Fox Information Channel obliterated rivals in 2024, ending the yr with its highest share of the cable information viewers since 2015.
The yr featured an unprecedented information cycle that noticed President Biden carry out so poorly throughout an notorious presidential debate that he in the end withdrew from the race, Vice President Kamala Harris emerge because the Democratic nominee with out a major and President-elect Donald Trump survive a pair of assassination makes an attempt. All of that occurred forward of November’s election ended with Trump’s decisive victory over Harris.
The election-related chaos occurred as wars within the Center East and Ukraine continued, faculty campuses erupted with anti-Israel protests and everybody from Hunter Biden to Taylor Swift appeared to dominate information cycles.
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Fox Information Channel anchors Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier led “Democracy 2024” protection of the historic presidential race. (FOX Information Media)
Alongside the best way, Fox Information Channel averaged 1.5 million complete day viewers and a couple of.4 million throughout primetime to prime all cable choices. Fox Information has now completed No. 1 in each classes for nine-straight years and elevated its viewers by 21% amongst complete day and 31% throughout primetime in comparison with 2023.
“All through protection of a tumultuous political cycle, wars within the Center East and main breaking information occasions, hundreds of thousands of viewers throughout the political spectrum continued to tune into Fox Information Channel for our unequalled reporting and evaluation. I’m extraordinarily pleased with our total staff for proving as soon as once more why we’re the nation’s most-watched community as we outpaced the competitors in protecting the tales that mattered most to on a regular basis Individuals,” FOX Information Media CEO Suzanne Scott mentioned.
MSNBC averaged 807,000 complete day viewers and CNN managed 488,000. Throughout primetime, MSNBC averaged 1.7 million viewers from 8-11 p.m. ET and CNN settled for under 700,000 as Fox Information topped them mixed in each classes regardless of the historic yr of reports.
It was Fox Information’ highest share of the cable information viewers in almost a decade, because the community held 55% of the cable information viewers in primetime and 53% in complete day.
Fox Information has completed No. 1 in cable information amongst each complete day and primetime viewers for 23 years in a row.
Fox Information additionally crushed cable information rivals among the many advertiser-coveted demographic of adults age 25-54, averaging 187,000 complete day viewers within the crucial demo in comparison with solely 92,000 for CNN and 86,000 for MSNBC. It was a lot of the identical throughout primetime, when Fox Information averaged 298,000 demo viewers in comparison with 151,000 for CNN and solely 137,000 for MSNBC.
CNN completed the news-heavy yr with its smallest viewers in community historical past amongst each complete day viewers and among the many key demo.
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“The 5” averaged 3.4 million viewers to complete because the No. 1 present on cable information for the third-straight yr.
“The 5,” with Greg Gutfeld, Jesse Watters, Dana Perino, Jeanine Pirro and rotating co-hosts Jessica Tarlov and Harold Ford Jr., averaged 3.4 million viewers to complete because the No. 1 present on cable information for the third-straight yr. “The 5” additionally closed sturdy, becaming the primary non-primetime present to ship over 4 million viewers throughout its highest-rated fourth quarter ever.
Fox Information applications “The 5,” “Jesse Watters Primetime,” “Hannity,” “Gutfeld!,” “The Ingraham Angle,” “Particular Report with Bret Baier,” “Outnumbered,” “The Faulkner Focus,” “America’s Newsroom” with Dana Perino and Invoice Hemmer, “America Experiences” with John Roberts and Sandra Smith, Martha MacCallum’s “The Story” and “Your World with Neil Cavuto” all outdrew something CNN and MSNBC needed to supply amongst complete viewers as FNC completed with the 12 most-watched reveals on cable information.
“Jesse Watters Primetime” was the most-watched cable information program throughout primetime, averaging 3.1 million viewers.
“Gutfeld!” averaged a staggering 355,000 viewers in the important thing demo to steer all of cable information within the class that retains the lights on, outdrawing broadcast reveals CBS’ “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert,” NBC’s “The Tonight Present starring Jimmy Fallon” and ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!” within the course of.
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“Gutfeld!” averaged a staggering 355,000 viewers in the important thing demo of adults age 25-54 to steer all of cable information. (Fox Information Media)
“FOX & Buddies,” “FOX & Buddies First” and “FOX Information @ Evening” all had sturdy turnouts to assist Fox Information dominate the cable information panorama. Actually, Fox Information applications made up 70 of the highest 100 cable information telecasts and the community had the best size of tune within the cable information throughout all classes.
On weekends, Fox Information had its highest share of the cable information viewers amongst each complete viewers and the important thing demo in community historical past. “Life, Liberty and Levin” completed because the most-watched present on Saturdays and “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo” took the Sunday crown.
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Bret Baier’s interview with Vice President Kamala Harris secured almost eight million viewers, making it the highest-rated interview of the election cycle. (Fox Information Channel)
Bret Baier’s interview with Vice President Kamala Harris secured almost eight million viewers, making it the highest-rated interview of the election cycle.
Individuals relied on Fox Information for data and evaluation associated to the crucial presidential election. Based on Nielsen Media Analysis, Fox Information was essentially the most watched cable information community in each swing state, together with Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
FOX Information Media’s protection of election night time topped all tv networks with almost 13.6 million viewers and 4.4 million within the demo whereas its broadcast of Vice President Kamala Harris’ concession speech was additionally No. 1 with almost eight million viewers.
Fox Information additionally made historical past with the highest-rated primetime conference protection of all time through the RNC with 10.4 million complete viewers and two million in demo from 10-11 p.m. ET.
Since Trump’s Election Day victory, Fox Information has dominated with 73% of the cable information viewers in primetime as MSNBC and CNN hemorrhaged viewers.
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All scores knowledge courtesy of Nielsen Media Analysis.
