MSNBC drew a complete viewers of 3 million viewers for Monday’s 2nd day of hearings into the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, easily outdistancing the mixed audience of CNN (1.8 million viewers) and Fox News Channel, which trailed with 1 million viewers—a incredibly rare third-location complete for Fox.
For the hrs of 10 a.m. as a result of 4 p.m. ET, MSNBC experienced its highest-rated dayside considering the fact that February 2021 in the course of protection of President Donald Trump’s second impeachment demo. On Monday, MSNBC sent a total dayside viewers of 2 million viewers, beating Fox News and CNN for the initially time due to the fact March 2021 all through the 3rd day of the Derek Chauvin demo.
For the entire working day Monday, Fox News Channel prevailed, delivering a full audience of 1.5 million viewers, ahead of MSNBC’s 1.3 million. CNN was 3rd with 694,000 viewers.
Fox Information Channel drew interest for its selection not to carry the January 6 committee’s 1st hearing, which aired in primary time very last week, drawing a overall viewers of just beneath 20 million viewers across the broadcast and cable information networks.
Fox shifted are living protection of the listening to to its sister community, Fox Business—where it drew just 223,000 viewers—and trapped with its usual prime time lineup on FNC, such as the best-rated host in cable information, Tucker Carlson, who dismissed the hearing as propaganda. “The whole issue is insulting, in simple fact, it’s deranged,” Carlson instructed viewers. “We’re not participating in together.”
Fox Information landed in second spot on the night with 2.957 million viewers among 8 and 10 p.m. ET, nicely driving MSNBC’s audience of 4.2 million. CNN was third among the the cable information networks with an typical viewers of 2.6 million viewers.
For the week ending June 10, Fox Information crushed the levels of competition with an average primary time viewers of 2.268 million viewers, marking the 69th consecutive 7 days beating both CNN and MSNBC in each daytime and primary. Fox Information also experienced 89 of the top 100 best-rated cable telecasts for the 7 days.
The best-rated show in cable news last week was Tucker Carlson Tonight, which drew 3.225 million viewers, followed by The Five (3.186 million viewers), Jesse Watters Primetime (2.593 million viewers), Hannity (2.555 million viewers) and Special Report with Bret Baier (2.414 million viewers), all airing on Fox News Channel.