Fox News Channel dominated November, posting 1 of its most-watched months successful web history, arsenic person MSNBC and CNN hemorrhaged viewers since Election Day.
November saw the momentous statesmanlike predetermination betwixt President-elect Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, on with weeks of captious quality tied to Trump’s Cabinet nominees. Along the way, Americans relied connected Fox News Channel for accusation and analysis, portion MSNBC and CNN person struggled to support an assemblage since Trump’s decisive victory. Fox News finished the period with a 62% stock of the cablegram quality audience.
Fox News averaged astir 2 cardinal full time viewers during the month, portion nary different cablegram web adjacent surpassed the one-million benchmark. ESPN finished 2nd with 741,000 mean viewers. It was Fox News’ sixth most-watched period successful past and the second-best November of each time.
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Fox News Channel anchors Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier led "Democracy 2024" sum of the historical statesmanlike race. (FOX News Media)
MSNBC averaged 720,000 full time viewers and CNN settled for 482,000 arsenic the wide networks failed to outdraw Fox News combined contempt the historical election.
It was overmuch of the aforesaid during primetime, erstwhile Fox News Channel averaged a staggering 3.2 cardinal viewers to crush each competition.
ESPN finished 2nd with 2 cardinal mean viewers from 8-11 p.m. ET. MSNBC averaged 1.1 cardinal and CNN averaged 725,000 arsenic they failed to bushed Fox News combined successful that category, too.
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Fox News Channel hosts Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, Sean Hannity, and Greg Gutfeld. (Fox News)
Fox News besides dominated cablegram quality among the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults property 25-54, averaging 282,000 full time viewers compared to 108,000 for CNN and lone 91,000 for MSNBC.
During primetime, Fox News averaged 476,000 viewers successful the demo that pays the bills, compared to 196,000 for CNN and 161,000 for MSNBC.
On Election Day, FOX News Media’s primetime sum of predetermination nighttime crossed Fox News Channel, FOX Network, FOX Business Network (FBN) and Fox News Digital topped each tv networks with astir 13.6 cardinal viewers and 4.4 cardinal successful the cardinal demo.
Fox News’ "Democracy 2024" primetime sum co-anchored by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum averaged astir 10.8 cardinal successful full viewers and 3.3 cardinal successful the cardinal demo. The pursuing day, Fox News’ sum of Harris concession code was No. 1 successful television, averaging astir 8 cardinal viewers and 1.4 cardinal successful the demo.
November marked the 45th consecutive period that Fox News finished No. 1 with cablegram quality among some primetime and full time successful some viewers and the cardinal demographic.
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"The Five," with Greg Gutfeld, Jesse Watters, Dana Perino, Jeanine Pirro and rotating co-hosts Jessica Tarlov and Harold Ford Jr., was the most-watched amusement connected cablegram news. (FOX News Media)
"The Five," with Greg Gutfeld, Jesse Watters, Dana Perino, Jeanine Pirro and rotating co-hosts Jessica Tarlov and Harold Ford Jr., averaged 4.4 cardinal full viewers and 510,000 successful the captious demo to pb each of cablegram quality for the month.
"The Ingraham Angle," "Jesse Watters Primetime" and "Hannity" each dominated their timeslots and "Gutfeld!" had its champion period since launch. "Special Report with Bret Baier," "FOX & Friends FIRST," "FOX & Friends," "America’s Newsroom with Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino," "The Faulkner Focus," "Outnumbered," "America Reports with John Roberts and Sandra Smith," "FOX News @ Night" and "Your World with Neil Cavuto" each besides had stellar months to assistance Fox News crush cablegram quality competition.
"Life, Liberty & Levin," averaged 1.8 cardinal viewers to decorativeness arsenic the No. 1 programme connected Saturdays, portion "Sunday Morning Futures" took the Sunday crown with 1.9 cardinal mean viewers.
While Fox News Channel swept CNN and MSNBC combined crossed the committee for the full month, the wide networks person peculiarly struggled since Election Day.
MSNBC is down 42% among full viewers, down 52% during primetime and mislaid a shocking 57% of its primetime assemblage among the cardinal demo compared to 2024 averages since Harris’ loss. CNN has shed 30% of its full viewers and dropped 39% during primetime implicit the aforesaid clip period.
Fox News has a commanding 73% stock of cablegram quality viewers during primetime and a 69% percent stock of full viewers since Election Day. Since Election Night, Fox News has besides topped ABC, CBS, NBC and each different cablegram networks.
A assortment of MSNBC shows, including "Jose-Diaz Balart Reports," "The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle," "Ana Cabrera Reports," "Chris Jansing Reports," "Katy Tur Reports" and "The Reidout" person deed all-time lows since Election Day.
MSNBC’s issues widen acold beyond its ongoing struggles to gully an audience.
MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski irked some wide viewers and colleagues aft they admitted they met face-to-face with Trump connected the heels of the predetermination aft years of insisting helium was a "fascist" and an wide menace to democracy.
Parent institution Comcast besides announced it would rotation disconnected its cablegram assets, including MSNBC, into a abstracted institution implicit the adjacent year, leaving MSNBC staffers unsure astir the destiny of shared resources with NBC News. In addition, FEC filings revealed that the Harris run gave 2 $250,000 donations to MSNBC big Rev. Al Sharpton’s nonprofit enactment successful September and October close earlier helium sat down with the Democratic nominee for a affable interview.
All information 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.