‘The View’ Ratings Shocker as Show Loses to Harris Faulkner at Fox News
Fox News is reaping the benefits of Donald Trump‘s return to the White House as the network posted record ratings in January, including Harris Faulkner quietly defeating ABC‘s The View for the first time ever.
According to AdWeek, Faulkner’s daily program, The Faulkner Focus, which airs during the 11 am time slot, ended the month with an average total of 2.552 million viewers, just pipping The View, which averaged 2.508 million. This is notable, given The View airs on broadcast television, whereas The Faulkner Focus airs on cable.
“I could not grab this big win without my wonderful team,” Faulkner said in a statement. “It’s a testament to the hard work and passion we put into bringing Americans the latest news and analysis on what matters most to them.”
She added, “The Faulkner Focus is a place where audiences can tune in and know their questions about the day’s headlines will be answered with respect for all sides and we are proud viewers continue to choose us at 11 a.m.”
Faulkner, who joined Fox News in 2005 and launched The Faulkner Focus in 2021, also shared the news on X, writing, “Heartfelt gratitude to the beloved viewers of FOX and @FaulknerFocus.”
The View itself scored its most-watched telecast since the November 2024 elections on January 21, the day after Trump’s inauguration. The episode, which saw hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar, and Alyssa Farah Griffin discussing Trump’s second term, reached 2.77 million viewers, boosting the talk show to its largest overall audience in nearly three months.
Meanwhile, several Fox News shows posted all-time ratings records in January, including America’s Newsroom, Outnumbered, and America Reports. This all led to the network reaching its highest-rated January in cable news history, with an average prime-time audience of 2.8 million viewers and 353,000 viewers in the key 25-54 demo.
“As we mark 23 years as America’s most-watched cable news network, I would like to thank our incredible team both on and off the camera for their dedication to delivering the best product in news,” Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said in a statement. “Each year, we surpass new milestones, continue to innovate, and outperform the competition due to their tireless efforts and I could not be prouder.”
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Harris Faulkner has more class and knowledge than any and all of the women on the Veiw! She has a much better show!
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Yes for a female uncle tom
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I think Harris is one of the most elegant TV personalities in decades. She embodies grace under fire.
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Sure you whatever you say
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Did you go to the Biden/Harris school of writing?
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the fox school of telling the truth.cost750 million.�
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you ate paint chips as a kid,did,nt you?
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Just cancel the view.
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Why bc you don't see it?
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Get real. We all know the rating for Jan 21st was people tuning in to view the meltdown. 11 am does seem to be a little early for popcorn.
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They View, is nothing but a bunch of angry nasty bitter racist women, Sunny most of all
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Tony- you are so right!
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Lots of people love them.hard to understand. They are average at best. All shallow
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Can't wait to see sunnys husband go to jail lmao...guess she forgot to ask Joe for a blanket pardon for him
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The view is nothing but female bags of air
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Very polite (unnecessarily).
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Just like your mom
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I love Harris and what she brings to the table. I’m glad she pulverized whoop-de-doo and the rest of the witches on the View.
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Who want to watch those evil hags anymore? Uggh!
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Harris is really a great host and has a very serious and enlightening show.
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I agree Tomyrone, I recorded the View the day after the election so I could watch their agony.
BTW there are only 68 million households with cable TV, compared to 125 million households with regular TV.
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ANYTHING is better than The View!!!
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Please cancel the view.
It is totally irrelevant.
I can't stand Whoopie, Allyson and most of all Sunny.
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America is tired of lies from the evil left. The majority of voters picked PDT.
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As a Jewish person Joy Behar should be ashamed of her self to turn her back on her people for wealth and ratings. Abrrahamis ashamed
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Sunny should be fired and start worrying about her crooked husband going to jail. She is so prejudice and causes more division between black and white people.
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I had one woman on Facebook tell me that, "The women of 'The View' are smarter than you and I will ever be." After I finished laughing, I simply told her, "Anyone that believes and listens to these ignorant, hatemongering women has issues all their own." It was them, Jimmy Kimmel, ABC News, and others that turned me and my TV off of ABC and ultimately made me investigate why Trump was so hated. Turns out, they all have stage 4 TDS and it will hopefully be fatal to their jobs and careers. I think Americans are sick of them.
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I watch nothing on ABC due to the pond scum on the view. I refuse until that sh..t show is cancelled
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Even Ted Danson dumped Whoopi he put his glasses on and seen it wasn’t a cushion
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The view has a dead brain audience .
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The reason Fox leads is because Americans want the TRUTH…not an ideological perception of the truth. In my opinion the only saving grace for the view was McCain. She left them speechless countless times. It finally became so toxic that she left.
No one cares whata bald old woman with fake dreadlocks “thinks”. Whoop doesn’t even know who SHE is. America only tuned in on November 6 for comic relief to their reaction to the election. How refreshing to see that Americans rejected their vitriol. The only thing a viewer will find there is pure gutter snipe.
Harris is articulate, elegant, brilliant, relevant and thorough. America has had enough of the progressive left and the left leaning media. What a shame that it took Clooney to say “HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM”. It has finally been COMPLETELY REJECTED. To that I say THANK YOU PRECIOUS LORD JESUS.
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Whoopi is not very intelligent. Can't believe they get good ratings
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No one supports the views on this show! It is horrible and needs to be cancelled! ABC will go down with this disgusting show.
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Wise decision for canceling your Disney visit. I hope that y'all found something better for your family. We need more people like you. Thanks
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I think the View should be cancelled. They are stupid. Unfortunately Trumps triumphs with closing the border and making the government smaller will benefit every American even the ones who hate him.
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The View is the same show every day. Its all just TDS and hate.
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Dang I forgot about Harris’s show. Watching The View can be comical like watching the wicked witch having a melt down. They are really vile humans.
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Barbara Walters would be very offended about where the Vire women stand today. They do not represent a biee They represent themselves and are very selfish.
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you do realize people who watch The View are 70 IQers.
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The View should be a culture that's canceled. Go Harris!!!
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Never watch The View which is a waste of time. Love Harris' show!
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Many people who watch The View imo are doing it solely for research so they can rip the idiotic, often slanderous, statements they make during the broadcast!
I, who despise each one of their hosts, tuned in the day after the election to see them cry!
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What your explaining is not what the View dose. They are a left wing close minded political opinion show. No value, just left wing biased opinions and propaganda that are anti-trump regardless of what it is.
Maybe it does have some entertainment value watching them illogically melt down when they try to justify there non-since.
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All of the women on the view are needing a good - you know what! Not a good reason why anyone watches them as they show how miserable their lives are. Hateful women who show their total ignorance every day. Time is coming when karma is going to visit each of them.
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What is alarming to me is her being a prosecutor. Imagine if she thought you did not agree with her politically? Not the correct everything she thinks you better be? I doubt pre-Disney ownership of this station this show would even survive with so much anger directed at over half the country.
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Harris Faulkner is grace, dignity and just comes across with such integrity, love her show used to watch View now it is her and outnumbered
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Harris is not only elegant but intelligent, very well composed, very fair in her reporting, etc. Just what America needs as opposed to the low IQ VIEW panel, outright partisanship, outright racial attitudes, untruthful, and hate/fear mongering. Can they ever make it through a show without mentioning TRUMP?
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And you're still an idiot despite not eating paint chips.
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Take racist racism bigotry out of Sonny hostin VOCABULARY & she has nothing to say
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HARRIS FAULKNER Show is actually a EXCELLENT SHOW & Yes I’m a conservative who didn’t vote for Trump or Kamala but beating the VIEW isn’t an accomplishment only because 60% of there viewers only watch to HEAR the next stupid thing the view lady’s say so there audience ratings with loyal viewers is less than one million & that’s with 5 lady’s hosting the view where as FAULKNER IS “ONE” (1) lady & A CLASSY LADY
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Too much hatred on display, encouraging hatred among their audience. Contrast that to Fox, which will joke about Leftists, but never display pure hatred. That's why all the rioters and assassins are Leftists.
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AGREE
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After hearing Whoopi compare the USA with Iran yesterday I cannot turn that show on ever again. Was most pathetic thing I have heard her day and the other ladies except for the conservative just sat there and said nothing. Does she realize what they do to gays over there, or women that do not cover their head for example. If you speak out you end up in prison for who knows how long, or executed. Just last week Iran cut off both arms of two men charged with a crime.
Whoopi needs to retire or ABC wake up get this haters off the air.
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Exactly !! Whoopi is totally clueless !!
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The Spew...of hatred needs to end. No one watches them.
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the view is a living nightmare, poison, enemy of the state, not to mentioned, staffed by a bunch of pathetic no-names, "gross" as my 4 kids say, when they hear JBs annoying voice . . . "gross"
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We know why.
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Doesn't Sunny know she cost Harris the election when she asked if she would do anything different then the cadaver? She should be proud.....
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If you want the truth- without orchestration- Harris provides an honest evaluation of the facts and does it without feigned emotion- class personified and a credit to “real” journalism…
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And you eat cow chips!
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I enjoy Harris show when I get a chance to watch.
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The view needs to be taken off the air! Harris is 200% classier than the idiot view hosts! The view hosts are all racists and Trump haters!
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No like the thief Lib Dem you are you stole the paint chips and You ate them !! 🤣
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What would you know about school ? They kicked you out of kindergarten !! Fox has more Truth in one day than you have your whole life. As after you got kicked out kindergarten You attended the Liberal School of Lying. 🤣
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Seriously. The view sucks.
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At least admit it should be called "the ONE View or else." I would hate to have to be living with anyone of them of those angry people.
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Are they still here? The View that is I thought they were moving on
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No because the hosts of The View “Don’t see it”. How ironic THE VIEW has absolutely no vision.
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The beautiful, articulate, intelligent, talented Harris Faulkner deserves every bit of her ratings success. It took America far too long to realize how charismatic she is.
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How long is Savannah C. going to be on?
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Hate the new cohost. Not watching this week
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Harris is very talented and articulate......please feed her. Hopefully she is not seriously ill.
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I believe that the view just never can tell the truth and they should because there's people who watch those idiots and believes them also and they just put fuel on the fire and start crap the show should be cancelled and those lying idiots on the view should be ashamed of their selves (the view sucks PERIOD).
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OH PLEASE, they are just filled with hate and rage, watch Harris like I did and you will never go back to the View.
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Harris Faulkner could be sound asleep and she’d be by far better than the crones of the View
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Only total Morons watch the Spew oops View.
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So you do watch!
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Whoopi is dyslexic! I'm dyslexic with a master's degree and could never read those prompters out loud! She has an Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Grammy, Golden Globe, and numerous other awards! Seems to me, you have to have some smarts to do that!
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This is obviously Fox driven. Thank goodness we have The View and these intelligent women. I do wish they wouldn’t talk over each other. Anyone who still believes in trump, is as well, I won’t say it.
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The view is one of my favorite show but now all they do is sell stuff. Sick of trying to sell me stuff everyday.
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only idiots watch fox news.
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The View is a very great show...with brilliant educated ladies, with class and integrity
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I love The View. I enjoy the directness of their opinions and the humor. I enjoy the rapport between the women. The openness and direct questioning of the guest is refreshing. It is very important to have a variety of conversations by a wide variety of people and ages in order to understand and appreciate each other.
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It’s a far left echo chamber that has ZERO variety of conversations!
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Seriously?
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That show does not allow different views. The name is crazy considering. I find a lot of comments on that show disgusting. Not open to any opinions other than their own. They can get very nasty!
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This show couldn't be anymore. One-sided and hide the truth more than anybody. Trump has had a beautiful couple of weeks and yet they're not in jail yet. What's wrong with that picture? They'd love you to believe that Trump is going after them. He could care less. As we've all witnessed how they had him on the show when he was a Democrat, but now he's no good. You heard of fake news? Meet fake two faces on the left.
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