The Senate’s vote confirming Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sent viewers flocking to Fox News Channel, which recorded its biggest Saturday audience in more than a decade, reports The Associated Press citing Nielsen data.
Meanwhile, NBC scored a prime-time victory over CBS for the second week of the television season.
Sunday night NFL football on NBC provided the margin, but the network is also showing strength with its entertainment offerings.
The new drama “Manifest” appears to be a hit. Its debut episode was watched some eight million times within a week on a time-shifted basis, second only to “Roseanne” for the biggest such “lift” for a show ever recorded.
For the week, NBC averaged 7.5 million viewers in prime-time. CBS was second with 6.9 million, Fox had 6 million, ABC had 4.7 million, Univision had 1.3 million, Telemundo and the ION Network tied with 1.19 million and the CW had 700,000.
Fox News was the most popular cable network, averaging 3.38 million viewers in prime-time. ESPN was second with 3.21 million, TBS had 2.98 million, MSNBC had 1.72 million and USA had 1.12 million.
ABC’s “World News Tonight” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8.1 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” was second with 7.6 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 5.7 million.
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