{"id":1720492,"date":"2022-11-01T16:59:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T20:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720492"},"modified":"2022-11-01T17:04:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T21:04:51","slug":"fox-news-finishes-first-in-october-cable-news-ratings-msnbc-down-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-finishes-first-in-october-cable-news-ratings-msnbc-down-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Finishes First In October Cable News Ratings &#8211; MSNBC Down Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffox-news-finishes-first-in-october-cable-news-ratings-msnbc-down-bad%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720492&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imageio.forbes.com\/specials-images\/imageserve\/63615995a2af22ffb3de53f5\/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&#038;width=1200\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Fox News Channel coasted to a first-place finish in the October cable news ratings, sweeping the top five most-watched prime time shows for the month and delivering an average prime time audience of 2.292 million viewers. MSNBC finished second in prime with 1.177 million viewers, followed by CNN, which failed to break one million, delivering just 624,000 viewers (down 6% from the same period last year). Fox News was down just 1% year-over-year, and MSNBC saw a decline of 2%.<\/p>\n<div class=\"halfway_hardwall_1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"article_paragraph_2\"><\/div>\n<p>Among viewers 25-54\u2014the key demographic most valued by advertisers\u2014Fox News led with 295,000 viewers (down 15% from 2021), followed by CNN (134,000 viewers, down just 3%) and MSNBC (114,000 viewers, with the largest decline among the cable news networks: 20%.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"halfway_hardwall_2\"><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"subhead3-embed color-body bg-base font-accent font-size text-align\"><em>Gutfeld!<\/em>, A Ratings Powerhouse In Late Night, Jumps Into The Top 5 <\/h3>\n<p>The most-watched shows for the month were <em>The Five<\/em> (3.406 million viewers), <em>Tucker Carlson Tonight<\/em> (3.298 million viewers), <em>Jesse Watters Primetime<\/em> (2.911 million viewers), <em>Hannity<\/em> (2.741 million viewers), and <em>Special Report with Bret Baier<\/em> (2.495 million viewers)\u2014all on Fox News.<\/p>\n<div class=\"halfway_hardwall_3\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"vestpocket\"><\/div>\n<p>In the key demo, <em>Tucker Carlson Tonight<\/em> was the most-watched show in October, with an average audience of 470,000 viewers, followed by <em>The Five<\/em> (419,000 viewers), <em>Jesse Watters Primetime<\/em> (364,000 viewers), <em>Hannity<\/em> (344,000 viewers), and <em>Gutfeld!<\/em> (337,000 viewers)\u2014all airing on FNC.<\/p>\n<div class=\"halfway_hardwall_4\"><\/div>\n<p>For <em>Gutfeld!<\/em>, October marked the show\u2019s second-highest-rated month since the show\u2019s launch, another sign the show is quickly becoming a force in late night:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed-base image-embed embed-3\" role=\"presentation\">\n<div class=\"image-embed__placeholder\"><\/div><figcaption>\n<p class=\"color-body light-text\">DALLAS, TEXAS &#8211; AUGUST 04: American talk show host Sean Hannity speaks at the Conservative Political <span class=\"plus\" data-ga-track=\"caption expand\">&#8230; [+]<\/span><span class=\"expanded-caption\"> Action Conference CPAC held at the Hilton Anatole on August 04, 2022 in Dallas, Texas. CPAC began in 1974, and is a conference that brings together and hosts conservative organizations, activists, and world leaders in discussing current events and future political agendas. (Photo by Brandon Bell\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><small>Getty Images<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"article_paragraph_7\"><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"subhead3-embed color-body bg-base font-accent font-size text-align\">New Challengers Fail to Make Inroads on FNC\u2019s <em>Hannity<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Perhaps the most interesting time period in prime time at the moment is 9 p.m. ET, where the longest-running host in all of cable news, Sean Hannity, is facing two new rivals: MSNBC\u2019s Alex Wager, whose <em>Alex Wagner Tonight<\/em> has filled the gap left by Rachel Maddow\u2019s move to one night a week, and CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper, whose <em>CNN Tonight with Jake Tapper<\/em> debuted in October.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hannity<\/em>\u2019s average audience of 2.7 million viewers was more than CNN and MSNBC combined, with <em>Alex Wagner Tonight<\/em> having its worst month since launch (1.425 million viewers and 134,000 viewers in the key demo) and CNN\u2019s Tapper finishing a distant third with just 691,000 total viewers. That\u2019s as much about the difficulty of drawing an audience for a new show as it is a statement about how far CNN\u2019s overall prime time lineup has fallen. One good sign for Tapper: he jumped to second place in the key demo with 153,000 viewers\u2014enough to beat MSNBC, but far from threatening Sean Hannity\u2019s dominance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter_signup_article\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News Channel coasted to a first-place finish in the October cable news ratings, sweeping the top five most-watched prime time shows for the month and delivering an average prime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1720496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1720496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}