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

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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. MSNBC on the year is averaging 1.15M primetime viewers, and CNN is averaging 641,000. A few other big picture things to note:Fox News during the week averaged 2.94 million (299K demo) primetime viewers, which came in second overall behind NBC’s 2.99M viewers. It was FNC’s third-best Q3 ever for weekday primetime, trailing 2020 and 2024. As for CNN, it had its lowest primetime demo ever (87K) during weekday primetime, and MSNBC’s 66K in the demo was its lowest since 1998.