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Fox News Channel averaged 3.2 million weekday primetime viewers during April to outdraw broadcast networks ABC and NBC.
While Fox News topped the free TV choices, it additionally continued to dominate cable by averaging 1.8 million complete day viewers to complete No. 1 by a major margin. MS NOW completed second with a mean viewers of 751,000 complete viewers to path Fox News by over a million viewers.
During the primetime hours of 8-11 p.m., Fox News averaged 2.9 million viewers to thump all rivals, as ESPN completed second with 1.5 million, MS NOW managed 1.3 million and TBS averaged 1.1 million.
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Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, Sean Hannity and Greg Gutfeld. (FOX News Media)
NCS did not crack the one-million viewers benchmark during primetime as Fox News held practically 60% of the cable information share throughout each complete day and primetime.
Fox News additionally crushed cable information networks among the many advertiser-coveted demographic of adults age 25-54, averaging 173,000 complete day viewers in comparison with 92,000 for NCS and solely 80,000 for MS NOW. It was a lot of the identical during primetime, as Fox News averaged 284,000 demo viewers whereas NCS settled for 157,000 and MS NOW managed 135,000.
“The Five,” with Dana Perino, Greg Gutfeld, Jesse Watters, Jessica Tarlov and Harold Ford Jr., averaged 3.8 million complete viewers to complete because the No. 1 show on cable news, adopted by “Jesse Watters Primetime,” “Hannity,” “Gutfeld!,” “Special Report with Bret Baier” and “The Ingraham Angle.”
MS NOW’s most-watched program, “The Rachel Maddow Show,” averaged 2.4 million viewers to complete seventh. However, “Maddow” solely airs on Mondays.
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“Hannity” averaged 3.2 million viewers and 319,000 among the many advertiser-coveted 25-54 demo in April, marking its greatest month of the 12 months. (FOX News Media)
“The Will Cain Show,” “Outnumbered” with co-hosts Harris Faulkner, Emily Compagno and Kayleigh McEnany, “The Story” with Martha MacCallum, “America Reports” with Sandra Smith and John Roberts, “America’s Newsroom” with Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino, “The Faulkner Focus” and “FOX News @ Night with Trace Gallagher” all outdrew the rest MS NOW needed to provide.
The most-watched NCS program during the news-heavy month was “Anderson Cooper 360,” which completed No. 23 amongst cable information choices.
“FOX & Friends” completed the month with 1.4 million viewers and remained the No. 1 cable information program in the mornings for the 62nd consecutive month in the important thing demo.
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“FOX & Friends” continued to crush cable information morning applications. (FOX News Media)
April noticed different milestones for Fox News, as “Hannity” had its greatest month of 2026, “Gutfeld!” marked its five-year anniversary main all of late-night tv and “Special Report” outdrew “CBS Evening News” in 20 key markets.
Fox News additionally crushed the competitors all through the weekend, profitable each hour with complete viewers during April, defeating NCS and MS Now by double to triple-digits amongst each complete viewers and the demo on Saturday and Sunday.
“FOX News Live” anchored by Aishah Hasnie averaged two million viewers to complete because the No. 1 present on Saturdays, whereas Maria Bartiromo’s “Sunday Morning Futures” took the Sunday crown with 2.3 million viewers.
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Ratings information courtesy of Nielsen Big Data + Panel.