Fox News Crushed the Competition in October – Had the 5 Most-Watched Prime Time Shows

Fox News dominated the ratings war in the month of October, which was its 20th consecutive month at the top.

Forbes reports that in October, the network drew an average prime time audience of 2.292 million viewers.

By contrast, MSNBC came in second place with an average prime time audience of 1.177 million.

And CNN came in third place with an average audience of 624,000 viewers — which was 6% lower than the previous year.

Additionally, in the 25-54 demographic, Fox had an average audience of 295,000 viewers which was down 15% from 2021.

In the same age range, CNN had an average audience of 134,000 viewers, down 3%.

And MSNBC had an average audience of 114,000 viewers, down 20% from the previous year.

Forbes also reports that Fox News’ programs made up the top five most watched shows on cable.

“The Five” came in first place with 3.406 million viewers, followed by “Tucker Carlson Tonight” with 3.298 million viewers, “Jesse Watters Primetime” drew in 2.911 million viewers, “Hannity” brought in 2.741 million viewers, and “Special Report with Bret Baier” received 2.495 million viewers.

October marked the second-highest-rating month for “Gutfeld!” since it launched.

Additionally, Fox News’ Hannity and his show “Hannity” saw new competition for the 9 p.m. launch in October, but they failed to come close to his audience.

MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight” had an audience of 1.425 million viewers.

Meanwhile, “CNN Tonight with Jake Tapper” had an audience of 691,000 total viewers.

Mediaite also reports that data from Nielsen MRI Fusion found Fox News was the most-watched network among Hispanic and Asian households in total day viewers.

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