TV Ratings: Women's Soccer, Fox News Score Wins

The Fourth of July meant hot dogs, fireworks and President Donald Trump for many Fox News viewers, reports The Associated Press.

Fox News reached an average of 4.09 million viewers between 6 and 8 p.m. EDT last Thursday for its coverage of Trump’s much-discussed holiday parade in Washington, D.C., the Nielsen company said. The audience was over 4.6 million during the concentrated hour during which Trump gave a rain-soaked speech.

Fox was the only commercial television network to say ahead of time that it would air Trump’s speech. CNN, which also aired it and had 1.4 million viewers, did not disclose its coverage plans before the event. MSNBC did not air the speech and had 397,000 viewers, Nielsen said.

The week’s most popular television event started Sunday morning, when the U.S. women’s soccer team beat The Netherlands for the World Cup before 14.3 million viewers.

Behind the summertime favorite “America’s Got Talent,” NBC averaged 3.5 million viewers in prime time last week. CBS had 3.4 million, ABC had 2.8 million, Fox had 1.6 million, Univision had 1.5 million, ION Television had 1.4 million, Telemundo had 1 million and the CW had 560,000.

Fox News Channel was the week’s most popular cable TV network:, averaging 2.01 million viewers in prime time. MSNBC had 1.16 million, HGTV had 1.14 million, USA had 1.05 million and TLC had 1 million.

⏩ CableTV Prime Time:

1. Fox News Channel (2,060,000)
2. MSNBC (1,193,000)
3. HGTV (1,152,000)
4. USA (1,023,000)
5. TLC (996,000)
6. History (893,000)
7. Hallmark Channel (860,000)
8. Investigation Discovery (845,000)
9. INSP (776,000)
10. TBS (769,000)

⏩ Basic cable ranker:  by Scribd

⏩ Broadcast tV Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for July 1-7:

1. “America’s Got Talent,” NBC, 6.82 million.
2. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 6.8 million.
3. “Macy’s Fourth of July Fireworks,” NBC, 5.87 million.
4. “The Bachelorette,” ABC, 5.77 million.
5. Men’s Soccer: Mexico vs United States, Univision, 5.66 million.
6. “Celebrity Family Feud,” ABC, 5.3 million.
7. “The $100,000 Pyramid,” ABC, 4.9 million.
8. “American Ninja Warrior,” NBC, 4.75 million.
9. “Big Brother” (Tuesday), CBS, 4.46 million.
10. “Big Brother” (Sunday), CBS, 4.32 million.

11. “Big Brother” (Wednesday), CBS, 4.25 million.
12. “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” ABC, 4.03 million.
13. “The Code,” CBS, 3.99 million.
14. “Dateline NBC,” NBC, 3.93 million.
15. “Macy’s Fourth of July Fireworks” (Thursday, 10 p.m.), 3.88 million.
16. “Bull,” CBS, 3.76 million.
17. “The Neighborhood,” CBS, 3.69 million.
18. “To Tell the Truth,” ABC, 3.67 million.
19. Men’s Soccer: Haiti vs Mexico, Univision, 3.6 million.
20. “NCIS,” CBS, 3.53 million.

ABC’s “World News Tonight” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 7.8 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 6.8 million and the “CBS Evening News,” where Norah O’Donnell takes over as anchor next week, averaged 5.1 million.