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Americans continued to trust connected Fox News Channel for accusation and investigation during May, arsenic the web outdrew broadcast web ABC successful weekday primetime and dominated different cablegram quality outlets crossed the board.
Fox News averaged 2.9 cardinal weekday primetime viewers, making it the 4th highest-rated web successful each of tv portion topping ABC’s 2.7 million.
Fox News averaged 1.6 cardinal full time viewers compared to 545,000 for MSNBC and 353,000 for CNN. Fox News' full time viewers grew 21% since May 2024 portion MSNBC was down 33% and CNN shed 24% of its audience.
During primetime, Fox News averaged astir 2.5 cardinal full viewers compared to 877,000 for MSNBC and lone 426,000 for CNN.
Fox News besides dominated among the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults aged 25-54, averaging 180,000 full time viewers, portion CNN managed lone 59,000 and MSNBC settled for a dismal mean of 49,000.
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"Special Report with Bret Baier" averaged implicit 2.8 cardinal viewers successful May.
It was akin during primetime, arsenic Fox News averaged 262,000 viewers from the cardinal demo from 8-11 p.m. to predominate cablegram news. CNN averaged 76,000 demo viewers during primetime and MSNBC finished with an mean of lone 73,000.
Fox News piled up astir 65% of the cablegram quality stock among viewers crossed some full time and primetime, wholly dominating CNN and MSNBC which are some shed viewers successful each categories compared to 2024. Fox News saw a 23% year-over-year summation among full viewership and 32% successful the cardinal demo.
CNN and MSNBC marked historical lows during May arsenic Fox News thrived. CNN had its second-worst period ever successful the demo crossed some full time and primetime, portion MSNBC had its second-worst May successful past among some full time and primetime successful the demo.
Fox News Channel hosts Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, Sean Hannity, and Greg Gutfeld. (Fox News)
Along the way, Fox News swept cablegram quality among full time and primetime viewership successful some full viewers and the captious demo for the 51st consecutive month.
Fox News has present aired the 1,100 highest-rated cablegram quality telecasts since Election Day and the apical 135 cablegram quality telecasts successful the period of May.
FNC’s fig 1 amusement "The Five," secured a staggering 3.8 cardinal viewers and 368,000 successful 25-54 demo, starring each of cablegram quality crossed the board.
The Fox News programs "Jesse Watters Primetime," "Gutfeld!," "Special Report with Bret Baier," "Hannity," "The Ingraham Angle," "The Will Cain Show," "Outnumbered" and "The Faulkner Focus" rounded retired the apical 10 most-watched cablegram quality programs arsenic CNN and MSNBC offerings were unopen out.
"FOX & Friends" averaged 1.4 cardinal viewers to stay the most-watched cablegram quality programme successful the mornings, portion topping CNN and MSNBC combined.
Fox News’ recently launched "The Will Cain Show" averaged 2.1 cardinal viewers during May.
"America’s Newsroom with Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino," "America Reports with John Roberts and Sandra Smith" and Martha MacCallum’s "The Story" besides had beardown numbers this period arsenic Fox News offerings dominated cablegram quality during the daytime.
Meanwhile, CNN’s "The Lead with Jake Tapper" averaged lone 525,000 full viewers for its worst period since August 2015 contempt the namesake host’s heavy promoted publication tour.
On the weekend, Fox News topped some CNN and MSNBC during each hr of the time among some full and demo viewers arsenic "My View with Lara Trump" averaged implicit 1.4 cardinal viewers to decorativeness arsenic the No. 1 amusement connected Saturday and "Sunday Morning Futures" earned the Sunday crown with 1.7 million.
More Democrats, Independents and Republicans tuned successful to FNC implicit immoderate different cablegram web crossed full day, according to information from Nielsen MRI Fusion.
Ratings accusation courtesy of Nielsen Media Research.
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Brian Flood is simply a media editor/reporter for FOX News Digital. Story tips tin beryllium sent to brian.flood@fox.com and connected Twitter: @briansflood.
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