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Join Telegram ChannelFox News Channel finished a historic election week as the most-watched channel on all of television.
Fox News Channel averaged 2.6 million viewers per day during the week of November 4-10, becoming the only cable network to cross the million viewer plateau. Fox News more than doubled the audience of second-ranked MSNBC, as the liberal network averaged 967,000 total viewers per day to finish second.
Ratings-struggling CNN averaged just 720,000 total viewers to finish fourth, behind third-place ESPN.
Fox News dominated the competition in prime time, from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., averaging 4.3 million viewers to finish with an audience twice the 2.1 million average of No. 2 ESPN.
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Fox News' Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier led “Democracy 2024″'s coverage of the historic presidential race. (FOX News Media)
MSNBC finished averaging 1.5 million viewers in prime time and CNN settled for 1.2 million, with Fox News leading the liberal networks combined.
This is Fox News Channel's best week in primetime and total daytime viewers since November 2020. Fox News had a 61% cable news audience share during election week.
Fox News also dominated broadcast competition among weekday prime-time viewers, averaging 5.4 million viewers, topping ABC's 4.9 million viewers, as well as CBS and NBC.
Fox News also dominated cable news among the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults 25-54, averaging 472,000 viewers per day in the critical group and 872,000 in prime time, edging out MSNBC and CNN in both measurable cases.
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“The Five” averaged 5.3 million total viewers and 726,000 among key demos that ended up as the No. 1 show on all of television during election week. (FOX News Media)
On Election Day, FOX News Media's primetime election night coverage on Fox News Channel, FOX Network, FOX Business Network and Fox News Digital led all television networks with nearly 13.6 million viewers. viewers and 4.4 million in the key demo.
Primetime coverage of Fox News' “Democracy 2024,” co-hosted by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, averaged nearly 10.3 million total viewers and 3.1 million in the key 25 demo -54. Fox News' massive audience dominated the competition in both categories and beat ABC, NBC, CBS and every cable news network for the second straight election.
Along the way, Fox News' Decision Desk was the first major network to launch the race for President-elect Donald Trump, who made history as the second person in history to win non-consecutive terms in office. White House.
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Fox News' Decision Desk was the first major network to call former President Donald Trump's 2024 run for office. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The next day, Fox News' special coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris' concession speech continued to sweep away TV news competition, drawing 7.9 million viewers and 1.4 million in the demo coveted by advertisers.
MSNBC's viewership has exploded since Election Day, with the liberal channel losing nearly 60 percent of its audience compared to the previous year's totals. But Fox News programs set several records during this historic week, as “Gutfeld!” ,” “The Faulkner Focus” and “America Reports” all had their highest-rated weeks since the shows launched.
“The Five” averaged 5.3 million total viewers and 726,000 in the demo to finish as the No. 1 show in all of television.
Ratings data provided by Nielsen Media Research.
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