That is TVNewser’s primary cable community ranker and cable information report for the week of December 1, 2025.

The cable networks roared again to life after the Thanksgiving break, posting double-digit positive factors in complete viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo throughout primetime. Fox Information and MS Now continued the pattern throughout complete day. In the meantime, CNN noticed single-digit development in complete viewers and was the one community to report a decline within the advertiser-favored demo.

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In accordance with Nielsen massive knowledge + panel for the week of December 1, Fox Information averaged 2.088 million complete viewers and 168,000 A25-54 viewers throughout primetime. The community was up +32% in complete viewers and +30% within the demo in comparison with the week prior (the week beginning November 24). 

Fox Information averaged 1.379 million complete viewers and 112,000 A25-54 viewers in complete day viewing. Primarily based on its common for these measurements from the earlier week, it was up +19% in complete viewers and +15% within the demo.

Fox Information remained in second place in complete primetime viewership and jumped to 3rd from fifth in demo viewership amongst all primary cable networks. In complete day, it remained in first place in complete viewers and in second place within the complete day demo.

MS NOW averaged 965,000 complete viewers and 80,000 viewers within the A25-54 demo for the week that simply concluded. The community was up +34% in complete viewers and +36% within the demo in comparison with its common the week prior throughout primetime.

Throughout complete day, MS NOW averaged 613,000 complete viewers and 50,000 demo viewers. The community grew by +25% in complete viewers and +14% within the demo in comparison with its common the week prior.

Amongst all primary cable networks, MS NOW moved again to 3rd from fourth in complete primetime viewers and leaped from No. 25 to No. 13, tied with Grownup Swim. It was additionally third in complete viewers and climbed again to twelfth from sixteenth within the complete day demo. 

CNN averaged 499,000 complete primetime viewers and 70,000 A25-54 viewers within the demo throughout primetime for the week of December 1. The community was up +22% in complete viewers and +17% within the demo in comparison with the earlier week. 

In complete day, the community had 398,000 complete viewers and 52,000 viewers within the demo. This resulted in positive factors of +6% in complete viewers however a decline of -4% within the demo throughout this daypart—the one community to see a drop in viewership.

Amongst all cable networks, CNN moved to sixth from tenth place in complete viewers and from twenty fourth to 18th place within the demo throughout primetime. It remained in fifth place in complete day amongst complete viewers and jumped two spots to No. 10 within the demo.