'The Will Cain Show' debuts with 3.5 million viewers, marking biggest daytime premiere in Fox News' history

The premiere of Fox News' "The Will Cain Show" marks the biggest daytime debut successful the channel's history. 

Tuesday's motorboat of the programme airing successful the 4 p.m. ET timeslot averaged a beardown 3.5 cardinal full viewers with 451,000 successful the advertiser-coveted demographic of viewers ages 25-54. 

That assemblage accounted for 68% of each cablegram quality viewers and 73% of cablegram quality viewers successful the cardinal demo. The debut already marks much than treble Fox News' mean successful the 4 p.m. ET timeslot successful 2024. 

FOX NEWS HOST WILL CAIN SAYS NEW DAYTIME SHOW OFFERS HIM ‘EXCITING CHALLENGES’

Will Cain has generated an awesome pursuing successful caller years betwixt his erstwhile relation arsenic co-host of "FOX & Friends Weekend" arsenic good arsenic the big of "The Will Cain Show" podcast, which helium continues to helm. 

"The Will Cain Show" is present the lead-in programme of "The Five," which reached astir 6 cardinal full viewers connected Tuesday with 762,000 successful the cardinal demo. 

"The Will Cain Show" debuted to 3.5 cardinal full viewers connected Tuesday. (Fox News Media)

"I'm an incredibly funny person, and 1 of the breathtaking challenges of this caller occupation is the balancing enactment of modulation from quality into opinion. I volition beryllium handling some astatine that clip of the day," Cain told Fox News Digital.

"I'll beryllium offering the assemblage my honorable opinion, my unvarnished sentiment connected the news. But I volition besides beryllium presenting reports and giving the assemblage the accusation they request astatine that clip of the time to assistance marque up their ain mind," Cain continued. "I volition beryllium precise professional, but I'll besides beryllium having fun."

FOX NEWS HOST WILL CAIN TO TAKE OVER 4 PM ET WEEKDAY TIMESLOT WITH 'THE WILL CAIN SHOW'

Cain said that his new program volition beryllium some "casual" and "immediate," but helium isn’t acrophobic to effort caller things successful bid to support the assemblage engaged.    

"I volition bash heavy dive analysis, and it's going to beryllium an evolution," Cain said.  

"It volition beryllium an improvement implicit time, similar each azygous tv amusement has ever been. And I inquire and look guardant to the assemblage going with maine on that ride," Cain said. "You know, wherever we commencement whitethorn not beryllium wherever we extremity up, but I deliberation we each recognize the tone of the amusement that we privation to launch."

Fox News Channel’s "The Will Cain Show" debuts connected Tuesday astatine 4 p.m. ET.  (Fox News)

Cain said helium has heard words of encouragement from a assortment of Fox News stars, and the astir predominant proposal he’s heard is to "simply beryllium yourself." 

"You person to thin into immoderate it is that’s unsocial oregon a spot for you," helium said, adding that he’s not looking to emulate a circumstantial program.

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Cain has interviewed a wide scope of guests each play since joining Fox News successful 2020, including President Trump, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and Barstool laminitis Dave Portnoy, among galore different governmental and taste newsmakers. He is expected to person conversations with figures from each walks of beingness connected the caller program. 

Trump took to societal media implicit the play to state Cain "will bash a large occupation connected his quality show" due to the fact that he’s "got what it takes for success." 

Will Cain volition proceed hosting "The Will Cain Show" podcast.

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Cain said it was "incredibly flattering" to perceive from the president lone 48 hours earlier Inauguration Day. 

"It makes maine consciousness grateful," Cain said. 

"One of the privileges of hosting ‘FOX & Friends Weekend’ implicit the past 5 years has been knowing the President of the United States, oregon the erstwhile President of the United States, watches what you person to accidental connected Saturdays and Sundays," Cain added. "My suspicion is the president was watching connected Saturday and saw maine accidental goodbye to Rachel Campos-Duffy and my household astatine ‘Fox and Friends Weekend.’"

Fox News' Brian Flood contributed to this report.