FOX News Channel had the largest television audience on election night, with more than 10 million viewers watching President-elect Donald Trump's historic victory unfold.
Fox News Channel averaged a staggering 10.3 million total viewers during its primetime coverage of “Democracy 2024,” including advertisers That includes 3.1 million people in the coveted 25- to 54-year-old demo.
In addition, the FOX Broadcasting Network averaged 2 million viewers and the FOX Business Network averaged 897,000 viewers for a total of approximately 13.6 million viewers across all FOX television platforms. .
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FOX News' Martha McCallum and Bret Baier led Democracy 2024's coverage of the historic presidential election. (FOX News Media)
“FOX News has seen a wide range of events from primary debates to town, with Bret Baier leading the most high-profile interviews and being the only network to conduct interviews with all four candidates of both parties in one week. down the hall and dominated every aspect of this historic election cycle,” FOX News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said in a statement.
“I'm extremely proud of our team's efforts to provide the best reporting and analysis to the largest and most politically diverse news audience, once again outperforming every broadcast and cable network across the board. I think so.”
In October, FOX News viewership significantly exceeded MSNBC and CNN.
MSNBC followed in second place with 6 million total prime-time viewers, followed by ABC with 5.9 million, NBC with 5.5 million, CNN with 5.1 million, CBS with 3.6 million and NewsNation with 260,000. 5,000 people followed.
FOX News Channel maintained its lead early Wednesday morning, holding more than 7.4 million viewers between 1 a.m. ET when the FOX News Decision Desk called Pennsylvania in favor of Trump, and thus again. It gave him the 270 Electoral College votes he needed to become president. Fox News had more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined.
Republican presidential candidate Donald stands on stage with former first lady Melania Trump as Lara Trump looks on at the Election Night Watch Party at the Palm Beach Convention Center on Wednesday, November 6, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Former President Trump. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
In the 3 a.m. ET time slot when Trump finished his victory speech, Fox News Channel had 4.7 million total viewers and 1.2 million viewers in the key demo, compared to MSNBC's average viewership. Just 2.6 million viewers, with just 633,000 viewers in the key demo and CNN averaging just 2.6 million viewers. It drew 808,000 viewers in the key demo, but only 2.1 million viewers.
This is the second consecutive election in which FOX News Channel has topped all cable and broadcast networks.
Fox News Channel was the most-watched cable news network in every battleground state, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to Nielsen Media Research.
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FOX News Channel was the only network to air interviews with both presidential and vice presidential candidates in one week, most notably “Special Report” anchor Bret Baier's interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. The interview drew an impressive total audience of 9.2 million viewers. (Fox News Channel)
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More independents and Democrats tuned in to “Democracy 2024” than any other network, according to Nielsen MRI Fusion data. recent YouGov survey found that more independents get their news from Fox News than from other news outlets.
FOX News Media had a strong performance in the digital field. FOX News Digital collected 47.2 million livestream views between 6pm and 3am ET. FOX News Digital averaged 386,000 viewers, which also includes FOX Nation.
Fox News also had an edge on social media compared to its news competitors, collecting 2.9 social interactions across Facebook, Instagram and X, according to Emplifi. Additionally, the Fox News mobile app rose to third place among free apps on the App Store.
