Fox News Crushes CNN And MSNBC Again
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Fox News dominated the third quarter of 2022. This was the sixth straight quarter Fox News was number one.
They averaged 1.4 million viewers beating both MSNBC and CNN.
Fox News Channel finished the third quarter of 2022 as cable’s most-watched network among both total and primetime viewers as Americans tuned in for information and analysis during a busy news cycle that featured everything from ongoing economic woes to the FBI raid of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.
The busy quarter also included continued coverage of the war in Ukraine, the death of Queen Elizabeth and around-the-clock political news. Fox News averaged 1.4 million total day viewers during the quarter, crushing No. 2 MSNBC’s average viewership of 783,000 as CNN, ESPN and HGTV also landed in the top five. It was the sixth straight quarter that Fox News finished No. 1 in the category, airing 94 of the top 100 telecasts in cable news along the way.
During the primetime hours of 8-11 p.m., Fox News dominated with 2.2 million average viewers to outdraw MSNBC and CNN combined. MSNBC averaged 1.3 million, followed by ESPN, HGTV and Hallmark. CNN settled for a primetime average of only 717,000 and failed to crack the top five as Fox News was the highest-rated cable news network during primetime for the 83rd straight quarter.
Fox News was responsible for nine of the top 10.
Here’s the 10-most-watched on cable news for Q3 2022, as per live-plus-same-day Nielsen data.
Fox News | 5 p.m. / The Five: 3,295,000 / 62 telecasts
Fox News | 8 p.m. / Tucker Carlson Tonight: 3,153,000 / 54 telecasts
Fox News | 7 p.m./ Jesse Watters Primetime: 2,726,000 / 51 telecasts
Fox News | 9 p.m. / Hannity: 2,682,000 / 51 telecasts
Fox News | 6 p.m. / Special Report with Bret Baier: 2,341,000 / 62 telecasts
Fox News | 10 p.m. / The Ingraham Angle: 2,230,000 / 49 telecasts
Fox News | 11 p.m. / Gutfeld!: 2,082,000 / 58 telecasts
MSNBC | 9 p.m. / The Rachel Maddow Show/Alex Wagner Tonight: 1,868,000 / 35 telecasts
Fox News | 12 p.m. / Outnumbered: 1,800,000 / 62 telecasts
Fox News |11 a.m. / The Faulkner Focus: 1,650,000 / 65 telecasts
The liberal media continues to lose.
