Overview

• Through September, Fox News averaged 3.3 million weekday primetime viewers, outdrawing CBS, ABC and NBC and also topping ESPN’s 2.1 million, according to Nielsen.
• In the third quarter, Fox News averaged 1.6 million total-day viewers and 2.5 million in primetime, far ahead of MSNBC’s 802,000 and CNN’s 538,000.
• Q3 marked 95 consecutive quarters with Fox News No. 1 in cable-news primetime, and The Five led all cable-news programs with 3.7 million viewers for a 16th straight quarter.
• Fox led adults 25–54 with 159,000 total-day and 243,000 primetime viewers, as CNN recorded its lowest primetime demo quarter on record and MSNBC posted its weakest since 1998.
• Weekend and marquee shows helped drive the gains, with Saturday in America and My View with Lara Trump averaging 1.4 million and Sunday Morning Futures at 1.8 million, while Jesse Watters Primetime and Hannity paced weekday primetime.