Overview

• Year to date, Fox News averages 3.33 million weekday primetime viewers, topping CBS, ABC and NBC per Nielsen.
• In Q3 primetime, Fox averaged 2.48 million viewers to MSNBC’s 802,000 and CNN’s 538,000, with the 25–54 demo at 243,000 for Fox versus 87,000 for CNN and 66,000 for MSNBC.
• September primetime showed Fox at 2.54 million viewers, up 1% year over year, while MSNBC fell to 810,000 and CNN to 543,000, with all three networks lower in the demo versus 2024.
• Fox programs led cable news in Q3, with The Five No. 1 at 3.7 million viewers, followed by Jesse Watters Primetime, Gutfeld!, Hannity and Special Report, according to Nielsen.
• Emplifi reports Fox News Media led YouTube in Q3 with 1.1 billion video views and logged 500 million-plus social interactions, including 408 million YouTube views in September.