Kevin Costner Means Record Ratings: Who Had It First?

The dreamboat is back, baby. History Channel’s “Hatfields & McCoys” scored record numbers, making it the top non-sports telecast in ad supported cable history (I sound smart, but that’s actually verbiage the network spewed to the reporters, who in turn are all spewing it to us). Forget the lingo…the real question is, who had it first?

Variety posted at 12:41 p.m.

THR went up at 12:48.

Deadline was next at 12:50.

The Wrap was out to lunch. They posted at 1:29.