Fox News as soon as once more pulled in extra viewers than MS NOW and NCS mixed in July, based on new Nielsen scores knowledge. The right-leaning channel averaged 2.33 million primetime viewers Monday-Sunday this month — which was 39% greater than MS NOW (1.02 million) and NCS (658,000) put collectively.
The hole was comparable when whole day scores, with Fox News averaging 1.499 million whole viewers, whereas MS NOW pulled in 636,000 whole viewers and NCS averaged 465,000 Monday-Sunday.
On the brilliant facet for NCS, the channel posted a 5% enhance in primetime scores in comparison with June 2026; MS NOW was flat year-over-year, and Fox’s primetime scores have been up 3% in comparison with final yr.
The actually dangerous information for MS NOW was the coveted 25-54 age demo took a good hit.
Here’s how every channel carried out in the demo:
Primetime
Fox News: 204,000 (up 4% vs June)
NCS: 102,000 (up 3% vs June)
MS NOW: 89,000 (down 7% vs June)
Total Day
Fox News: 137,000 (up 3% vs June)
NCS: 62,000 (down 2% vs June)
MS NOW: 57,000 (down 7% vs June)
MS NOW and NCS execs shouldn’t take the drubbing too arduous, although.
Fox News additionally beat the printed networks when it got here to weekday primetime in July, averaging 2.60 million viewers — topping NBC (2.50 million), ABC (2.30 million), and CBS (1.9 million). But one factor “in defense” of the printed networks is their night newscasts run earlier than primetime and deliver in a bigger viewers.
The high performer for Fox News — and all of cable information, for that matter — was The Five, which averaged 3.31 million viewers and 300,000 in the demo.
Two of the present’s co-hosts grabbed the silver and bronze medals for the month, with Jesse Watters Primetime averaging 2.98 million viewers and Gutfeld! averaging 2.63 million; Jesse Watters averaged 267,000 in the demo whereas Greg Gutfeld’sshow pulled in 249,000.
In fourth and fifth place: Sean Hannity’s present (2.55 million/238,000 demo) and Bret Baier’sSpecial Report (2.52 million/224,000 demo)
And in associated information, The Five simply celebrated its fifteenth birthday with a reasonably good shock: new knowledge confirmed the nightly discuss present is the most-watched daily news program among Democrats.
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