Fox News garnered 5.736 million viewers for its prime-time coverage between Election Day and Sunday, according to ratings released by Nielsen, while CNN came slightly above Fox News with 5.941 million average viewers.
Both fell short of NBC, who averaged 6.33 million viewers partly because of the “Sunday Night Football” game between the New Orleans Saints and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Election night saw Fox News crushing the competition with 14.158 million average viewers in prime time. CNN saw 9.47 million viewers, with MSNBC coming in at third place with 7.661 million viewers.
Fox News has had to weather numerous incidents that have caused many of their previous fans to seek alternative news outlets.
On Monday, an off-air video of a Fox News host condescendingly dismissing comments about the election call from a guest surfaced on social media and fueled more outrage.
President Donald Trump has also criticized Fox News many times over his term, often when they don’t give him what he perceives to be the best coverage.
In May, the president outright complained that Fox News was “doing nothing” to help him and other Republicans get re-elected.
Many will disagree, but @FoxNews is doing nothing to help Republicans, and me, get re-elected on November 3rd. Sure, there are some truly GREAT people on Fox, but you also have some real “garbage” littered all over the network, people like Dummy Juan Williams, Schumerite Chris…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 21, 2020
Prior to election night, Fox News had been crushing records with their ratings, prompting The Wrap to credit the network with delivering “the highest primetime averages in cable news history.”
This is an excerpt from The Blaze. For the full version, click here.
Scroll down to leave a comment and share your thoughts.
