Fox News captures 73% of primetime cable news audience as MSNBC, CNN face post-election tumble

Fox News Channel has seen a surge successful its stock of primetime cablegram quality viewers arsenic the audiences of wide networks MSNBC and CNN proceed bleeding pursuing the statesmanlike election. 

Since the Nov. 5 predetermination done Thursday, Fox News has captured a whopping 73% of each cablegram quality primetime viewers, including 71% successful the advertiser-coveted demo ages 25-54, according to Nielsen Media Research.

Fox News has averaged 3.2 cardinal full primetime viewers, a 34% summation from earlier the predetermination of President-elect Donald Trump and 417,000 successful the cardinal demo, a hefty 46% increase. 

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Fox News Channel's primetime viewership has surged since the statesmanlike election. (Fox News)

CNN, meanwhile, has averaged lone 469,000 full primetime viewers, shedding 35% of its pre-election audience, and conscionable 99,000 successful the cardinal demo, a 36% loss. 

However, MSNBC has endured the biggest losses implicit CNN contempt having a larger full audience. Its primetime programming has averaged 702,000 full viewers since the election, a whopping 47% drop, and lone 69,000 successful the cardinal demo, hemorrhaging much than fractional versus pre-election. 

Fox News maintains its dominance crossed full daytime programming, averaging 2 cardinal full viewers since the election, portion MSNBC and CNN person averaged conscionable 368,000 and 527,000 respectively. 

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MSNBC and CNN proceed hemmeroging viewers since President-elect Donald Trump won the predetermination earlier this month.  (Evan Vucci/AP)

Perhaps getting the astir attraction this week is the viewership revolt against MSNBC's marquee greeting programme "Morning Joe" aft its co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski revealed they had met with Trump astatine Mar-a-Lago, thing that has upset its far-left instrumentality base. 

MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" has averaged 1.1 cardinal full viewers from 6-9 a.m. ET successful 2024, but Monday’s assemblage fell to 769,000 arsenic wide viewers changed the transmission aft the powwow with Trump was revealed. 

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On Tuesday, the assemblage shrunk again with 683,000 mean full viewers tuning in, and it shriveled adjacent much connected Wednesday erstwhile it averaged lone 618,000 full viewers.  

Thursday's assemblage among the cardinal demo was 55% little than its pre-election viewership. 

"Morning Joe" has seen its assemblage shrink since co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski said they met face-to-face with President-elect Donald Trump.  (Screenshot/MSNBC)

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Both CNN and MSNBC look uncertain futures arsenic CNN is expected to look wide layoffs and fund cuts successful the coming months arsenic MSNBC is being spun disconnected by its genitor institution Comcast on with respective different cablegram networks, marking a firm divorcement from its sister web NBC News, which volition beryllium finalized adjacent year.   

Fox News' Brian Flood contributed to this report.