Fox News crushes rivals in ratings race on election night — CNN falls behind MSNBC

Fox News cruised to an easy triumph successful nan ratings conflict for predetermination nighttime coverage, marking nan second-straight clip nan web hit rivals CNN and MSNBC successful viewership for statesmanlike results.

Fox News reeled successful 10.3 cardinal viewers from 8 to 11 p.m. Eastern clip connected Tuesday, according to Nielsen data.

The ratings were much than double that of CNN, which vanished down MSNBC for nan first clip connected a statesmanlike predetermination night.

MSNBC’s coverage, anchored by Rachel Maddow, averaged 6 cardinal viewers, besting CNN’s 5.1 cardinal viewers.

Warner Bros. Discovery-owned CNN mislaid astir half of nan 9.6 cardinal group who watched during nan 2020 statesmanlike election.

At Fox News, nan coverage, which was anchored by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, slipped somewhat from its grounds 13.8 cardinal viewers successful 2020.

MSNBC was down from 7.3 cardinal successful 2020.

Of nan broadcast networks, ABC had 5.7 cardinal viewers connected Tuesday, NBC had 5.3 cardinal and CBS had 3.5 million, Nielsen said.

Overall, TV viewership of erstwhile President Trump’s triumph complete Vice President Kamala Harris, was sharply down complete nan past statesmanlike predetermination cycle.

Nielsen said 42.3 cardinal viewers tuned into predetermination sum crossed 18 networks measured, dropping 25% from 2020. During that cycle, nan result wasn’t called for days. Democrat Joe Biden yet was declared nan victor complete then-incumbent Trump.

This clip around, Trump was declared nan victor early Wednesday by astir outlets.

The declines successful viewership are owed to nan audience’s move from watching accepted TV, particularly among viewers nether nan property of 50, who get their news by streaming it aliases connected societal media.

On nan streaming front, Fox News said its integer sites had 47.2 cardinal views betwixt 6 p.m. and 3 a.m. ET.

MSNBC’s YouTube transmission had its strongest time connected grounds pinch 30 cardinal video views, nan institution said.

MSNBC said its “Kornacki-Cam,” which provided a continuous look astatine journalist Steve Kornacki’s study of nan vote, had much than 9 cardinal video starts connected YouTube.