{"id":2465876,"date":"2025-07-23T18:20:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T22:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-is-beating-cnn-by-an-average-of-nearly-2-million-viewers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T18:21:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T22:21:42","slug":"fox-is-beating-cnn-by-an-average-of-nearly-2-million-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-is-beating-cnn-by-an-average-of-nearly-2-million-viewers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox is beating CNN by an average of nearly 2 million viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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-is-beating-cnn-by-an-average-of-nearly-2-million-viewers%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=2465876&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--><p>Fox News Channel led all broadcast and cable networks in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/establishment-media-outlets-crash-without-donald-trump-in-the-white-house\/\" title=\"Establishment Media Outlets Crash Without Donald Trump in the White House\">prime-time viewership<\/a> during teh week of July 14-20, averaging 2.4 million viewers and surpassing NBC, CBS, and ABC. Meanwhile, CNN significantly underperformed with only 498,000 viewers, trailing even Home and Garden TV. Fox News&#8217;s late-night show *Gutfeld!* also dominated ratings following the announcement of CBS retiring *The Late Show* franchise, beating Stephen Colbert&#8217;s program on july 17-18 with 3 million and 2.8 million viewers,respectively. *Gutfeld!* has been the ratings leader in late-night news shows for three consecutive years and outperformed competitors including Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Tonight Show, and late Night with Seth Meyers. Fox News has maintained its status as the highest-rated cable news network for over eight years and remains the most<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-is-a-poison-chuck-schumer-uses-senate-floor-to-berate-fox-news-after-buffalo-shooting\/\" title=\"\u2018This Is A Poison\u2019: Chuck Schumer Uses Senate Floor To Berate ... News After Buffalo Shooting\">-watched news channel<\/a> for more than 23 years, capturing nearly 70% of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-suffers-worst-ratings-week-in-nine-years-due-to-unwatchable-programming\/\" title=\"CNN Suffers Worst Ratings ... in Nine ... Due to Unwatchable ...ming\">cable news audience<\/a> according to Nielsen Media Research.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Fox is beating CNN by an average of nearly 2 million viewers<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2162494\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Fox News Channel averaged 2.4 million viewers in Monday-Sunday prime time during the week of July 14 through 20, leading all broadcast and cable networks. It beat out NBC (2.17 million viewers), CBS (1.96 million viewers), and ABC (1.91 million viewers) to&nbsp;continue<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3460481\/fox-news-ratings-second-highest-in-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> its summer reign<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3275189\/cnn-drops-lowest-new-years-eve-ratings-five-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">underperformed<\/a> at 498,000 viewers, behind Home and Garden TV&rsquo;s 586,000.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3480343\/rep-al-green-renews-calls-impeachment-trump\/\">Rep. Al Green renews calls for impeachment against Trump&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3480139\/congress-sneaker-day-recess\/\">House members and staffers sport sneakers as they head for recess&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3480306\/jeff-daniels-kamala-harris-2024-loss-would-govern-like-abraham-lincoln\/\">Jeff Daniels on 2024 loss: Harris would have governed like Lincoln<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Amid CBS announcing its plans to retire the <em>Late Show<\/em> franchise, Fox News&rsquo;s late-night television show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3475239\/gutfeld-dominates-ratings-cbs-retires-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><em>Gutfeld! <\/em>recorded dominating ratings <\/a>for July 17 and 18.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3476657\/gutfeld-touts-washington-examiner-report-following-colbert-show-cancellation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">GUTFELD TOUTS WASHINGTON EXAMINER REPORT FOLLOWING COLBERT SHOW CANCELLATION, SLAMS DEMS CALLING CBS DECISION POLITICAL PERSECUTION<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Nielsen Media Research, the ratings for July 17 and 18 (the night Colbert was canceled and the following night) showed <em>Gutfeld!<\/em> beat <em>Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/em> with 3 million total viewers and 2.8 million viewers, respectively. The second-quarter ratings also showed that of those numbers, 365,000 viewers were in the key age demographic of 25-54, with 262,000 the following night.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Gutfeld&rsquo;s program outpaced Colbert&rsquo;s 1.96 million viewers the week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3475213\/cbs-cancels-late-show-stephen-colbert-financial-decision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">CBS announced that <em>The Late Show<\/em> would be canceled.<\/a> <em>Gutfeld! <\/em>was the first late-night program to unseat Colbert as the ratings leader since 2017, and has topped the program for three years straight.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, <em>Gutfeld!<\/em> reigned over ABC&rsquo;s <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em> (1.06 million viewers), NBC&rsquo;s <em>The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon<\/em> (991,000 viewers), and<em> Late Night with Seth Meyers<\/em> (706,000 viewers).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3478455\/trump-celebrates-rumor-kimmel-fallon-shows-axed-after-colbert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">TRUMP CELEBRATES RUMOR KIMMEL AND FALLON WILL HAVE SHOWS AXED AFTER COLBERT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fox News Channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3368262\/fox-news-ratings-surge-first-quarter-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">has been television&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-has-a-relatively-small-base-credibility-among-a-minority-of-the-country-brian-stelter\/\" title=\"... News Has A \u2018Relatively Small Base,\u2019 \u2018Credibility Among A Minority Of The Country\u2019: Brian Stelter\">highest-rated network<\/a><\/a> all summer, topping competing broadcast and cable networks since Memorial Day in primetime with nearly 3 million viewers. Last week, the network commanded 62% of the prime time and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >total day cable news audience<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the 24-hour all-encompassing news service has been the No. 1 network in basic cable for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3263456\/fox-news-ratings-best-cable-news-viewership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">last eight years,<\/a> and the most-watched television news channel for more than 23 consecutive years. According to Nielsen Media Research, it attracts nearly 70% of the cable news viewing audience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2162494\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2162494\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox leads CNN by nearly 2 million viewers in prime time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3954,"featured_media":2465877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FoxNewsChannelHQ-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[50623,32135,51275,59760],"class_list":["post-2465876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-cnn-2","tag-fox-news","tag-tv-ratings","tag-viewer-statistics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FoxNewsChannelHQ-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465876","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\/3954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2465876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465880,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465876\/revisions\/2465880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2465877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}