Fox News Celebrates Another Weekly Primetime Ratings Win

By R. Thomas Umstead
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Fox News celebrated the week of the July 4 holiday with another sweep of the cable primetime and total day ratings charts, according to Nielsen. 

Fox News averaged 2 million viewers during the week of July 3 to July 9 to top all cable networks in primetime for the seventh straight week, according to Nielsen. HGTV finished second with 1.5 million viewers, followed by History and USA, which tied for third with 1.4 million viewers, and MSNBC, which pulled into fifth with 1.2 million watchers.

FX and TBS (tied with 1.1 million viewers), Discovery Channel (946,000), Investigation Discovery (938,000) and Disney Channel (913,000) rounded out the top 10 most watched cable networks in primetime.

Fox News topped the total day ratings chart for the 27thconsecutive week, beating out kids-targeted networks Nickelodeon, as well as HGTV, Disney Channel and Adult Swim.

For the full story go to Multichannel.com.

(Photo via Vincent Desjardins's Flickr. Image taken on April 25, 2017 and used per Creative Commons 2.0 license. The photo was cropped to fit 9x16 aspect ratio.)

R. Thomas Umstead
R. Thomas Umstead

R. Thomas Umstead serves as senior content producer, programming for Multichannel News, Broadcasting + Cable and Next TV. During his more than 30-year career as a print and online journalist, Umstead has written articles on a variety of subjects ranging from TV technology, marketing and sports production to content distribution and development. He has provided expert commentary on television issues and trends for such TV, print, radio and streaming outlets as Fox News, CNBC, the Today show, USA Today, The New York Times and National Public Radio. Umstead has also filmed, produced and edited more than 100 original video interviews, profiles and news reports featuring key cable television executives as well as entertainers and celebrity personalities.