking away.<\/p>\n<p>Soboroff then turned to MS NOW anchor Katy Tur, appearing amused by the exchange.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlright, thanks Tom. Appreciate that,\u201d Tur reacted with a grin.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39725886\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/tom-hanks-attends-dedication-ceremony-131435666.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Hanks speaking while a man in a suit laughs beside him at the Obama Presidential Center dedication ceremony.\" class=\"wp-image-39725886\"  \/>Hanks spoke with MS NOW correspondent Jacob Soboroff when he told him, \u201cWhat can I do for the 800 people watching MSNOW?\u201d REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has been very supportive of the press, at least in the past,\u201d Tur jokingly added before referencing Hanks\u2019 donated coffee machine to White House reporters in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>A representative for MS NOW declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Hanks cheekily undercounted MS NOW\u2019s viewership, which averaged 691,000 total day viewers and 1.1 million primetime viewers in the first quarter of 2026. <\/p>\n<p>The liberal network, however,\u00a0trailed behind\u00a0Fox News Channel\u2019s 1.7 million average total day viewers and 2.6 million primetime viewers during the same period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar-winning actor\u00a0Tom Hanks\u00a0took a swing out of left field Thursday to poke fun at MS NOW while appearing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[8833,236,157,88,5629,10815,35966,22169],"class_list":["post-712859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-barack-obama","tag-celebrities","tag-chicago","tag-entertainment","tag-illinois","tag-media","tag-msnbc","tag-tom-hanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}