Fox News Leads All of TV So Far This Year While CNN and MSNBC Shed Viewers En Masse

Sean James Oct 1st, 2025, 6:36 pm

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Different quarter, same result.

The Fox News train, driven by Jesse Watters , kept rolling between July and September, with the right-leaning channel dominating its cable rivals and beating ABC and CBS in weekday primetime viewership. CNN and MSNBC, meanwhile, had a crueler summer.

And one other thing to note before moving on to the Q3 figures: Fox News is leading all of the networks in weekday primetime ratings to date in 2025.

FNC is averaging 3.33 million primetime viewers between Monday and Friday this year, topping CBS (3.17M), ABC (3.08M), and NBC (3.04M), as well as Fox (1.48M) and ESPN (2.13M), per Nielsen data released on Wednesday. MSNBC on the

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