This Network Is Totally Crushing the Competition
By Movieguide® Contributor
Fox News majorly beat out other networks during President Trump’s recent address to Congress, with almost one-third of American households tuning in on their channel.
MSN reported that Fox News had “just over 10.7 million viewers, including nearly 2 million adults between the ages of 25 and 54 years old,” with CNN coming in a distant second at 1.93 million viewers.
MSNBC ranked third, with 1.92 million, while NewsNation came in last at 220,000 viewers.
Fox News also scored first when it came to overall views. After factoring in the Fox News simulcast on Fox Business, as well as separate coverage on the network, Fox News Media brought in 13.6 million viewers that night. NBC News combined coverage earned just 5.833 million viewers.
This is just the latest high note in a streak of success for the news channel.
“For the week ending March 9, the network averaged 3.9 million viewers in primetime, with 550,000 in the age 25-54 demographic sought after by advertisers,” TV Insider reported, adding, “This made it the network’s most-watched primetime week since the November election.”
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In a report published by Fox News, the network revealed that JESSE WATTERS PRIMETIME “was the most-watched show in primetime, averaging 4.4 million total viewers and 554,000 in the advertiser-coveted demographic of ages 25-54” during the week of March 3.
GUTFELD! also ranked high, bringing in 3.7 million total viewers. For comparison, counterpart THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT earned just 1.8 million views.
GUTFELD!, hosted by Greg Gutfeld, has taken the world of late-night TV by storm. He was even profiled for a recent cover story in Variety.
“The chord Greg strikes most vividly is people are tired of taking themselves so seriously. They’re tired of being preached to. They want to make fun of things again like we always did,” Dr. Drew Pinsky, a regular guest on the show, told Variety. “So much of what goes on in late night is sort of Johnny Carson-esque. It’s old. It’s tired.”
Gutfeld added his own take on why audiences are connecting with his brand of comedy.
“The more Howard Stern had to lose, the less risk he took,” he explained. “I think that when you’re in that group — the late-night comedy or humorous world — they start putting their professional status and their personal status in front of what could be really funny and what could be really true.”
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