
<p>FOX News has more than political philosophy in common with President Trump, the network has his tendency to weather withering criticism from the competition and come out on top – stronger than ever. The long time leading news network (23 consecutive years and counting) is extending its lead.</p>



<p>In the first quarter of 2025, FOX News continues to hold a commanding lead over its primary competition – CNN and MSNBC. ; The Rupert Murdock network draws more viewers in both primetime and daytime than MSNBC and CNN combined. ; What is more notable is that FOX now draws a slightly larger audience than the broadcast networks – ABC, CBS and NBC.</p>



<p>In the first quarter of 2025, FOX averages 3.6 million overall viewers – with 3.1 million primetime viewers and 380,000 viewers in the all-important 25 to 54 year old demographic. Fox’s daytime viewership averages 1.9 million – with 247,000 views in the key demographic.</p>



<p>FOX has enjoyed a 46 percent increase in primetime viewers and an impressive 63 percent increase in the 25 to 54 demographics over the first quarter of 2024.</p>



<p><strong>The cable competition</strong></p>



<p>MSNBC holds a distant second place among the three major cable news networks. It averages 1.0 million primetime viewers, with 96,000 in the 25 to 54 year old demographic. ; Less that on-third of the FOX audience.</p>



<p>In daytime programming, MSNBC draws in an audience of 593,000 viewers, and 57,000 in the key demographic. ; This represents a decrease of 18 percent in total primetime viewers and a 21 percent decrease in the key demographic when compared to the first quarter of 2024. ; In daytime programming, MSNBC lost 27 percent of total viewers and a whopping 30 percent of the 25 to 54 key demographics.</p>



<p>CNN is a pathetic story. ; The once dominant 24/7 news network remains in third place –but not far behind MSNBC. ; CNN tops MSNBC with the 25 to 54 key demographics in both primetime and daytime viewership.</p>



<p>In the first quarter, the Ted Turner brainchild drew 572,000 primetime viewers &#8212; with 114,000 in the key demographic. ; Daytime viewing was 449,000 primetime viewers and 78,000in the key demographic.</p>



<p>Despite several management and programming changes over the past year or so, CNN cannot seem to attract viewers from either FOX or MSNBC. ; The modicum of good news for CNN is that the network went up by 3 percent in primetime views and 7 percent with the 25 to 54 year olds.</p>



<p><strong>The broadcast networks.</strong></p>



<p>With 3.6 million total viewers, FOX slips past the three major broadcast networks – ABC (3.12 million), CBS (3.57 million) and NBC (3.13 million).</p>



<p>In the digital world, FOX also dominates. ; Fox News Digital received 6.3 billion multiplatform views compared to 290 million for ABC, 1.27 billion for CBS and 890 million for NBC.</p>



<p><strong>Summary</strong></p>



<p>I have written in the past that my general impression of the three cable networks is that FOX leans right, CNN leans left, and MSNBC is way off in left field la-la land. ; Despite their lean, FOX and CNN offer balance in their political coverage. ; MSNBC is pure left-wing propaganda from sun up to sun down.</p>



<p>These new numbers also support my long held view that we are a right-of-center nation. ; Left-wing programming has never been able to compete effectively with conservative programming.</p>



<p>So, there ‘tis.</p>

The CNN and MSNBC dogs can’t catch a FOX
