Thursday, January 23, 2025

TV Ratings: FOX News, ABC News, Football Have Strong Week


During the week of January 13-19, FOX News Channel (FNC) secured the top 102 cable news telecasts for the week.  Additionally, FOX News surpassed ESPN to lead all of cable with primetime viewers. 

In primetime (8-11 PM/ET), FNC earned 3 million viewers and 363,000 in the 25-54 demo, commanding all of cable with viewers. In total day (6AM-6AM/ET), FNC posted 2 million viewers and 236,000 in the 25-54 demo.  Notably, FOX News’ daytime programs including Outnumbered, The Story, America Reports and The Faulkner Focus beat ABC’s The View with viewers. 

CNN and MSNBC both continued their post-Election audience erosion seeing double digit declines across the board compared to the same week last year. 

Additionally, The Five has now surpassed 4 million viewers every week since the Election.

For the week, The Five averaged 4.3 million viewers and 382,000 in the 25-54 demo, leading cable news with viewers. At 6 PM/ET, Special Report with Bret Baier drew 3.3 million viewers and 307,000 in the 25-54 demo. The Ingraham Angle saw 3.1 million viewers and 332,000 in the 25-54 demo at 7 PM/ET. At 8 PM/ET, Jesse Watters Primetime delivered 3.9 million viewers and 437,000 in the 25-54 demo. At 9 PM/ET, Hannity posted 3.2 million viewers and 391,000 with A25-54. At 11 PM/ET, FOX News @ Night secured 1.8 million viewers and 256,000 in the 25-54 demo.


At 10 PM/ET, FNC’s late-night offering Gutfeld! secured 3.3 million viewers and 443,000 with A25-54 making it the top cable news program in the younger demo. Gutfeld! once again topped the broadcast competition including ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! (1,759,000 P2+; 364,000 A25-54), CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (1,617,000 P2+; 250,000 A25-54) and NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (1,052,000 P2+; 259,000 A25-54).

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FNC also saw a number of its daytime programs outrank the broadcast competition including ABC’s The View. Most notably, Outnumbered (weekdays, 12-1 PM/ET; 2,553,000 P2+), The Story with Martha MacCallum (weekdays, 3 PM/ET; 2,459,000 P2+), America Reports with Sandra Smith and John Roberts (weekdays, 1-3 PM/ET; 2,428,000 P2+) and Harris Faulkner’s The Faulkner Focus (weekdays, 11 AM/ET; 2,416,000 P2+) all led ABC’s The View (2,410,000 P2+) with viewers. Additionally, America’s Newsroom with Dana Perino and Bill Hemmer (weekdays, 9-11 AM/ET; 2,262,000 P2+) and all outpaced NBC’s Today Third Hour (2,067,000 P2+) and CBS Mornings (2,031,000 P2+).

On Saturday: FOX News Live (Saturday 10 AM - 2 PM/ET) was the most-watched show of the day with 1.8 million viewers. One Nation with Brian Kilmeade (Saturday, 9 PM/ET) led in primetime commanding 1.5 million viewers. FOX News Saturday Night with Jimmy Failla (Saturday, 10 PM/ET) commanded 1.3 million viewers and 189,000 in the 25-54 demo.

On Sunday: as FOX News prepared for the inauguration of Donald Trump, it aired many of its weekday programs from Washington D.C and saw its highest cable news share in network history for a Sunday. The Five was the top show of the day with 4.2 million viewers and 543,000 in the 25-54 demo. Special Report commanded 4 million viewers and 523,000 in the 25-54 demo at 6 PM/ET. The Story with Martha MacCallum delivered 2.9 million viewers and 377,000 in the 25-54 demo, its best show since Election Day.

Source: Nielsen. Live+SD. Week of 1-13-25 ratings data. Average audience for cable news networks Monday-Sunday based on Total Day and Prime (6a-6a, 8P-11P), P2+, P25-54, P18-49. Cable News/Broadcast Program averages exclude repeats and include the corresponding program name.




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“World News Tonight with David Muir” ranked as the No. 1 program of the week in Total Viewers (8.074 million) on all of broadcast and cable (excluding sports) for the second week in a row and fourth week this season during the week of Jan. 13, 2025, based on Live+Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research.
  • “World News Tonight” stood as the evening’s No. 1 newscast in all of broadcast and cable in Total Viewers (8.074 million), Adults 25-54 (1.217 million) and Adults 18-49 (845,000), outperforming “NBC Nightly News” (6.820 million, 983,000 and 648,000, respectively) by 1.254 million Total Viewers, by 234,000 Adults 25-54 and by 197,000 Adults 18-49.
  • “World News Tonight” grew its margins week to week over “NBC Nightly News” in Adults 25-54 (+24% – 234,000 vs. 189,000) and Adults 18-49 (+14% – 197,000 vs. 173,000). “World News Tonight” delivered its largest Adults 25-54 lead in over 4 months and biggest advantage in Adults 18-49 in 1 ½ years — since weeks of 8/26/24 and 6/26/23, respectively.
  • “World News Tonight” increased its gaps over “NBC Nightly News” in the same week last year: Adults 25-54 (+23% – 234,000 vs. 190,000) and Adults 18-49 (+37% – 197,000 vs. 144,000).
  • “World News Tonight” turned in its second-best numbers in all key target demos in 1 year — since weeks of 2/5/24, 1/15/24 and 1/15/24, respectively — behind only the previous week’s coverage of the Los Angeles wildfires.
  • For the week, “World News Tonight” (8.074 million, 1.217 million and 845,000, respectively) defeated “CBS Evening News” (5.037 million, 721,000 and 461,000, respectively) by 3.037 million Total Viewers, by 495,000 Adults 25-54 and by 384,000 Adults 18-49.


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Ranking is based on ratings data as of Thursday, January 16, 2025. The audience figures are derived from the latest Nielsen daily, weekly, or monthly P2+ program audience averages, whichever is the most recently available within the past seven-day window. Please note that some shows may not appear in the ranking probably because there are no ratings data for them within the stipulated period.

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