Fox News beats MSNBC, CNN Combined for 5th straight week

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Fox News beats MSNBC, CNN combined for 5th straight week during primetime
By Brian Flood | Fox News


Fox News Channel has now attracted more primetime viewers than MSNBC and struggling CNN combined for five straight weeks with another ratings victory, hammering the liberal networks for the week of June 17-23.

FNC finished the week as the most-watched basic cable network among both primetime and total day viewers. Fox News averaged 2.6 million primetime viewers, while MSNBC finished second with an average of 1.5 million. ESPN, HGTV and A&E rounded out the top five while CNN finished No. 13, averaging a dismal 853,000 viewers from 8-11 p.m. ET.

Fox News also picked up the total-day crown, averaging 1.3 million viewers. No other basic cable networks cracked the 1-million-viewer plateau, while MSNBC finished second and CNN finished ninth.

MSNBC and CNN didn’t match Fox News among the key advertising demo of adults age 25-54, either. FNC averaged 406,000 primetime viewers in the demo compared to 198,000 for MSNBC and only 185,000 for CNN.

CNN delivered its second lowest-rated week of 2019 in the demo among total-day viewers, averaging only 125,000 compared to 224,000 for Fox News. CNN, however, did manage to defeat MSNBC’s lowly average of 115,000 demo viewers as MSNBC had its second-worst week of the year in the category.

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C-SPAN, Fox News, CBS News, CNN and ABC News joined forces to protest the South Carolina Democratic Party’s decision to give MSNBC exclusive access to air live coverage on Saturday of its 2019 convention – but the unprecedented access didn’t help MSNBC attract eyeballs. Fox News averaged more viewers than MSNBC every hour during the event among both total viewers and the demo with regular Saturday programming.

Last Tuesday, President Trump held a rally to kick off his 2020 re-election campaign. Nearly 5million total viewers tuned in on Fox News, while MSNBC and CNN didn’t bother to carry the speech in its entirety. Fox News outdrew MSNBC and CNN combined to mark its third-highest primetime night of the year. “Hannity” followed the Trump rally with its second-most-watched episode of the year, averaging 5 million viewers.

All data courtesy Nielsen Media Research.

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Hannity crushes Maddow as Fox News tops MSNBC, CNN for 70th straight quarter
By Brian Flood | Fox News

Fox News has been the most-watched cable news network for 70 consecutive quarters after finishing the second quarter of 2019 ahead of MSNBC and struggling CNN in both total day and primetime viewers -- as Sean Hannity crushed Rachel Maddow's show in the 9 p.m. ET hour.

Fox News averaged 2.4 million primetime viewers to rank as the most-watched network in all of basic cable from 8-11 p.m. ET. MSNBC came in second place with an average of 1.7 million, while TNT, ESPN, and HGTV rounded out the top five.

The lowly CNN finished fifteenth, averaging only 761,000 primetime viewers and finishing behind channels such as Discovery and the Food Network.

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Fox News was the only basic cable network to average more than one million total-day viewers, finishing with 1.3 million to win the category for the 12th straight quarter. MSNBC finished second with 900,000, followed by HGTV, Nickelodeon and Investigation Discovery. CNN averaged only 525,000 to finish eighth overall.

“Hannity” finished the quarter as the most-watched show in cable news, averaging 3.2 million viewers. “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” “The Rachel Maddow Show,” “The Ingraham Angle” and “The Five” rounded out the top five, while the most-watched show on struggling CNN was “Cuomo Prime Time,” which finished No. 25.

CNN’s most popular show averaged only 910,000 viewers, as 14 Fox News programs and 10 MSNBC programs attracted larger audiences.

“Hannity” also finished atop the key demo, averaging 505,000 viewers between the ages 25-54, while “Maddow” was MSNBC’s most-watched show in the category, averaging 396,000. Fox News had eight of the 10 most-watched show in the demo, while CNN didn’t have any programs among the top ten. In fact, CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” had its lowest-rated quarter ever in both categories.

Fox News has now topped both MSNBC and CNN for 45-straight quarters among the primetime demo. Other key Q2 takeaways include “Fox & Friends” averaging 1.4 million viewers to finish as the most-watched cable news morning show for the 70th straight quarter and “The Greg Gutfeld Show” beating CNN and MSNBC combined in its timeslot.

All data courtesy of Nielsen Media Research.