Accuracy in Media

Viewers voted with their remotes on Tuesday night, as they overwhelmingly chose Fox News as the cable news network they preferred when it came to election night coverage.

All of the Fox News primetime programs dominated the competition as they analyzed the election results from the major races in New York, New Jersey and Virginia.

While Bill O’Reilly attracted the most viewers with 3.408 million, it was Megyn Kelly who racked up the most impressive number of the night with an average of 654,000 viewers in the key demo. That was a new high for her month-old show and matched the number of viewers in the demo for MSNBC, CNN and HLN combined.

Overall, Fox averaged 2.729 million viewers, compared to 1.969 million for the other three cable news networks combined, and 593,000 in the demo to 569,000 from the also-ran three combined.

 

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends308	New Day64	Morning Joe109	Express127
5 pm	The Five401	Blitzer101	Schultz148	Express77
6 pm	Baier436	Blitzer/Crossfire119/125	Sharpton168	Express85
7 pm	Van Susteren419	Burnett147	Matthews231	Velez-Mitchell91
8 pm	O’Reilly624	Cooper212	Hayes201	Grace119
9 pm	Kelly654	Morgan239	Maddow313	Dr. Drew102
10 pm	Hannity498	Cooper221	O’Donnell218	After Dark54
11 pm	O’Reilly400	Election/Crossfire106/74	Hayes120	Showbiz50
PRIME TIME	593	224	244	91
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

 

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