Fox News Channel dominated all of cable among viewers across total day and primetime and also finished June by leading CBS and NBC with weekday primetime viewers.Fox News was the only basic cable option to surpass the one-million viewer benchmark, crushing the competition with an average audience of 1.6 million during the second quarter.ESPN finished second with 664,000 average viewers, followed by MS NOW’s 655,00 and 496,000 for CNN.During primetime, Fox News averaged 2.5 million viewers to finish No.
1 in all of basic cable by a wide margin, as runner-up ESPN managed only 1.7 million average viewers during the sports-heavy quarter.MS NOW managed 1.1 million average viewers and CNN settled for 711,000.FOX NEWS CHANNEL DOMINATES ABC IN WEEKDAY PRIMETIME, DELIVERING HIGHEST-RATED MAY FOR A MIDTERM ELECTION YEARFox News' primetime lineup continued to lead in ratings during the second quarter.
(FOX News Media)Fox News has now finished No.1 among primetime viewership for 98 consecutive quarters, dating back to the first quarter of 2002.
Along the way, Fox News attracted nearly 60% of cable news viewers among both total day and primetime.Fox News also obliterated MS NOW and CNN among the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults ages 25-54, averaging 149,000 total day viewers from the key group, compared to 75,000 for CNN and only 67,000 for MS NOW.It was much of the same during primetime, as Fox News averaged 230,000 demo viewers to outdraw CNN’s 120,000 and MS NOW’s 107,000 combined.Throughout Q2, FNC delivered 13 of the top 15 shows on cable news with "The Ingraham Angle," "Jesse Watters Primetime," "Hannity" and "FOX News @ Night with Trace Gallagher" leading the competition in their respective hours.FOX NEWS CHANNEL WALLOPS CNN, MS NOW VIEWERSHIP DURING FIRST QUARTER OF 2026"Gutfeld!" continued to dominate all of late-night television, outdrawing CBS’ "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," NBC’s "Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon" and ABC’s "Jimmy Kimm...