Posted on 10/29/2026 8:50:45 PM PDT by Freeleesy
- FNC Continues Reign as Number One Cable Network This Year in Primetime Viewers
- FNC is Pacing to be Highest Rated Midterm Year with Total Day Viewers.
- The Network Notches 99 of the top 100 Cable News Telecasts in October.
FOX News Drives Nearly 1 Billion More YouTube Video Views than Any Other News Brand in 2026.
- 'CBS Mornings' and '60 Minutes' Each Post Lowest-Rated October in History with Viewers.
- MS NOW Racks up 12 Year October Lows in Total Viewers and 24 Year Lows in A25-54 Demo for Midterm Year...
The Five (5 PM/ET), FNC's number one program, secured 2.7 million viewers, leading all of cable news across the board. At 8 PM/ET Jesse Watters Primetime led primetime, commanding over 2.3 million viewers.
Hannity remained number one at 9 PM/ET with over 1.8 million viewers, surpassing the competition including MS NOW's Monday airing of The Rachel Maddow Show (1.7 million viewers).
At 7 PM/ET, The Ingraham Angle posted over 1.9 million viewers, as Laura Ingraham continued her reign as the highest rated woman in cable news. FOX News @ Night with Trace Gallagher drew 1.1 million viewers at 11 PM/ET.
FNC's hit late-night program Gutfeld! drew 2 million viewers, continuing to crush late-night television competition including NBC's The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (1.3 million viewers), CBS' airings of Comics Unleashed (906,000 viewers) and Late Night with Seth Meyers (863,000 viewers).
The network's nightly newscast Special Report with Bret Baier (6 PM/ET) averaged over 2 million viewers and continued to close the gap with the broadcast competition. In October, Special Report led CBS Evening News in five top markets across the country including Atlanta, Detroit, Raleigh-Durham, Norfolk and Birmingham....
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I’d rather watch paint dry. Or get a root canal.
The seniors from the WWII generation in my family enjoy getting their news from Steve Turley and Angela Rose on youtube and then watching Cheers on “regular tv” before 9p bedtime.
Newsmax for me.
I don’t watch Fox News anymore Not on TV that is I do read their web page in the morning what they consider to be headline news I do watch their video clips sometimes but not often But I would never watch the others
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