Right here is TVNewser’s recap of the cable information rankings for the primary quarter of 2025.
It has been an begin to the brand new yr on a number of fronts. Former President Joe Biden handed the Oval Workplace again to President Donald Trump in January. Since then, the brand new administration and Elon Musk’s DOGE group have been frequently making headlines as they’ve sought to reshape the scope of the federal authorities.
Additionally in January, huge wildfires swept by way of the Los Angeles space, wrecking communities and claiming lives. Two airplane tragedies in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia put the aviation business within the highlight. After which in March, the Trump administration skilled its first main political scandal when protection secretary Pete Hegseth was concerned in leaking battle plans to the editor in chief of The Atlantic.
Fox Information remained the highest cable information community, and loved its highest-rated quarter in cable information historical past. Along with topping its cable rivals, FNC additionally surpassed ABC and NBC throughout weekday primetime.
Fox Information additionally secured its highest quarter cable information share ever with 65% of the viewers in whole day and 66% in primetime. It was the one one of many three cable shops to see its efficiency enhance versus the identical quarter in 2024 throughout the board.
There have been additionally programming adjustments made throughout this quarter amongst all of the shops. Fox Information launched The Will Cain Show at 4 p.m. ET and rejigged its weekend primetime lineup. MSNBC revamped most of its its weekday and weekend lineup, which led to the depature of Joy Reid at 7 p.m. ET. Lastly CNN reworked its weekday lineup leading to a brand new 4 p.m. present from Kasie Hunt, in addition to Jake Tapper bordering primetime and Wolf Blitzer shifting to the midmorning timeslot of 10 a.m. ET.
Fox Information Channel
Fox Information averaged 3.012 million whole primetime viewers and 380,000 Adults 25-54 viewers in Q1 2025. Throughout whole day, Fox Information had 1.919 million whole viewers, and 247,000 demo viewers.
Taking a look at its performance compared to the same quarter in 2024, FNC was up +46% in whole viewers and +63% within the demo throughout primetime. In whole day, the community was up a respective +48% and +58% in these measured classes.
In response to Nielsen Media Analysis, Fox Information’ rule on the high of cable information has now stretched to 93 consecutive quarters.
Fox Information was the most-watched cable community throughout primetime in whole viewers and the second most-watched community within the demo and repeated these positions throughout whole day.
MSNBC
