A strong showing by Democrats in off-year elections Tuesday helped translate to strong TV ratings for what’s seen as the most Dem-friendly cable news outlet, MSNBC .

The channel drew its largest primetime audience of 2025 and led cable news with 3.04 million viewers, according to preliminary ratings from Nielsen (which include out of home viewing but not the ratings service’s big data component). MSNBC finished a little head of Fox News (2.85 million viewers), while CNN came in at 1.78 million. CNN led among the key news demographic of adults 25-54 with 574,000 such viewers to 490,000 for MSNBC and 448,000 for Fox News.

A strong showing by Democrats in off-year elections Tuesday helped translate to strong TV ratings for what’s seen as the most Dem-friendly cable news outlet, M

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