Fox News Has Stunning Primetime Ratings Win Over NBC, ABC & CBS
Fox News is having its best year ever as the cable network is not only ahead of its rival news networks but is also outperforming the major broadcast channels.
According to Nielsen ratings, Fox News has topped all cable and broadcast networks in weekday primetime for the start of 2025, averaging 3.63 million total viewers between December 30 and March 11. In comparison, MSNBC averaged 1.26 million total viewers, and CNN averaged 635,000 total viewers across primetime.
Fox News topping its competing cable news networks isn’t a shock, but what is surprising is how it landed ahead of broadcast, which is more widely available across the United States. According to Mediaite, Fox News is available in 63 million homes, while the broadcast networks reach 120 million homes.
With its 3.63 million average, Fox News beat out CBS at 3.57 million and NBC at 3.13 million. Meanwhile, ABC averaged 3.12 million, and ESPN scored 3.03 million.
Here is how the networks stack up in average viewership so far this year.
- Fox News: 3.63 million
- CBS: 3.57 million
- NBC: 3.13 million
- ABC: 3.12 million
- ESPN: 3.03 million
- Fox: 1.63 million
- MSNBC: 1.26 million
- CNN: 635,000
The ratings success for Fox News doesn’t appear to be slowing down any time soon. For the week ending March 9, the network averaged 3.9 million viewers in primetime, with 550,000 in the age 25-54 demographic sought after by advertisers. This made it the network’s most-watched primetime week since the November election.
A big ratings winner for the network was President Donald Trump‘s address to Congress on March 4, which drew 10. 7 million viewers. The Democratic response from Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) also attracted a large audience for Fox News, with 5.9 million viewers.
Several Fox News programs have outperformed the competition so far in 2025, including The Five, which has averaged 4.7 million viewers. This is higher than the average for NBC’s Saturday Night Live and ABC’s NBA Saturday Primetime.
Jesse Watters Primetime at 8 pm ET pulled in 4.4 million viewers and 554,000 in the 25-54 demo, while Hannity at 9 pm ET saw an average of 3.7 million viewers and 503,000 in the key demo. Meanwhile, Gutfeld! at 10 pm has recently posted higher ratings than The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The network is also dominating in daytime, with programs such as Outnumbered, The Faulkner Focus, and The Story with Martha MacCallum consistently drawing over 2.4 million viewers, higher than NBC’s Today‘s third hour and CBS Mornings.
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The only main stream outlet left that’s not totally for liberal minded viewership. And you get Real News here not slanted fully to the left. Fox News is far from perfect but if you’re sick to death of listening to people with TDS prattle on and on about Bad Trump it’s the place to go. Harold Ford Jr. who represents the liberal view is very civil and reasonable and a true gentleman. He’s the type liberal that a conservative could sit down with and have a civil and honest dialogue. He doesn’t use every breath to take shots at President Trump or conservative minded people. Though I don’t agree with his political ideologies I could enjoy a conversation with him.
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Liberal networks lie by omission but Fox lies straight to your face and you eat it right up. And the fact you think Harold Ford is a liberal is proof you have no idea what you're watching. There's a reason your family is concerned.
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You said in another comment take off your blinders and realize when you’re being lied to. Well I see YOU clearly. Better get used to GOP because they’re gonna win Huge in the midterms !! Sad for people like You, great for the rest of us !! JD Vance President in 2028 !!! “Liberal news lie by omission”. That was weird but funny right there !! 😂
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Oh and My family would be very concerned about me if I couldn’t even read the Title of a story Before I opened my trap. The article goes on to Show that Fox is leading all other traditional main stream media by a large margin. I’m surprised that with all that intellectual prowess you Think you have that you missed that.
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People are starting to realize that Fox is telling a story that's true and the other's are using the wrong message!
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Well said !! Your exactly right !!
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In one of my comments I cited Harold Ford Jr. I was challenged by another poster about Ford being of the political Liberal mindset as I had stated he was. We’ll all I can say is go to your favorite search engine and do a history search on Mr. Ford. I’m pretty confident you will come away with the knowledge that he is indeed a liberal. That is Not to say that he is of the rabid liberal mindset like AOC, Tahlib, Booker, etc. I don’t think he’s way Far left but he is a liberal. He’s civil enough though to have a reasonable conversation as I spoke of in my original comment. Fox News by and large represents good ole Common Sense and some people are just offended by common sense, those types want to make allot of raging noise when there’s really nothing to make raging noise about. But alas the world is made up of all types.
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I like Laura Ingraham on Fox. But she has a bad habit of talking over her guests when they are responding. She really needs to reign that in or it’s gonna hurt her show.
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I'm no fan of hers but I give her credit. She's the only one besides Bret Bair that ever asks Trump a follow-up when he responds with his typical lies. All the other hosts lob softballs and practically beg Trump to tell more lies.
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Very apparent that you didn’t see the title of this article. 🙄 A vast majority of Real Americans love Fox. But according to You they’re all blind and clueless, you Wrongly think that only people like You have intellectual prowess. Wrong !! The Real Americans showed up big and voted Trump in !! And they’re gonna show up Again at the midterms. Sad for people like You I’m sure. 😀
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I stopped even bothering with network shows- reality shows, game shows, the same 3 franchises- we stream and dvr a few but only have that for sports really- the news is incredibly biased but for cable we watch FNC news solely because they're in a good mood- same with the GMA show. The others are like a depression ad before the pill... If they want to compete with FNC be like GMA and have a positive vibe
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@Chandler McEvilly See You lied right there !! Lib Liar.
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The entire Biden administration and legacy media lied to the American people and covered up the most brain-damaged and incompetent president in history.
Time to take YOUR blinders off, buddy.
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Harold Ford Jr was my representative when I lived in TN he's the only Democrat I have ever voted for. Mr Ford is a honest man
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I’m a staunch Conservative but I Respect Harold Ford. Other Dems should take notes from him !!
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It is very difficult to know if the reporting is true, false or somewhere in between. Fox is biased to the far right and MSNBC is biased to the left. Facts rarely interfere with a good story. I quit the American stations and generally watch BBC or Al-Jazeera. I sleep better at night.
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A*hole
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Says the cult person
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No knock on FNC but network shows are filled with 5 versions of the same shows and weird reality and game shows, I don't even bother looking anymore that's on them for being throwing away all the dramas and comedies they used to try out.
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I predict that you, too, will have TDS before his reign is through.
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Only because of sports
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Fox News is separate from Fox Sports so the ratings are different. 🙄
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Fake news
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I believe if you are watching any news program during prime time, you need to get a life. News shouldn't be "entertainment"
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Not if there's nothing else you're interested in.
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How can Fox be bringing in such high numbers when they don’t even tell the public the truth of all the terrible things Trump is doing to our country. Report the news correctly…MAGAs need to hear the truth.
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That’s because they Do tell the Truth. Not their fault you are brainwashed by Lib News.
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What does it say when Fox lies to its viewers and the viewers still continue to watch. Very cult like.
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Come on! Another dummycrat
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It says your clueless about Fox and are suffering with a severe case of TDS.
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Take off your blinders and realize when you're being lied to. Independent thinking isn't that difficult.
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