WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 04: Political commentator and host at Fox News Jesse Watters appears on air during the Fox News Special prior to President Trump's Joint Address to Congress at the FOX News D.C. Bureau on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
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Fox News Channel will end April as the top-rated network in cable news--as it has for years--but also as the one of the most-watched networks in all of television, finishing the month behind only CBS in weekday (Monday through Friday) prime time.
According to early ratings data compiled by Nielsen, Fox News Channel delivered an average total viewership of 3.224 million prime time viewers in April, finishing in second place overall behind CBS, which took the top position with 3.816 million viewers. ABC was third overall with 3.125 million viewers, followed by NBC (3.047 million viewers).
For CBS and ABC, April marks their lowest-rated April prime time viewership so far this century, with CBS average fewer than 4 million viewers for the first time. The network’s much-discussed revamp of the CBS Evening News continued to struggle, as the broadcast slipped to 3.9 million total viewers and 497,000 viewers in the key 25-54 demo--the show’s worst performance since Tony Dokoupil took the anchor chair.
Fox News Channel’s The Five was the most-watched show in cable news in April, with a total audience of 3.784 million viewers, followed by Jesse Watters Primetime (3.603 million viewers), Hannity (3.211 million viewers), Gutfeld! (3.028 million viewers) and Special Report with Bret Baier (2.982 million viewers)--all airing on Fox News.
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The highest-rated show not airing on FNC in April was MS NOW’s The Rachel Maddow Show, finishing in 7th place overall with 2.424 million viewers, the only program outside Fox to break into the top ten. MS NOW’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell was 15th overall (1.584 million viewers), with MS NOW’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki (1.398 million viewers), Deadline: White House (1.361 million viewers) and All In with Chris Hayes (1.316 million viewers) all landing in the top 20.
CNN’s highest-rated show in prime time for the month was Anderson Cooper 360, which finished in 23rd place overall with 1.214 million total viewers, followed by Erin Burnett Outfront (24th place, with 959,000 viewers).
'Gutfeld!' host Greg Gutfeld, who finished April as one of the most-watched hosts in cable news.
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Among viewers 25-54, the key demographic group valued by advertisers, Gutfeld! was the most-watched cable news show in April, with 349,000 viewers, followed by Jesse Watters Primetime (335,000 viewers), The Five (329,000 viewers), Hannity (319,000 viewers), and MS NOW’s The Rachel Maddow Show (278,000 viewers).
ForbesKing Of Late Night Greg Gutfeld Signs New Multi-Year Deal With Fox NewsCNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 was the only CNN show to break into the top ten in the key demo, finishing in 9th place overall with 210,000 viewers. CNN shows Erin Burnett Outfront (16th place overall with 168,000 viewers), Newsnight (18th place, 159,000 viewers) and The Source with Kaitlan Collins (19th place, 148,000 viewers) all landed in the top 20.
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Fox’s April rating performance follows a hugely successful run of ratings success starting last summer, when Fox News expanded its dominance from cable news, and began to challenge the traditional broadcast networks. In July, Fox even took the title as the top-rated network in all of TV, fulfilling a prediction made by Fox Corporation executive chair and CEO Lachlan Murdoch, who said a year ago that "it's important to note that we don't see Fox News anymore as just a news service. We see it as one of the top five broadcast networks in the United States, even though we don't have the same distribution that broadcast has.”
ForbesFox News Tops ABC, NBC And CBS As The Highest-Rated Network This SummerBy Mark JoyellaViewership was down overall in April, with Fox News finishing first in prime with 2.861 million Monday through Sunday viewers--down 4% from March. MS NOW was second with 1.256 million viewers--essentially unchanged from March, while CNN, with 910,000 total viewers, grew its viewership month-over-month by 1%.
In the key demo, Fox News was down 12% from March (173,000 viewers), and CNN was down 10% with 157,000 viewers. MS NOW--in its first months since breaking away from NBC and dropping the MSNBC name--was up 4% with 135,000 viewers.
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