Mediate is reporting that cable news ratings from last show Fox News running away from their far-left competition and leaving floundering woke networks like CNN and MSNBC in the dust. Figures from the evening of October 6th show an absolute thrashing, with every hour slot for Fox crushing the program offerings on the other channels.
All told, Fox News drew an impressive 20 million viewers to its night while CNN managed to pull in just a fraction of that with 5 million. MSNBC fared a little better.
At the 5pm slot, Fox’s The Five drew more than 3.3 million viewers, compared to just over 700,000 for CNN’s Jake Tapper. At 6pm, Fox’s Special Report with Brett Baier got over 2.5 million to the Situation Room on CNN managing just 700,000 again.
In the primetime slot of 7pm, new host Jesse Watters laid the smack down on both CNN’s Erin Burnett and MSNBC’s unbearably racist Joy Reid and her BlackOut show. Watters cruised above the 3 million audience mark while Burnett couldn’t break 1 million and Reid barely cracked it.
Things got really wild for Tucker Carlson at 8pm, a nightly powerhouse in his own right but who really took off while featuring an exclusive interview with Kanye West. For the night of the 6th, Carlson got more than 3.6 million viewers compared to just 840,000 for Anderson Cooper and Chris Hayes attracting 1.4 million.
Sean Hannity continued the streak with his nearly 2.9 million viewers. CNN and MSNBC again failed to add their totals to match, with the former barely scraping 800,000 in a second hour of Andersoon Cooper and the latter’s Alex Wegner (who?) somehow bumping MSNBC’s viewer count to 1.7 million.
Fox’s The Ingraham Angle and Gutfeld! finished out the night with 2.1 million each, respectively. On rival CNN and MSNBC, viewership fell off the clip as Don Lemon’s waning show drew a paltry 490,000 in the last hour of the day.
CNN’s struggles have been well documented and are legion. The rebranding network tried launching a streaming service, CNN+ and even lured partisan loser Chris Wallace from Fox to headline a new show. The supremely expensive gamble was shut down after just one month.
CNN has also been busy firing and demoting its long-time hosts. Chris Cuomo was released earlier this year, and he has yet to resurface anywhere else. Brian Stelter was given the pink slip and unironically was given a job to defend democracy at Harvard. Don Lemon has been the latest CNN misfire, and he was demoted to the early morning hours to co-host with two relatively unknowns. The good news for Lemon is that he can’t do much worse in that time slot; Fox and Friends kicked off October 6th with over 1 million viewers while CNN’s New Day embarrassingly struggled to get 300,000 at the same time.
None of this is a surprise. Far-left networks like CNN and MSNBC only have one message: Orange Man Bad. At the same time, Fox, despite all of its own corporate issues, still features individual voices who speak to mainstream American wants, needs, fears, and ideas. Tucker Carlson receives most of the plaudits in this department, but the rising star Jesse Watters easily holds his own.Previously, we reported that Gutfeld! Achieved a historic first, as his cable late night show surpassed legacy networks ABC, CBS, and NBC in audience ratings. Woke is out, and truth is in.
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