One Week After Firing Tucker Carlson Fox News Loses To MSNBC In Primetime With Total Viewers And Key Demo
One week after the shocking removal of star anchor Tucker Carlson, Fox News lost the primetime ratings battle with MSNBC. CNN brought up the rear but MSNBC did something you don’t see often, winning total primetime viewers and with the advertiser-coveted 25-54 age demographic.
Fox News brought in 1.598 million total viewers and 164,000 demo viewers Monday during primetime. But MSNBC had 1.693 million total viewers and 176,000 demo viewers.
CNN was in third place with 481,000 total viewers and 109,000 demo viewers. The Rachel Maddow show led prime time with 2.2 million total viewers. The MSNBC show was the third highest-rated show for the day.
Fox News’s The Five and Jesse Watters Tonight beat Maddow but both shows run earlier in the day.
Primetime:
CNN: 481,000
Fox News: 1.598 million
MSNBC: 1.693 million
25-54 Demo:
CNN: 109,000
Fox News: 164,000
MSNBC: 176,000
Fox News did win with total day viewers:
CNN: 469,000
Fox News: 1.32 million
MSNBC: 986,000
25-54 Demo:
CNN: 99,000
Fox News: 141,000
MSNBC: 113,000
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— Patrick Bet-David (@patrickbetdavid) May 2, 2023
Do you remember when Fox News beat MSNBC and CNN combined? 🤔
— mva0727 (@mva0727) May 2, 2023
Not sure why this isn't bigger news but in prime-time MSNBC beat Fox News in both
— mcbc 🇺🇸🗽 (@mcbc) May 2, 2023
avg. total viewership 1.693M to 1.598M
AND
in demo 176K to 164K