Trump's 2024 Victory Sparks Surge in Fox News Ratings, While MSNBC and CNN See Major Viewership Decline

The Hollywood Reporter
The Sky Isn’t Falling for Cable News TV Ratings (Yet)

MSNBC in 2024? Yes — but also Fox News in 2020, or CNN in 2016, and all three in 2012. The drop in viewership at MSNBC is very real: In the three weeks after the Nov. 5 election, the network averaged 661,000 primetime viewers, fewer than half of what it drew each night in October. Lost among the headlines and hand-wringing in media circles, though, is the fact that — to some extent, at least — craters like this pop up after every presidential election.

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Here Are the Cable News Ratings for November 2024

The culmination of the 2024 presidential election between Vice President Kamala Harris and President-elect Donald Trump resulted in big numbers for Fox News and audience erosion for MSNBC and CNN.

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The Gateway Pundit
FOX News is Absolutely CRUSHING Both CNN and MSNBC in Ratings

CNN and MSNBC should be experiencing historic ratings. It’s an election year and the outcome of the election was shocking to many people on the left. You would think they would be watching MSNBC and CNN but they are not. A huge segment of the left feels betrayed by liberal media and who can blame them?

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